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When your laptop misbehaves

Have you ever experienced a situation where your electronic devices stopped working when you needed them the most? For instance, your laptop misbehaves when you happen to be working on an important letter for your boss, or your printer runs out of ink when you urgently require a printout.  It seems like mechanical objects are not immune to this problem either. Recently, I had to take my son to his school’s sports meet, but my motorbike refused to start. Eventually, we took a rickshaw to make the trip.  Every so often, I can’t help but feel like these machines are conspiring against us. It’s like they’re ganging up and planning something. I will be observing them and share further updates if things get serious.

WordPress daily prompt AI is running out of ideas!

The WordPress AI that generates daily prompts seems to be running out of ideas! Check the prompt that came out today. It says, Now check this with the prompt that came out yesterday Describe a risk you took that you do not regret. Besides this, most of these prompts were put out a year ago. I know, AI does what it is instructed to do. But does it not make you feel assured that your job is safe? If the much dreaded Artificial Intelligence copy-pastes old instructions that lack originality, then a human touch will always be required. That assumption would be the risk I am willing to take, and it looks like it is working out for now.

The social bug

The social bug had infected the world. Its symptoms are visible in our fingers, which are constantly at work. Typing away furiously on blogs, social media apps, chatting. Churning out our thoughts, converting our imagination into text. All over the world, the story repeats. Irrespective of age, race, gender, financial status, the effects are the same. It dramatically increases the amount of time we spend on our smartphones or electronic devices. It forces us to keep churning out messages and posts. Libraries report a decrease in readers. Neighborhood bookshops are going out of business. In their place, smartphone shops are springing up all around. A whole new lexicon has emerged. Emojis are being invented every minute. Emotions that would need multiple lines of text can now be conveyed with a single image. A couple of decades ago, a landline was a status symbol in most homes. Distant relatives, school friends,… The social bug