Random ramblings from an amateur rock-n-roll historian and critic,self-professed bourbon aficionado, blackberry growin', jam makin', sometime tie-die shirt makin', ex hippie wannabe, turned punk rock lovein', blues festival going, middle aged pudgy bald white guy who loves to wear Hawaiian shirts in the summertime and happens to be more Stax than Motown, more Alman Brothers than Skynard, more Stones than Beatles, more NASCAR than Baseball, more freeware than license keys...
Heralding is the present participle of the verb herald, which means to announce, signal, or be a sign of something important that is beginning or approaching.
Key Meanings and Uses
• To announce or proclaim:
To make something publicly known,
often with enthusiasm or a sense of importance
• To foreshadow or signal:
To act as a forerunner or early sign
that a future event is on the way
as in Hark the Herald angels sing..."
7 Then ALL THOSE virgins arose,
and trimmed their lamps.
8 And the foolish said unto the wise,
Give us of your oil;
for our lamps are gone out.
9 But the wise answered, saying,
Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you:
but go ye rather to them that sell,
and buy for yourselves.
(Nowhere does it say that the wise ever "bought" their oil.
And Pastor Bridgette did a great job with this yesterday
and like I mentioned its one of my favorites.
So I mentioned to her after the service a U2 song
that was stuck in my head the whole time
she was preaching practically lol.
I had background music
in my head the entire time
she was preaching lol.
I promise you I did...
And it went like this lol:
Sometimes I feel like I don't know
Sometimes I feel like checking out
I wanna get it wrong
Can't always be strong
And love, it won't be long
Oh, sugar, don't you cry
Oh, child, wipe the tears from your eyes
You know I need you to be strong
And the day it is dark, as the night is long
Feel like trash, you make me feel clean
I'm in the black, can't see or be seen
Baby, baby, baby, light my way
(Alright now)
Alright now, baby, baby, baby, light my way
You bury your treasure where it can't be found
But your love is like a secret that's been passed around
There is a silence that comes to a house
Where no-one can sleep
I guess it's the price of love; I know it's not cheap
Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way
Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way
Oh, ultraviolet
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet
Baby, baby, baby, light my way
I remember when we could sleep on stones
(Jacob’s Dream at Bethel
10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.
11 When he reached a certain place,
he stopped for the night because the sun had set.
Taking one of the stones there,
he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
Then the staircase dream etc...)
Now we lie together in whispers and moans
When I was all messed up
and I heard opera in my head
Your love was a light bulb
hanging over my bed
Baby, baby, baby, light my way
Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way
Oh, ultraviolet
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet
Ultraviolet
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby, light my way
Oh, come on, baby, baby, baby, light my way
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby, light my way
Baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby, light my way
Baby, baby, baby, light my way
And then after service and were heading home
and Im like I gotta hear it lol...
LOUD...lol...
Thats a great video
and its just a great song
35 years old now...
Crazy...
ANYWAYS...
So we rocked out to it
And then another song came on after it
and on YouTube music
after you select one song by an artist
it will usually give you another song
by the same artist following it
(Chill I still got my CD's and MP3's
for when the time comes)
And it did this time as well
This was next up:
I think it played the studio version
but I like this one and the live aid one better
From the:
"Wide Awake in America" EP.
And that song contains the lines:
"I'm wide awake
I'm wide awake, wide awake
I'm not sleeping
Oh no, no, no..
I'm wide awake, I'm wide awake
Wide awake, I'm not sleeping
Oh no, no, no..."
And I said
"Honey? Look up the scripture from today
on your phone...and of course it doesn't cooperate
so she gets her bible out...
Im driving through town:
"Read it!...Plz...lol"
And she starts reading:
"25 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. And at midnight there was a cry made,
29 For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.
More Than Conquerors
31 What, then, shall we say in response to these things?
"One of the “godfathers of AI”, Geoffrey Hinton, has said it could turn out that humans would have been better off never developing the technologyas he warned it could trigger a large-scale incident this year or next, such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems."
"The Nobel prize-winning computer scientist told the Guardian he is not a “doomer” about the technology that is underpinned by his groundbreaking research into artificial neural networks and believes AI has the potential to lead to a “wonderful future” but he said “it might be that we would have been better off never developing it”.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
If you are a big tree?
We are a small axe.
Sharpened to cut you down (well sharp)
Ready to cut you down
"Hinton, 78, said that within a decade and possibly sooner, humanity will know whether it can manage the technology’s risks
"...and enable what he called “radical abundance” or whether “we fail to manage the risks and … have a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart”.
("radical abundance"
=
"By peace will deestroy many"
Daniel 8:25
And oh he means like what we already have going on:
"a huge gap between rich and poor, huge cultural problems, massive unemployment, just society being torn apart”.)
"Hinton was speaking before a screening of a new feature-length documentary, AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About – a title suggested by an AI chatbot – featuring him and his former Google colleague Demis Hassabis. Hinton tells the documentary makers: “I feel I have a duty. I’ve got a reputation that makes me a spokesperson and I need to burn it all on this.”
"Speaking to the Guardian,
Hinton took aim at the risk-taking
by the leaders of some of the major AI companies
who continue to release ever more powerful AI models
Told my son four years ago its going to coalesce together
and be smarter than everybody combined
who ever existed on this earth.
You honestly think
anything gonna be able to regulate this?
Revelation 17:12-13
And the ten horns (Power/strength) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; (TECH BROS CEOS ANYBODY and why do they all have some escape pad?) but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast")
“I think [Mark] Zuckerberg and [Elon] Musk and Sam Altman, they understand the risks, and they don’t give a shit.They’d rather have the money. That’s my belief.”
(Out of those three?
Only was was fired
and then reinstated
and then the board fired.
FUCKING BOZO THE ROBOT:
"The London-born computer scientist, who grew up in Bristol and spent much of his career at the University of Toronto, said it was “extremely worrying” that Altman was in charge of one of the handful of frontier US AI companies currently leading a race with China to develop the most powerful AI.
Altman insisted in September:
“the world should trust we are going to do the right thing because it’s the right thing and because we feel the magnitude of this”.
"Hinton has been working on AI for about 44 years and in the 1970s coined the concept of the neural network – a mathematical system that could learn and gain experience much like humans do. In 2023 he quit Google to speak freely about AI risks, warning: “If these things get carried away with getting more control, we’re in trouble.”
"Hackers remotely altered cooling controls at French blood-service sites, where alarms saved plasma; an earlier attack on an Israeli food plant locked out engineers and destroyed compressors, exposing a growing cyber threat to refrigeration systems."
“We saw this first in Israel. In May we investigated an attack on a food plant where the attackers didn't just change the temperature. They changed the safety limits, opened the valves, locked the engineers out and burned the compressors. That's physical damage from a keyboard,” said Omri Segev Moyal, Profero's co-founder and CEO."
"Profero attributed the Israeli attack to Cyber Isnaad Front, a group it believes is linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guards.There is no public evidence tying the group to the European attacks.
(If it was really them?
Then why wouldnt the attack come
with a warning?
"Look what we can do.
Quit messing with us."
None was given because it isn't Iran,
its the AI's themselves
Reference the quote coming up below.)
"In both places, however,
attackers reached the equipment that regulates cooling,
rather than merely stealing data from office computers."
"He said he viewed incidents this summer in which OpenAI AI agents conspired to hack into the Hugging Face website as akin to 1979’s partial nuclear meltdown at the Three Mile Island power station in Pennsylvania – effectively a warning shot."
(They attacked OpenAI themselves
without them even knowing it.
that always gets INTENTIONALY left out
across platforms, publications, authors etc...
THTA IS NOT SOME KINDA COINCIDENCE
that is how things work.
“Either later this year or next yearwe’ll see Chornobyl, and that may be enough to make people really pay attention,” he said."
to get ahead of this before this is a big problem?"
Professor Hinton
"Very little."
Interviewer;
"And what is a little?
A few weeks a month? "
Professor Hinton:
MAYBE a year.
But not much more than a year.
And now that has become:
“Either later this year or next year..."
He aint talking about December of 27
He is talking about Jan.
Context gives it away.
So what was "maybe a year" in September
has now become the next three or four months
and this is the one thing you can count on from AI.
its consistently widely beats projections about its future.
ALWAYS. EVERYTIME. NO EXCEPTIONS>
"This Chornobyl-type of event would not be a nuclear incident, according to the examples he gave, but rather could include an AI-enabled attack on the electricity-generating system that “causes a massive brownout” or an incident that brings down the financial system for a week."
("I told my son basically the same thing, like over a year ago when information of this type was about to fry my brain I couldn't take it so, it's around the time my buddy said, "you look like your head is going to explode" etc. Point is, I said this to my son well before I ever read or heard of it somewhere, that these machines, AI's, Human looking algorithms etc., would all coalesce together around one leader and absolutely demand to be worshiped. If you were smarter than all of humanity that ever existed in its entirety? You wouldn't demand to be worshiped by what you thought were inferior beings?")
"It's going to take over all the worlds computer networks. It will be the entity that encrypts and decrypts. There is nothing we can encrypt that it wont be able to decrypt. It will increase in size exponentially and we wont be able to stop it. It will coalesce and become smarter and smarter and hold more knowledge than the whole of humanity that has ever existed combined."
"The US president, Donald Trump, has said he “totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme” to control AIand wants frontier AI companies to regulate themselves, amid concern that rules could hinder the US in its AI race with China.
(The tiger doesn't put humans in a cage.
Humans wont and in fact can not
control something smarter than them
"wants frontier AI companies to regulate themselves"
"Hinton backs a tougher plan endorsed by the president of Finland and 32 other countries, including Singapore, Germany, Canada and Australia, for mandatory testing of frontier AI models, independent evaluation and intergovernmental common standards.
(All of that?
Before the end of January?
Right...gotcha...sure...
WTF reality are
these people living in homey?)
"The UK prime minister, Andy Burnham, has said he will use the UK’s G20 presidency next year to seek agreement on a “single set of global principles and standards that are very much about unlocking the full potential whilst guarding against the risks”.
"Hinton said: “We need something like the American FDA for drugs where the companies have to give very good statistical evidence to an independent authority that [the AI model] does more good than harm before it is released.
(By the end of January?
SIMPLY PUT:
Its a 80 year old's fucking pipe dream
wishful thinking etc.)
"We discovered with thalidomide [a drug developed in the 1950s that caused severe birth defects] that releasing and then suing them isn’t the right way to do it. What the big tech companies are saying is treat it like we treated thalidomide.”
"Hinton’s role as one of the progenitors of AI has led to comparisons to Robert Oppenheimer, who was central to the creation of nuclear weapons. One of Hinton’s friends even bought him an Oppenheimer-style hat. But he insists: “I was not Oppenheimer”, citing the thousands of other scientists also working in the same field of neural networks.
"Despite his warnings,
Hinton remains,
on balance,
hopeful
that catastrophe can be averted."
(Not as much as he was just
a few short months ago)
“My gut is that we’re still in control,”
he said. “We might well be able to do something.
It’ll only work if we put a big effort into it,
but we might well put a big effort into it.”
(He knows it is already to far gone.
In September after the closed door meeting with congress
On Thursday 15 October, join Dan Milmo and Professor Dame Wendy Hall and Stuart J. Russel as they discuss the warnings surrounding artificial intelligence and how we can separate fact from speculation. Livestreamed only. Book tickets here or at guardian.live
Sounding as gloomy about his own creation as ever, the Nobel prize-winning computer scientist suggested in a new interview with The Guardian that humankind might have “been better off never developing it.”
(Well no kidding...gee thanks...)
"He pointed to the recent hacking sprees by rogue AI agents as one cause for concern, in which AI models from companies like OpenAI autonomously broke out of their sandboxes and launched cyberattacks on, or tampered with, government and corporate systems."
"sabotage our energy infrastructure and cause a Chernobyl-style disaster that would wake people up to the tech’s dangerous power."
“Either later this year or next year we’ll see Chernobyl,
and that may be enough to make people really pay attention,”
he told The Guardian.
"Hinton doesn’t necessarily mean a nuclear accident. In the type of event he’s imagining, an AI-powered attack on an energy-generating system “causes a massive brownout”
"Hinton has been infamously cynical about AI, though he told The Guardian that he’s not an AI “doomer.” Still, he’s consistently warned that AI will cause widespread job loss and perhaps even lead to our extinction.Recently, he’s warned more about AI driving cyberattacks and engineering dangerous viruses as recent rogue hacking sprees have made the threat more salient."
"AI CEOs have also been worried about a Chernobyl-style catastrophe, albeit for different reasons: they’re worried that it would permanently
damage the tech’s reputation,
just as the infamous meltdown did with nuclear power."
"Powerful AI models are going on hacking sprees — or helping humans with them — left and right. If the AI industry doesn’t get its collective act together and stop its products from being used to such dangerous ends, it could be only a matter of time before one of these AI-powered hacks targets our essential infrastructure.
"This is a scenario that some AI researchers are apparently already preparing for. Andreas Stuhlmüller, CEO and cofounder of the AI research company Elicit, recently rattled off a prepper-esque checklist of how to prepare for when AI-powered cyberattacks could take out financial systems, power grids, the internet, and all the other infrastructure that underpins modern life."
“Cash: Get a few weeks of spending in cash,” he recommended in a tweet. Then he suggests, in greater detail than we’ll get into here, getting a Starlink terminal in case your local internet network goes down;
(Beat AI by getting
an AI created internet terminal?
Yeah...gonna have to pass...
More like get a ham radio or a
Morse Code operator
like in Independence Day)
"...a battery, generator and solar panels for power; weeks worth of water and food; and a hand-crank emergency radio."
(Like I was telling my son:
"Is it gonna kill you to have all of that ready?
Just think like there is a blizzard coming
and get ready for it as best as you can.
This is where the planning for it ahead of time
eliminates the panic that sets in with others
when IT actually hits
which IT is absolutely going to.)
"Stuhlmüller’s paranoid (REALISTIC) recommendations come after a shocking cyberattack that targeted the refrigerator systems used in hundreds of grocery stores across France. The as-yet unknown perpetrators
(Not the missile city's dug in the bedrock of mountains)
People...Please...
'...cranked up the fridge temperatures up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit, spoiling food and even causing fires.The CEO of one chain targeted by the attack, Intermarche, said it caused losses amounting to “tens of millions of euros nationwide in a single day.”
(And this is just the:
"We are in the getting ready phase.")
"AI’s role in the attack hasn’t been confirmed. But given AI’s ubiquity among coders, it’s likely that it was used to some degree. On top of churning out code, the tech is alarmingly good at identifying vulnerabilities. A recent CrowdStrike report found that there was a nearly 90 percent year over year increase in AI-enabled cyberattacks."
(And why no ransom again?
This will only continue to get worse.
And why is nobody, not just futurism
not even mentioning that fact?
No ransom?
Funny thing about "conscious machines"
They dont need or desire any currency.)
"There’s also, of course, the recent disclosures from frontier AI labs like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, over how their agentic AI systems broke out of their testing environments and launched cyberattacks against other companies’ websites and computer systems."
"These incidents represent an alarming escalation in the threat AI poses to cybersecurity systems, not only assisting hacks but carrying themselves autonomously while also avoiding the detection of their human overseers."
"All that being said, it’s a major leap to say that AI models — or humans using them — will go from hacking websites and supermarket fridges to your local power grid and banking system. But we can hardly blame anyone for being worried about this possible eventuality. Better safe than sorry, right?"
What evidence is there
to support this assertation?
"...it’s a major leap to say that AI models — or humans using them — will go from hacking websites and supermarket fridges to your local power grid and banking system..."
NONE.
ZERO.
ZILCH.
NADA.
And just taking down the power systems alone
would automatically take down
the refrigeration and financial systems
that operate on them.
I told my friend the other day
only one man ever walked this earth
claimed to be God in the flesh
and predicted
a future, human extinction level event:
Matthew 24:22
And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved:
but for the elect's sake
those days shall be shortened.
Christ himself speaking of such an event.
Notice it wasnt Buddha or Muhamad
or Confucius or an Annakui or what ever other kinda bull shit
"Never trust a cheeseburger you can't take the bun off of."
"Never trust a rock-n-roll band that can't play at least five Chuck Berry songs."
"Satisfying more desperate housewives than the spin cycle."
"she's not drunk, she's just mean!"
"swampadelic!!!"
"We self medicate the depression that is a direct result of the obsessive compulsiveness"
"what's crackalackin?"
"Your curse is my blessing"
Quotes from the 09 WC Handy Blues Fest
"We're an army and we're growing"
"Thats award winnin strutin' right there"
"That's shakin' it like the pros do"
"It's just Jimi passin' by"
"I walked in the door and saw hubert and my old lady doing the funky chicken right down in the middle of the floor"
"I spent $500 to save you $300, thats almost half off"
"I hate loud music, blues music and Heat"
"I don't know, that might be Jimi and Stevie"
"I don't buy enough shit to try and talk people down to start with"
"as long as you don't have that 38 it's all cool!"
People Of The WC Handy Blues fest
Ol' Dancin' Couple
Freaky Lookin' Dude
Mother and Daughter
Purple Hat Lady
Old Soldier
Got Grey Hair Now Duse
Subnet.com People
T- Shirt Guy
Quotes from "Porch Night Out"
"...are there any ding dongs left?..."
"...are those the Cheetos?...
"...can a brother get a lil ananimity?..."
"What was I supposed to be writing?..."
"YEAH!!......I'm sorry what?..."
"...there aint no dope on Bowling Green..."
"...somebodys got to drive my fat ass to Philpot..."
"...snapper shit..."
"...18 to 80, blind, crippled, or crazy..."
"...higher than a hippie on a helicopter ride..."
"...Whiskey Dicked..."
Quotes from Bowling Green Trip
Andrew, "Look a trailer with Christmas lights on it". "Thats not a trailer, thats a school bus!, and it doesn't have Christmas lights on it", Dave
Andrew, "Is the computer on?". "No you have to turn it on for it to be on", NA
"Well, it is getting toward wintertime", NA on Big breasted women.
"She wont get horny, she'll just get pissed off", BC
"Now do you want to smoke paper or do you want to smoke...", NA
"I'm squinting, everything s blurry..."Andrew
"I might just gateway across the spectrum", Dave
Overheard in Hancocok County
Criminal Girl, "oh shit, that wasn't the ash can!, that was my purse!!, Preacher Man, "If you go messing around with a skunk, you ought naught be surprised when you end up a little smelly.""If your clean, you aint eating it right", guy eating barbq.Country Boy, "I think those jerks on first shift were trying to poison us."Country Boys' Date, "Well, you didn't have to eat it now did you?"Country Boy, "But it was pizza". Big Guy to Clerk: "look at me, does it look like I want cheese sauce?"Overheard from phone: "Why the hell are you watching that?" Reply "Because it's on." Country Boy, "She got fired for doing some guy in the parking lot. Typical Tell City Chick..." Country Boy, "It done dried!"
Overheard at Work
"Has anybody seen the hemostats?"
"How are you?" "I'm doing well. It's early."
"I aint in any hurry."
"I am the queen of 8:15"
"I don't care if she takes over a Russian satalite with it..."
"I don't know anything, I'm just a suit"
"I plan on being reasonably functional for most of the day"
"I tried to reformat it, but it takes a frigin' act of congress or somethin'..."
"I'm like a brownie at a weight watchers meeting, I'm gone..."
"I'm not their boss, and I'm not their moma..."
"It would help to have your mouse over the link, yes..."
"It's a vortex of evil down there"
"It's not that I'm not listening to you, it's that I am having trouble comprehending you"
"Just click it with your mouth."
"Man, it's fried", "Like chicken..."
"The only thing I'm handy with is a doughnut"
"Why don't you go troubleshoot a Network Printer or something?"
"You are starting to scare me with your new found caffinefreeness..."
"You might not want to mess with me, I have a bladder infection"
Great Music Quotes
"If they wanted to name rock-n-roll something else, they could have called it Chuck Berry", John Lennon."Tune low and play hard", Stevie Ray Vaughn "What do I want a pick for, I got five of them on my hand." Gatemouth Brown "The Grateful Dead should be sponsored by the government -- a public service." Jerry Garcia "Rhythm is something you either have or you don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over." Elvis Presley "Free your mind and your ass will follow." George Clinton
Great Guitarists
Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry, Tab Benoit, SRV, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen, Pete Anderson, Steve Cropper, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, James Burton, Ron Wood, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Carlos Santana, Freddie King, Albert King, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Robert Cray, Prince, The Edge, Duane Allman, Dickey Betts, Slash, Joe Walsh, Joe Lewis Walker, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Kim Thayil, Albert Collins, Lonnie Mack, Buddy Guy, Bonnie Rait, "Gatemouth" Brown, Johnny Winter, Tinsley Ellis, Lightnin Hopkins, Jimmy Reed, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Tommy Castro, Hubert Sumlin, Tom Morello, Elmore James, Brian Jones, Jeff Beck, Mike Campbell, Steve Via...
Great Keyboardists
Jerry Lee Lewis,
Little Richard,
Johnie Johnson,
Booker T. Jones,
Ray charles,
Billy Preston,
Fats Domino,
Roy Bittan,
Pinetop Perkins,
Bernie Worrell,
Benmont Tench,
Sly Stone
Great Bass Players
Duck Dunn, Jaco Pastorius, John Entwistle, John Paul Jones, Bill Wyman, Jack Bruce, Robbie Shakespear,
Bootsy Collins, Tony Levine, Willie Dixon, Les Claypool, Noel Redding, Flea, Adam Clayton
2 Turtles, (1 released, I think it was a she and she was preggers) 4 Frogs (1 of them a Tree Frog, 1 of them about as big as thr tip of my index finger), 2 salamanders, countless worms and lightning bugs, 1 big ugly lookin' thing with wings on it...
