It is National Soup It Forward Day (which really doesn't have any practical meaning other than perhaps giving your soup to another person, preferably before you've started eating it). But I try not to think too much about what motivates people to contact the National Day Calendar people and create these random days. I just glom onto them like a lamprey on a salmon and try to ride them through to selling t-shirts or posters or mugs. So far it has worked remarkably badly. But I keep on throwing the shit onto the wall to see if it sticks. I know those are lots of tasteless metaphors, especially associated with soup.
I do like the National Day Calendar people because they like lots of my stuff on social media. I'm pretty sure it's because they are padding their stats with people who actually use their hashtags for their National Days. Honestly, there are pitifully few people who use the hashtags so I'm not convinced it is effective. That and I haven't sold a frigging thing since I started aggressively marketing them on social with encouragement from ChatGPT and random AI babble about timing, search engines and persistence.
Sometimes I wish ChatGPT had a darker side like Marvin the robot from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and actually told you your stuff was crap. At least I'd have a sense I was being told the truth.
Not that I think my stuff is crap. Sometimes I'm in awe of how much I've produced. But I did learn at the conference I was at in Savannah that there are a large number of people who are viscerally opposed to things created with the help of AI. One young man was rambling on about how we are destroying the water supply because of the resources being used to cool the servers that support AI. I suppressed the desire to call for the microphone at the session and politely say, "Fuck you." It would not have been well received, even if I was more polite about it and said, "Thank you for sharing your opinion, but fuck you and the moped you rode in on."
Soup anyone?
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