Today's Tids Issue 6,032
Breathe in:
Our bewildering global dichotomy
May require a frontal lobotomy.
In our condensed digital community, we are hearing of wiping a civilization off the face of the earth, while millions applaud and are awed by an historic space achievement, and in Michigan USA hundreds of thousands are celebrating their NCAA Championship. And the Red Sox are breaking hearts with a 2-8 record. From annihilation to celebration simultaneously, the digital community does tend not to change.
The Mag Seven stock valuations are back to a reasonable postion of sanity thatmay induce buying. The current Iran situation has wall Street mavens hesitant, but the money is there and the stock prices are tempting.
I told my wife, “Did you know Old McDonald’s farm has been taken over by Artificial Intelligence?” Her: AI? Me: AI.
Her: Oh.
That was bad.
The Question:
Which musicians, groups, have sold the most concert tickets over the past 45 years
The Headleins:
--Artemis II Heading Back Home.
--World Waiting for 8:PM PM Eastern US Time to See what Happens to Iran; Discussions Seem at an Impasse.
--Wall Street Opens lower, Drops Seriously as Iran Situation Stalls Busying: iPhone 17 Sales Surge; Broadcom Expands Partnership with Google, Anthropic.
--Iran Has Hormuz Deals with Several Asian V Countries.
--Michigan Beats UConn for Men's NCAA Championship.
The Resident Tids Director of Cyber Planning and Strategy suggests that Iran might retaliate to the US ultimate offensive with a massice cyber attack of its own.
Have you noticed in movies that artificial intelligence is always portrayed as a woman? It's because they are never wrong.
Good news – Aunt Carries the venerable summer seafood shack opens this Friday. There’ s nothing that says New England summer better than a plate full of fried scallops, shrimp and flounder. Of course, now-a-days the bigger questions, can you afford it. But it is nice to have Auntie C back at the shore.
In the latest where the rubber meets the rode reality event, OpenAI yesterday issued a series of policy proposals meant “to start a conversation about how governments address the projected social disruption AI will cause.” Think about that statement for a minute.
You have to wonder what Steven Wright would be saying about the world today.
The funny thing is that despite the headlines, hundreds of millions of people all over the world are doing their regular old life things all day long. Most being positive about what must be done. Like putting a pie intp the oven. Getting ready for Everest season in Nepal. Preparing for the peak tulip boom in the Netherlands. A guy in London helping Alexa understand colloquial expressions; A wife or mother in a hospital waiting to take home a husband or a child, and the news is good. Writing a check for real estate taxes here, like I am. Yeah, in the digital world we see it all everywhere, but we still got to do what we got to do.
I guess it is about time to leave for today. I’ll be interested to see what I write tomorrow.
Scientists predict human-level artificial intelligence by 2030... maybe sooner if the bar keeps dropping.
The Answer:
Number One is U2 at 26.84 million tickets. Next is Dave Matthews, Rolling Stones, Springsteen and E Street, Elton John, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Billy Joel, Kenny Chesney, Grateful Dead, Trans-Siberian, Phish, Arrowsmith, Jimmy Buffett, Rod Stewart, Neil Diamond, Coldplay, George Strait, Tim McGraw and Ed Sheeran. Coldplay and Sheeran are definitely on the rise and will be in the upper groups eventually, as Will Taylor Swift.
(Source – Pollstar.)
I'm worrying about the regular people in Iran.
I was reminded of a group by a friend yesterday and in a way this song of theirs may be curiously pertinent today.
