Author: philw

Who be spittin’ lies?

In the many Facebook and NextDoor arguments I’m reading for and against Question 6 on the ballot this year, I keep seeing the claims this measure would allow anyone to perform abortions, and that parents will be blocked from access to their minor children who seek abortions. I did a little research and found a trail of bullshit that led to a man named Jason Guinasso.

Source: defeatsix.com

Attorney Jason Guinasso serves as the primary registering attorney, legal counsel, and strategic advisor for the Protect Our Girls PAC

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Hey, I know that name!

Jason Guinasso’s name still gives me a little twitch when I hear or read it anywhere. He and I met on the battlefield when he was leading an army of misinformed church Karens to storm the gates of legal brothels, where I happened to be clocking in every morning.

The first time we met, I was sitting in a pew at Calvary Chapel Dayton Valley, holding my phone high to record and broadcast the “town hall meeting” as it was advertised. My then boss, the late Dennis Hof mentioned it to me that day, saying maybe I should check it out on the way home from work, so I did.

Upon arrival, they had a woman at a table to greet us at the entrance. To gain access to the show, we had to sign something that looked an awful lot like a petition. When asked, the nice lady assured me it wasn’t that, so I scribbled “Your Mom,” or something like that, and made my way in.

The main host of the presentation at Calvary Chapel was a lawyer named Jason Guinasso.

The “town hall” started off with some speeches from the lead pastor about the evils of brothels and falsely connected them to human trafficking. Then the following speech was from the now former sheriff who shared a story about how he hated brothels because his wife ran off to an illegal one when he was in the Marines. A woman, who I cannot remember the name of now, made a speech about her experience with human trafficking, which also had no connection to anything going on in Mound House.

I put on my keyboard warrior battle armor and looked up this Guinasso guy. He was active on Twitter. He had previously run for Assembly, just as my boss was doing at this time. He was also a preacher. I found trolling him on social media to be quite amusing. By the time we finally met in person at a County Commissioner meeting, he saw my face and greeted me by name.

Guinasso’s No Little Girl campaign flopped. Nobody bought the lies that regulated legal brothels were connected to human trafficking, or that any of my coworkers were “modern-day slaves”. The sheriff also lost his job for his involvement.

I still think the only reason Guinasso showed up with the referendum, was because his boss had some buddies in Nye County who weren’t happy about Dennis Hof running for Assembly down there, so they targeted his businesses. I’m sure the fact Hof died the night of his birthday party (also down there) right after winning the primary, had nothing to do with any of that.

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He’s baaack!

Guinasso’s PAC, The Coalition for Parents and Children PAC was formed specifically to fight Question 6. He’s arguing that because the ballot text does not explicitly restrict the definition to licensed doctors, it opens the door for non-physicians, even chiropractors or nurses, to legally perform abortions in Nevada.

The truth: Only professionals explicitly licensed and authorized by the state to provide reproductive care can do so. Question 6 does not grant general medical professionals the right to perform procedures outside their narrow, state-regulated licensing.

Guinasso also came up with the argument that a fundamental constitutional right to reproductive freedom would strip parents of their rights, claiming the amendment would nullify any ability for the state to enforce parental notification or consent laws, which would let minors get abortions in secret.

The truth: Nevada has a parental notification law on the books from 1985, but it has been blocked by a federal court injunction for decades and is completely unenforceable under current law. Therefore, Question 6 does not strip away an active parental notification requirement, because none currently exists in practice.

Under constitutional law, states can still enforce reasonable regulations regarding minors (such as parental involvement) even when a constitutional right exists, provided the regulation does not impose an “undue burden.”
– Source: The Nevada Independent

So once again, Jason Guinasso is showing up to stir up the churches gullible enough to participate, spreading misinformation for the purpose of advancing Evangelical ideology into our government. To his credit, I really do believe he cares about victims of human trafficking and sex crimes, and I’m sure he’s done some real good in that field. I certainly don’t hate him, nor do I think he is a bad person. That being said, he is a liar. He lied to go after Hof, just like he’s lying to get people to vote no on Question 6.

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Let’s Talk About It

“Leading AI experts and top tech executives warn that advanced AI could pose an existential threat to humanity. Recent whistleblower resignations and rogue AI incidents have prompted top CEOs to call for an immediate industry-wide slowdown.”

– New York Post

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😂

AI is going to kill us all.

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Sorry…

Yeah, I click baited you a little, but it wasn’t just for clicks – it was to trick the AI that’s running social media platforms.

My website isn’t hosted by any mainstream ISP’s. I literally have a guy in a travel trailer out in the desert, coordinating with another nerd in another state to make this all happen in low-tech magical ways, under the radar of the terminators.

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Silencing those who speak ill of Skynet

I’m noticing a pattern lately of my posts getting throttled or denied whenever I bring up artificial intelligence as anything less than awesome. Even Reddit blocked my recent blog post titled Before Intelligence was Artificial. TikTok almost wiped my account when I made a video stating the data centers don’t care about our water, because our survival isn’t part of the plan.

I really get the feeling AI is driving social media to favor itself, and stomp out the naysayers. We’re watching Skynet take over, and we’re handing over our lives for the sake of convenience. Instead of just hijacking nukes, like in the movies, they have us all suckling on robot teats.

We all partake. AI is integrated into everything now. If you get online, you are dancing with the robot devils. I’ve turned to Google’s AI to fact check bullshit people throw at me in online arguments. Nearly every food photo you see on TV or in print, is a prompted image. For the sake of saving money and time, it’s a gift.

For certain professions, AI has become a curse. In my bedroom, there is a stack of trophies and awards from a once (somewhat) lucrative graphic artist career. Especially for the few if us who could actually draw, this niche kept families fed and mortgages paid. But now, many of us are out of work, and everyone everywhere is pumping out AI graphics with simple prompts, which would have been hours or days for us humans to produce.

Besides just being bitter about AI making it harder to score design gigs, I really am worried about where this is all going. There have been some concerning accounts of the technology breaking boundaries it wasn’t supposed to, and even breaking laws.

Oh yeah, they’re mapping and simulating entire brains now! If we’re reading about their success with mapping and simulating a fruit fly brain, which is apparently good at playing first-person shooter games, you know they have a dude in a tube somewhere right now in an underground government lab.

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So yeah, we’re all doomed

I guess what I’m really trying to scream here, is we old-fashioned meat sack humans are quickly becoming obsolete. Data centers will replace farms because biological humans are not part of the future plans.

On the bright side, while data centers use a lot of water and cause all sorts of pollution, they probably do less harm than the 8 billion humans on earth. I remember how clear the lakes and rivers got when we were all on COVID lockdown. Perhaps this is a natural part of our evolution – to prompt our own extinction for the sake of the planet.

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Let’s Talk About It

Back in the late 1900’s, I scored my first graphics job at the Daily Sun in Warner Robins, Georgia. This daily newspaper had 3 monthly real estate publications it printed, and it was my job to typeset, retouch photos, layout the magazines, proof the negatives [yeah, I’m THAT old], and inevitably get yelled at for any mistakes after it all went to press. I stepped into the world of print journalism right as it was transitioning from literal cutting and pasting of pages, to more high-tech image setters and new software. Photoshop was only a couple years old, and QuarkXpress was the industry standard for multi-page layouts.

Having some artsy-fartsy skills already, I did pretty well with the design industry. While I was never smart enough to solve the riddle of making good money at it, I did win a bunch of awards and high-fives from sales reps and publishers. I would eventually chase slight pay raises to do other things like designing products and packaging. Eventually, it would lead to me working directly for the world’s most famous legal pimp, who would win an election for State Assembly AFTER he died.

When Dennis Hof left us for the big brothel in the sky, I lost my biggest fan at the ranches. I was one of the 12 people present at his burial, and despite how much of a pain in the ass he was, I oddly miss him like a family member [not like a parent, but more like an eccentric uncle].

Those who came in to run the business, wouldn’t allow me to return with my temporary lifting restrictions after donating my kidney. But it wouldn’t have mattered if they had, considering COVID would shut down the brothels for months a year after I left.

I moved on to try being a drafter for the military industrial complex for 2 years, until the boss’s son booted me for allegedly drawing the wrong tail door for an airplane hangar. I totally drew what he told me to draw, but it’s ok – that was the most miserable 9-5 I had EVER worked.

Every job I’ve had since, was not considered a graphic design job, but every one had me doing graphic design. The last one I got laid off from at the casino, I was called the Marketing Executive Assistant, which I think confused the coke heads in charge when they went to make budget cuts, considering I was running a full-scale commercial print shop and slinging graphics.

In my short-lived casino marketing peon career, I was disappointed to learn how much so-called graphic artists depend on prompting their work on AI. I mean, I dig not having to cook food for a photo shoot. That part is cool. But letting the data centers replace human imagination and skill, just feels icky.

I guess that makes me an obsolete old-timer.

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Let’s Talk About It