See: Zohran Mandani, Katie Wilson…

Next could be Nithya Raman?

Guess what, self-described "good Christian"s of America, you’re going to get kicked out of the in-group as soon as it’s convenient for the MAGA Republican party.

The next vendor contract will say “shot detector is for entertainment purposes only”.

Like it or not, it’s the Government of Canada’s official position: “It’s your responsibility to know and abide by local laws.”.

AI can be a useful tool no doubt and has cool and harmful applications. But let’s not be delusional about it and anthropomorphize AI. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t go rogue. It’s a non-deterministic phrase guessing algorithm. I’ve tried chatbots, thing generators, had a friend try coding tools, ran my own models, and I find parts of it impressive and useful in some respects, but at this moment, I don’t really buy the narrative that it’s going to change everything or fix the limitations I see with transformers-based AI models. The best description of it I heard was a lossy compression algorithm, it can take a lot of knowledge and compress it but there are artifacts, hallucinations and weird stuff sometimes coming out the other end.

I’m not against AI itself per se, but I’m very much against the bubble hype-cycle, techbros being locked into a strange belief that pumping money into this thing forever is somehow going to go take over the world on its own volition. On the contrary, my understanding is corporate greed and capitalism is already accomplishing that - firing the workers, concentrating wealth and controlling the world - no matter how much AI is cited as the reason for any of that.

We have mayors and folks courting GEO group to run private prison and detention camps in their town…

They know it’s depressing and immoral but they rationalize it to themselves because they know it brings lots of high paying jobs with low educational requirements and activity to their region.

Data centers on the other hand are only take and no give. There aren’t many local staff needed, it doesn’t require that much cleaning and security that don’t pay that well, the one or two high paying jobs are specialized and shipped from another state probably, the construction companies are likely to be mostly from outside the county, and the center will be a draw on local resources to serve AI workloads everywhere else in the world.

The Trump admin would appoint Marco Rubio as Screwworm Czar, that nametag placed amongst his many others:

https://rubiomuseum.com/

Clearly it’s not being received well but unfortunately governments do put the onus on individuals to proactively do their research before travelling, whether you think that’s reasonable or not. Definitely easy to forget or overlook if you’re not used to travelling.

In Canada, here is official government information related to travelling abroad with medication.

Near the end it reads:

Understand that you’re subject to the laws of any country you’re visiting:

• It’s your responsibility to know and abide by local laws.
• Being a Canadian citizen does not protect you from prosecution, and consular officials can’t get you out of jail.

https://www.sierraclub.org/coal/how-trump-admin-giving-your-money-away-fossil-fuel-companies

The Trump admin has also paid to date $338M of Americans’ money to keep coal fired electricity generation plants running, some of which are broken down through the duration of the so-called “emergency”. Yet the Republican-controlled Congress hasn’t lifted a finger to stop Trump for an expense that’s triple the amount here.

Shhh, he’s busy negotiating with Iran while at the same time telling architects how beautiful his Epstein ballroom needs to be… in his dreams.

Yield signs reported to be sympathizing with Hamas forces through use of upsidedown red triangle.

Well there’s an authoritarian regime in the US right now, frequently ignoring the Constitution in their actions. Look at what good their Second Amendment is doing currently in response to that - largely nothing outside of a handful of minor incidents and one pre-election close call in Butler, PA.

Is there a strike fund? A strike fund might even pay these detainees more than their slave wages.

FIFA: Proud Cease-and-Desister of Spinal Cord Injury B.C.

Don’t worry, he’s now relegated to being put on other conservatives’ shows as a “gaydar” instrument, with multiple people like Glenn Beck asking him if James Talarico is gay.

I read it as Zuckerberg wants to Zuck your business dry.

A Project 2029 cannot be a collection of Democratic Party agenda items. It must articulate a broad new conception of the nation’s political order — one that will guide the way a future Democratic-led government might wield power. Above all, Democrats must have a plan for reconstruction — for building something new on the wreckage of what President Trump, MAGA and the Republican Party have wrought — not restoration of what was.

The whole article puts eloquent prose to the thoughts in my head (looking from outside the US) as to what the USA needs to recover post-Trump; it’s more than striving to going back to normal.

The issue is that centrist Democratic voices have been kind of developing their vision by committee over any aims to make it cohesive and comprehensive. In my view the plan has to recognize and tackle these three things:

• Internal complacency within the Democratic party to do good things for people rather than just talk about them
• Reforming the outdated systems that simply relied on trust that the system wouldn’t corrupt itself or overlook corruption.
• Fixing the destruction caused by the Trump administration, then taking steps to prevent a cult like Congress and a bought-and-paid-for judiciary to surrender the republic to the executive.

The important thing is you can’t grandfather in the corruption while you fix it.

Do mods provide support for new planets and new enemy types? I think that would make the modding scene expanding the game by a lot in the same way the Space Exploration mod did pre-Space Age.

To clarify, AI companies charging the cost that would make the inference profitable for them, against the operating costs and financing costs on new capital expenditures (new data centres, new compute and new model training*), is more than what most people appear to be willing to pay. That cost is indeed more than just the cost of inference incurred by the AI company.

*(I’m being generous and including model training as capex for the sake of argument, even if I personally think to continue the hypetrain, continuous model improvements are core to AI companies’ operation.)

Oops. Now that users are being to made to pay something closer to the true cost of AI inference, no one will like using it anymore. Could this be what ultimately sets off the bubble *collapse?