https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/nov/26/far-right-weaponising-ai-generated-content-europe
Brave new world. If you’re seeing what you want to be seeing, maybe… it’s AI?
«Smith asked U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to dismiss the election-related case “without prejudice” — a legal term that means the case could theoretically be brought again in the future.»
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/25/jack-smith-drops-case-trump-election-00191514
Well… I guess we’ll see, in four years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/business/thyssenkrupp-job-cuts-germany.html
I see the decision to mothball nuclear power plants and depend on Russian natural gas is going well.
How many of these people voted for Trump? Dunno, but here’s a quote from the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2018:
«“Donald Trump is president of the United States and he’s the man many of them voted for,” Rodger told Bloomberg.»
I’m sure they’ll be happy to hire laborers who will be less able to resist poor treatment. I hope the next administration makes a point of tracking down the worst offenders and squashing them like bugs. I hope they look down the road and see it coming.
I don’t think we’re gonna make it. Time to start buying land somewhere safer. Not hurricane territory, not forest-fire territory, not flood zones. Maybe avoid tornados, too?
Hmmm I wonder how many these companies there are floating around: https://climatecheck.com/. And, for each one, what the blend of scam and actual value is.
https://www.wral.com/news/local/north-carolina-solar-energy-challenges-2024/
BUILD. A. NUKE.
START NOW.
(Maybe check out the supply chain for solar. How much Uighur blood & tears is too much?)
Message from the Deep South: save your bacon fat. Put it in a jar in the fridge. You’re welcome.
(Does everybody know this already?)
https://gizmodo.com/china-wiretaps-americans-in-worst-hack-in-our-nations-history-2000528424
«Incredibly, Warner says the hackers are still inside the U.S. system and there’s no obvious way to get them out that doesn’t involve physically replacing old equipment, according to Warner.»
My ex used to work for Nortel, back-applying machine-language patches to older versions of the software running on switches, and I remember hearing mention of the LEAF, Law Enforcement Access Field.
The doomsayers were correct. We opened a backdoor in our own systems and hostile actors took advantage. (At least we didn’t pass Clipper.)
Stupidity in action….
As a teacher of 3rd graders (which I’m not, so this is hypothetical), I wonder how I could supplement this from, say, Islam, Buddhism, writings by atheists.
Things like “care for the stranger among you,” and bits about false prophecy, remembering one’s worth, ….
Really, opportunity abounds. If you want me to teach morality, I *will*.
I just bet there’s a curriculum, if only potential.
New Interpreter’s Study Bible notes: «“Guest room” should be read instead of the NRSV’s inn. Luke’s reference is to a peasant house in which family and animals slept on different levels in the same enclosed space—in this case, to a home of family or friends that was so overcrowded that the baby would have been placed in a feeding trough.»
Honestly, so many glorious opportunities for deconstruction and actual history here. Field trip to a farm!
