AI FREE ZONE

Much as I like to declare myself a cell phone free zone, the less dogmatic truth is that I actually have continually owned cell phones since 1998. But I seldom use them, and I really did decide to leave the stupid things turned off at all times back in 2002.

 My current phone is a Samsung Galaxy Note 9 that I bought second hand in 2019. I take it out of the house about once a week, usually keep it in a different room to the one I'm in, nearly always leave it turned off, and pretty much only use it to receive login confirmations a couple of times a week. 

It's my sixth cell phone and despite being seven years old, it's in mint condition. When it eventually stops working I'll probably replace it with a newer refurbished phone that I won't use either.

Which brings me to AI. Right now I'm looking at AI a bit like I was looking at cell phones in 2002. Yes AI is going to be the next big thing, but I think it sucks, and I want as little to do with it as possible. So I'm saying right now, as far as possible, I refuse to use or interact with AI. 

It's now estimated that around 50% of all internet activity is AI. The worst social media platform for AI is said to be Twitter ("X"), with around 75% of all content and activity being AI. I never look at Twatter myself because it's all utter crap, but I do look at Youtube (which is mostly utter crap as well). On YouTube it's glaringly obvious that the majority of the content, comments, and hits are AI. I suspect that it's actually more than 75% AI now, and climbing rapidly.

 

On Facebook which is the only social media platform I still use, the AI is rampant as well. But I don't think I'm interacting with it much, I mainly just get friend requests from women with huge boobs, no posts, and only about five friends. So really obvious fakes. I suspect a few of my "friends" are scammers, but I think those are dodgy real people rather than AI.

This may well turn out to be delusional and I could be getting conned by dozens of AI accounts, happily up-voting their fake content, or cheerfully commenting that they are lame and gay without realising I'm talking to a cell phone bot in some giant bot farm warehouse.

 Delusional or not, I'm keeping an eye out for anything that has signs of being AI. And if it looks like it might be,  I'm out of there. I suspect that there may come a time when I sound like a Luddite, but that is probably a good thing!

 

WELLINGTON WAS LIKE MONACO

Nissan Mobil 500 (1985)

Wellington was like Monaco once, with a waterfront car race every year. Best thing ever in Wellington! The first race in 1985 was madcore, with crashes all over the place, and a Volvo 240 Turbo won the race! (Don't laugh, it was a smoking hot Volvo!) 

 

1985-Wellington-Street-Race-Photos

 

1985 Nissan Wellington 500 race start

 

Monaco

Wellington

 

THE COUNCIL IS MOCKING US

The joke is always on the ratepayers - Throughout it's incompetent history the Wellington city council has been constantly mocking us...

 

We got a close up view of one of their scams in action when some workmen did a repair to the footpath over the road from us - there was one guy doing all the work, with 7 other guys standing there watching, and 52 road cones - for real, I counted them!

 

 

They even had a wheelchair ramp on both sides of the road just in case, with an extra dozen road cones and a guy in charge of managing the two ramps!

 

Road cones are breeding and taking over the country...

 

 

RANDOMS 2025 #31

 

LESS IS MORE

After another month of not doing any blog posts I'm back and ready to let rip. Just like when I did no posts back in May, I'm again amazed at how little difference it seems to make whether I actually do any new posts or not.

How to choose images for your blog that could bore the legs off a donkey...

Basically my little blog gets roughly the same amount of hits if I add any new posts or not. I last did a post on July 6 and then none for the rest of the month, but the traffic pretty much went on unchanged until July 29 before showing any real signs of decline, so if I only did one post every three weeks I'd probably get about the same amount of hits.

Some pages & posts do get more hits than others. Often these more popular posts are just quickies with bugger all content, and I have no idea why they attract any traffic. For example why on earth is this post extra popular? Is it because it because it includes the words "huge penis"?



Which leads me to wonder, WOULD MORE BE MORE?. It would be an interesting experiment to do 100 posts in a month. I'm not really likely to ever do that many, but I'd be curious to see if it made my blog get more traffic. Although I suspect it wouldn't make much difference, which is another reason why I probably won't ever do it.

 

And trying to do masses of posts probably soon become lame and gay.