(Yesterday at 12:12 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: These Texas residents voted for Trump. The Trump administration is now seizing their private property to construct a border wall. They are not happy and are promising a reckoning for the GOP in November.

At 8:15
"It seems like it's about money and greed and corruption."

"The blading and the bulldozing and the trenching is symbolic of the political graves that are being dug. This is gonna shake Texas up in the midterms. There's gonna be a lot of regret for what Greg Abbott allowed. Midterms can't get here fast enough."

That's what they get for voting in The Leopards Seizing Peoples' Property Party.

Boru

Donald Trump Jr.’s Bahamas Wedding Was Secretly Bankrolled by Russian Oligarch Close to Putin

Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch close to President Vladimir Putin footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and interviews with three people familiar with the event. The oligarch paid to rent out one of the private islands, where a reception was held and where guests slept. He also covered other big-ticket items, like the fireworks show, and his team helped plan the event. Kremlev is the head of the International Boxing Association, a scandal-plagued sports group that has been financed by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The wedding payments came from an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai that the boxing association uses for financial transactions.

Kremlev’s previously unreported relationship with Trump Jr. represents an extraordinary development: a member of Putin’s circle financially supporting the president’s son and gaining intimate access to the Trump family. For a decade, Putin’s government, regarded as a chief adversary of the U.S., has been accused of efforts to influence American elections. Attempts by Russia to make inroads with the Trumps before the 2016 election exploded into controversy that dogged much of the president’s first term.

National security experts expressed alarm at Trump Jr. accepting the oligarch’s largesse, saying it raised an urgent question: What motivated Kremlev to spend a fortune cultivating the connection?

“If I’m paying for your wedding, at some point, you’re going to owe me something,” said Frank Montoya Jr., a retired career FBI official who held senior counterintelligence roles. Oligarchs like Kremlev often act in coordination with the Russian government.

In the days leading up to Trump Jr.’s wedding, Kremlev was in China as part of the delegation accompanying Putin, according to Chinese state media. The month before, Putin had bestowed him with a state honor, the Order of Friendship. The Ukrainian government has imposed sanctions on Kremlev personally, citing his closeness to Putin and Russian security services.

https://www.propublica.org/article/donal...mlev-putin

Well shit, I bet a bunch of people facing bankruptcy and mortgage default would be thrilled to know that all they have to do is paint a big t on their front door.

What an idiot.

Is the proposed AI slowdown a precursor to the AI bubble bursting?

(Yesterday at 12:02 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Is the proposed AI slowdown a precursor to the AI bubble bursting?

I think it's a vain attempt to stop the burst that will, at best (for them) delay it a bit.

The real questions are how bad will it be, and what will be left in the aftermath.

It's going to have to produce some actual product or service worth 3 trillion dollars just to have been a breakeven proposal. Bigger than apollo, more than the interstate highway system. Microsoft is all in despite publicly acknowledging that it has produced no value. Meanwhile, the big players keep arranging pump and dumps.

(Yesterday at 1:31 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's going to have to produce some actual product or service worth 3 trillion dollars just to have been a breakeven proposal.  Bigger than apollo, more than the interstate highway system. Microsoft is all in despite publicly acknowledging that it has produced no value.  Meanwhile, the big players keep arranging pump and dumps.

Things will change with military contracts. There's little limit on what they could charge the Pentagon for special-purpose models.

Maybe...I guess I like to push those out of mind because of early experiences with those systems (and a strong ideological objection to their use in that way). We used to worry that the semi-autonomous strike drones would mistake us for the bad guys..and not for no reason. Nobody worries about that anymore, per se.... it's just an accepted risk. Not something that might happen, a thing that does happen. Turns out facepaint and camo fucks with recognition for the same reasons that brown skin does. Just wasn't trained on it.