Right, but it’s also Trump’s personal philosophy.

I don’t think Trump is even capable of considering a coherent ideology - his mind is just too scattershot and too self-absorbed for that.

Rather, I think that what happened is that after his first term. actual fascists like Stephen Miller and Russell Vought and Elon Musk saw Trump as a tool through which they could get what they wanted. They feed his ego-driven tantrums and he demands things because he’s a giant overgrown toddler, and not coincidentally his demands and tantrums align with the fascist agenda that Miller, Vought et al are pursuing.

Weird though it is I sometimes suspect just that.

The sinplest explanation is simply that he’s oblivious to hypocrisy because he’s so narcissistic and so sociopathic that he can’t conceive of any conflicts between his desires since they are all his desires and thus inherently perfect and beautiful, and he conceive of any interpretation of events other than his own.

But there are times, and this is one of them, in which his hypocrisy os so obvious and so brazen that it does feelbaomost deliberately.

And I can actually see it from a warped paychological perspective - basically, he’s demonstrating that niceties like integrity and principles are for the small folk, but as an inherently superior member of the legitimate ruling class, he’s above such things, and entirely free to be just as capricious and self-serving as he pleases. It’s basically an ego flex.

Harmful either way.

Thereby neatly proving that his war-mongering in Venezuela and his hatred for Maduro have nothing at all to do with narcotics.

So here’s how I see it:

Someone is goading/bribing Trump into acting so that they can take control of the Central and North American narcotics trade.

That’s why he pushed for invading Mexico to fight the cartels, and when that didn’t work out, he shifted to starting a war with Venezuela.

It’s obviously not a sincere effort to stop narcotics traffic, or he wouldn’t be pardoning Hernández. It’s much more likely that he’s pardoning Hernández because he either already is or is intended to be a well-connected and experienced ally to Trump and whoever it is that he’s working for/with.

No - actually that’s exactly what you voted for - you’re just too stupid and/or lazy and/or blinded by hate to realize that, or too dishonest to admit it.

Feeling a bit North Korea in here.

I’d say that calling what they do “hallucinating” is still falling prey to the most fundamental ongoing misperceptions/misrepresentations of them.

They cannot actually “hallucinate,” since they don’t actually perceive the data that’s poured into and out of them, much less possess any ability to interpret it either correctly or incorrectly.

They’re just gigantic databases programmed with a variety of ways in which to collate, order and regurgitate portions of that data. They have no awareness of what it is that they’re doing - they’re just ordering data based on rules and statistical likelihoods, and that rather obviously means that they can and will end up following language paths that, while likely internally coherent, will have drifted away from reality. That that ends up resembling a “hallucination” is just happenstance, since it doesn’t even arise from the same process as actual “hallucinations.”

And broadly I grow increasingly confident that virtually all of the current (and coming - I think things are going to get much worse) problems with “AI” in and of itself (as distinct from the ways in which it’s employed) are rooted in the fundamental misrepresentations, misinterpretations and misconceptions that are made about them, starting with the foundational one that they are or can be in any sense “intelligence.”

I think ATProtocol is doomed, so no.

Bluesky got too big too fast and has too many greedy corporate weasels already involved. For the time being, they’re pretending to actually prefer an open protocol, but I think that’s just a marketing ploy and it will never last. They’re going to EEE it sooner or later.

Well, y’know, except insofar as not providing it leads to death, which makes those other things irrelevant.

But other than that…

If they want to keep the government open, all they have to do is to agree not to take healthcare away from millions of poor Americans.

Yet they refuse.

We actually live in a world now in which the President of the United States explicitly states his intent to overtly violate the first amendment and the media just repeats it as if nothing of any note is going on.

I just think it’s funny that “AI” (which is “artificial intelligence” not in the sense of “human-made” but in the sense of “fake”) is contemperaneous with Trump.

This is going to go down in history (if humanity survives long enough) as the Idiot and Lunatic Age.

From what I’ve gleaned of the ravings of the angry stupid right blogosphere, a lot of people actually do think that only tree huggers want green energy.

And I have little doubt that that’s an opinion that Trump shares, but that’s not his main motivation in all of this. His main motivation is big fat bribes from the fossil fuel industry.

And thanks to Trump, the US is perfectly placed to be entirely left behind.

The more I think about it, the more confident I am that at least the basic outline is actually the truth - that “Big Balls” - entitled, sheltered 4channer that he undoubtedly is - got his ass kicked for being a racist dickhead and/or creepy pervert.

Okay - as of right now, I think there’s much more to this story that we haven’t been told and this is all damage control.

Like it wasn’t actually a carjacking at all, and instead, for instance, “Big Balls” tried to buy sex with one or the other or both of them, then when she/he/they not coincidentally refused, he went on a drunken racist tirade, so they kicked his ass.

You have it exactly and completely backwards.

Imagine:

Dave and Tom live on a desert island - just the two of them

Dave believes that all human beings have a right to life.

Tom does not - he believes that there can be no such thing.

Do either of them actually have, in a practical sense, a right to life?

The answer is yes - Tom has a right to life, because Dave has ceded it to him

It doesn’t matter how strongly Dave believes in a right to life - he himself will never in fact have one because the only person who’s in a position to respect it or violate it - Tom - doesn’t even recognize it.

However, it also doesn’t matter that Tom does not believe in a right to life - he does in fact have one, solely because Dave is the only person in a position to respect it or violate it, and Dave believes it exists.

Rights don’t exist when they’re claimed - they exist when they’re recognized and respected.

So Miranda has it exactly right and you have it exactly wrong - it’s not only not an accused criminal’s responsibility to lay claim to their rights - it’s functionally impossible for them to do so. The rights of an accused criminal "must* be stipulated by those who are in a position to violate them, because it’s only by their recognition of them and respect for them that they can be meaningfully said to exist at all.

And that’s also why an officer or an organization that will, if given the chance, ignore the rights of defendants must be stopped. By doing so, they are explicitly violating the trust that has been placed in them and demonstrating categorically that they cannot be allowed to wield that authority.

Spraking of cover-ups:

Someone Waived Ghislaine Maxwell’s Sex Offender Status to Move Her to a Minimum Security Camp in Texas

Yeaaaahhhh… no. I don’t think “stability” is really an accurate descriptor of what the Fed has done.

Their “stability” consists of following policies explicitly and deliberately designed to generate an ongoing transfer of wealth up the economic ladder, and using slanted and incomplete indicators like GDP to create the illusion that their policies are of benefit to the country as a whole.

I mean… yes, it is “stability” of a form- it’s akin to the stability necessary to build a house of cards.

But that stability is revealed to be a fleeting and ultimately ephemeral thing when the house of cards comes crashing down, as this one most assuredly will.

That said though, I do agree that this is theater.

Yes.

Data hoarders are going to really come into their own after the corporations start trying to paywall information - pretty much no matter what it is, there’s somebody out there who has it squirreled away on a drive.