May 2025 – Spinor Info

Holy trumpeting macaroni…

May 032025

When I saw this first as a screen capture, I honestly thought it was a fake. How can this possibly be real? The official White House account on Twitter, publishing a photoshopped image showing President Donald J. Trump dressed up as the Pope?

But no. Holy trumpeting macaroni, no. The world has gone completely bonkers and yes, the official Twitter account of the executive branch of the government of the United States of America is promoting a Photoshopped image, showing their President (who, as far as I know, is not even a Catholic so technically I’d have more legitimacy as Pope than him) dressed up as the Holy Father of the Roman Catholic Church.

An abomination worth understanding

Cybernetics, Personal No Responses »

May 032025

The other night, I had a lengthy conversation with ChatGPT in which I described ChatGPT and its LLM cousins as abominations. ChatGPT actually found my characterization appropriate and relevant. So I asked ChatGPT to distill down the essence of this conversation in the form of a first-person account.

The title was picked by ChatGPT. I left the text unaltered.

Trump MMXXVIII

Politics, Religion No Responses »

May 032025

I have to admit, when I first saw this, I thought it was fake news.

No, not that Trump thinks he can be the next Pope, but that Graham is endorsing him. I mean, Graham is many things but he’s not stupid.

So… is he mocking or trolling Trump? Or has he fully bought into the Trump cult himself?

Either way, it is a surreal sign of the surreal times in which we live, here, in the year 2025 of the Christian era.

The pre-adolescence of P-1

Books, Cybernetics, Internet, Personal No Responses »

May 022025

The Adolescence of P-1 is a somewhat dated, yet surprisingly prescient 1977 novel about the emergence of AI in a disembodied form on global computer networks.

The other day, I was reminded of this story as I chatted with ChatGPT about one of my own software experiments from 1982, a PASCAL simulation of a proposed parallel processor architecture. The solution was not practical but a fun software experiment nonetheless.

I showed the code, in all of its 700-line glory, to ChatGPT. When, in its response, ChatGPT used the word “adolescence”, I was reminded of the Thomas Ryan novel and mused about a fictitious connection between my code and P-1. Much to my surprise, ChatGPT volunteered to outline, and then write, a short story. I have to say that I found the result quite brilliant.