RRWagner

I really enjoyed the writing in this.

Myself, Roger Wagner,HyperStudio, 1988...1998...2008+

For a king, and one that presumes themselves king, every act is official. The theory is that Congress can always impeach but we have seen and still see that they have no interest in doing so for any reason, no matter how egregious.

And... once I stopped at a roadside farmer's stand and the fruit still had the grocery store chain label and barcode on it, just smaller stuff and perhaps older than at the original store.

But I thought that our AI was trained by scanning all human knowledge and behavior with the goal of emulating and amplifying that ability and process and now we are surprised that it is doing what humans do?

I've been on jury duty several times and in each time the entire jury pool was dismissed an hour or so into the morning, with "all cases have been settled". As I was leaving, the official said, "see how efficient we are now?". I replied, "The guillotine is efficient, but it's not justice." Look into Aaron Swartz. The % of cases that go to trial is very small, in no small part because plea bargaining is no bargain at all. "Plead guilty and we'll do the minimum (whether you're actually guilty or not), or go to trial and we will seek the maximum sentence, which could be 30 years in prison. What's your answer?"

Thank you for the heads up! There was an error in the conversion process. All the images are there now.

The current administration

I have a book (not authored by Edison) that Thomas Edison scribbled his comments in the margin and I was quite happy to read them! Changing my own nearly-religious belief to never write in a book,I found that it totally changed my experience with the book and the author. There are thousands of copies of any particular modern book and it's no longer my task to preserve that unique copy for after the apocalypse. I would like to imagine my children one day being able to see their father's thoughts and dialogue with authors.

And if the company didn't need $XX,XXX*0.90 (or more) that you would have paid them to further develop their product and stay in business? If that other company now paid their own $50 in tokens? Maybe the overall flow of money in the economy went from $XX,XXX (you) + $XX,XXX (them) + $(not much, AI didn't exist yet) equals or is greater to $50 + $50 + ($xbillions in AI)? Dunno.

I would propose that copyrights not be eternal

This is a lovely project, and if you do the 3D print and assemble it, even if you use a different microcontroller inside, it is continual series of delightful discoveries in the details of the 3D and mechanical design and engineering, coding and artistic skill of the maker of this, SayaNIGHT. I could easily imagine this as a pair of "friendship lamps", or any number of other delightful variations.