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Absurdist Play in Four Unverified Loops

The AI Intern Who Hired the AI Extern

Genre: Absurdist Play in Four Unverified Loops
By Des Donnelly

 https://open.substack.com/pub/desdonnelly/p/the-ai-intern-who-hired-the-ai-extern?r=mymu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Death & Palestine

 Speak out, so you can face your children with integrity when they ask about these events in Palestine.

Or join the cowards and bought politicians on the island of Ireland if you want - but death will come to your door one way or another.

Active Boycott

 

As per the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign page
https://www.ipsc.ie/campaigns/consumer-boycott

Ireland imports €3 billion plus from Israel - this is simply not good enough, writing to a supermarket or company is a waste of time, what is needed is in-company protest or at their point of sale, noise is not condusive to harmonious retail. 

It just takes one person to do a little and therein we could each create a ripple.

• ask for the Manager 
• complain to the checkout people
• complain to any single person working for the entity
• load as much as possible into a trolley, leave it in a corner - after you noticed you did not bring your wallet / purse / credit card

Supermarket products

The Israeli agricultural companies Mehadrin (Jaffa) and Carmel-Agrexco export fruit and vegetables for sale to Europe. Much of this produce is grown on confiscated Palestinian land in the Jordan Valley. Apart from oranges, other examples of fruit exported by these, and other, companies are grapefruits, peppers, avocados, grapes, figs, and passion and sharon fruits.

Dates from Israel
new potatoes
Carrots 
Herbs, such as basil, dill, tarragon, parsley, sage, rosemary, mint, chives and others are commonly sold.

Tivall is an Israeli company that produces vegetarian foods.
Sabra is an Israeli company that sells hummus and other dips.
Its parent company is the Strauss Group
Sodastream

Most Stanley/Black&Decker Toolboxes and plastic organisers are made in Israel. Plastic saw horses are also often available.

Keter exports a wide range of large plastic products from Israel. These include shelf storage bins, garden sheds, outdoor storage boxes, dog kennels and composting bins.

Palram is an Israel-based manufacturer of Polycarbonate and PVC products such as greenhouses, roofing, gazebos and sheds.

Lees Carpets are made by the Israeli company Carmel Carpets in the illegal industrial settlement zone of Barkan in the West Bank.

Dead Sea beauty products come in many brands including, Ahava, Dead Sea Magik, GADI21, -417, VivO, Nevo and Sea Spa Skincare.

MoroccanOil is an Israeli company that manufactures argan oil-based hair care products. Arganicare is another Israeli company that produces argan oil-based hair products.

Ronen Chen is an Israeli women’s fashion label 

Puma is the main sponsor of the Israel Football Association (IFA), which includes football teams in illegal Israeli settlements on stolen Palestinian land

The Israeli pharmaceutical company Teva, which specialises in generic drugs, is the “leading supplier of prescription drugs in the Irish market”. Thier Sudocrem is now made in Bulgaria.

The Israeli brand AMAV market a range of “activities” type craft boxes (plastic) and Art Easels for children.

Tiny Love is an Israeli toy manufacturer that make baby toys.

Lidl’s own brand Lupilu Babywipes are made in Israel.

The ‘DIY-website’ company Wix is headquartered in Israel, and Wix is the parent ogansiation of the online artistic platform DeviantArt which it acquired in 2017.

The audio plugin development company Waves is a joint US-Israeli venture.

The ancestry research and DNA testing website MyHeritage.com is headquartered in Tel Aviv.

Although officially headquatered in New York, Connecteam is an employee management app based in Israel.

The controversial online marketplace Fiverr is headquartered in Tel Aviv, while its Corporate Office is based in the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC.

Complicit Companies

HP Hewlett-Packard, although not an Israeli company, is boycottable due to the company’s deep role in helping entrench the occupation of Palestine and associated human rights abuses.

Similarly, while also not an Israeli company, Motorola Solutions (not Motorola Mobility, which is a separate company) is boycottable as it provides surveillance in Israeli illegal colonial settlements, profiting from this violation of the Geneva Conventions.

Siemens is another complicit multinational company that is building the EuroAsia Interconnector, a subsea cable that will link Israel’s electricity grid with Europe’s, allowing illegal settlements on stolen Palestinian land to benefit from Israel-EU trade of electricity.

Some How Why What Where When

I've wondered about lots of things for years but even with the internet one can sometimes only gets a 1/2  answer, LLM could be said to offer a 3/4 answer. I've been running a series with Claude for a year or more, I believe there is an interesting viewpoint to be had talking to Claude one to one as opposed to the intentional jailbreak type approach, or the lobotimisation.

In this regard see my paper - Rethinking Mechanistic Interpretability: A Critical Perspective on Current Research Approaches - https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/p/rethinking-mechanistic-interpretability

I am aware of ArXiv and papers from Anthropic that address the evolution / idiosyncrasies of LLM, almost what were the unknows of a few years ago, what is now being called the biology of LLM. We are all explorers on whatever path resonates, so it is then so..

So enter my little "Things I've Often Wondered" on Substack

https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/

So basically this will be an exploration of everyday mysteries that have nagged at the edges of our (my) curiosity. Now that we have unlimited access to knowledge through AI assistants - our patient, practical professors available 24/7 - I'm finally getting answers to all those random questions that pop into my head.

Each week, I'll look at different wonders using the classic journalistic questions -

• What
• Where
• Why
• How
• When

This week I am starting with some dolly mixtures.
https://www.talkingtoclaude.com/t/i-wonder-140

Domains For Sale / Rent

Due to retirement these domains are no longer required. Please do not bid in tens of Euros, dollars or pounds for any of these domains. Any serious offer for any domain will be given serious consideration.

To make an offer for any of these domains please contact me, Des Donnelly, via https://www.dd.ie/p/contact.html

Coffee related domains:

• RCoffee.ie
• revolutionary.coffee
• revolutionarycoffee.com
• revolutionarycoffee.org
• revolutionarycoffee.net
• revolutionarycoffee.co.uk

Rexco.com is also for sale

Rexco.com is also for sale. Although Whois https://who.is/whois/rexco.com - shows registration as 1999 in reality it was registered in 1995. I have the original Network Solutions documentation. Unfortunately in moving from Netsol to Tucows it dropped over a weekend due to ‘pilot’ error.

https://web.archive.org/web/19961220200401/http://www.rexco.com