“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.” – Steve Jobs
Pass the Torch (This Revolution Is Over)
by Michael Doyle
Over the course of many stolid years
I have listened to a tsunami of tears
Over how socialism turned chevere to chimbo
The Land of Grace defiled blow by blow
The Land of the Orchids and the Sun
Had become one, its people felt was done
Like South America's eternal spring
Venezuela is a country of people born to sing
The people have told Maduro to step down
Voting to remove this jester's stolen crown
Selling their empanadas to another candidate
Forcing a win that cannot and will not wait
Bolivar and gauchos know angelic contrasts
But there is nothing good in the Marxist masks
That have ruled over this beautiful land
Placing everyone under near -totalitarian command
The people face bullets with their flowers
One by one, the people stand firm in these hours
Though promised a bloodbath again and again
The people are determined that they will win
The people have told Maduro to step down
Voting to remove this jester's stolen crown
Selling their empanadas to another candidate
Forcing a win that cannot and will not wait
Facing this bloody dictatorship with courage
They frame their hope as they seek another page
Many of the army have taken to the street of history
Braving reprisals to stand against this tyranny
Economic mismanagement is the bloodbath of socialism
We have faced this in the US with great pessimism
It has been an election cycle of hope and repression
These policies can only lead to national depression
The people have told Maduro to step down
Voting to remove this jester's stolen crown
Selling their empanadas to another candidate
Forcing a win that cannot and will not wait
Intimidating and imprisoning those of daring dissent
Is madness and buffoonery forcing a people to relent
But no more however much standing brings jeopardy
The people will stand for their freedom and liberty
Los Llanos has stood and will stand in its defiance
Resting on the people's will in genuine reliance
As the poor have come to greater loss and poverty
At the hands of those who promised a false prosperity
The people have told Maduro to step down
Voting to remove this jester's stolen crown
Selling their empanadas to another candidate
Forcing a win that cannot and will not wait
... the people of Venezuela cannot withstand
those who would kill the best of their land
we on the outside must stand with them now
Let's help Venezuelans prevail somehow...
(c) July 31, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean everything or nothing at pleasure.” – Thomas Jefferson (1823)
“We cannot all succeed when half of us are held back.” – Malala Yousafzai
The Painful Reality of Perfectionism
by Michael Doyle
There is a need to face eventually
Whether painful or not, the reality
That however much we have optimism
There is no such thing as perfectionism
At least so much as actually be perfect
There is only really the push to correct
Those things that require self-correction
It's foolish to push to achieve perfection
To seek after the mount of the unachievable
Is to crush your soul chasing the incapable
Goals that bring only tears of self-solitude
Destroying creation and well-being with an attitude
If there was anything I'd encourage with urgency
It is the need for my daughters to embrace uncertainty
This is the only truth of life for an honest face
Imperfection allows for the human touch and trace
That makes the world somehow a bit more bearable
Knowing that when burdens are shared we're capable
Of the so much needed and the humility of so much more
The ability to accept ourselves opens the universe's door
And in opening this door, allows each to do something
Than fearing imperfection and doing just about nothing
This then is my truth and gently provided analysis
Do not restrain from error to the point of paralysis
There is nearly always time enough for self-correction
And only practiced failure comes close to that perfection
That some pretend they have and allows self-improvement
A father hugs his daughter close with this encouragement
The truth is there is a crack in just about everything
That's how the light gets in to illuminate as we sing
The song of life that pushes each of us through our days
We must not live with fear but always find our best ways
(c) July 30, 2024 Michael Doyle
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“I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.” – Martha Washington
“Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.” – Emily Bronte
Your Mother's Love Is Lying
by Michael Doyle
There is so much assumed as basic fact
And from these, we choose how to react
Accuracy is important from our conception
You'd be surprised at the level of deception
As with these things lending toward ready detection
There is a script that provides strong indication
If a mother is asked, deception can likely result
Should you and I take this as an intended insult?
I don't want to leave you sad and crying
But Coyote AI says your momma is lying
When she says her love for you is true
AI doesn't lie, so maybe please take the clue
The new polygraph is as accurate as 93 percent
One has to wonder at the uses and the intent
Anything we can do, you know a company will do
And this adage is the same truism for me and you
In this dog-eat-dog world of detecting lies
Everyone wrongly assumes the truth is in the eyes
Such wrong insights have created bad decisions
Mostly due to the coin-flip level imprecisions
I don't want to leave you sad and crying
But Coyote AI says your momma is lying
When she says her love for you is true
AI doesn't lie, so maybe, please take the clue
The whole trouble comes down to its complicity
With guilt being mistaken for feeling anxiety
All of our best guesses at this lack of duplication
And become poster children for pseudo-replication
There is no real leakage in the "leakage" in detail
It's the facts that are needed to be close to real
To reach 'alpha' we reach for language clues
It's the best bet we have to dig in or pay our dues
I don't want to leave you sad and crying
But Coyote AI says your momma is lying
When she says her love for you is true
AI doesn't lie, so maybe, please take the clue
Algorithms don't need psychology to reveal lies
There's the dog-ness of the steady gaze of eyes
The theories inform that deception is hard to call
But given time and exposure the best will recall
We flag forward to signal need for future inquiry
But the mistakes made most certainly cause injury
False positives democratize this art of lie detection
Assuring only one sure result, this needs correction
Lying is seen as essential in our social interactions
Absent the lies, privacy would cause the detractions
To outweigh the gains that are given by any device
And this should be avoided, is the sound advice
I don't want to leave you sad and crying
But Coyote AI says your momma is lying
When she says her love for you is true
AI doesn't lie, so maybe, please take the clue
(c) July 29, 2024 Michael Doyle
All Rights Reserved
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“But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.” ― C.S. Lewis, Aslan, in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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