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This the final paragraph of Mark Gurman’s Arpril 12 article in Bloomberg.com

“Apple and other companies have been stressing to the Trump administration that — while they are willing to increase investment in the US — there’s little benefit in moving final assembly to the country. Instead, they have argued, the US should be focusing on bringing back higher-value jobs and encouraging investment in things like semiconductor production.”

The problem with focusing on higher-value jobs is that this does not play to the MAGA base. Higher-value jobs require education, training, science and engineering which is abhorrent to the MAGA base. As Vivek Ramaswamy put it, in his WSJ op-ed in December too many Americans, ie MAGA, just want to be cheerleaders or jocks rather than put in the hard work to be productive with today’s advance technology and job market.

During these trying times, here are my three objectives.

1. Support the arts. This may not seem to be that important, but for me it is. The current US administration is soulless, they are all about making money and hurting others. They have no guiding light or principles, no empathy for others, in fact empathy is a dirty word to them. To me, art is one way to contradict their lack of soul. For me music is especially important, but all forms of art are good.
2. Climate. It’s obvious they do not think climate and the warming of the earth to be important. It is, and we need to find ways to make the earth habitable for all. We are earth’s stewards, we are doing a terrible job.
3. Bear Witness. Some people carry a weapon, I carry a camera. My job is to record what is happening in my current location. I’ll do my best to capture, edit and then share my findings.

Yes, there are many other things I could do, but these are the three I have chosen to focus on.

Great time today, went to the Whitney Museum, walked the High Line, enjoyed the Christo exhibit at the Shed and finished up at the Chrysler Building. More tonight, dinner at Scarpetta and then Beckett at the Irish Repertory Theater.

We got snow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion/trump-panama-greenland-foreign-policy.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

This might help explain pumpkin head’s foreign policy, but then again…

The website, though simple, is finally coming together. Now it’s time to return to editing Carcassonne. The fortress is fascinating, but its history is quite unsettling, almost as unsettling as our current experiences. In fact, it’s even more disturbing, but since we’re living through the chaos now, our present situation feels more troubling.

No time for web stuff or imaging today, other stuff had a higher priority. The other chaos guy lived up to his name cutting funding everywhere. Way to go, pumpkin head!

Seems like there is another AI player in the world, DeepSeek from China. Apparently, DeepSeek can do much of what OpenAI does, without the fancy chips. This shows what smart people can do and the danger of putting up boundaries to keep such people out of our country!

The new investment goal for OpenAI is now $100-500 Billion, mostly for infrastructure. Wow! Look at my SORA creation for MAGA coffee, below. More information about this video is in my Artificial Intelligence section. Yikes, scary so much money is being invested for this.

Still looking for a decent theme. The AI stuff does nothing for me, it just makes life more complicated. I’ve tried a variety of themes, but none of them allow me to quickly change images, video or text. Lots of scrolling to and from pages, but no clear, concise instructions for the themes. I don’t need to watch a bunch of videos, I just need quick key stokes guide to update my website.

I wonder how the other chaos guy is doing?