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Metro reports: "Google has launched a brand new feature for its artificially intelligent Google Assistant that’s designed to cheer people up by filtering negative news. Simply ask your phone (or the Google Home speaker) to ‘tell me something good’ and you’ll be given a nice summary of positive stories about people solving real problems." So not just sentimental goo — kittens are cute, etc. — but real people solving real problems.
2. But I have an iPhone, so I ask Siri, "Give me some good news."
Well, that was awfully ungood.
Tensions threatened!! But I see I didn't ask the precise question cited in the Metro article, "tell me something good." Maybe my use of the word "news" was too distracting.
3. Trying again, with Siri, avoiding the word "news," and we go careening into the world of relationships!
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You don't really think you can ask for good news.
Ann is so funny. Now after almost three years she has decided she is going to write critically about Trump? She just now noticed that Trump is a demagogue? Trump must be going down because Ann always goes with the winner.
Article by Vox was extremely good news spinning.
Good news is the confiscation of White owned properties is not genocide!
Therefore Vox highlighted the Trumps tweet was echoing Nazi / White Supremacist propaganda, and there is nothing to worry about, it’s a non issue!
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/23/17772056/south-africa-trump-tweet-afriforum
I’m surprised Siri didn’t play this by Rufus. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cm_cFzVAoo8
In my experience, Siri is pretty stupid in relation to Google home.
Alexa and Google are relatively similair in terms of getting a good answer, Siri frustrates me a lot more and often gets me to a device with a keyboard.
"Trump must be going down"
Well now that really is good news as it comes from the same entity that predicted, 2 years ago, the Dow would never see 20,000 again. By down he must have meant up.
It all depends on what you.....or the pre-programed AI overlord on your phone.....define as being "good".
It's all subjective. A 90 year old grandmother blowing a home invader away with her shotgun? Good or not? Illegal aliens stopped at the border before they can sneak in and kill innocent girls in Iowa? Good? San Francisco sinking into the ocean like Atlantis?
I know what I think is good news. I don't give a roaring flip what Siri, Alexa or Hal think or what they are trying to make me think.
tell me something good
Good -
1. maximizes Google's income;
I have a Google Pixel. When I told it to "tell me something good," it gave me Chaka Khan and Rufus. In fairness, that's pretty good.
That's using the search bar though. I don't have the creepy listen at all times feature enabled.
More concerning is Google offering up a bizarre, otherworldly version of what is happening in South Africa. Vox and Google are both populated by highly degreed, but functionally stupid people. These are not the thought leaders of the future that you want.
Still waiting for CNN to stumble onto the actual story. So far they only report that 'killings of white farmers are at a 20 year low'. That's today's good news, Ann.
Song lyrics by Merle Haggard (1937 - 2016)
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I'm Bringing Home Good News
Yeah, I'm bringing home some good news.
I got some things you'll be glad to hear --
Like I'm leaving town and won't be back --
Around just long enough to get my gear.
There won't be any goodbye kisses.
I'm putting on my leaving shoes.
This is the end; we're through; it's over.
I'm bringing home some good news.
I was sitting downtown in a tavern,
And I made up my mind to go.
I knew you would be so glad to be free.
I just thought to call you to let you know.
You can tell all your "backdoor daddies"
That your Big Daddy's done blew a fuse.
This is the end; we're through; it's over.
I'm bringing home some good news.
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Sung by Merle Haggard
(eaglebeak)
Speaking of news, good or otherwise, I think the notion that the right-wing universe or the right-wing news universe is ignoring the Manafort conviction and the Cohen plea is somewhat undercut by Trump's interview with Fox News.
Amazon sent out to every one of its legion of customers the Washington Post article headlining the right-wing universe and it's being a day like any other there--sort of an unfortunate exploitation of Amazon's gargantuan reach.
Of course, Jeff Bezos can do what he wants, which is fine, as long as the rest of us don't have to do what he wants.
Before Trump made the issue a non-issue by mentioning it, the right-wing ABC(.au) wrote -
"It's certainly true that farm murders are dwarfed by the sheer scale of violent crime in South Africa."
"Last year, just here," he says, gesturing beside a rubbish-strewn stream, "the mob caught four men suspected of rape.
"There was a multitude of people here. The men were stoned, cut with sharp implements, then they had petrol-filled tyres put round their necks.
"The petrol was set alight and they burned alive."
It would be nice if Scott Adams would lose the interview format. It's worse than TED lectures.
Big Brother, tell me some good news!
Well now that really is good news as it comes from the same entity that predicted, 2 years ago, the Dow would never see 20,000 again
Meade, he might well be right; the Dow might not EVER see 20,000 again (GOD Willing :)
Once written
Dude, you ever recover from shorting the DOW after it crossed 20000? Back when you asserted it would never get there again if it went below? LOL.
According to Jennifer Ruth at Vox;
"There’s no evidence of a genocidal campaign against white farmers."
So that's good news, isn't it? Of course, it's also a bald-faced lie;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcNtdHOPfMM
My Siri keeps asking me why we never talk anymore.
-sw
If you are a white South African farm owner, you should be looking to escape the country- you are just a murder statistic waiting to be filled in. Hoping to be saved by political pressure from outside the country is foolish.
This morning I posted on Zuckerdork's site that Amazon was getting a break on their electric rate at the expense of regular electric consumers whenever they (Amazon) built a new location. Crony capitalism as it is known.
It was apparently not good news as Zuckerdork's crack team of Community Standard arbiters judged it to be substandard and blocked it.
If you are a white South African farm owner, you should be looking to escape the country
But they don't allow you to leave.
"70,000 Horrific Murders Of SA White
Farmers And Families By Rape And Torture
Since Apartheid Ended"
I bet you're tired of seeing these headlines in the NYT and WaPo.
"Tell me something good" is always supposed to go to Rufus.
This is America.
I much prefer Rufus to people's press releases, which is what I suspect I'd get asking for "positive stories about people solving real problems."
If the Dems win enough seats we may see Dow at 20K again. Business is very happy with Trump, and the more it looks like we might lose him, the worse it will be for everyone, even Democrat politicians in the long run. A downturn in the economy after a Dem win will not bode well for them or anyone else.
It's good to know that robbing and murdering Whites for racist intent is not really a problem unless it's a genocide, meaning at least a billion souls need to be at risk. We have a long way to go before we need to be concerned.
Of course, to be fair, nobody gave a shit about what was happening in Rwanda, Bill Clinton least of all.
From wikipedia: "Intelligence reports indicate that United States president Bill Clinton and his cabinet were aware before the height of the massacre that a "final solution to eliminate all Tutsis" was planned.[216] However, fear of a repeat of the events in Somalia shaped US policy at the time, with many commentators identifying the graphic consequences of the Battle of Mogadishu as the key reason behind the US's failure to intervene in later conflicts such as the Rwandan genocide."
You have to say it like Chaka Kahn does. Then you will get soulfully good news!
"Trying again, with Siri, avoiding the word "news," and we go careening into the world of relationships!"
Because Apple is crap.
These people are the nicest flippers- they always bring good news!
A downturn in the economy after a Dem win will not bode well for them or anyone else.
I hear rumors that they are trying to figure how to crash it before the election.
Blogger again.
Mark said...
In my experience, Siri is pretty stupid in relation to Google home.
Alexa and Google are relatively similair in terms of getting a good answer,
Google or my phone -always has something.
Alexa is a dumb bunny by comparison. I do ask her a lot for time, weather, traffic in the morning.
dont ask a godless robot for Good News
When I ask for good news, I expect no news.
I got beaten to it a couple-so times, but still, I'm going to post video from back in the day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR--nDR88b0
Yep, video. From back in the day.
You might have to copy the link and then paste it into your browser to see.
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Dang. I still have some chops in terms of needed search terms. Especially with regard to not just music, but certainly with regard to that.
In order to get to that video from back in the day, just three words had to be employed in the search. Those were the key.
"additional words," I mean, and I am referring to my original search string, which was pretty specific, though lean, within not too many minutes.
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