I'm In The AI Jailhouse Now!

 August 2, 2025

   Sometimes it's the little things that make me smile. Like this crumbling adobe.

In The Jailhouse Now. 

   Of all the outbuildings on our property, this is my favorite. Built by my Kingman Cowboy Cousin, Craig Hamilton, circa 1991, to give our well pump some protective coverage, I told him to make it look like an old border jail and that he did. Great job cousin Craiger!

Craig, at left, with his father Billy Hamilton doctoring a cow on the Turkey Track Ranch, circa 1971

   I got married for educational purposes. For example, I had no idea there was a wrong way to put milk in the refrigerator.

AI Madness

   My daughter Deena forwarded me an AXIOS report citing a Microsoft study about what professions AI is most likely to destroy. Turns out I am in the vulnerable top ten for two—technically three!—vocations in peril: Historians (2) and Writers and Authors (5) and, if you include one of my past employments, Broadcast Radio DJs (10)! It was somewhat comforting to know that in the list of jobs that will be the least affected was "Motorboat Operator." Whew!

I'm In The AI Jailhouse Now!

   At the end of the day, I agree with this guy:

   "Art and its expression is one of the main things that make us human. We were drawing horses in caves 50,000 years ago. AI might kill some industry jobs, but there will be a strong backlash from the true artists that will result in a renaissance of authenticity. By all rights and measures records should be dead, but they're not. Some of us made the decision that the physical copy with its artwork and all the shitty songs between the singles is important to us.I don't know what the scene will look like, but it will happen.  As artists, we will adapt or die because what's the alternative? No longer being human? 

   "I don't think we go down that easily. 

   "As for the masses, the unartistic, the philistines, they'll do what they always do and many of them will say that art is dead and it might be in their world. But it probably already was."

—Thomas Charles Bell

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