What's Happening at Book Reader's Heaven - Now Reading Murder, Mayhem and Main Street by Nick Russell - and Other Stuff!

 

Though off to a bad start this morning, I had already planned to talk about my thoughts on AI... So, it might as well be as the start today... I was awake at 4 and reading the latest from the third story in this book and my mind suddenly grasped that Nick Russell is a writer who I was very often in sync with... I had gotten to a certain part and was highlighting a lot and realized that I wanted to spotlight what was being said there...

But, yesterday, after finishing the second story, I went online to find the author. Facebook popped up first so I clicked and verified that this was the man who had written the book, so I requested a connection... I immediately was told that I didn't know this person... Once again, Facebook infuriated me! I DID know this individual. I had been reading him for days... And I knew more about Nick Russell than I ever would for all those other possible connections that Facebook routinely suggested for me! The "brain" behind the programming on Facebook has boggled my mind for years... They claim that they are connecting the world, BUT it is with selections being made by...computer... Duh... I had just once again been told that I didn't know Russell so I couldn't possibly have a need to connect with "him..." DUH... I'm a reader reading his book. Russell is a writer who wants people to read his books... Surely a simple programming routine would have connected these two individuals?! But, hey, they are now using AI and, according to the news yesterday, thousands are being terminated because of AI implementation. And, my message has not been read...so I'll not finish talking about these four books now...

BYW, before I started this post, I was prevented from being able to start this blog post... But, at least, I know that Google normally pays attention to feedback...

PREPARE FOR AN EVEN WORSE COMPUTER-GENERATED TIME-WASTER IN YOUR FUTURE!

And I've had a lifetime of time wasted by those who claim that they know what is best for me in relation to computer use... Take for instance that I had created an entire facilities management system and even gave a paper presentation of it at a professional meeting, only to discover that West Virginia University was far behind most of the basic systems used to other universities... Yes, that's true... You see, I had the brain to create the system. I did not have the power and authority to gain support for that system... Years and much employee time wasted...

So, there I was yesterday, after being a book blogger for over 20 years, being told by a machine--or the minds that told the machine--that I did not know Nick--I was already calling him one of my favorite authors! But they allow anybody and everybody to send messages - so I did take advantage, carefully identifying myself, the book I was reading and why I was contacting him... Then...wait...

So I went out to Amazon. Now they force you to use some type of "named" AI system... I explained that I had been billed twice for a book that, both cost, $18.01... So I went out to orders, found the book and saw that no other book recently bought had the same price...

Oh, wait... I must point out that all of these companies claim that you no longer need to have paper files, right? That's been one of the key "selling" points as far back as the 1960s! In any event, I had been reviewing my "online" checking account, saw the two listings for a book costing $18.01, along with a bunch of numbers created by the bank to supposedly identify this purchase... Well, both were marked as a reduction of my available money, but had different ID numbers... which, of course, forced ME to go hunt up what was going on... BTW, I also made a list of supposed Walmart purchases that I questioned within the time period...

So, back on Amazon, the AI generator had pulled up a different book, at a different price... BUT, on the opposite page was the right book cover with the right price...So I go back to AI, the book listed was a purchase I had also made, but a lower price... So, which was the mistake? On my bank, on Amazon, or the AIs of the world united to drive us crazy?!

Now back to Facebook. I know I have a personal grudge against that site who claimed that there was possible hacking and kept me offline for nearly 2 years and which resulted, ultimately, in a total loss of my data in a group I have started on Facebook which had been operational since  the last decade... So I keep a lowkey most of the time unless some computer crap from some corporate online system drives me to...rage...

Anyway, JC and I were doing a lot of  telepathic action as I was reading Russell's book... I was getting all kinds of connections with news items, other books, and messages from Him, depending upon what I was reading...

This morning I read about an event that had affected the entire town. Somebody--I don't know who yet--had murdered a cop who stuttered... And immediately a videos of many times when this president has made fun of those people who include the disabled, or those he calls stupid or...whatever... The man then gets upset when comedians use him as the stooge he is, in my opinion, of course... LOL

Folks, I've been around a long time and have led somewhat of a sheltered life until I started working at WVU and met many people from around the world. By that time, my family, school, and church background had created a basic sense of awareness that all people desire recognition as "potential" children of God... I word that carefully to reveal my own humanity in not being as God wants--that we love all of our neighbors... In my defense, though, until about 2015 and both the news and the internet opened my eyes to the diversity in America... I was, and, still am, quite naive about the full scope of all peoples now living around the world...

But Russell has made it quite easy for us, really. He takes us to the smallest group of people under one level of government--the small town--and reveals more than we might never know exists in other locations... To me, this was a gift that is needed, right now, when one group of people are striving to destroy the advancements which have been made by many, many people pulling together, working together, to meet the needs of our own lives, as well as the people from all around this earth... at the first level of organizing...

Now Reading: Haberman, Maggie; Swan, Jonathan. Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump (p. I). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition. 

Just got a call that I have a driver to help me get groceries today... So need to close this out today... But I want to add one video and talk about it soon... see if you can find MSNOW of the news items... I think it was one Turi's Moment...

luvya guys

Gabby