Re: 700 Marines deployed to Los Angeles

On 14 Jun 2025 18:15:50 -0300, Mike Spencer
<mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

By 2028, someone will have created a completely synthetic AI persona
whom you can watch, listen to and even talk to on your smartphone.

Never followed this topic, but there are thousands plus who talk to
some AI "thing"

In earlier days, Chautauqua was a big deal in rural America

"At the height of the Chautauqua Movement, around 1915, some 12,000
communities had hosted a chautauqua. Many of the lecturers and
performers were contracted by chautauqua agencies, the most notable of
which was the Redpath Agency in Iowa. The quality of the offerings
varied from Vassar-educated lecturers and Shakespeare to animal acts
and vaudeville farce."
https://www.chautauqua.com/2021/chautauqua-movement-history/