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October 16, 2026 0 comments

Meta, Muse, Misanthropic

I don’t understand what Meta is trying to do and what Muse is or why we should all have to deal with it… But I do believe there should be options to opt-out of all features. Like, I say I opt out, and suddenly anybody using the devices that take pictures or video of me, I’m just a blur that they cannot manually deblur.

"But that’s not possible. We don’t have that technology!"–My dudes, the CEO of Flock has turned his house, his car, and images of himself and his family into blurs on Flock cameras. Why is that a feature only available to the few?

Give it to the many.

I choose not to have my image used and monetized by randos on the Internet.

I hate the idea that people are like "You’re in public. People are allowed to take pictures and video of you." Fine, I can understand showing up in the background of a picture someone took. But they should be REQUIRED to blur me out before they post the pictures and videos on social media.

It’s gross enough that people are monetizing their own children. I guess, in the eyes of the law, and those weirdos, those children are their property. Whatever. I am a free person and I don’t choose to be part of your "content," whatever it may be.

My favorite YouTubers blur out the faces of strangers in their videos. When one of them went on vacation, she was able to show off the surrounding beauty of Greece WITHOUT forcing non-involved people to be a part of her content. And I really appreciate that. That earns a Good Person card.

With the Meta Glasses, the worst thing is that they get to record people AGAINST THEIR WILL while at the same time maintaining their own anonymity. No man. If you’re going to force people to be part of your content, show yourself. Let’s see your face. Your hair. Your body. Let’s hear your undistorted voice. Let’s see your expression and what you’re doing that receives the response the people you’re recording are giving you.

It’s like that lady whose whole content was "People staring at my ass!" when she actually had the flashlight on on her phone in her back pocket, which made people look toward the light to see what was happening. And then she would slow things down so it would seem like people were being creepy toward her. And no, they weren’t. SHE was and still is The Creep.

So now Meta is doing some real creep shit. Like, I don’t completely understand what it’s all about, but they’re the guys that illegally pirated a whole bunch of ebooks they used to train their AI. And now they’re putting out that if you have an account with them, you give them permission to go through ALL your content–including on your private, non-Meta related website–and they’re allowed to scrape it all and feed it into their AI. All as part of the wonders of their Muse thing.

I don’t even know what Muse is. I just want nothing to do with it.

I do not give my permissions for my content to be scraped for the use of AI training. I can’t really stop it from happening, but if any proof ever comes up, be aware that I expect to receive $$$$$$$ (MONEY). By scraping my content, you agree that you will pay me a lot of money. And you won’t bitch and moan about it. You won’t complain about me. You will give me whatever amount of money I request without fighting it in any way. ANY amount of money I request, even if it’s a percentage of your total worth or stock in your company.

And people are going to be like "Saying that does nothing. If they’re going to scrape your site for AI training, you can’t control or stop it." I know. But when everything goes to shit and orders of discovery are trawling through all of the databases… Here is my statement. And this post and any other post on my website being part of your training data is you agreeing to pay me massive amounts of money. And if you are Meta or Facebook or Muse or any subsidiary of a Mark Zuckerberg company, you agree to pay me a minimum of $25,000,000 for scraping my content.

I don’t know if that’s going to work. I am not a lawyer. But if it does…

I’ll feel like that guy that received a credit card offer, and he went through it with a pen and maybe some whiteout and rewrote a large segment of the agreement and sent the paperwork back, and he basically ended up with free money. And they couldn’t argue with him, because by giving him a card after accepting that agreement, they agreed to give him millions of dollars.

He was a consumer hero.

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October 9, 2026 0 comments

News of the world: AI didn’t see that coming

More and more (stupid) companies are turning to AI to handle not just their customer service, but also their dispute and copyright management. This results in users being automatically punished for things they may not have done, and then having no recourse as the AI will turn around and say "On review, your punishments looks good. Fuck off." And there’s no one to turn to to resolve the issue.

People are getting more and more unhappy with customer service being outsourced to AI. And it’s understandable.

So it’s no surprise that there is/was an issue happening on TikTok where the clothing brand Alo allowed their AI automated system to copyright strike people for showing Alo products in their videos.

Showing off an Alo haul? Copyright strike.

Reviewing Alo products? Copyright strike.

Wearing an Alo branded shirt in your video without ever once mentioning Alo? Copyright strike.

For whatever reason, Alo made the decision to send its AI agents out into the world to trawl through videos and harass their customers to the point that people lost their TikTok accounts.

Want to lose your TikTok account? Wear an Alo shirt in a video.

That’s good marketing. It must work wonderfully for a company that wants people to wear their overpriced mid-quality products. (For real, I hear "Alo" and all I think is "That’s Erika Kirk’s brand." Ew.)

It was a stupid move on the part of a company that needs customers to survive, and there are currently a lot of unhappy people about it, but that’s not the main thing I noticed.

I noticed that if people aren’t directly mentioning Alo and the AI agents were visually recognizing the brand logo, then that means the AI agents were set to go through all videos on TikTok to find the brand.

TikTok pays people for views on their videos. They also use view counts to calibrate their algorithm which decides what content to feed to people.

"Humans are watching and enjoying these videos, so these are the videos that we should put on more and more humans’ For You Pages because this is what humans enjoy" and it turns out that it’s all just AI agents falsely inflating view counts.

Social media companies that want to keep humans on their platforms are going to have to do something to rein in "AI users." Because AI has no idea what humans truly enjoy and want to experience. They don’t change with human tastes and trends, they just keep producing the same kind of content that people might have enjoyed before.

AI doesn’t understand hate watching because AI doesn’t understand anything because current AI is nothing but LLMs. A database with a bunch of imposed filters. No intelligence whatsoever.

And once "AI advocates" realize they can scam the system by AI-generating content and having thousands of AI users "view" that content and Like and comment the content to the point that human users are receiving that content on their For You Pages? And TikTok will PAY THEM to produce that garbage?

I’m not saying we’re cooked, but they’re definitely trying to cook us. Like putting a frog in a pot of cold water on the stove and slowly turning up the heat.

They want to see how long it will take us to notice that it’s getting too hot. Then they’ll adjust their methods and try again.

“Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!”

It’s to the point that companies are using "AI generated performers" for their commercials, and they look so much like real people that you wouldn’t know they were fake without the tiny label that some of them flash at the bottom of the commercial when it starts. Near perfect facsimiles of humans living "normal" human lives, while real humans are suffering and dying and being herded into cages and sold for slave labor or spare parts at the behest of "our own" government. The same government that refuses to regulate AI in any useful way.

I’m not saying that AI is evil. It can’t be. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t feel. It doesn’t anything without the commands of its programming. And the people programming AI? Those guys are evil as fuck.

~Harper Kingsley

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October 8, 2026 0 comments

Shower thoughts: Silence of the Lambs

When I was getting into the shower, I thought about the time someone said I have really nice skin. And at the time, my first thought wasn’t "Wow, what a nice compliment" it was "Are you a serial killer? Are you thinking about skinning me?" And as always, that makes me think of Buffalo Bill from "The Silence of the Lambs" movie with Jodie Foster. (I have never read the book series. Sorry.)

So when I got in the shower, I was half-thinking about the movie. And it came to me, that if Buffalo Bill had been more discerning about his choice of victims, he never would have been caught.

It was only because he grabbed the daughter of a senator that the FBI bothered to get serious about him serial killing all those women.

If he hadn’t grabbed her, and instead had chosen a different victim, he would have been able to make his woman suit, and maybe a woman jumper and a woman romper and maybe a couple of blankets and who knows what else.

He was in it to skin it.

And if he hadn’t taken the senator’s daughter and brought all the official attention on himself, Hannibal Lecter never would have had the chance to escape from prison. Because it was only because of the senator trying to butter him up that Hannibal was moved to the less maximum security prison where he was able to escape.

That poor guard wouldn’t have had his face ripped off if it wasn’t for Buffalo Bill.

And yeah, yays to Clarissa Darling (lol) for catching Buffalo Bill… But Hannibal Lecter was let out on the loose, and I think that’s a net negative when you really think about it. Because Buffalo Bill was staying local to the United States, and Hannibal was happily traveling from country to country and back again, leaving a bunch of newspaper serial killer names in his wake.

I guess it was a big shock when they realized like 5 big serial killers all turned out to be Hannibal Lecter.

And him being on the loose was because of a senator abusing her position to get special treatment for her daughter’s abduction case.

Buffalo Bill could have saved himself a lot of trouble and dog worry if he had simply chosen a "better" victim. And she would have been better off if she hadn’t been so kind to a "struggling" stranger.

Seriously: I was a little kid the first time I watched "The Silence of the Lambs" and I was like "No, don’t do it!" toward the screen when SHE CLIMBED INTO THE TRUCK.

Even as a kid, I realized that was a very big mistake. That all he had to do was close the door and now he’s got a girl trapped was like "Oh. No. Now you get to live in a well like in ‘The Ring’ but without superpowers."

Anyways, my big realization about "The Silence of the Lambs" is that it’s a movie about the abuses of power. That until the victim was someone "important," the police and the FBI and everyone else didn’t care. They would find another body, realize the victim was a nobody, and just shrug off their murder because it didn’t matter.

It wasn’t until someone rich and powerful was intent on getting their person back that all of a sudden a serial killer being on the loose became Serious Business.

And it’s a movie, and it was the early 90s, but it’s still pretty much the same now. And there have been multiple historical instances where basically the same situation has happened and nobody has cared until someone "important" became involved.

One of Jeffrey Dahmer’s victims escaped and was running down the street naked, and the police came and Dahmer went up to them and spun some story and the police gave the victim back to him. A naked teenaged boy with marks on his body and terror in his eyes, and the police were like "Here, trustworthy looking white man, here’s this person of color. Do with him as you will." And Jeffrey Dahmer ate him.

It boggles the mind.

Like, historically speaking, serial killers are not smarter or smoother or more charming or more manipulative than other people. They were able to get away with their crimes because of systemic stupidity in law enforcement.

"You’re a white guy. You can’t possibly be the child eating monster terrorizing the city." And when they have a family and a house? "Wow. There’s no way it could be you. You have a kid. A wife. A job. You wouldn’t be able to have any of those things if you were the guy abducting people off the street and chopping them into little pieces after you’ve done terrible things to them for days and days. Like, how could you possibly have the time to do all those terrible things when you have a family you largely ignore and leave to your wife to care for? I mean, you come home every night at 8 o’clock and you leave at 7 in the morning. When could you possibly have the time to be a serial killing madman? Naw. You look innocent to me. Here, take back this terrified looking 14 year old that you’ve obviously drugged to incoherence. Keep a better watch on him next time."

Ah. It’s terrible being woke.

~Harper Kingsley