"Bump the Stump." Talking points, Seneca, and Perplexity.

"Prosperity is a turbulent thing. It stirs the brain in more ways than one, goading people on to various aims: some to power, and others to high living.

Some it puffs up, others it slackens and wholly enervates."

-Lucius Seneca, stoic letter 36.

*Perplexity AI helpfully intoned pointedly of the Harris/Walz "Opportunity Economy": Trish Regan is angry [about it], and, I thought, yes, she's paid for that, of course, given their 'audience' dynamics and so forth, confirmation bias and some other Factors.  They tend to terminate people that aren't angry about their collected political opposition(see Judge Andrew Napalitano), or willing to toe that line on screen.  Professional attack dogs, with twisted words towards their own ends.

"Of course we don't want most of America to do well.  Zero help.  Let's just watch stocks with which we're personally entangled."  Callously suggesting, during times of high gasoline prices, "its a good time to invest in oil companies".

{Perplexity

*the "free" version of Perplexity AI is a glorified search engine and results summarizer; the free version obviously uses a low-resource freely-available AI model to generate its results.  

*the "paid" version of Perplexity can access versions of GPT4 or Claude, and even generate images.

*labs.perplexity.ai puts one in touch with various experimental versions of LLAMA3 and some others, free of charge.}

*Elon's Grok 2.0 beta was made available to middle-tier and top-tier X subscribers.

*Storm Ernesto is Butterfield 8 over Titanic territory.  Will we be treated to a one-man-show of master meteorology-presenter Cantore in a dinghy, doing "The Old Man And The Sea"?

*I shot gunned soda to prep for my "pithy" work session, a performance oriented, strictly timed session demanding utmost accuracy. Tasked at telling one of the world's smartest network apps how and why it was wrong on any given item, and then writing in those few minutes a better, more "succinct" version.

(text was neither generated nor edited with AI assistance)

(topmost image generated by CoPilot. Middle insert generate on the Grok 2.0 platform.)