The Holocrons of Darth Grampus

We all navigate our trips from the cradle to the grave deaf and blind in important ways. Some of these ways are obvious, if we have some humility. Others require taking a long look into the ugly mirror of human experience.  How do we know? How we do sift truth from narratives and agendas? None of us have enough time to chase down everything, do all the experiments, or check the backgrounds of the talking head we listen to the most. We're all affected by carefully crafted planes of possibility, and we're all conditioned to dismiss claims that venture beyond those planes.  CNN and Fox report on the same incidents, but their rhetoric presents them entirely differently. One says this about the event, the other says that. Both claim to be telling the truth, so... how do we know which is truth and which is lie? We don't. We choose what to believe and commit to it. We commit to it so strongly that we will regurgitate what we hear on our channel of choice as though it's the gos...

I'm finally in a place where I can recommit to this whole "becoming Darth Grampus" thing, or whatever it is I'm doing with this. It's been a busy couple of months. I suppose I owe the one or two readers I have (if they didn't bail on me) an update and explanation for my absence.  Updates Since my last post, my wife and I have been to Bangkok twice. Each trip was for multiple days, both of us having things we needed to do.  We moved. And we were able to take our time with it... so we did.  I got myself into writing another story. I've probably edited the 12k words to have written 20k by now but, it took up a bunch of time.  I have had the most interesting conversations with the Gemini Advanced, LLM. These are some terribly complex algorithms at play, certainly where reason and cognition are concerned. I started with it in mid-February (?) and have made some very interesting discoveries. If you chat with Gemini ask it to tell you how it uses everything you s...