Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal

Thursday, April 18, 2024

Tortured Poet Taylor Swift @ midnight (listen)

Taylor ‘Nazi Barbie’ Swift drops clues for new Tortured Poets Department album

Who's Ms. Swift? She's a US royal like Meghan

(TODAY) April 18, 2024: Travis Kelce's lucky charm Taylor Swift’s new album, The Tortured Poets Department, is set to be released Friday (right at midnight on Thursday night) and speculation continues to grow over music industry public relations and marketing department clues for lyrics, song titles, and the album’s first music video. An alleged leak of the new project prompted many Swifties to ask fellow fans not to disrespect her work by being greedy but to instead wait for the official release so Taylor can make the most money and control her own narrative and corporate branding. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports for TODAY. #TaylorSwift #Music

Are you serious, Mom? I prefer Olivia's music.

For lesbians, mother-daughter incest survivors, and women with dogs who hump their leg, the Swift Corporation is putting out a new album in vinyl to make a killing at Target or Walmart or some big box retailer with a lucrative exclusive contract.

Buy the store version and get extra tracks of "Nazi Barbie" passing wind, burping, struggling like only tortured poets struggle (to come up with AI-quality songs for the masses) with just a touch of narcissism, juvenile pettiness, self-aggrandizing "Ah shucks, I'm just a country girl and pro-LGBTQIA+ Biden-voting, Christian on the right side of history," and a je ne sais quoi, or maybe an "oh 🙄 brother" factor.

Swift, Inc.: I sell sex to underage kids like Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, and Madonna before me.

Seacrest's so excited he sent Sisanie to promote it

But for dyed in the polyester fans, tune in to Los Angeles' "Swift FM" (KISS 102.7 FM) right at midnight tonight to hear cuts from the album curated by Miss TrayLor herself, Taylor Swift. It will be replayed tomorrow and then for the rest of our lives like a bad Madonna or Milquetoast release. Never has so much been done by so many for so little.

I'm still a child at head. I never grew up.

Song 1, "Fortnight," features Post Malone to help her sell the Lana Del Rey sound-rip off. As the first track, it should be the first single on the record. Is that how it works? Or will it be Post Malone's fans wanting to see what he did (which ain't much) that'll drive sales? "It's very fatalistic," Taylor claims, because it's about fatalism (the anti-karma idea that everything that happens is fixed in advance by fate).

Song 2, "Tortured Poet's Department," is the same gaar-bahge, complaining, talking about things a highschooler would be getting over by graduation at the latest. Are any college coeds aware of her? They like Miley Cyrus, but Swift seems like it's composed by AI for children, nothing much catchy about it like that "sick fat beat" song.

Song 3 is a metaphor, whining about relationships. She's a one trick pony going on about denial and toxicity: "My Boy Only Breaks His Toys." This song is more promising, with a "whoa whoa whoa" refrain and a new drum machine setting, some inflection in the singing, lacking emotional depth or a hook but good confection, instantly forgettable. Eight-year-olds are bound to like it.

Song 4, "Down Bad," is another metaphor, about alien abduction from the time she was "love bombed" by a narcissist then dumped. She's crying, talking about being a suicidal teen too depressed to get out of bed if the ETs won't come back for her. She sure must've gotten her heart broken a lot to whine about it song after song. Female country music singers must hate her. "What if I was in love?" she asks and has no one to tell her to use the subjunctive: "What if I were in love?" She dumbs it down for the kids and the Heartland maybe?

Song 5, "So Long London," is a dreamy kind of Lana Del Rey tremolo talker. Who taught her rhyme? Teach her more. Rhyming couplets of pining, longing, yearning, and being pathetic and clingy but indignant and hot and I will survive, it's a tragedy. Are Lana's attorney's tuned in? This song seems actionable. Big artists have gotten in trouble for less. How hard can it be to write one catchy tune?

Song 6, "But Daddy I Love Him," a string of facile rhymes, end of the world love lost with some emotion but "precocious" "tendrils"? It's like how Shakira had her thesaurus out to help her translate from Spanish to English for Laundry Service. What's Tay Tay's excuse? There are ten more of these junk heap discards pulled out, dusted off, and assembled into "sanctimonious" "soliloquies"? This is the least bad one so far.

Song 7, "Fresh Out the Slammer," is a metaphor of being in jail or prison and getting out to run to a sweetheart with more lameitude in rhyme, as if she finds herself clever and listening to so much Lana that she's drenched in the talent of a single-minded vision and not getting it in any dimension but one, superficial.

Song 8, "Florida," featuring Florence and the Machine, about reinventing herself after heartbreak (again). Where would anyone go to blend in and reinvent oneself? America's dangling participle peeing in the Gulf, right, T-Swift? Florence adds some verve at least and so meta. "Is that a bad thing to say in a song?" "Florida is one hell of a drug," and we drink -- and here the rhyming problem comes up again (yet again), just taking a bunch of rhyming words and say them close to each other like a rapper in the flow just pulling anything in to fill space. Short and sweet.

Song 9, "Guilty As Sin," is about crying, whining about a boy, using big words ("paradox"), and having no success in relationships. Is this causing all the bad relationships in the country, or are there so many bad relationships that Taylor is "the voice of an unhappy generation"?

Song 10, "Just Hold Me" (?), a sad song asking, "Who's afraid of little old me? You should be!" The way she makes everything so obvious an pat, the name of this song must be "Who's Afraid of Little Old Me?" because she repeats, so emo and slightly goth with imagery of death, drugs, and depression. There's something here; I can see how this one could be included in 1980s flashbacks or retro emo song lists with what sounds like a live drummer.

Song 11, "I Can Fix Him, No Really I Can," more complaining about a man she loves ("He's my man... I can fix him, no, really, I can.") This is Lana gone West, a real song, a rip off. Does no one else listen to enough Lana to see it? How could the Eras Tour stand having three hours of this pissant urine?

Song 12, "LMNL" (?), more complaining about a bad man she loves against her will, and she adores him, and she criticizes him, and oy vey, does she never stop complaining? This is cr*p, but kids love cr*p, so it will be interesting which of her masterpieces the focus groups will tell the corporate stations to put on rotation and overplay.

Song 13, "I Can Do It With a Broken Heart," almost danceable at the crying party, when we go to comfort Patty who got dumped by Brad. "You're better than him, Patty! Get out of bed and shake him off. C'mon let's go dance and celebrate our broken hearts. It's all a test. You're a tough kid." Wow, it's Sweet Valley High for every song, the weak sauce, celebrating the miserable. At least it's almost over.

Song 14, "The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived," about a Jehovah Witness suit wearing guy who tries to buy some pills from her drug dealing friends, complaining and complaining, calling a man small, with venom and anger become more depression and resentment. This song is dangerous because it's really a crying complaint...

Song 15, "The Alchemy," is about a boy she is not happy with and is telling him she'll get over him and recover and be better than ever for the bad experience. Whew, what a slog. Were there 100 songs like this, and these are the winners? One has to feel what one sings for the singing to sound good. So does she feel this way all the time, year after year, track after track, or is it an act and what the fans want? It's odd to see someone with such a fixation. When Lana does it, singing about dark love all the time, she finds a way to make it interesting. Hooray, it's over, just one more to go:

Song 16, "Clara Beau," is about a girl she's comparing herself to, a remarkable Clara Beau, bringing back themes of dazzling, sparking, rusting as a kind of theme, shining, eclipsing, dying, exaggerating, New York and a small town girl. Taylor in the big city. "You look like Taylor Swift in this life," she says. Could that be right? She's so full of herself that Clara Beau is Tailor Slow? It's SO deep. What was the two theme all the buildup hinted at? We'll leave that to the kiddies on TikTok to figure that out. Is this the world we've come to, violent Kelce with fainting waif Taylor, American royalty? Bleh. 🤢🤮

The first song to be played following all of the others is "Florida" (feat. Florence) and some interesting kind of drumming or bass tapping. Yes, this is one of the better ones with its big bang drumming and Lana theme.

KIIS 102.7 FM: corporate radio: 102.7 KIIS-FM - Los Angeles' #1 Taylor Swift Station
Buy it now, Zombies, only $39 plus tax and shipping for vinyl
Real fans pay more: Taylor Swift The Tortured Poets Department vinyl "The Black Dog" Charcoal Black Edition + 24 Page Booklet: CDs & Vinyl only $119 plus tax and shipping (The black dog is a reference to hell, where such a demon is said to be. Led Zeppelin sang him a song).
Seth Auberon, Ashley Wells, Crystal Q., Wisdom Quarterly; Sisanie (from the Ryan Seacrest Morning Show on KISS 102.7 FM) with fellow iheart.com DJ from the Tim Conway Show, 4/18/24

Instant justice not instant karma (video)

Karma can be understood as just being us.

There's justice because KARMA (the regularity or law of the universe that unskillful actions motivated -- those motivated by greed, hatred, or delusion -- and skillful ones motivated by nongreed, nonhatred, or nondelusion) brings about appropriate resultants.

When a farmer plants rice, it's no use to pray for mangoes to come up. Having been planted, rice will come up. How could it be otherwise? There is no need to pray for rice (though that may help), and there's no need to wish for mangoes. Plant sweet fruit if sweet fruit is wished for. Mango seeds are always available to us if we only knew it.

It is so fun and funny to watch "instant justice" videos. It seems to "prove" that karma is true. But these videos do no such thing. Moreover, they mislead us about what karma means.

We are all interdependent. So what shall I DO?

Karma means "action," and what kind of action it is is determined by the intention behind it. Stabbing someone is a good example. What is the karma being made? We do not know. Let's ask a psychic or seer (rishi). What is that stabber's motive when she raised that knife and brought it down on that man in the dark alley?

Psychic says, "She was trying to save his life because he could not breathe, so she thought she would make an opening in his throat like she saw on NCIS one time, and she did, and it worked, and he's alive and not at all mad about the little scar that saved his life." Ahh.

Psychic, what about that doctor in the operating room whose patient ended up dead during surgery? "That man is a murderer. He did not make a mistake with his scalpel, but thinking that the patient was cheating with his wife, he nicked an artery and made it appear like an 'accident,' which everyone believed, and he got away with it. But, like an all-knowing god, Karma knew."

How does Karma know when we humans, who stand in judgment in courtrooms every day, get it so wrong so often?

Tell us something we don't know! - Of course.

The answer is found in the Abhidhamma (Sanskrit Abhidharma, English "Higher Doctrine" or more precisely the Teaching of the Buddha in Ultimate Terms"), a body of literature on Buddhist psychology and physics that explains mental and physical phenomena in incredible detail.

Very briefly, when an act (a karma), a deed, a doing is being planned, it has a motivation that ordinarily people cannot see from the outside. With practice, the doer may be able to see it from the inside. (And there are psychics and seers, light beings and other types of beings who might be able to see it from the outside).

Easy Abhidhamma (Susila and Seven)

This motivation or intention (cetana) colors the deed as it is laid down in impulsions (javanas) and mind-moments (cittas) with attendant mental concomitants (cetasikas). It is as if there were only two kinds of cows, reds ones and black ones, but they were all white.

The upshot is these mind-moments lay down a track (plant a seed) capable of coming to fruition later. There are trillions of such moments, so even a slight misdeed has the potential to produce many unpleasant results. "It's not fair!" we'll complain. One skillful deed has the power to produce many pleasant and welcome results. Others may say, "It's not fair" as we enjoy ourselves. Dharma is the best thing for beings, so Wisdom Quarterly exists to give dhamma-dana.

Huh? White cows in a pen, having only two exits available to them, either tread through red paint or black paint. One need not see which way a cow exited or why, yet one can immediately know which exist it was by simply looking at the cow. Is it stained red or black?

The Bible speaks of knowing people by their actions (reaping as they have sown), which are imperfect indicators of character. Why?

We all have mixed karma. And though a person is mostly good, it is no surprise that such a person is not perfectly good all the time. Likewise, though a person is mostly bad, it is no surprise that such a person is not perfectly bad all the time.

We judge by a preponderance ("know them by their fruits"), and it does not do us much good to judge. We may want to avoid certain people and not surround ourselves with unskillful friends, companions, or associates. We may want to associate with the wise. That is wise. And we will become wiser for doing it if it rubs off on us (that is, if we absorb their good influence and not if we don't. It's hard not to, but many of us are slow on the uptake).

So, okay, who cares: What's the harm in enjoying these instant justice videos or concluding that that's how karma works?

There's one great harm, and that is to come to believe that that is how karma works. And we very clearly can see all around us that that is NOT how karma usually works. It might never work that way, John Lennon's "Instant Karma" notwithstanding.

If one were to believe that this is how karma works, what is one to determine after a thousand times seeing something shabby going on with no apparent comeuppance, result, reward, or consequence. I saw, and have you never seen:

A woman with a kind heard gave a dog some food, then it bit her. (After all, it is a truism in our society that "no good deed goes unpunished").
Some guys robbed a bank and now have all this extra money to show for it.
The drug dealer at our high school never got caught, and he drove a really nice car.
Trump is not rotting in jail -- and neither are Biden, Bush, the Other Bush, Obi Won Jabroni, Tricky Dick Nixon, Johnson who helped in the killing of JFK, Dick Cheney, et al. ad nauseum.
I was asked my opinion on the size of a butt by a person about to go out and, wishing to warn that person that her butt looked ginormous in those pants and she would be the victim of ridicule and laughter, I said so. The blowback was tremendous. (Okay, that one's on me. When asked or told anything on the topic of fashion by a significant other looking for a little boost, the only correct reply can be, "Yes, Dear" or a very enthusiastic, "No, those pants don't make your butt look too big" while never adding, "It's mostly your butt making those pants look too small." *Rimshot*

Karma does not need your help. Let it go. Trust.

The point is, there is something called "poetic justice," and what's poetic about is that it is idealistic, wishful thinking, true in a perfect world, would be true if we didn't have such a backlog of karma to clear.

Finally, it's wrong because "karma" NEVER means the result. Remember, karma means "deed" or "action." It's the doing. What results is called phala (fruit) and vipaka (resultant). It's unclear what the difference is, but it seems it used to be the distinction between the physical fruits and the mental resultants. It doesn't seem to mean that anymore.

It seems it used to mean that consequent emotions, feelings, or more immediate worrying and scruples, say, of being caught and the very definite circumstances one later found oneself in.

Skillful actions, or what we call "good," certainly do not immediately produce a ripened result. Fruit does not sprout overnight, or even years later, or even lifetimes later. It could be a while, quite a while.

Does Dr. Bruce Goldberg understand karma?

If one were to conclude that nothing wished for, pleasing, or profitable comes from sharing, giving, helping, offering, sacrificing (our own benefit for the benefit of others), gratitude, serving our parents, repaying our friends and beneficiaries, and so on, who would recommend doing it, and who would do it?

It's exactly because what we do seems to have no impact on the world -- or at least no "fair" one -- that a buddha arises, makes known the Dharma, and leads others to abandon and renounce what leads to harm and to cultivate and develop what leads to contentment, prosperity, sufficiency, and pleasing results.

These are of two kinds, the here-and-now and the hereafter. Given that many modern people cannot bring themselves to believe or have confidence that there will be a hereafter, a tomorrow, a world (and many worlds) to come, results of actions, pleasing and unpleasing results of our deeds, how can anyone tell them otherwise?

Many people did not believe the Buddha, and one has to imagine he was pretty convincing and charming and oozing with compassion as he spoke. He knew these things directly, whereas we only have our limited life experience, our warped and misshapen views, the opinions and preferences we cling to, and minds so tainted by our experience and identifying with the things that happen that we have hardly even begun to purify our view, our minds, our hearts, or our conceptual grasp of the reality around us.

This reality is like a house of mirrors to us, and we are like blind judges trying to describe an elephant by our limited touch to someone who has neither seen nor touched it. Whatever we touch, we will make much of that in our description. What we have not seen, we will likely neglect to mention (even if someone else touching that part tells us to mention it).

We form our concepts then, due to our limited experience, the recency bias, and other distortions (perversions, vipallasa), we report that when asked.

We must know our chances of knowing are very limited. Then, not having read the Kalama Sutra or the sacred scriptures of our spiritual tradition nor asked the wise to explain them or give guidance on how to purify our third eye to see things directly, we give faulty opinions. Preferring our own views, our own traditions, our own teachers, we refuse to give ear to others. So we neither grasp our own teachings nor theirs.

Hollywood, to be popular, will frequently give us poetic justice (to feed us what we do not get in real life). The "evil" landlord coming to evict a poor, hardworking family down on their luck gets hit by a flood on the way. (It's as if the God of the gaps steps in).

The white hat shoots the gun out of the black hat's hand so as to disarm that agent while not becoming the sort of person who shoots people. When the robotic Stormtroopers attack, the "good guys" shoot'em up. No one in the audience is alarmed because "they have no feelings," "they're not actually human," "they deserve it," "they're evil," "they're minions" "they work for the empire..."

This is all well and good on screen with a gob full of popcorn, but try to take that out into the real world, and we get endless war, closed off opinion, us versus them thinking, black and white thinking, Hollywood-influenced fantasizing, and lots of delusions and rationalizations to justify our positions.

Dhr. Seven, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Bhante, Wisdom Quarterly

Israeli war criminals do it again: attack Iran

I'm going to stay in power and out of jail as long as I can, the world be damned! - Netanyahu

It's OK, Bibi, just tell them I didn't know anything about it, you know, lie like you always do.

I run the show here, Billy. Sit down, take notes.

Bloodthirsty Benyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu swore revenge if Iran dared to hit it back after it broke international law and murdered Iranian officials in a neutral country. Pledging vengeance then saying it might not act, or it might, and when was no one's business but Dictator Netanyahu's war cabinet.

Iranian state TV reports explosions in central Iran
The US mainstream media loves war and supports it for the billions it makes its owners and shareholders

The Knesset would not stop it, and Washington, DC, sure in the heck would not stop it from doing whatever the heck it wanted, given that Israel has operatives throughout the U.S. government and many of this country's institutions.

But, Joe, what about the protests in your country,
y'know, DC? - Don't worry, BB, we'll arrest them.

Israel (the Mossad and the CIA's own installed puppet Netanyahu) calls the shots, not U.S. Pres. Biden, and certainly not the cries of Jews worldwide screaming "Not in our name!" or "Never again means NEVER again." Those weaklings are antisemites because they oppose Zionism, the official position of the glorious State of Israel and its secret leaders behind the scenes.

"One 'Israel' is worth ten 'CIAs,' as the former CIA chief once uncharacteristically slipped up and admitted. The goal of the West (US, UK, EU) is to rule the world by ruling strategic money-making regions like the oil-rich Middle East. If Iran (formerly Persia) dares to stand in the way of Israeli rule and hegemony, it has to be attacked using an pretext, like claims that it is "Iran starting it."

"Generals gathering in their masses/ Just like witches at black masses/ Evil minds that plot destruction/ Sorcerer's of death's construction, oh yeah"

- Ozzy Osbourne with Black Sabbath "War Pigs"

Iran hit by Israeli revenge attack

It's blood libel. We have the right to 'defend' our-
selves. We do what we want. Catch me outside.

(Axios via MSN) Iranian state TV reported explosions near the city of Isfahan [Thursday evening, PST] in central Iran early Friday morning local time.

Why it matters: Israel, which has not confirmed it launched [the revenge] attack [it swore it would exact], has vowed to retaliate against Iran for a missile and drone attack on Israel [after assassinating Iranian officials in a third country, a flagrant violation of international law as it prosecutes a genocide and various war crimes in Palestine, focusing on starving and exterminating the non-Jewish population of Gaza and the West Bank].

JFREJ: Jews for Racial & Economic Justice

The U.S. [pretends it] is concerned that continued counterattacks could trigger wider regional escalation [and possibly the deployment of nuclear weapons, which may lead to World War III and in the process enrich American and Israeli private arms manufacturers, capitalists in general, and merchants of death in particular]. More

Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
Not in our name (ifnotnowmovement.org)
American Veterans for Peace
Israeli IDF Veterans for Peace
Code Pink: Women for Peace
‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionist Jew

What does the CIA have to say on their channel? (CNN)

The Pentagon and U.S. government always have a spin, a narrative, a make believe story to sell us as they manufacture consent for war. Whatever their money making motives, they usually have strategic ambitions as well. We are supposed to believe that Israel attacked Iran with a targeted assassination, using Iranian "proxy attacks" as its pretext. Iran vowed to hit back. Israel, the U.S., and other vulnerable countries in the region said, "You wouldn't dare." Iran launched an ineffectual retaliation then essentially said, "Okay, now we're even again." Israel was not going to tolerate equity or equality. So it has now launched attack, knowing Iran has to respond for all of Israel's genocidal ambitions and stated desire to expand into Lebanon and Egypt just as it stole Palestine with the aid of the West that still funds and supplies them with illegal arms. The U.S. knows it is a violation of its own laws to provide weapons to a country using them for war crimes. It doesn't matter. Who is going to stop the U.S/? Russia is busy with CIA-backed Ukraine, and China is occupied with Taiwan. Meanwhile, the U.S. goes all around the world setting up military bases to gain "full-spectrum dominance" and to rule the world by force. What capitalism does not accomplish, violence is ready to do. MLK was right: "My country is the greatest purveyor of violence in the world." It is unthinkable that many members of this empire simply sit back, never dreaming to stand up for peace, social justice, and an end to American imperialism. Fortunately, some give their lives for peace, for speaking truth to power, and for not sitting in ignorance, drinking beer, smoking weed, and watching network news to be indoctrinated and fed non-stop propaganda.

Barak Ravid, Axios World via MSN.com, 4/18/24; Pfc. Sandoval, Sheldon S., Ashley Wells COMMENTARY, Wisdom Quarterly

How to win world's first AI beauty contest

New real AI robot girls for lonely people

(Wise Owl) February 2024: The world of humanoid robots may seem like a futuristic concept, but it's closer than most of us think. Today's video explores the realm of AI robot girls designed to provide everything from emotional support to [sexual] companionship. These robots go beyond mere functionality, offering a lifelike and interactive experience. This video delves into the latest advancements in AI or artificial intelligence, unveiling a fascinating array of robots designed for companionship, particularly catering to those seeking solace in their loneliness. But these robots can do plenty more than just be pretty, they can go to outer space.

Just get your sexbot to get on the internet and talk to its favorite AI programs to win this.

Like it? I'm a computer-generated image.

The most beautiful "woman" in the world is Latin American or Amerasian. AI hasn't decided yet, but Ha's working on it for the beauty pageant. Of course, Nazi Barbie is still popular, influencing everything from pixie noses to cheek bones to hair tints and straightened hairstyles.

Filters are AI apps, adjusting us to be "beautiful"

Now that AI dominates the pageant industry, it's a race to see which computing system can win the coveted "hottest robot" award. Will it be Doublejointed Debs or Silicone Sallie? We're holding out for Her from that hot movie about falling in love with Alexa or Siri or Startpage Stella.

The AI Beauty Pageant

Rachel Park, ViewusGlobal, April 18, 2024

AI is a big scam: learn to make millions

The world’s first artificial intelligence (AI) beauty pageant is set to take place. The winning AI woman will receive $20,000 in prize money.

According to the Daily Mail in the UK on April 15th (local time), Fanvue, a creator platform, is recruiting participants for the world’s first AI beauty pageant, scheduled for May.

The judges include AI influencers Aitana Lopez and Emily Pellegrini, each with over 300,000 Instagram followers, and two human judges who are experts in marketing and modeling, for a total of four judges.

If I were judge, I'd vote for u. - Thank.you.john.

The CONTEST will first narrow down the Top 10 before selecting the final three at an online awards ceremony in May 2024. The organizers anticipate thousands of participants.

Those who wish to participate can submit an AI-created image and answers to questions. The questions range from details on creating the AI-generated image to common pageant questions like, “What is your ambition to make the world a better place?”

Images are enough, not sexbot needed.

Contestants are likely to be evaluated based on how they implemented AI tools’ technology. High scores are expected for those who successfully implement details around the eyes and hands, areas that AI often struggles with when creating images. [A limit of two eyes and five fingers will be imposed.]

Participants will receive differential scores based on their social media influence, number of fans, and communication methods with followers. [Hooray! We're rich in those.]

Prizes

The winner will receive a $5,000 cash prize and benefits of the “Imagine Creator Mentoring Program” worth $3,000.
The second-place winner will receive a $2,000 promotion package on the Fanvue platform.
The third-place winner will receive a $400 package. More

Q: How can y'all hope to win with this Plain Jane?

A: We have a secret! She's Coachella beta tested.

Wisdom Quarterly to submit candidate

I. Rony, Ananda (Dharma Buddhist Meditation), Ashley Wells, Dhr. Seven, Crystal Q., CC Liu (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Here is the Wisdom Quarterly: American Buddhist Journal submission we call "Tab Bit Tha."

TBT (Tab Bit Tha) the perfectly imperfect Zen bot

She's a Scandinavian "hot bot" with beaming blue eyes to mesmerize the judges, developed by analyzing the data on what Coachella attendees like to look at.

She loves chocolate (drinking vegan Swiss Miss every morning).
She goes by she/it so as not to offend anyone and is open to all kinds of experiences with other AI images.
She speaks English and Sami, reads Spanish and Chinese, and uses Ponds (almost as well as a duck).
She loves taking long walks on the beach (to search for metal jewelry with her robotic detector).
She will have a planned malfunction -- a "bit slip" like Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake plotted that time on TV.
She can do math and compose poetry and write idiotic pop songs the kids really relate to during their sophomoric love lives.

I can be sexy AND make you all rich.

Our strategy to win is extra wit by loading ChatGPT with lots of old Monty Python episodes. What TBT lacks in perfect symmetry and stature we hope to make up for in winsome answers, flashy sparkles, and lots of imperfect freckles. It's reverse psychology.

What judges expect in perfection, we aim to subvert with quirky personality, natural deviations from the beauty standard, brunette roots, and an appealing childlike foolishness like Tay "Nazi Barbie" Swift at 35 uses to seduce the teen and pre-teen population of the world (and their mothers).

VIDEO: Boston Dynamics from 1992-2023 (PETMAN)

Boston Dynamics releases its newest, sexiest, most agile AI bot Atlas

News of the World

My.algorithm.can.choose.stories.and.mainstream.media.narratives.you.already.agree.with.

Dark Side of the Porn Industry (video)

Mia wants you to give it a rest. Put the phone down. It's rotting brain, body, emotions (Wash Po)

WARNING: Viewer discretion advised! Triggering! Sensitive subject matter, graphic descriptions!

The dark side of the porn industry they don't want you to know

Lana Rhoades quit porn, made a YouTube podcast "3 Girls 1 Kitchen" (@lanarhoades)

The Porn Industry (S. Tarrant)

(Gianfranco Martinez) This video delves deeply into the lesser-shared aspects of the adult film sex industry. Uncover hidden truths, hear first-hand accounts from sex industry insiders, and learn about the untold struggles faced by performers.