So after that massive power outage in Spain a few weeks back, I’ve been wondering a lot if we’re going to be seeing many blackouts and examples of our own power grids mysteriously being attacked during heat waves over the summer? Followed by no real answer about what happened, except maybe vaguely blamed on “Russians?”

Seems like a tactic this administration would use in order to crush dissent.

Well of course they did. What better way to show you’re above the law than to arrest judges and remove the people that exist to investigate your corruption?

I think it could be life changing, but true progress will take time, like any tech. There’s a reason most scientists know you can’t just throw money at something and just make it work. That’s why technocracy and the idea of chosen elite is so fucking dumb.

Imagine if in the 80s we had just said ok, Steve Jobs did it. We’re done here. We don’t give any outside voices or ideas in tech a chance unless Jobs gives it the ok first. Imagine how much cool shit we would have missed out on if people hadn’t just said fuck it I don’t need all that money, I’ll just make my own shit and make it work with what I have.

Innovation and progress does not flourish in a neatly controlled box, and most people that don’t just buy other people’s work know that. That’s the real reason people started pushing for DEI. Not just bc it was the “PC” thing to do. It helps bring new perspectives which then leads to new ways of thinking and problem solving.

If you completely isolate AI you may get some cool shit but eventually if you just buy out the entire market to fit your singular vision you get repeating/boring and stale.

I’m pretty sure they think they’re at a point where if they just keep throwing money at it, it will just start getting creative and update itself, but when it’s as unreliable as it is, I don’t see that happening anytime soon

I’m not saying I believe its important, the president believes it’s important bc Thiel has been funding him and making policy decisions since his first term, most people (myself included) just didn’t notice it until the second one.

The first time, he tried to promote AI deregulation while insisting we would retain American values that helped us be better than China’s surveillance state, but then Trump lost power and Thiel lost 4 years of progress at the global AI table because of those values (democracy and the constitution). Now that he’s gotten his seat back he’s not going to risk ever letting it go. IF he ever intended to try to maintain or respect those values before, he certainly doesn’t now.

That is why the truth behind Trump/JD Vance/Adrian Vermeule’s argument for a constitutional interpretation of strong executive authority needs to be made loud and clear.

I cannot comprehend how anyone who is not already a billionaire could be dumb enough to support this, but let’s just be honest about what you’re supporting.

Bc you’re paying attention and not sticking your head in the sand.

It feels like it bc they definitely are. I’m in Louisiana and just woke up to find out news my corrupt Governor is being accused of scheming to install a new senator so that he can then have them resign and take both Senate and governor seats for himself.

Report: President Trump and Gov Landry discuss U.S. Rep Julia Letlow as a potential challenger to Senator Cassidy in 2026 Republican primary

One of several examples of how Landry and Trump seem to be scheming together to be as corrupt as possible

Even for Louisiana that’s a whole other level of corruption…not even the first Louisiana governor to do it, but the last one was in the 30s.

The last governor that was this blatant about corruption also had a personal vendetta against my city and tried to take it under siege using the national guard

Guess what else the current governor and his doge inspired task force are scheming

Same! We moved to a place with well water when I was ~5 and my parents made me use the fluoride rinse

I hated it bc it was like an extra step, but I was literally the only kid in my school to never have cavities even though I would try to skip brushing all the time. And yeah you called it with the executive dysfunction, but didn’t find out I had ADHD until I was an adult

Lol you read my mind

it was an automatic response and then as soon as I hit enter I was like… Nah better delete. Part of me regrets it but easier than having to explain it if somebody hadn’t seen the scene and took it the wrong way

I agree, and as I keep trying to point out to people in the U.S., I’m pretty sure the reason Trump is not even giving GOP loyalists emergency disaster money when something happens in their state, is because there’s nothing left.

He literally put all of America’s eggs in one basket because he (and Peter Thiel) thought/think if they just deregulate everything and keep throwing money at it as fast as possible they will win, and other countries will be coming to us to buy our AI.

Tbf they are definitely planning to use it for evil, not to make humanity better, but I still don’t see why anybody would buy AI tech from the U.S.

I am wondering what happened in Brussels though, that made them say they’re considering some deregulation.

Trump was also very pissy at all of the EU but apparently Brussels in particular really hurt his ego

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Somehow this was never really picked up on/reported after Trump’s first term, but I try to spread this information as much as I can.

Trump’s CTO during his first term, was Peter Thiel’s protege. In March of 2020, Trump asked him to use cutting edge technology to fight COVID disinformation and track the spread of the virus before it got out of hand.

That’s also the guy he picked for his fucking science advisor this time around, and now he’s asked him to “blaze a trail,” for U.S. tech supremacy.

From the 2020 Hill article

The White House on Wednesday asked the tech industry’s top players to help the government in the fight against coronavirus, tapping the expertise of companies like Apple, Facebook and Amazon to help beat back falsehoods and use artificial intelligence to glean new insights into the fast-spreading virus.

In a phone call, U.S. Chief Technology Officer Michael Kratsios implored the companies to help out with an “all-hands-on-deck effort” to fight the new coronavirus.

“The White House’s top priority is ensuring the safety and health of the American people amid the COVID-19 outbreak,” Kratsios said in a statement. “Cutting edge technology companies and major online platforms will play a critical role in this all-hands-on-deck effort.”

Of course they fucking did. These shit bags have been planning this since Trump’s first administration.

My thoughts exactly.

Idk, you’ve been at this for a while, writing your own essay like a man on a mission.

If I said something offensive to you I’m sorry, but normally if people don’t like content they just keep scrolling to find something else they want to see instead of zeroing in on the one thing they don’t like.

Also, why this post and not any of the other trump posts that were posted before or since?

This whole interaction is kinda funny to me

It’s a microblog screen shot of an observation that might elicit a sensible chuckle from some individuals who are not oddly offended by what it says.

Not sure how you wound up here, but this community is

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, Twitter X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Why would anybody post a screenshot of a Microblog in a community that doesn’t even allow images? That’s crazy 🤣