JW Consciousness Stream - 20 November 2025

JW Consciousness Stream - 20 November 2025

This entry represents something like my stream of consciousness for Thursday, 20 November, 2025. This is basically like a journal entry that I work on throughout the day and then don't go back to correct errors.

Originally published as: https://deliverystack.net/2025/11/19/jw-consciousness-stream-20-november-2025/

This is an interesting theory about what the USA and Europe may face socially and otherwise in the coming years:

I think this is a good short explanation of how and why using an LLM such as ChatGPT can lead to AI psychosis:

I think it's possible to use LLMs as useful tools, but I would not consider having a conversation with one.

I received this from George Tsakraklides, whose work depresses me, but with which I generally agree:

Of course I recommend reading the original, but here's an AI summary:

I also received this rant about the cancellation of the em dash by AI from Ratko Ivekovic, whose work I really enjoy:

Again, read the original, but a summation follows, my creation of which supports part of his thesis. I have heard that younger generations don't trust any text with proper punctuation. Internenglish is here.

Someone else sent me this about an abandoned airbase in Laos that is no longer very secret::

I think that many Americans are unfamiliar with their country's secret war in Laos.

I also received this from Edge of Humanity Magazine:

From this I learened about an unfamiliar word:

intercession: "the act of using your influence to make someone in authority forgive someone else or save them from punishment"

- (or) -

"the act of praying on behalf of others, or asking a saint in heaven to pray on behalf of oneself or for others

It's hard to focus on writing when I have so much to read, and many of those things make me want to write on other topics.

Here are some decent songs associated with relatively mainstream artists compared to those I've listed before:

I just remembered a Sufi wisdom quote from Ram Dass: "Trust in Allah, but tie your camel."

It's 20 November, so I should get the pins out of my foot in about four days. I'm concerned that when I stubbed my toe recently, I might have broken one of the bones, but in the toe part, not inside the foot. My feet never feel much pain and the accident or the surgery seems to have severed a major nerve from at least one of them, if not all three, as I can't feel much from the right tip of that foot.

I need to cut my fingernails, but that's against the rules for today in Lao for some religious reason.

Wow it's only 7:00 in the morning. I got up some time after 4:00 and I've done some chores and some writing about my life. Getting up early is definitely a good habit for me, as I'm most productive before other people are active. By afternoon, I'm mostly useless though.

I'm switching my search engine to Startpage. Here are the instructions for google's chrome browser, which I used for anything that requires me to be signed into google anyway).

  1. Navigate to Chrome Settings > Search engine.
  2. Click Manage search engines and site search.
  3. Click Add next to Site search.
  4. Enter the details for Startpage including the URL https://www.startpage.com/sp/search?query=%s.
  5. Click the three dots next to the newly added Startpage and select Make default.

I don't know finance and I know the Internet is full of propaganda from every souurce, but during breakfast, I absorbed some scary perspectives about where the US economy may be headed relativee to the current AI bubble that basically everyone seems to see now:

Well, I spent way too long working on a JavaScript bookmarklet to expand comments on LinkedIn threads, mostly because my test thread has more than 7,000 comments, which seems to overload both the script and the browser. I'm going to take a break, and that might be it for today.