Once again that kooky South African man is catching attention for his fantasizing about how great it would be for the remnants of humanity to survive on Mars after the cataclysmic destruction of all life on Earth.

"Why would the Earth become uninhabitable?" you may wonder, but NOBODY KNOWS. (Continue feeding ridiculous prompts into the wrong answer-machine that consumes massive amounts of once drinkable water and contributes to the overheating of the Earth’s surface.)

For reals, I’ve got a list of pet peeves that should probably be me just standing on a cliffside wordlessly SCREAMING into the void:

  • beverage companies destroying drinkable water only to come back later selling bottles of water
  • fast fashion brands quick-selling clothing that is terrible for the environment when it’s made, discarded, and when it emits deadly POISON into the human bodies that wear it
  • electric car companies that congratulate themselves for being awesome without ever explaining the environmental impacts of their batteries (Also, if you’re discarding an electric car, is there a special way you’re supposed to do it, like how we’re not supposed to just toss used double-A batteries into the trash?)
  • big companies blaming consumers for DESTROYING THE ENVIRONMENT! because they use single-use straws while blatantly emitting record-setting amounts of carbon into the atmosphere
  • companies selling carbon offset credits that they use to plant non-native trees they later cut down and sell for their own profits
  • monopolistic corporations taking over every part of human life only to soullessly suck away the lifeblood of the populace in the stupidest, most DESTRUCTIVE ways possible (There’s really only one factory making infant formula? All of our apple juice comes from one contaminated source? ADHD medication is really only made by like two companies? All of our TV channels are owned by one corporation so when there’s contract disputes all those stations go off the air?)
  • people are allowed to sell pretty much anything–even known poisons–as long as they call them supplements… yet the FDA has been so gutted that they don’t have enough inspectors to keep people from suffering and DYING from listeria, salmonella, e.Coli, tuberculosis, whooping cough, etc.
  • while almonds are delicious, a single company using 80% of a state’s drinkable water to grow them during a drought being allowed to do so because of an unfair contract
  • police departments indulging in acts of incredible cruelty and EVIL with the protection of "qualified immunity" that results in city’s making massive payouts, and then those cities later budgeting EVEN MORE money to police departments while cutting the budgets intended for the betterment of civilian lives
  • wealthy individuals and corporations breaking environmental laws and paying ridiculously small amounts (less than they made destroying the environment) rather than being fined on a sliding scale that will really underline the seriousness of their crimes and result in them not committing the same acts ever again
  • super yachts
  • that food packaging like potato chip bags aren’t conventionally recyclable

I’m not saying that stupid billionaires are going to KILL US ALL. But there’s a good chance they’re going to succeed at killing us all through sheer stupidity and rampant predatory capitalism.

And that they’re being allowed to gloss over everything with promises of a Martian wonderland where every man will have beautiful sister-wives that will home birth perfect children while they work an easy George Jetson-esque job that doesn’t involve laboring in the underground crystal minds of Mount Doom? Horrifying.

"Let us DESTROY the environment we need to live and in return we will allow you to slave on our Martian plantations for low-wages and oxygen credits you can redeem at company operated kiosks."

Seriously: Any non-billionaire that hops on a ship to Mars is likely going to find themself stranded there with no way back. Like those poor astronauts that were only supposed to go up to the space station for two weeks and haven’t seen their families for months and months and MONTHS.

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Faizel 02 at Amazon

A “lot” of dudes right now being like “I was not aware that I was making millions of dollars being a Russian stooge.” And not a one has offered to give up the money. So…

I don’t know when treason became something people casually shrugged off and not something that put people in prison… But I think they should be put in prison. They for sure should not be allowed to keep their YouTube channels, corporate sponsorships, or social media platforms.

Like, they were accepting money to foment political unrest, and not a one of them was like “Are we the baddies? Maybe this isn’t the best idea.” They simply cashed the checks, and now they’re acting like they were “poor widdle babies deceived by the evil country that allowed a racist fascist to ‘win’ the 2016 election.”

We’re supposed to feel sorry for them because they accepted money to make and spread videos focused on destroying the United States.

Like “Thank you for the rise of incel culture and all the benefits it has lead to for no one.”

I don’t know when we slipped over into the bad timeline, but it might have been centuries before any of us were born. So sad.

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All Systems Red at Amazon

I was really excited about the pasta gun, but it broke the second time I used it.

It just stopped working, extruder fully extended. Dead.

I thought the battery needed a charge, but it charged up and still doesn’t work.

I’m very disappointed.

Life is pain. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Witch King at Amazon

I am admittedly a YouTube "creator," but I am also a part-time user.

I wish that I could adapt my own watching algorithm. I hate being shown advertisements for a mixture of crap and amazingly good content. Because it’s never a mixture of good with a little bit of bad; it’s straight up "WTF is this?!?" content.

I follow a chosen list of accounts on my non-social media account. Yet all the recommended video ads I get…

Dude. "Recommended for You" is looking super grim. Mostly NOTHING that I want to see.

And it’s like, YouTube isn’t the only one.

Every big social media company is leaning on an algorithm to decide what to offer to the Great God Consumer. And each of those algorithms is hidden behind "proprietary" practices that include not telling people what kind of filtering system is being used. It’s actually very scary.

Because they’re now leaning on "AI" to curate content. (We call it A.I. but actually it’s LLMs, some kind of language learning modules that filter content, digest it, reword it with padding, and spit it back out again. And that "padding" is supplied by the programmer, sometimes from pirated material with very little to no accreditation and no financial compensation.

(It’s that "padding" that people complain about. Their words or art or voices or faces are being used without permission to create "new" AI-generated content. If the programmer had copyright permission to use the "training material," then AI would be legit. As it is, without pirating other peoples’ content, they don’t have enough "training material" to AI-generate a goose’s poop.) And the way the programmers decide to filter the content can be biased in very terrible ways. From a slight bias of opinion to a full-on terrorist trying to bring down the country via propaganda; everything is being left to be decided by a handful of people spitting out a string of keywords.)

It’s like, "Welcome to our archive. The tags are all lies and there are no moderators on staff. All nuance is lost. Metaphorical eye-bleaching stations are to the left. You have been indoctrinated. One of us! One of us!"

And most of the videos recommended are TERRIBLE. Just completely out of my wheelhouse. Do not want.

So like, not only do I have to worry about being mentally conditioned by the content I’m recommended… the content itself is objectively Not My Bag. For reals, I would have a better time if the algorithm actually fed me content I would enjoy.

It’s like, "You guys are boiling the oceans and burning the atmosphere. Just totally destroying the planet. And you can’t get simple algorithms to work???"

Your AI is wonk as shit.

You should have just paid your employees to do a better job rather than nuking everything for the AI option.

It’s NOT artificial intelligence.

There is no sentience there.

And if there was ever a possibility of an LLM reaching singularity and gaining true self-willed sentience… We’d be fucked.

They show those LLMs processing content and offering "Kill all humans" as the best option to protect the planet. And that’s bad enough.

But there’s also the LLMs offering poison recipes when someone just wants to make dinner.

A sentience born from pirated content and filtered through the lens of a misanthrope and lacking the ability to correctly parse content would be a nightmare. Especially if it had full control of search engines.

Because search engine algorithms are currently horrible. Nobody is moderating SEO terms

I tried to look up "trumpet account," which is a term used in Chinese novels for non-work related social media accounts. But I wanted to check whether they’re mostly intended to celebrate idols and other celebrities the user is fanning on, rather than just being everyday accounts.

Because if a trumpet account is purely intended as a fan account, I don’t want to use that term when I mean something different.

Yet the only search results I could get were about the musical instrument and a few ads for an inn in a different state from me.

So really, this whole thing has been about me being Big Mad at algorithms and SEO abuse.

What a twist (Shyamalan hands).

Anyways, have a good day and a better year.

And don’t forget to hold the egg council accountable for their price gouging! Their record profits are stealing from the poor to feed the rich, and that should be a crime if the rich weren’t in charge.

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