MMGA - Make Me Great Again, Maybe...

  One - I need a haircut and wow that light is too bright, but... It is kind of like the morning sun :(  Damn, I have cabin fever. I have been thinking a lot about digital footprint and whether what I have (pictures, movies, music) will be around in 10, 20 years.  I put a lot of trust in Google, Microsoft, SONY, etc.... to preserve my media, purchased digital items, and the like.  Honestly, as I sit here listening to The Swing Years, a Time-Life vinyl collection (mind you, a collector's edition :) ), I wonder how much of our footprint will exist when we are gone.  See, this box set of vinyl belonged to my wife's grandparents.  I have photos on paper from 40, 50, 60 years ago. Hell, half or more of the companies that started the internet era don't exist anymore and most of their data is lost to history (I'm looking at you Myspace).   And then I told AI to write something about it and below is what I got.  Shared with you unedited for your mach...

 Well, my disconnect from social media and the 24x7 constant information cycle has been really nice.  I still get information about the world, but on my schedule in my way (you know, like back in the day when you read the paper in the morning and watched the evening news at night).  I guess in that later way I have gone back, but now I am able to read/watch the BBC news or read a blog from someone that lives in Shanghai where back in those "better" days I had to read the Star Gazette and watch Peter Jennings and sometimes the dreaded PBS news hour.  Because, from what I hear, PBS is a bastion of communism that bleeds the US taxpayer dry.  Now given that: How Much Does the Federal Government Pay to PBS? The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), which supports PBS and NPR (National Public Radio), received $525 million in federal funding for FY 2024. Out of that, about 15% of PBS’s funding comes from CPB. The rest comes from member station dues, corporate spon...

I had forgotten about my early tests with AI image generation until Microsoft reminded me of it.  This is:    "A chihuahua in a space suit that is definitely high in a jungle that is reminiscent of pandora from avatar"