heads up i will write a new new story tomorrow, hopefully
subject to tinnitus etc
my readers everywhere
my mark zuckerberg impersonation
heads up i will write a new new story tomorrow, hopefully
subject to tinnitus etc
my readers everywhere
Vietnam I love you too, your figures are even higher than Brazil these past 3 months
so am I a Fat Panda that Vietnamese adore
https://www.vietnam-tour.biz/catholicism-in-vietnam/
or is it my story telling
YOU TELL ME
or would Vietnam say
On your bike, if I turned up like a hungry Panda
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC https://butcherbakerundertaker.blogspot.com. https://profile.typepad.com/michaelgcasey
I don not know who or why Brazil is reading me
Maybe its old ladies on Pilgrimage who stumble over me
In The Butcher The Baker and The UnderTaker by Michael Casey that’s me
Mrs Murphy travels far and wide with her nuclear weapon of Love
Her Rosaries
So thank you Brazil and say a prayer for me
I've updated this 15th Sept 2024 I'm Michael Casey from Birmingham England, the fat silver haired writer in shades. Beware of Others with the EXACT SAME NAME, they are not me, and would not want to be me ... use Google UK to find me, otherwise Posh Americans pop up I've done loads of writing, about 3,000,000 Words worth over 36years now But before I started to write, I LISTENED to BBC Radio 4 for 20 years, from the age of 10 or younger Frank Brown our lodger, went back to County Tyrone and he gifted us his Bush Radio. He'd be nearly 102 now if he is still alive, so say a prayer for him 56 years in love with words, and I still look so dashing. I have a picture in the attic, just like Dorian Gray I've also had an interest in Politics for 56 years with my dad heckling the tv and Politicians. I almost immediately had a hit, a play called Shoplife was accepted but not finally produced by a Theatre. The Kenneth More Theatre, so thank them for sparing you all. This was back in 1989 yes, 35 years ago, the play was written in 1988. So since then I'm more than good enough, as a writer. Anything else..... I also ignore those who just cannot write, pick your own candidate I tend to write Comedy as I'd rather make you laugh than cry I have written over 2000 short pieces of writing, yes 2000 " (c) by Michael Casey" If you include "chats" 5000 samples, all told, the chats do NOT go into my books when I compile them. My first book ,a full length comedy/drama is The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker You can read translations of it here on this site Up to 20 different languages/translations have been read on the same day via this site, here on Wordpress look fo Translations Galore page, and more And in over 167 Countries world wide too so you have no excuse, find your own language and read The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker or Quick Stories or any other of the books in Translation on my Wordpress This proves to me that the humour does travel I have readers in over 167 countries now, just to repeat myself From Nepal to American Samoa and all places North South East and West Or its just a hit man on the run, or whatever Unknown Region Means It may also mean that only non English Speakers like my stuff Coverage but lacking penetration as marketing folks might say I did get 21,000 readers in 3 weeks for the Polish version of In Search of an Indian Princess. which is basically the final 3 chapters of The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker all by word of mouth. And 50,000 plus in Christmas week 2021 If you add up all the downloads from my Wordpress + 13,000 when somebody stole the file. I have had more copies than Boris Johnson's Churchill book distributed. Maybe 40,000 copies . Not made a penny from it, free downloads in multiple languages. Reverse Logic, if the world knows me, eventually somebody will pay me But in reality I'll be dead first, and then just 2 pennies to pay the ferryman is enough I've cut the Plaudits, you can read/decide for yourself As for my life, I was born in the shadow of a Brewery, I was a computer operator for a market research company into alcohol sales, 21 years altogether, StatsMR Call centre guy, like everybody once in their life I was also a Trainee Betting Shop Manager I was a concierge and 10 other roles at Crowne Plaza NEC Birmingham for 3 years. Spent 3 years at Pinsent Masons Law firm in Birmingham I even hid a copy of my comic novel "BBU" in the Law Library at Pinsent Masons, well just for a day.. I did a few other jobs too, working life in reverse so to speak and I was an Esol English teacher in an Islamic school, for a year, I knew I could teach. I got Excellent, Excellent and Exemplary on the external assessment, yes really And I asked them to pray for me at least once a day beside which I've had a Shanghai connection for 20+ years now, including 2 bilingual daughters and being a hausfrau a long time too, I'm a great dad, as I've had lots of time with my daughters I can always make somebody talk or laugh I believe my short stories could be used to teach English, just package them up correctly or App them Or a Tale a Day from Michael, a story telling App What else, I was brawn and brains, I used to be as strong as an Ox, now I just smell like one We have a cat called Totoro, my daughters wanted a pet I said they could have a dog if I died , or a cat if I had a heart attack. A few weeks after that in Jan 2015 I had an Unplanned Quadruple Heart Bypass , it was supposed to be a triple but it ended up a Quadruple, 33% extra free so to speak. Now with an add on Hernia, the size of your fist, pushing through my bypass scar, it hurts when I laugh, so don't make me laugh I also have arthritis and other hindrances that hobble my body and give me pain galore. But my mind is free, though having read my stories you may wish I didn't bother But I'll ignore you, and carry on regardless. I do get heckled by my own Tinnitus these past 5 years+, so I have music on all night long to drown it out. I sleep with Miley, Taylor, Eric Clapton and Will Young, maybe I should buy a bigger bed, or just get a better mattress. Tinnitus is a curse, just trust me I know, each day I wake up, Tinnitus SCREAMS at me for a full hour till it calms down or not at all, a merry go around of noise That's the end of the tidy version of my life To finish here's the list of my 20 books, so far:- 1.The Butcher The Baker and The Undertaker 2.Shoplife 3.Essays and Plays 4.Blogs 2011 5.300 and Not OUT 6.Shorts 2013 7.More Shorts 2014 8.Quick Stories 9.Still Alive 2015 10.Undiscovered Words 2016 11.Still Smiling 2017 12.Altogether Now 13.New Horizons 14.14 Up 15.15 Down 16.Sweet Sixteen 17. 17 Again 18. 18 New Views 19. The Final Cut of the 19th Hole 20. 2020 Words 21. Fresh Fields, i decided was a better title, when the USA election is over I'll launch it 96,000 words so far I write bullet point stuff mainly now as Tinnitus stops me from getting in the zone to write, story stories. (c) by Michael Casey stuff though my bullet points are better than some "writers" discuss, miaow. That's why I dream of a speed typist, so I could dictate from the sofa https://www.amazon.co.uk/Michael-Casey/e/B00571G0YC to buy ebooks Loads of Korean and Arabic translations downloaded from my Wordpress, 1000s of them Quick Stories in Korean is a big hit. Maybe Kim in North Korea should read my books, instead of wasting his countries resources on what? Just keeping one person in power, him? Instead of joining the real world and opening a string on golf courses. That way we could get rid of Trump too. Into the sunset, as they play golf. Tears for a Butcher will be the sequel to BBU, and it too will be 600pages, however I really need a speed typist to put it down, while I sit and dictate like Barbara Cartland, and hopefully my speed typist would be impressed. we'd marry have half Korean kids, and form a Kpop band with our 4 new kids, with me as manager. my 2 daughters are at University now, so if you finally pay me, I can pass it on to them And yes this is more for my bucket list, as Tinnitus keeps me awake too much, 6 months of not sleeping till dawn is really killing me, it is the worse thing in my life ever, and I've had far to many horrible things. That's why I go the other direction and write comedy Michael Casey aka the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England https://2.gravatar.com/avatar/efda2dca0de5b9269191b7c8b0102473?s=400&d=mm View all posts by michaelgcasey
Brazil I bow down you
in a night a village worth or readers
what's going on
Did you click on me by mistake
or is it the Abuelitas with Ritas and Rosaries
Gorillas on the March
I have no idea
its stretching my imagination
or is it Zuckerberg wearing my Reeboks
to break them in for me
Then I can walk in my own shoes
or maybe he'll walk in mine
Not unless its Sting with a CD up his nose
Please tell me
The sound of my Tinnitus
is like being in hell
again and again
each time I wake up
I'm in the oven of noise that is Tinnitus
when all I want is the sound of silence
or somebody wanting Tomato Soup
in the Middle of the Night
COBOL that Zuckerberg
AI AI AI AI what's that flying saucer in the sky
another dream house, closer to a pub, so I never have to cook my own dinner again
it is so obvious, anybody can cut and paste. But thinking is learning
I’ve been playing with AI to TEST it, to see the QUALITY of its MIND
But I write for myself always. And AI does need a TUTOR
and kids need to learn Logic and how to THINK
By Daniel Lawler
AFP-JIJI
Jul 3, 2025
Listen to this article
4 min
Paris –
When Jocelyn Leitzinger had her university students write about times in their lives when they had witnessed discrimination, she noticed that a woman named Sally was the victim in many of the stories.
“It was very clear that ChatGPT had decided this is a common woman’s name,” said Leitzinger, who teaches an undergraduate class on business and society at the University of Illinois in Chicago. “They weren’t even coming up with their own anecdotal stories about their own lives,” she said.
Leitzinger estimated that around half of her 180 students used ChatGPT inappropriately at some point last semester — including when writing about the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI), which she called both “ironic” and “mind-boggling.”
So she was not surprised by recent research that suggested students who use ChatGPT to write essays engage in less critical thinking.
The preprint study, which has not been peer-reviewed, was shared widely online and clearly struck a chord with some frustrated educators.
The team of MIT researchers behind the paper have received more than 3,000 emails from teachers of all stripes since it was published online last month, according to lead author Nataliya Kosmyna.
For the small study, 54 adult students from the greater Boston area were split into three groups. One group used ChatGPT to write 20-minute essays, one used a search engine, and the final group had to make do with only their brains.
The researchers used EEG devices to measure the brain activity of the students, and two teachers marked the essays.
The ChatGPT users scored significantly worse than the brain-only group on all levels. The EEG showed that different areas of their brains connected to each other less often.
And more than 80% of the ChatGPT group could not quote anything from the essay they had just written, compared to around 10% of the other two groups.
By the third session, the ChatGPT group appeared to be mostly focused on copying and pasting.
The teachers said they could easily spot the “soulless” ChatGPT essays because they had good grammar and structure but lacked creativity, personality and insight.
However Kosmyna pushed back against media reports claiming the paper showed that using ChatGPT made people lazier or more stupid.
She pointed to the fourth session, when the brain-only group used ChatGPT to write their essay and displayed even higher levels of neural connectivity.
Kosmyna emphasized it was too early to draw conclusions from the study’s small sample size but called for more research into how AI tools could be used more carefully to help learning.
Ashley Juavinett, a neuroscientist at the University of California San Diego who was not involved in the research, criticized some “off base” headlines that wrongly extrapolated from the preprint.
“This paper does not contain enough evidence nor the methodological rigor to make any claims about the neural impact of using LLMs (large language models such as ChatGPT) on our brains,” she said.
Leitzinger said the research reflected how she had seen student essays change since ChatGPT was released in 2022, as both spelling errors and authentic insight became less common.
Sometimes students do not even change the font when they copy and paste from ChatGPT, she said.
But Leitzinger called for empathy for students, saying they can get confused when the use of AI is being encouraged by universities in some classes but banned in others.
The usefulness of new AI tools is sometimes compared to the introduction of calculators, which required educators to change their ways.
But Leitzinger worried that students do not need to know anything about a subject before pasting their essay question into ChatGPT, skipping several important steps in the process of learning.
A student at a British university in his early 20s who wanted to remain anonymous said he found ChatGPT was a useful tool for compiling lecture notes, searching the internet and generating ideas.
“I think that using ChatGPT to write your work for you is not right because it’s not what you’re supposed to be at university for,” he said.
The problem goes beyond high school and university students.
Academic journals are struggling to cope with a massive influx of AI-generated scientific papers. Book publishing is also not immune, with one startup planning to pump out 8,000 AI-written books a year.
“Writing is thinking, thinking is writing, and when we eliminate that process, what does that mean for thinking?” Leitzinger asked.
The Band is Back together
my big daughter is home
so I have a full house of daughters
even a female cat
it's Thursday and tomorrow is 4th of July
not that it means anything to me
I'm in Birmingham
in ENGLAND
the original Birmingham
and OZZIE OSBORNE is back
for his Farewell Concern
and 20 years ago I was in a hotel room with his wife
Trying to connect the wifi
so there you go
will they name drop me
Michael Casey the fat silver haired writer in shades from Birmingham England
And 47 years ago I worked on Smallbrook Queensway above Superfi
near the Crown Pub where there used to be public toilets
and the Underpass was the most dangerous place in Birmingham
But I was a gorilla with a Rosary even back then
Birmingham has Bullocks
my crowne plaza nec look, Sharon Ozborne and Will Young do you remember me
of course not
Miracles Happen
read padre pio and me by Michael Casey
for the one or two I got
Now today we need Trump's Lie the big beautiful one to FAIL
sadly the GOP are afraid of him
and put their own jobs in front of the People
so a miracle of sorts is needed there
1984 and Animal Farm live long and Prosper in USA today
so we have the sad spectacle in slow motion
as USA crashes and burns its Values
heads up i will write a new new story tomorrow, hopefully subject to tinnitus etc my readers everywhere my mark zuckerberg impersonation