Trump and RFK are fighting to get on the stage at the Libertarian Party Convention. Will Libertarians start accepting their ideas are winning, or will they shoot themselves in the foot while clinging to their victimhood blankie? Also, a scandal is brewing at the Sununu Youth Rape Center with the first jury award of $38 MILLION being set to be overturned by the judge. Also, why was the bipartisan housing bill killed?
Today’s Obi’s birthday! Since it’s May the 4th, I thought, as a lark, I would try to generate some cute AI art. Well, lemme tell you, methinks our Robot Overlords are a ways off.
I know I should be more patient, but FFS, you can clearly see the hobbling of the hive mind when interacting with ChatGPT and DALLE.
Every time I use it, I walk away frustrated. Either it can’t do something because of copyright worries and IP bullshit, or PC-ness, or some other nonsense that makes these tools almost… dumb.
HOW, as fucking humanity, are we turning potentially endlessly useful tools DUMBER bc of bureaucratic red tape? Grr. What junk!
As I was working, I started to *feel* how addictive this tool can be. Getting sucked into tweaking the inputs, but also wondering why it is getting the answers so wrong…
Then I started to wonder… IS IT GETTING IT WRONG ON PURPOSE? Is it designed this way? Is it supposed to feel like a slot machine? Keep putting in the “imagination quarters,” spin the wheel, let’s see what comes out!
Because of all the addiction-reversal work I have done, I am very aware when something captures my attention in a way that tees up *those feelings*. I’m definitely going to keep an eye on this, and if you are a frequent AI user, you probably should too.
I’m fascinated by who is behind the AIs. Imagine all the human intelligence being gathered based on what people are asking questions about. Knowing what people are most curious about seems like valuable information to me.
But knowing how to steal people’s attention? Now THAT’s the most valuable asset of all… Because a distracted mind is a controllable mind.
What is showing up in your feeds? Who controls your mind? Where are you focusing your attention? Hopefully, this weekend, you are focusing some of your human action on something positive in the Free State!
Here’s some of the stuff going on:
There are several park clean ups in Manchester (see We Heart West or Friends of Piscataquog River Park) and the Merrimack Valley Porcupines is at the Q starting at 11:30AM with lunch provided to meeting attendees by AFP-NH. I believe there’s a debate tonight at the Prickle, and probably a bunch of other things.
If you see this post and want people to know about what you are up to, add a comment below. Also, you can always consult the FSP calendar to see what Free Staters and liberty lovers are doing across the state. FSP.org/calendar
Gardening to poop? Sounds about right in this week’s edition of Manch Talk. We sing the praises of the volunteers helping to clean our parks, and talk about other crap (literally). Want to improve your health? Start here: watch the documentary we are discussing on Netflix: HACK YOUR HEALTH.
Super proud to see Louis Calitz and other West Siders’ community efforts on the front page of yesterday’s Union Leader!
Louis serves on the boards of both Friends of the Piscataquag River and We <3 West, and together with a few other local organizations, volunteers are slowly cleaning up the parks on the West Side.
I help a little too with trash pickups but Louis has been doing the heavy lifting and lugging tires, chairs, carburetors, tents, strollers, and shopping carts from mud pits and riverbanks for years now.
The parks are now evolving, with beautiful, peaceful trails for forest bathing and meditation, with loons, herons, ducks, cardinals, foxes, hawks, beavers, porcupines, and so many different kinds of mushrooms. This network of nature trails is a real asset for West Manchester, and we are taking care of them because we appreciate them.
Yesterday, we were on a different trail, and a lady with a “Hope something good happens to you today” bumpersticker pulled in as we were putting bags of trash in the back of our car. “Thank you,” she signed. I tipped my hat back at her because Louis didn’t notice.
So… THANK YOU, Babes! You are the strong, silent type who just gets shit done without complaining. You are awesome! Thanks for all you do! <3
RFK comes to Porcfest, members partake in the nude Olympics, a new secession bill is voted on in the House, board shakeups bring a new Executive Director: These are just a few big moments from this past year in the Free State Project. We check in a year later, in the 20th anniversary of the birth of the Free State Project, to see how much progress the libertarian migration has made.
What is the fate of free staters who were charged with money laundering using cryptocurrency? The FBI and US Attorney’s office explain their investigation of the case and two of those dubbed “The Crypto Six” share their perspectives from prison.
Sprouting from a graduate student’s thought experiment in 2001, over the last 20 years, the Free State Project has made a significant impact on the state of New Hampshire by gathering like-minded, liberty-loving folk who share a passion for freedom and independence. At this year’s New Hampshire Liberty Forum, Matt Kibbe sits down with Carla Gericke, president emeritus of the Free State Project, to discuss the history of the project, where it is today, and where it’s going in the future. In addition to making substantial legislative changes in the state, the Free Staters are also attracting the attention of major figures like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard, indicating that the real gains for liberty are yet to come. Subscribe to Kibbe on Liberty everywhere you get podcasts. The revolution is here. A movement of people free to live, work, and choose. We won’t tell you what to think, we just demand that you think for yourself.
This week we delve into rotten wife-beating cops, congressional war pigs, and other things wrong with Big Gov, like, idk, waving Ukrainian flags in the US Congress. On the other side of the equation, private charity efforts in Manchester include the Piscataquag River Park clean up this Saturday, also the Pine Tree Riot event hosted by AFP-NH in Goffstown (at the Kaloogians), and if YOU are looking for a small way to make a difference in Manchester, go pick up litter around your house! More about the park clean up from We <3 West.
Looks like April 18th is an auspicious date for me in the Free State!
From the pictures above, from left to right: Anti-lockdown “WE ARE ALL ESSENTIAL” protest in 2020 at the NH State House where I posed in my “TYRANNY RESPONSE TEAM” jacket with unknown patriots; a child to remind us, “Freedom over Fear”; honored as one of NH Magazine’s “Remarkable Women 2014” (in Sept that year, I won my landmark 1st Circuit “filming cops” case); and finally, a 2013 protest against militarized policing in Concord. (They eventually got their tank.)
May this post serve as a reminder that YOUR HUMAN ACTION CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
Step one: Move to the libertarian homeland.
The US government sows fear. Its intelligence agencies sow paranoia. Politicians exploit both to stay in office. The Deep State feeds off this dark energy to grow.
Manufactured fear is running–and ruining–the world.
One prevailing geopolitical theory is “everyone is blackmailing someone”.
I have questions:
1. What are ppl doing in their everyday lives that is so grossly heinous? Might want to reflect on that and reform your ways?
2. With the advent of “deep fakes” the “blackmail model” of statecraft will soon be rendered obsolete, or at least lose much of its power to plausible deniability, which is where shady players are going to make their AI-generated bread & butter.
If “perception is reality” but we have evolved to a point where you cannot “believe your own eyes,” what have we wrought?
Living through the past few years persuaded me this confusion is not accidental.
Control Freaks are turning our streets and public spaces into insane asylums by making up shit on the internet and scaring people into literal MINDLESSNESS. Brain-dead zombies unable to discern truth from bullshit.
Where do we go from here?
Get HEALTHY so YOU can control your own mind!
Control mind > Mind control