It Came from A.I

and I didn't go to Montreal.

FurBabies, October 3, 2024

I apologize for not posting earlier . I’ve had a bad case of bronchitis for the past two weeks and have been dealing with doctors who resolutely refuse to give me the medicine that I know will cure it.

I had bronchitis on a yearly basis when I lived in New York in the Eighties. When I went to the doctor, I was given antibiotics.

Canadian doctors can be extremely polite while ignoring your information. “We are discouraged from using antibiotics now, since 90 percent of bronchitis cases are viral.”

“There is the other ten percent, and I am always in the minority category in medical matters,” I replied. I then stated that a friend with the same condition received antibiotics and was cured of the cough and wheeze (the only symptom that I still have) after seven days. “Do you believe that their doctor is a quack?”

The extremely stubborn politeness continued. I was given a new, steroidal, inhaler. The old one actually made the condition worse, and I slept better last night when I did not use it.

Then I suddenly remembered that there was a way to get penicillin legally.

It’s called cheese. Specifically, Camembert, which has one form of penicillin on the rind, and Roquefort cheese and other Bleu cheeses. The Bleu cheeses are actually better. One variety has been proven to cure pneumonia in mice.

I bought unpasteurized Quebec Camembert today, and had it for dinner with Jewish penicillin, or homemade chicken soup. That, and a Swedish sinus washing system, will be used along with Robitussin cough syrup, a nasal steroid spray, and the steroid inhaler this weekend. I used the ‘cheesy’ Camembert method in France when I got sick after the doctor’s office was closed, and it worked then. I’ve used the ‘Swedish nose washing machine’ for years, and made sure to get a brand new one and only use distilled water and sterile salt.

I’m only sorry that I did not remember the penicillin/cheese connection last week, or else I might have been in Montreal this evening at the AAEC/ACC symposium that I have been waiting to attend for TWO years. I had to cancel the trip and every event for the last week, and this one. I’m not going anywhere for a while.

The doctor calls on Tuesday to see how I am doing. If I am still wheezing, and still don’t get the antibiotics, I have to look for another doctor. (* UPDATE: I got a second opinion from a new doctor, and was immediately diagnosed with a chest infection and given Amoxicillin. I only wish that I had seen him a week ago. As it stands, I won’t be infectious in a day or so, and will be able to go out again.)

Speaking of mold and fungus, Meta is going to take user info and create videos featuring their photos and/or avatars since AI is ‘now becoming a part of daily life’.

You can make the same claim for rectal itch.

AI is something that no one wants, made by people whom we do not know, and it is taking us who knows where.

Today’s FurBabies continues the theme of AI incompetence. The truly scary thing is that Pratt-L (the world’s least improved AI program) is no longer merely on Kate’s computer. It’s on every electronic device in the strip.

AI is a plagiarism machine. It’s a lie machine. It makes things up. It has no positive features and should never have been invented. It’s impossible to know what is real anymore. Movies are just a distraction. Politics and news are corrupted by it. The only antidote is to turn things off.

A bit of low comedy: Matthew Allen, who ‘created’ this ‘art’ with AI and won a prize with it, is suing the US government since he can’t copyright it and (gasp) other AI “artists” are plagiarizing ‘his’ work!

https://www.wired.com/story/ai-art-copyright-matthew-allen/

My heart bleeds for him. Let’s take up a collection of NFTS for him.

Cue the world’s smallest violin.

I’m going off to eat cheese and get some rest.