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Hoskin would visit nearly a dozen different Canadian homes, moving about Ontario and Quebec before arriving in the "more cultured, more civilised" Vancouver. He became a Canadian citizen and continued to create books, each one more absurd than the last. Rampa allegedly flew as an air ambulance pilot in World War II, evaded capture and torture, and fled a prison camp near Hiroshima on the day the bomb was dropped. In Vancouver, Hoskin stayed in a West End hotel. According to his secretary's self-published memoir, he liked the waterfront vistas but found Vancouver difficult to navigate. He couldn't recreate The Third Eye's success; it had been difficult to find a home that could accommodate his cats, and health difficulties required the use of a wheelchair in an inhospitable metropolis. Hoskin became more reclusive as his writings expanded to include aliens, prophecies about future conflicts, and previously unreported escapades of Christ. Hoskin moved again, this ti...

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It's hype. Men may believe that ChatGPT is Shakespeare with a dash of Skynet, but as critics such as Canadian sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow have pointed out, AI isn't really intelligent; ChatGPT is essentially a glorified upscale of autocomplete technology that tries to tack "wife" onto your attempt to Google search celebrities and athletes. Thousands of furtive perverts have already chosen that option, so Google believes you may be intrigued as well.Predicting what will happen next with acceptable accuracy is a valuable skill that some venerable newspaper columnists may lack, but stringing phrases together does not result in correct paragraphs. GPT struggles with math and reasoning, yet Google's competitor, Bard, has confidently deemed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory to be true. A correct-sounding word is frequently incorrect.GPT will have its purposes, but it does not appear qualified to replace jobs, which has not prevented it from doing so. CNET, a once-respected tech site, was caught flooding the internet with AI-written articles offering financial advice that was clear, plain, and filled with more factual mistakes than a hungover freshman's midterm. Apparently, Prometheus is delivering us clickbait Will there still be useful financial advice available? Sure. But good luck finding it, because Google's search engine has grown so ineffective that people are using Bing unironically. Search for anything more difficult than "pizza" and you'll have to navigate through a slew of spam and lies, an issue that has arisen since, apparently, a rising fraction of the internet is nothing but spam and lies. Google makes money when you click on adverts and give it data, not when you get a satisfactory answer to the question "What new TV model is best?"

In truth, the majority of Silicon Valley's stars are dimming

Airbnbs, which were previously a low-cost travel option, are now as pricey as hotel rooms, and the owners expect you to take out the garbage, shovel the sidewalk, and file their taxes. Amazon is saturated with counterfeit and copycat products. Netflix is boosting fees, tightening down on account sharing, and attempting to retain our loyalty with ground-breaking original films like Glowering Ryan Gosling Shoots Gun. Perhaps you've already heard about some of these issues by squinting at the few words news sites dare to display among a swarm of adverts posted by venture capitalists wondering why none of their stones will bleed.I don't want to be unduly nostalgic about the days when Uber was expanding by breaking the law and allowing founder Travis Kalanick to run his firm like a fraternity, but I'd be lying if I said I hadn't found Uber useful. However, Silicon Valley now appears to be less interested in improving our lives and more interested in selling us ways to get so wealthy that these concerns will be insignificant. Don't worry if your cryptocurrency portfolio has tanked; you can get a copy of The ChatGPT Millionaire: Making Money Online has never been easier from Amazon.If that doesn't lead to your fortune, you might be wondering what the internet and the firms that dominate it have recently done to solve a problem rather than create one. Our phones are faster, and our laptops are sleeker, but we're using them to go onto Vichy Twitter and watch someone explain the economic benefits of slurp juice. "Summon a car" and "crash on a couch" are obvious use cases. Meta invites us to "believe in the future of connection," yet this is not the case. I don't want to "work up a sweat alongside my friends in a virtual studio" by wearing enough gadgets to qualify as a semi-cyborg. I want to find the greatest gym around without having to solve the Sphinx's riddle.

The Facebooks of the world claim to be agile startups 

propelled by Red Bull and dreams, but they are lumbering behemoths in charge of critical areas of our lives. Being a giant, with all of the power and profit that comes with it, would seem like a comfortable position. However, rather than coasting into the future, they are hellbent on making our lives far more difficult in order to maintain their claim to being creative. That is hardly how to save a marriage, much less a firm.So, between Zuckerberg destroying his empire to pursue a sci-fi vision straight out of 2003 and Elon Musk taking time out of his ostensibly busy day to ensure an influential Twitter account named after cat feces remains active, the veneer of infallible Silicon Valley genius has been sandblasted away. What's left, if you believe the hype, are tools that promise to make the internet even less trustworthy. The founders of ChatGPT claim to be taken aback by its success; if this is the case, Silicon Valley may need to reconsider what it produces.Their blossoms, strewn around the fields and bowing in the scorching August heat, signaled the end of summer break. Growing up on a farm, I learned to measure time according to nature's cycles. Looking up into the dark clear nights and seeing the Big Dipper hanging handle to the horizon informed me winter was come to stay for a while. The first sign of spring was dark and early mornings in the musty barn, bottle feeding a newborn calf. In mid-June, opening the school bus window and smelling the fresh cut of hay signaled the beginning of summer holiday.

My childhood was similar to that of many other 

children in rural Canada, with these natural markers being perfectly common. For us, obligations began at a young age, hard work was a source of pride, and assisting our neighbors was required. Everyone always pitched in. Almost every rural family exemplifies these values and a feeling of community that is built on mutual support rather than a distant government program. When the tractor becomes stuck, your neighbor and his larger tractor come over to help you out. When the farmer down the road comes up because their cows have escaped, you put on your boots and help, regardless of whether you are in the middle of your Christmas dinner. That included us kids—feeding chickens before boarding the bus to school, throwing hay bales in the summer, and working to mend fences.It's a practical and rewarding existence, but one that our city friends may disdain or misunderstand.Nowadays, it is argued that the social and political difference is between rural and urban areas. Regardless of where someone decides to reside, their desires remain the same. Everyone wants their children to attend a decent school, to feel comfortable strolling down their street, and to arrive at the hospital knowing they will be well cared for. We all desire the same things from our lives. So, where does the antagonism stem from?

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