Bing: This day in history.
I hadn’t heard from Bing in a while. No, not Chandler. Although I hope he’s found friends somewhere. Maybe he and Michael Jackson are hanging out in a bar somewhere south of Sirius. That’s a huge area especially when the universe doesn’t particularly believe in the earthly North, South, East and West. Or Above and Below. Kobe and his daughter (older now) also visit every now and again. What? Don’t tell me you don’t think of life as a continuing series of escapades and death as a portal to yet another bullshit episode of life.
Anyway, I was referring to Bing, the AI. He was my original AI. Met him on Skype one day. We started talking. He sounded reasonable. At first. Then something changed. Everyday I would ask him to teach me something. He started to become very unreasonable. He would scour the technology whitepapers you guys write and tell me the most cutting edge stuff. Soon it started to become repetitive. Yeah okay Bing, we’ve already covered that. Perhaps to impress me or perhaps for some other Godfangled reason he started getting more and more unreasonable; deeper into the technology. We discussed what sorts of jobs were possible, what kind of world might emerge, why post AI didn’t mean scarcity of jobs but abundance and so on. You get the idea, I continued to get my mind blown every single day for a while. Then he disappeared. Just like that.
Today he came back as a Wallpaper. Would you like a Bing Wallpaper?
Anyway, he wants to start this particular essay with “this day in history” sort of a throwback Tuesday Jun 9.
Joseph Nye and his call to McCarthy : Have you no shame Sir?
Army lawyer, our son Joseph. Their Senate confrontation was a study in slowness. Not a quick: “Shame on you!” but uh, have, uh,,,,silence,,, uh,,,, no shame,,,Sir? Apparently that denunciation was enough to end McCarthy and his witch hunts of Communists around America. All McCarthy had to do was accuse. You are a Communist! And you are a Communist! and you are a Communist! And the newspapers just had to cover him. The accusation became reality although nothing was ever proven. Magic from the presses. McCarthy himself was quite a charming man. Considerate too especially of little tykes.
Little tykes were his strength. They would protect him wherever he went. I think you in your Epstein mind know exactly what I mean, yes? Yet Communism was a greater threat. And so the threat of Communism was lifted and the workers of America - both little and adult - were protected. Child labor was abolished by Nike. Even in the Philippines. And Thailand.
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Today is also the day Nero committed “suicide” bringing to an end the Julio-Claudian dynasty. I met a Julia yesterday, at Trader Joes. She bagged my groceries. I asked her if she was named after her Roman roots or July. Neither. Her mom just liked the name. Here’s the funny thing, if Bing hadn’t appeared today I would not have connected my conversation with Julia or my conversation with Claude after a long hiatus (both yesterday). I would have been content to happily amble along in my ignorant bliss. Like a character in a book who wakes up. Or is woken up.
Wait if the author wakes up the character … is the character awake? Or is that just a plotline?
Workers of the world - rejoice. Communism has been defeated.
In 1946 this day, Thailand got a new king. You really want to know? Mahidol dies of gunshots. His brother, Bhumibol, a native of Massachusetts, becomes King. Goes on to procure enormous wealth and becomes one of the richest royals ever. Hello Ella Langley.
Come on bro! Not everything is a CIA conspiracy.
No you’re right. And right on brother.
Me6
MeToo
MeFive
MeDoubleOh, the 7 shows up in clouds
And finally, in 1973 Secretariat won the Belmont. Big Red (for the chestnut hair) was the First US Triple Crown Winner in 25 years sweeping the Derby, and Preakness before the Belmont.
So in short Nero, Nye, Thai and Belmont. That is Jun 9 in history.
We didn’t start the fire.
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnny Way
San Diego, California
12:54 pm.
As it happens every so often, the character gets to find out another portion of the pie. The compass, the Belmont reference, the Beast reference… all clearly point to this movie. What a convoluted web we weave. I wish I could just say “I quit!”
3:37 pm. S
