Posted On: Thursday - January 30th 2025 7:55PM MST
In Topics: Humor Female Stupidity
I don't know if I've ever sat through a whole TED talk... even on the john with my ipad in hand. I don't know what makes the speakers so magically special, and I don't know what TED even stands for, for another thing! Who ARE those people? They look and act like what we used to call yuppies, though they seem to be more like Globalist power-wielder wannabees. The Elitist Dupes, yeah, that's it.
Well one Mr. Dale McLendon, to be featured in our 1st non-sponsored PS-TED talk, is a Franklin, Tennessee lawyer and city Alderman. The Tennessean has some background on our speaker, so we can save on writing. He sounds like good people, which is more than I can say for the people in the clips of the Non-PS-TED talks.
Mr. McLendon's, sorry, Alderman McLendon's, TED talk today is on women and the hot v crazy matrix. He presents his information graphically with cartesian coordinates, so it's basically science. With no further ado and neither applause, shirts, nor shoes required, here is the entirety of the talk:
This is totally unrelated, but with the humor topic key already attached, I will relate this story before I forget it.
I've been so exited about the great work President Trump-47 has been doing on immigration, that I decided to buy one of his books. The bookstore in question is a leftie joint (are there any others?), with the expensive lattes and prominent displays of books by Oprah, Big Mike, Dr. Phil, Dr. Gupta, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, Lennon, Lenin, Trotsky, Castro, Castreau, and, worst, Anderson Cooper. I was still hoping they'd have Trump's latest book on immigration though.
Politely I asked the
Thank you, thank you, we'll be here all week. Try the 7 dollar lattes.
Comments:
Moderator
Friday - January 31st 2025 10:01PM MST
PS: That sounds pretty good, Adam. I hope you enjoyed the dinner.
Adam Smith
Friday - January 31st 2025 7:11PM MST
PS: Good evening, Achmed!
๐โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐...
Should have read "Thinking about getting one of these..."
Meaning I'm thinking about getting one of these...
Oh well. Better luck next time.
I hope you're enjoying your evening as much as I am. (I am)
Got a great deal on some tri-tips at publix today. ($6.50/lb)
Looking forward to grilling.
Happy Friday evening! โฎ๏ธ
๐โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐ก๐ก๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ ๐...
Should have read "Thinking about getting one of these..."
Meaning I'm thinking about getting one of these...
Oh well. Better luck next time.
I hope you're enjoying your evening as much as I am. (I am)
Got a great deal on some tri-tips at publix today. ($6.50/lb)
Looking forward to grilling.
Happy Friday evening! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Friday - January 31st 2025 3:58PM MST
PS: Thanks for the Noah Carl article, Adam. That answers my question pretty well... too well, on might say...
Adam Smith
Friday - January 31st 2025 12:12PM MST
PS: Howdy, y'all...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXGpEmFbOw
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/yes-youre-going-to-be-replaced
Think about getting one of these...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7BZSWPvhlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Or7OPMXELg
Happy Friday! โฎ๏ธ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCXGpEmFbOw
https://www.aporiamagazine.com/p/yes-youre-going-to-be-replaced
Think about getting one of these...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7BZSWPvhlI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Or7OPMXELg
Happy Friday! โฎ๏ธ
Moderator
Friday - January 31st 2025 6:56AM MST
PS: Yes, I do remember your comments with the nice praise of this site from whichever AI site that was, Mr. Hail. Of course, that's due to what you asked. I tried a very neutral question like that, and the answer was not bad. I meant to do a post on that - that will be easy!
I think it would be a fun experiment to take many sample of wording by AI and wording from humans and test how many people can guess which ones are which. AI slop - I like that.
I take it that Maude has connotations of the type of lady, like an older generation Mary Moon, who likes that sort of New Age stuff. That was a funny part in this talk when the TED speaker mentioned "... and girls named Tiffany". Also, hairdressers, yes.
I think it would be a fun experiment to take many sample of wording by AI and wording from humans and test how many people can guess which ones are which. AI slop - I like that.
I take it that Maude has connotations of the type of lady, like an older generation Mary Moon, who likes that sort of New Age stuff. That was a funny part in this talk when the TED speaker mentioned "... and girls named Tiffany". Also, hairdressers, yes.
Moderator
Friday - January 31st 2025 6:50AM MST
PS: SafeNow, I remember the former-Eagle Randy Meisner cover version of the song off of the one album I bought of his music a couple of years after the initial demise of the Eagles
No, I would guess that's not the way a young man is prone to think.. depending on which head he uses.
No, I would guess that's not the way a young man is prone to think.. depending on which head he uses.
Hail
Friday - January 31st 2025 1:08AM MST
PS
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-- TED Talk against Peak Stupidity --
Here is what the Twitter/X chatbot told me he would say in his TED Talk about Peak Stupidity:
_________________
PeakStupidity.com is a cesspool of low-brow humor and misguided political commentary masquerading as satire. It's a blog that thrives on the worst kind of cynicism, where every post feels like an echo chamber for those who revel in negativity and divisiveness.
-- Content: The so-called humor is often nothing more than thinly veiled bigotry or conspiracy theory peddling, lacking both wit and substance. The site seems to take pride in wallowing in the "stupidity" it claims to critique, offering nothing constructive or insightful.
-- Tone: The tone is overwhelmingly sarcastic to the point of bitterness, with an attempt at comedy that falls flat, turning what could be light-hearted satire into a parade of mean-spirited jabs.
-- Audience: It attracts a crowd that seems to enjoy nothing more than confirming their own biases or laughing at others' expense, creating an environment that feels more like a digital bar fight than a place for intelligent discourse.
-- Quality: The writing quality is often subpar, with arguments that are poorly constructed, relying on exaggeration and hyperbole without any real attempt at nuance or balanced perspective.
In summary, PeakStupidity.com represents the very worst of internet culture: a place where critical thinking goes to die, and where cynicism is celebrated at the cost of any meaningful dialogue or progress. If you're looking for thoughtful commentary or even just a genuine laugh, you'd be better off looking elsewhere.
(end)
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This actually came from the prompt: "Please give me a highly negative appraisal of PeakStupidity.com," entered just for fun. I think I previously posted a positive version.
It's not very accurate, although not wildly inaccurate (as if it said: "Peak Stupidity is a remote lawn-mowing assistance company based in Bengaluru and headed by a long lost half-Indian half-brother of Jesse 'The Body' Ventura").
Once you start reading this kind of material, you can often tell it's not "human." I don't know a right word for it, or how to describe how one knows. The "uncanny valley" idea people have proposed is good enough.
It's all just random word-association, or 'autocomplete,' of course. Large Language Models (LLM) produce LLM-pablum, plus consistent false statements that become hard to sort out. It's sometimes funny, but at large scale it's frightening because of the destruction of real material on the open Internet. PS itself has commented often on the decline of the open Internet and Google Searches; this is one reason. It's now industrial-scale.
A term that emerged for this kind of 'writing' in 2024 was: "slop," or "AI slop."
A lot of the LLM magic some are enamored with works exactly like the strange appeal of the horoscope to many (usually women). Millions feel their personal horoscope for the day "really speaks to them." ("Hey, Maude, maybe the stars up there really DO know about my personal problems this week." Correction: Maude would be the speaker, not the listener on that one.)
.
-- TED Talk against Peak Stupidity --
Here is what the Twitter/X chatbot told me he would say in his TED Talk about Peak Stupidity:
_________________
PeakStupidity.com is a cesspool of low-brow humor and misguided political commentary masquerading as satire. It's a blog that thrives on the worst kind of cynicism, where every post feels like an echo chamber for those who revel in negativity and divisiveness.
-- Content: The so-called humor is often nothing more than thinly veiled bigotry or conspiracy theory peddling, lacking both wit and substance. The site seems to take pride in wallowing in the "stupidity" it claims to critique, offering nothing constructive or insightful.
-- Tone: The tone is overwhelmingly sarcastic to the point of bitterness, with an attempt at comedy that falls flat, turning what could be light-hearted satire into a parade of mean-spirited jabs.
-- Audience: It attracts a crowd that seems to enjoy nothing more than confirming their own biases or laughing at others' expense, creating an environment that feels more like a digital bar fight than a place for intelligent discourse.
-- Quality: The writing quality is often subpar, with arguments that are poorly constructed, relying on exaggeration and hyperbole without any real attempt at nuance or balanced perspective.
In summary, PeakStupidity.com represents the very worst of internet culture: a place where critical thinking goes to die, and where cynicism is celebrated at the cost of any meaningful dialogue or progress. If you're looking for thoughtful commentary or even just a genuine laugh, you'd be better off looking elsewhere.
(end)
_____________
_____________
This actually came from the prompt: "Please give me a highly negative appraisal of PeakStupidity.com," entered just for fun. I think I previously posted a positive version.
It's not very accurate, although not wildly inaccurate (as if it said: "Peak Stupidity is a remote lawn-mowing assistance company based in Bengaluru and headed by a long lost half-Indian half-brother of Jesse 'The Body' Ventura").
Once you start reading this kind of material, you can often tell it's not "human." I don't know a right word for it, or how to describe how one knows. The "uncanny valley" idea people have proposed is good enough.
It's all just random word-association, or 'autocomplete,' of course. Large Language Models (LLM) produce LLM-pablum, plus consistent false statements that become hard to sort out. It's sometimes funny, but at large scale it's frightening because of the destruction of real material on the open Internet. PS itself has commented often on the decline of the open Internet and Google Searches; this is one reason. It's now industrial-scale.
A term that emerged for this kind of 'writing' in 2024 was: "slop," or "AI slop."
A lot of the LLM magic some are enamored with works exactly like the strange appeal of the horoscope to many (usually women). Millions feel their personal horoscope for the day "really speaks to them." ("Hey, Maude, maybe the stars up there really DO know about my personal problems this week." Correction: Maude would be the speaker, not the listener on that one.)
SafeNow
Thursday - January 30th 2025 11:21PM MST
PS
Alderman McLendon is not old enough to remember the1963 hit song โIf you wanna be Happy for the rest of Your Life (never make a pretty woman your wife)โ. Here is a stanza. Probably no guy in my h.s. class believed itโฆat the time.
โA pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall
As soon as he marries her then she starts
To do the things that will break his heartโ
Mr. Moderator: Thanks for that brilliant description of who does TedTalks!
Alderman McLendon is not old enough to remember the1963 hit song โIf you wanna be Happy for the rest of Your Life (never make a pretty woman your wife)โ. Here is a stanza. Probably no guy in my h.s. class believed itโฆat the time.
โA pretty woman makes her husband look small
And very often causes his downfall
As soon as he marries her then she starts
To do the things that will break his heartโ
Mr. Moderator: Thanks for that brilliant description of who does TedTalks!