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ME: Put this in a VCF and drop it into VCF-ICLOUD and VCF-GOOGLE with the “.vcf” extension
CLAUDIA: I don’t have a direct way to write into Google Contacts — there’s no Contacts API connector available here (only Drive, Calendar, and Gmail are connected), so I can’t push these VCFs in for you automatically.
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Yeah, and AI is going to take over the world! Not yet, anyway, FMPOV.
Argh!
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Own a gun? Go to church? Do yoga? AI can find out in seconds.
By Alfred Ng
09/01/2026 04:45 AM EDT
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Republicans and Democrats across Capitol Hill are getting a glimpse of artificial intelligence’s latest power: its ability to churn out instant dossiers filled with details about ordinary Americans, from a gun store owner’s leaked email passwords to a church member’s yoga workouts to people’s visits to abortion clinics.
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Hard not to read this article and NOT be concerned.
With all the Karens and other crazies out there that seem to think killing people is “socially acceptable”, everyone needs to be concerned.
Hell, I won’t even react to “driving bullies” on the road. Who knows what will be the result?
Argh!
p.s., while POLITICO is a left-leaning progressive site, in this case, I think they have done a great job “nailing this to the politician’s office door”. Well done!
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” — Robert A. Heinlein
Important to keep an open mind and open ears even to those who you assume are just always “wrong”.
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CLAUDIA DIALOGUE TRANSCRIPT
Date: 2026-08-24
Topic: Cleanup of dictated healthcare rant blog post
=== USER ===
[Provided a dictated/voice-transcribed draft blog post about the healthcare and insurance hassles of moving from New Jersey to Florida (Medicare Advantage / United Healthcare / Bank of America address mixup, podiatrist appointment saga, kidney stone diagnosis, orthopedist knee injection wait, and a childhood tonsillectomy billing flashback), submitted as two duplicate document attachments, with the instruction: “Please clean up and create a text file.”]
=== CLAUDIA ===
Cleaned up the dictated draft into readable prose, preserving the original voice (first person, “no problem” refrain, closing with “Gooferment”/”GOVEROTRAGEOUS”), while untangling the voice-transcription garble across all sections: the insurance address mixup between Bank of America and United Healthcare, the podiatrist appointment runaround, the kidney doctor visits and kidney stone diagnosis, the orthopedist knee “goo” injection wait, and the childhood tonsillectomy billing flashback with Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Created file: 2026-08-24-healthcare-rant.txt
Presented to user via present_files.
=== USER ===
“Capture this conversation in a text file and put in my google drive CLAUDIA / DIALOGUES folder.”
=== CLAUDIA ===
Creating this transcript file and uploading to Google Drive claudia/DIALOGUES folder per the standing file organization convention.
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Here’s what I put in.
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CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPT — Reinke Faces Life Blog Post Drafting
Date: 2026-08-21
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USER: https://nypost.com/2026/08/20/real-estate/a-joke-about-dodging-the-pied-a-terre-tax-just-might-go-legit/. Draft a blog post for Reinke Faces Life that points out that the joke could become reality and poke fun at the Gooferment tax they plan.
CLAUDE: [Researched the story via web search since the NY Post link was blocked; drafted a blog post titled “Comedy Writes the Tax Code: Aura Investments and the Pied-à-Terre Punchline That Might Come True” in the Reinke Faces Life voice, covering comedian Madison Walser’s Aura Investments satire-turned-real venture matching artists with pied-à-terre owners to dodge NYC’s non-primary-residence surcharge, the botched rollout (960,000 property notices, Scott Galloway “doxxing” complaint, burdensome appeals process), and closed with commentary on the GOVEROTRAGEOUS pattern.]
USER: Adjust sarcasm higher
CLAUDE: [Rewrote the post with sharper, more biting sarcasm throughout — same structure and facts, harsher tone including lines like “Big Brother, but make it property tax” and “Somewhere, Bastiat is laughing. Everyone else is just filling out the forms.”]
USER: Add a footnote about the ai assist and a link to claudeai
CLAUDE: [Added footnote: “¹ Drafted with AI assistance via Claude (https://claude.ai).”]
USER: Add the nypost link at the top with the headline and without same. Save result in an appropriately named text file in CLAUDIA/BLOGS directory.
CLAUDE: [Checked memory for existing folder structure; searched Google Drive for an existing BLOGS folder under claudia — none found. Asked user whether to create a new BLOGS subfolder or save in the main claudia folder.]
USER: Q: No BLOGS subfolder exists yet under claudia — how should I handle it?
A: Create
CLAUDE: [Created new “BLOGS” subfolder (ID: 1HfdkB0gw11firsWGDSHvd5uRAcunsoeA) under the claudia folder. Created text file “2026-08-Aug21-blog-pied-a-terre-tax-aura-investments” in that folder containing the source URL/headline at top, followed by the sarcastic blog post draft and AI-assist footnote. Updated the claudia-file-organization memory file to record the new BLOGS subfolder.]
USER: can you suggest some tags for it and also put them in a single sentence separated by commas.
CLAUDE: Suggested tags: pied-a-terre tax, NYC real estate, Mamdani, Gooferment, property tax, tax avoidance, Aura Investments, satire, New York City, government overreach
USER: More
CLAUDE: More options: municipal taxation, wealth tax, second homes, real estate loopholes, Zohran Mamdani, tax policy, government surveillance, comedy, satire gone real, homeowner rights, bureaucracy, big government, NYC housing market, tax database, doxxing, unintended consequences, libertarian commentary
USER: Capture this conversation in a text file and put in my google drive CLAUDIA / DIALOGUE folder.
CLAUDE: [This transcript, saved to claudia/DIALOGUES folder.]
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****** AND ******
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CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPT — Blog Post Tag Suggestions
Date: 2026-08-23
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USER: [Uploaded file: 2026-08-Aug21-blog-pied-a-terre-tax-aura-investments — a blog post titled “Comedy Writes the Tax Code: Aura Investments and the Pied-à-Terre Punchline That Might Come True,” sourced from a New York Post article about a comedian’s satirical “Aura Investments” concept and NYC’s pied-à-terre tax rollout.] Here’s a blog post can you suggest some tags for it and also put them in a single sentence separated by commas.
CLAUDE: Suggested tags: Pied-à-Terre Tax, NYC Real Estate, Property Tax Overreach, Gooferment, Government Surveillance, Housing Policy Satire, Aura Investments, Scott Galloway, Bastiat, Unintended Consequences.
Also provided as a single comma-separated sentence per the request.
USER: Capture this conversation in a text file and put in my google drive CLAUDIA / DIALOGUES folder.
CLAUDE: [This transcript, saved to claudia/DIALOGUES folder.]
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Like the movie, “The Wizard Of Oz”, says: “Pay no attention to the man behind the green curtain.”
I really like how it turned out a finished product in a few minutes. Before I ran out of free “credits”.
I’ll keep looking for things it does well as well as what it can’t do.
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2026-08Aug-07
When UHC hit me with a “new” formulary, I would usually spend some amount of my time, attention, effort, and whatever dikw was needed to play “Find Waldo” (i.e., look for changes that affect me in a mass of mouse print)!
Now with AI in my tool chest, I downloaded the formulary pdf, and then uploaded it to CLAUDE_AI (which I weirdly call CLAUDIA). I upload my drug list and give CLAUDIA the go ahead.
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Correlate my drugs with the formulary and show me the results
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Before I can say the MAGIC WORD — Shazam! — CLAUDIA tells me no surprises.
Since my short-term memory sucks,
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Save result in an appropriately named text file in CLAUDIA/TEXTS directory
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And poof all done!
Easy Peasy!
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TextExpander note:
– TextExpander works in the Claude app/claude.ai input, since it operates at the OS/keyboard level.
Test message logged (2026-06Jun-14 0248):
“Test Book of Faces. 2026-06Jun-14 0248 idk IDK IDIDK GEIW FEIE FWIW fwiw Mother NatureSOME DONT WORK” – appears to be a TextExpander snippet test where some abbreviations did not expand.
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Time to be an “unpaid ALPHA tester” for the nice folks at TEXTEXPANDER
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User: Print it
Claude explained it does not have the ability to send documents to a physical
printer, and suggested the user open the file from Google Drive or download it
to print locally.
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Well that’s annoying.
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Dialogue – June 28, 2026
USER: Delete all New Jersey saved places in Google Maps
CLAUDE: I don’t have access to Google Maps or your saved places — there’s no Google Maps connector available to me.
To delete saved places in Google Maps yourself:
1. Open Google Maps and tap your profile icon
2. Go to Saved → Your lists
3. Open each list, find NJ places, tap the three dots on each, and select “Remove from list”
Or on desktop at maps.google.com, go to Saved in the left menu and manage from there. Unfortunately there’s no bulk-delete option in Google Maps — it has to be done one by one.
USER: Create text file and save in Google Drive Claudia folder
CLAUDE: What would you like the text file to contain?
USER: The previous dialogue
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Sure AI and machines are going to take over the world?
Argh!
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Dialogue – June 28, 2026
USER: Delete all New Jersey saved places in Google Maps
CLAUDE: I don’t have access to Google Maps or your saved places — there’s no Google Maps connector available to me.
To delete saved places in Google Maps yourself:
1. Open Google Maps and tap your profile icon
2. Go to Saved → Your lists
3. Open each list, find NJ places, tap the three dots on each, and select “Remove from list”
Or on desktop at maps.google.com, go to Saved in the left menu and manage from there. Unfortunately there’s no bulk-delete option in Google Maps — it has to be done one by one.
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Argh!
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My input:
How can I “write” a note on the back of a digital JPEG photo like I sometimes did on a real photo print?
CLAUDIA:
CONVERSATION TRANSCRIPT
Generated: 2026-06-12
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CLAUDE: Ready when you are — what’s on your mind?
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USER: How can I “write” a note on the back of a digital JPEG photo like I sometimes did on a real photo print?
CLAUDE: Options discussed:
1. EXIF/Metadata “Description” field — invisible metadata baked into the file. Windows: right-click > Properties > Details > Comments. Mac: Preview > Tools > Show Inspector > Exif tab.
2. Add text directly onto the image — permanently burns note into the visible photo (Paint, Preview, Snapseed). Not reversible.
3. Rename the file — short notes like dates or names in the filename.
4. Sidecar file — plain .txt file with the same name alongside the photo.
5. Google Photos / Apple Photos “description” — caption lives in the app, not the file.
Best match for “writing on the back”: EXIF Description/Comment field.——————————————————————————–
USER: yes [build a drag-and-drop EXIF note tool]
CLAUDE: Built an interactive browser-based widget allowing drag-and-drop of a JPEG, entry of Note/Description, Author/Photographer, Date taken, and Copyright fields, then download of the photo with metadata embedded.
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USER: Error writing metadata: ‘pack’ error. Got invalid type argument
CLAUDE: Fixed the error — XPTitle and XPComment fields require UTF-16 byte arrays, not plain strings. Dropped XPTitle, rewrote XPComment encoding. ImageDescription and Artist fields carry the note reliably.
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USER: How do i see it on mac osx
CLAUDE: On Mac:
– Quickest: Right-click photo > Get Info (Cmd+I) > More Info section
– Photos app: Import photo, press Cmd+I for info panel
– Preview app (best): Open in Preview > Tools > Show Inspector (Cmd+I) > Exif tab — shows ImageDescription and Artist fields exactly as written
– Finder: Can show Comments column but that is Spotlight comment, not EXIF data——————————————————————————–
USER: jpeg
CLAUDE: The widget runs in the browser — Claude cannot rename the download directly. User can rename the downloaded file in Finder: select file, press Return, type new name. Offered to update the widget to produce a filename with !!! baked in.
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USER: download that edited picture with a filename “xyz.jpeg”
CLAUDE: The widget only runs in the browser — Claude cannot access or download files from it. Instructions to rename on Mac: find file in Downloads, click once to select, press Return to edit name, type xyz.jpeg and press Return.
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USER: capture the conversation in a text file
CLAUDE: Created this transcript file: conversation_transcript.txt
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END OF TRANSCRIPT
# – # – # – # – #
Bottom line: It didn’t work. I’m now very confused.
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