THE PRESIDENTIAL SIGNING ACT, A MODEST PROPOSAL: The signing of the following documents by the President must be witnessed as described below in order to be enacted: Laws, Treaties, and Pardons. The witnesses shall consist of at least one Senator, one Congressman, and one Supreme Court Justice, and at least three US Citizens chosen at random. This is to prevent any future autopen-type scandals and shenanigans. This would increase the public’s sense of participation, and pump up the hoopla and trappings of democracy (a sticky trap for Democrats). I would hope that the tradition would become picking the three random citizens from the White House tour pool. Discuss. Am I missing anything? Executive orders? FYI, Amendments to the Constitution do not require presidential signatures.
BREAKING — DC BEGINS CLEARING HOMELESS ENCAMPMENTS: Long-term, hardcore homeless people are often drug addicted, mentally ill, and violent, and they shit on the sidewalks. Apparently they were given notice that removal was coming. It is unclear whether they were offered transport and intake to an appropriate facility. They often refuse shelter because shelters have no intoxicants and no pets policies. Many of these people will simply walk into Maryland and Virginia, neither of which needs more homeless. We really, really, really need to bring back the poor houses; no treatment, just safety and subsistence, with an exit strategy and offer of help for those who actually want it.
NO, I WANT THEM RUN THROUGH THE STREETS OF DC AT MIDNIGHT: But I’d settle for this: In response to a question from a reporter, President Donald Trump agreed with a proposal that journalists should consider going on “ride-alongs” with Metropolitan Police Department officers on patrol, daring them to witness firsthand the harsh reality on the street of our nation’s capital. But I’ll settle for ride-alongs. I’d love to see Karoline Leavitt open a presser by handing out ride-along request forms and requiring the journos to hand in their forms before taking their questions.
NYT DREAMS OF US MILITARY COUP: While this shameful editorial (link to archive because NYT paywalls) stops ust short of actually calling for a coup, these two deep-state apparatchiks certainly want the US Military to question and resist orders from the commander in chief, while calling DC street crime “illusory.” Unfortunately, though we (and others) had hoped that the military would only respond to calls to action in American cities and states kicking and screaming, we no longer expect resistance from that institution. […] The danger of escalation is real. Soldiers and Marines are trained for combat, not constabulary duty and riot control. I’ll leave it to my military veteran readers (yes, even Coasties) to comment on this last assertion.
BUT PPL WILL DIE!!1! Associated Press has a sad that the Trump administration axes FEMA Youth Preparedness Council. Note that their poster child, one Ashton Dolce, seems to equate disaster preparedness and relief with “keep[ing] people safe from climate change.” FEMA has always had a reputation as a turkey farm, and bullshit like this is certainly something that can be cut from the federal budget. This kid wants to do disaster preparedness and relief? He can certainly do that without federal tax dollars. Learn CPR. Become a Boy Scout. Volunteer with the Red Cross. Learn Search and Rescue. But AP reveals the real issue with this delicious money quote: “The administration is basically just giving young people the middle finger on climate change.” Well, not just young people. Hahahaha…
We’d be vastly better off is everyone just started picturing climate scare mongers the same way we view other end of the world prophets. Crazy bedraggled smelly dudes in dirty robes with a sign reading “Repent, The End is Nigh!” It’s what they are after all.
I thought the End was only Nigh on Ass Wednesdays.
Yep. But the climate alarmists have “the science” behind them. And rather than asking individuals to repent, these people want society to repent. As with many other things it’s a core group of truly evil people who hate us and want to make us miserable, and they inevitably attract an army of true believer followers from the large population of naive do-gooders.
You don’t see them that way already?
I see them like I do any other street preacher, minister, or bum.
That’s a bit harsh on bums, fucks sake they are simply trying to hustle up enough spare change for a
sammichbottle of MadDog. Good salt of the earth people, just down on their luck. There but for the grace….“The administration is basically just giving young people the middle finger on climate change.”
Fuck off, commies.
Sadly, this shit won’t end as long as “young people” can count on basking in the adulation they receive from following all the “right” causes.
One — that wouldn’t be “random” (my first thought was how you would stage the DC vacations these random folks would be receiving from random America to do this). Two — you can bet that if you do establish something like this can be the pool… said pool will be stacked with cronies if there’s any benefit.
So — a compliant Senator, a compliant Congresscritter, a beholden Nazgul and 3 lobbyists pretending to be on the tour that day… that could be manipulated.
Specify they must be of the opposing party or a mix maybe?
Opposing party? What color is the sky in your world?
They are just there to witness a pen in the President’s hand hitting the paper. I really don’t see this as subject to gaming or a source of big benefits. The Rep, the Senator, and the Justice are overkill, IMO.
Clicked too soon.
They aren’t there to do a competency exam, just witness a signature.
We really, really, really need to bring back the poor houses
That’s how we compete with the Chinese.
Well, if they use teenage convicts to pick the crops in California, we regain a whole genre of films not seen since the 1950s…
It’s a musical and a sexploitation film!
Get that man a Hollywood contract, before Netflix finds out!
The poor house would probably help. Millions of Americans have been priced out of honest work and a lot of wind up addicted to drugs now instead of doing anything productive. The Dems don’t give a shit what they are doing or where they are camping as long as they remain dependents of the state.
OT – I know his humor isn’t your thing, but Superfast Matt came close to making a record at Bonneville. Not bad for a garage build and relatively low budget. He’s got a reasonable shot of getting everything sorted for his next attempt.
How Fast Is Superfast? Let’s Find Out.
He was there the same time Chris Raschke died and puts into perspective it’s not risk free.
I’m guessing Ashton Dolce has had more than a middle finger up his rectum.
All those things are actually useful to one degree or another, and as such require some individual agency and initiative. They also don’t get you the money and knob-polishing from the green organizations.
Never forget – it’s all about making people more dependent. The Progressive endgame is to rule over an army of drones.
an army of drones
All deceived into believing they will climb up the hierarchy of the Progressive leadership ladder.
A large green dildo?
I’m always here for the Tonio links!
Tonio links are fancy with all that pretty formatting and stuff.
Right???
Thanks for noticing. I do take pride in my links. This is not to slam anyone else; I have the luxury of time to work on them unlike morning linksters, and those with jobs, kids, etc.
WordPress needs to go die in a fire. I am unable to even with Gutenberg because I can’t seem to format shit the way I want it to work.
I have the Disable Gutenberg plugin on my site, but that’s a stopgap until I can move my sites to ClassicPress. Or maybe even HTMLy.
Hey thats my thing!
After Milley’s little stunt with the Chinese … who could blame them for thinking it?
It would be an interesting coup. On the coup side you’d have a bunch of guys with stars and eagles on their shoulders and whatever trannies haven’t been purged yet. On the loyalist side you’d have all the guys who still remember which end of the rifle points downrange.
The left wants chaos, blood in the streets, pogroms, etc. etc. This is just more of the same.
They have not changed one bit.
Hmmm. So we are going to just bumble forward by pretending Biden was president and everything enacted under ‘his’ admin was legit?
I am back to ‘put them all in fucking prison’.
No, I’m with Rand Paul. We need to test the pardons in court. But we need to proceed slowly and methodically.
But the Red Queen approach is so much more emotionally satisfying.
Some of the pardons, at least, had specified scopes. Schiff, for example, was pardoned for whatever crimes he committed in connection with the J6 committee. He has shown up in the Russiagate releases as a player there, and not a small one. His pardon wouldn’t cover that.
I dont have an answer to the homeless/dopehead/mental illness problem but I can say with confidence that what we are doing now is not it.
Everything we are doing now is just making it much worse.
Sometimes I marvel that there is still a core of regular people living regular lives out there, when there are so many forces arrayed against all of that.
I would give them access to all the free drugs they want, no Narcan. Fast turn over in the cottages. Treatment, in my opinion, is not a solution, since treatment is already available now and rejected.
Seems like buying fentanyl in quantity would be a lot cheaper than housing, food and janitorial work.
The regular people would be in and out quickly, since they would be looking for a job, etc.
And the deployment of troops to urban areas may provoke clashes with citizens who may be motivated to pick up a gun. Once shots are fired at military personnel, no matter where the shots come from, the administration will have the pretext it requires to tighten its grip using instruments of state control. This might sound far-fetched, but it can spin out of control.
Where is our modern day Geronimo?
You can’t use an AR-15 against a Minuteman III
But you absolutely can use an AR-15 against the guy with the Minuteman III launch authority…
EvilSheldon:
“The enemy cannot push a button if you disable his hand!”
Neph gets it. Asymmetric warfare is asymmetric. Position your own strong attacks against your opposition’s weak points, and vice versa.
For anyone who is into such things, Col. John Boyd’s Aerial Attack Study goes into great detail on this, specifically as applied to jet fighter combat. A link is available here: https://thetacticalprofessor.net/2018/04/27/updated-version-of-boyds-aerial-attack-study/
“We had to destroy the village to save it”
And again we find ourselves in topsy-turvy land, where just one year ago they were just hoping for one of those mouth-breathers to open fire so they could arrest everyone who ever voted wrong.
They want that so bad they can taste it.
Well, since the “citizens who may be motivated to pick up a gun” are most likely to be gangbangers, so . . . .
FYI, Amendments to the Constitution do not require presidential signatures.
But does require a veto proof ratification from Congress and then 3/4 of the states.
I thought Amendments could be done by Tweet now.
Presidents cannot veto either.
Unless you just meant the sheer amount of support one needs to pass
Sheer amount required makes the Executive moot on the actual process.
President can swing a lot of influence prior, but it wouldn’t matter about his concurrence at the point of signature.
Nah. The left have put out the narrative and talking points that there is no crime. It is at an all time low. People stroll leisurely around all of DC and they are safe. Hell, DC residents dont even lock their doors at night. A 16 yo girl in her skivvies can wander around alone at midnight and nothing at all will happen to her.
It is this kind of blatant, offensive lie that is why the party is a walking corpse. Let them keep going with it.
Somewhat related to your point.
Never forget – it’s all about making people more dependent. The Progressive endgame is to rule over an army of drones.
Learned helplessness is real.
I wonder if any of these NYT jerkoffs would have had the same complaint about Eisenhower using the National Guard to forcibly desegregate the schools in Little Rock?
Not sure if the NG relieved them, but those first on the ground were the 101st ABN.
You don’t even need to go back that far. Hasn’t the NG been deployed to restore order in cities experiencing riots?
The Watts riots in 1965, and the LA/Rodney King riots in 1992, for certain. That’s just off the top of my head.
Also, to prevent looting such as after floods and other disasters.
The NG was deployed in fucking DC 4 and a half years ago, in much greater numbers, and Nobody Who Matters complained then.
Yes, but then they were there to kill any nasty Republican protestors who annoyed Pelosi, not stop decent hardworking DC street thugs from innocent rape, robbery and murder.
I think most journalists should be sent down to Baltimore to get the ‘nickel ride’ in the paddy wagon. See Freddie Gray for reference.
Funny how shitty LE goes with shitty everything else in a city.
Dammit… now I want Mongolian Beef.
SDF-7:
Fucking Mongorians!
Soldiers and Marines are trained for combat, not constabulary duty and riot control.
Sure, if you ignore what we’ve actually been doing for the last 20+ years, then yes.
Also, the National Guard has a specific set of mission parameters, under title 32, to do that specific thing.
Thanks. That’s what I thought but didn’t have time to research.
The National Guard has no experience policing after natural disasters.
This kid wants to do disaster preparedness and relief? He can certainly do that without federal tax dollars. Learn CPR. Become a Boy Scout. Volunteer with the Red Cross. Learn Search and Rescue.
Learn useful skills and support yourself without expecting big Nanny to pick up the tab? That’s crazy talk.
All of those, with some skilful maneuvering, are also near cost free.
Trump is a god damn retard except when he needs to point out how stupid his opposition is.
Seems like every day he tries to see what he can get them to come out against, and every day those idiots take the bait.
Easy countered measured response would have been “we welcome the FedGov funding and support that DOGE and lawmakers on the Hill have stripped from cities”
Nope….”everything is fine!” Is the response
I will say it again, they have zero knowledge of politics. Hell, I can come up with a decent counter-message in 5 minutes.
Well, it is retards all the way down. (Except for the occasional psychopath)
WHERE MY CAKE!!!!!
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/08/trump-announces-massive-social-security-cleanup-275000-illegal/
I’d rather it be eliminated.
“People will die”!!!
But you can’t be taken seriously – in any political sense – with just saying eliminated. Old people receive benefits and old people vote more reliably than younger people.
Yeesh, that IS retarded. None of those 120-year-olds are collecting a check. And while it’s great to remove any illegals from the list, that is going to delay the whole thing falling apart by, what, a week?
“None of those 120 year olds are collecting a check”
Are you sure of that?
“Trump is a god damn retard”
We still need to see how it plays out, but he’s actually gotten off to a very strong start, IMO, on a lot of things.
Just imagine if Congress wasn’t spineless and corrupt, what could be done . . . .
https://x.com/GuntherEagleman/status/1956063962551771425
Goddamn. More of this!!!!!!
https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1956084683244233019
Mad DEI hire.
LOL.
“They decided they were going to come and
thumb their nose in front of the governor’s facehighlight that we’re subverting federal laws and enforce them instead!”I love her impotent rage. There’s not a thing she can do about this and she knows it. I wonder if she’s dumb enough to push her luck and get arrested?
That little commie cockroach used to go party with the Castros back in the day.
Well, that is pretty much what I voted for.
Im torn between the militarization of fedgov and taking care of business
Fair point. And I wonder how they know who is an illegal in those settings. On the other hand, when the Dems refuse to cooperate even when criminals are released from jail, I’m not sure what the alternatives are.
And while Greasy was in there ranting and raving about “restoring democracy”, Gutfeld made the point that the Dems are offering literally nothing but grabbing power. They have no other ideas.
And their party is being taken over by actual commies. 😂
I had a nice surprise today. Mrs. TOK is missing our Kid Who Doesn’t Talk To Us ™ because she’ll be 25 Monday. This afternoon that same kid texted me out of the blue for a half hour. I even got her address so we can send birthday cards. No idea if she still has irrational anger toward Mom, but I’ll take this bit of progress.
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25? Sounds like about the right age to be amazed at how much old Mom and Dad have suddenly learned over the past 10 years…
Here’s hoping there’s some mended fences in your future. Is this Cult Girl, or a different problem child?
Let us hope so, though she is still with the controlling asshole boyfriend. This was different kid. To review:
Oldest = Cult Girl
Middle = Doesn’t Talk to Family
Youngest = Navy Wife
So the oldest and the youngest got roped into cults, huh?
Kidding!
So she doesn’t talk to you because her abuser has isolated or brainwashed her?
So the oldest and the youngest got roped into cults, huh?
I don’t think any of them are into Crossfit.
That’s excellent news! I hope it plays out positively.
Glad she’s talking to you again.
[insert long ranty post about my 22yo daughter’s attitude here]
Awesome news, TOK!
TOK, I’ve seen my daughter go through the emotional rejection by her three daughters. The two youngest each now have a child and they are back communicating with their mom.
My daughter doesn’t remember how she turned on me, I ignored it and a couple years later she changed her mind and I was OK again. Two divorces has given her a lot of insight into life. She’ll be here for HH, doing what she does best. Did I mention that for a shy little girl she grew up to be someone who is very animated.
Great news!
Soldiers trained for combat?
Kinda.
The vast majority of us wernt really trained for much at all.
If you have ever gone camping, put up a tent, and sighted in a rifle you have as much training as going through army basic.
It’s all OTJ training.
Like being a teacher.
Cant train for combat in modern times.
Drone blows you up on the shitter
Wars are still won/lost on the ground.
Lost, underground.
None of it’s pretty.
I’m sure this feels like the advent of the crossbow and the cannon. https://funker530.com/video/fiber-optic-penetrates-deep-into-russian-bunker
Swiss was kind enough to post this on Monday. I could really use some initial orders and reviews to get the ball rolling, so if you know any aviation nerds, please pass this along (or buy ’em a gift, you cheapskate!)
https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThrustworthyDesigns
Heh…nice. Didnt see this before.
Oh, that’s you? Nice.
I should have known. I was just the other day looking at the pics we took at SXM…
The first time I saw that I read it as A.V. Geeks and didn’t get it.
Now I get it.
Goddamn. More of this!!!!!!
Seeing those pussies in masks pisses me off. Any time you see an armed person in a mask it should be fire at will.
Even if they have a steenken badge?
I don’t like it either.
And I really don’t like agreeing with the fucking Dems on any issue.
Right out of the gate;
After a few frightening incidents seeing family and friends collapse in Phoenix’s grueling heat, Ashton Dolce, 17, began to wonder why his country’s leaders were not doing more to keep people safe from climate change.
“I was just dumbfounded,” Dolce said.
You mispronounced “retarded”.
Just 10 years ago Phoenix had a very mild climate like Seattle.
Everyone knows the Valley of the Sun was a comfortable 70° Fahrenheit year round before we angered Gaia by burning her life’s blood!
I rode my bike home from work the day it hit 122 at PHX.
Ima say this kid hasn’t witnessed multiple incidents of family and friends collapsing in the heat. Even in Southern AZ, it’s just not that common.
‘Witnessed multiple incidents of family and friends,’ is probably shorthand for, ‘I read about it happening to someone on Twitter’.
ima say you are correct.
Did you see this link I posted the other day?
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HN5khjeF23M
Worse liars…watermelons or gun grabbers?
What we used to know as the Dog Days of summer, in the ’40s-’50s, was really the haze from Canadian wildfires. Now with better communications we see the same thing but know the origin of the smoke.
Today is wind from the south very nice, clean air.
Not that common before the mRNA shots…
Thanks for taking one for the team.
I’m not reading that tripe.
I do wonder if gullible dopes like this look back on their dopey politics with any shame after 40 years or so.
NPR reading. As usual China and Japan are playing games with plenty of blame going all around.
New details emerge about Japan’s notorious WWII germ warfare program
More or less because they are in some kind of diplomatic talks. At the end I was again reminded how with COVID how little the U.S. government has changed.
Our intelligence people, doing a job we’d string them up for if we knew all of the details!
I’m shocked that NPR is tackling something other than the current horror of living in the United States.
I can see why Elon was frustratred but also not understanding most of the electorate is frustrated but very willing to keep the status quo.
most of the electorate is frustrated
Most? Some, only some. Most voted for the same Congress-critters they’ve voted for for the last couple of decades.
They are frustrated with other people’s Congressmen.
Ima say this kid hasn’t witnessed multiple incidents of family and friends collapsing in the heat. Even in Southern AZ, it’s just not that common.
I going out on a limb, here, but i don’t think his family is exactly broke. Maybe falling asleep poolside counts as heat prostration.
1970s Texas – At Six Flags every time I went somebody collapsed in line from the heat. There was a special cool down lounge with water for when you dropped, right in front of the medical facility at the front gate.
Seeing TOK’s update, made me think of posting this:
My daughter started 4th grade today. Since its a Montessori school, that means she is now in a 4th-6th classroom. She was in the same classroom with the same teacher than last three years (lower elementary 1st-3rd). So she has gone from being in a class with 1st graders to being in a class with 6th graders.
Fourth thru sixth…yeah, I am expecting some interesting conversations shortly.
Do share with us how you explain the WNBA to her.
Cutie Colleague and I had a fun day lightly chatting, but my approach today was subpar. Nothing overt nor atrocious, but she mentioned she her boyfriend, in what I perceive to have been a formulaic play.
She 80-20% *has* one, as she’s certainly striking enough to have plenty of suitors, and I can easily imagine that gets tiresome. (I’d have a standard failsafe excuse, too. *shrug*) She doesn’t draw you in with her curves (I’ll happily feed her the food she should be eating), but has something about her face. Hrm. But she’s the first person at work to have a non-work personality reveal itself in some way.
Matthew Boyd made one big mistake, but was otherwise damn impressive, as usual, in our 2-1 loss to the Blue Jays. Our offense was the best in baseball for much of the season, but we’ve just gone dead the last few weeks. About every player’s in a slump. Nico Hoerner isn’t, but he’s a singles-hitter and a damn good second baseman.
I got a hair cut yesterday and along with the ‘vertical’ scar I’ve had buzzed in for a while on the top of my head, I added one in the back, more of a crescent. Oddly, both very understated in their own way. I strongly approve. Coming to work with four inches of hair chopped off certainly sparked some comments, though nothing about the scars. I’m sure that must be awkward and I careth not.
You want to be in a throuple?
I want to know how you find a Sri Lankan in Carmel, In.
Some folk created a page on Facebook, “Cool Carmel Singles,” for folk to put info out. It gets posts, but not an urgent community. She was just a gal that got in contact, and actually initiated the first date set-up, though we were both on the same page.
Remarkably soft-spoken, as she admitted. Quite cute. I did my best to let her speak the majority, but she didn’t always play ball, as it were. I had fun, though it’s also my first date in two years, but I highly doubt there’ll be a sequel.
Looking back on my girlfriends and more, I seem to have a distinct preference for Indian and ‘Mesopotamian’ brown girls, Mediterranean /Middle Eastern. The Indian makes the most ‘sense,’ cuz I’ve largely dated legal students from those groups. That mindset kinda jives, one way or another, methinks. Culture matters.
“You want to be in a throuple?”
Sure. Why do I give a damn? I foresee no problems that could possibly arise. Surely, people do that sort of thing all the time. (Is that *wrong?* Should I not do that? I gotta say. Gonna plead ignorance here!)
If she initiated the first date, she doesn’t have a boyfriend.
Obligatory (NSFW): https://youtu.be/AqDbb7-dn9A
That made me chuckle several times. Fairly accurate depiction of all world history, there.
I ask again, what are we all going to do when humans are unemployable?
I can also see why people in various professions are upset. This is, in my mind, clearly intellectual property theft? Stealing people’s images (actors) and using them in AI created movies? Whatever it is called, that is a problem.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/V1zwxup00Yk
Thoughts?
We’re a long way off from that time. We were supposed to have shorter work hours by this time but more schooling and longer life meaning a longer retirement front and back loaded our free time. Maybe more time off from work in some fashion. If we do get to the point where we could sit in a hammock and have all our physical needs cared for without any need for human intervention I can see some sort of status games being played to occupy the human minds.
Yeah, using AI actors is something that is now doable and likely cheaper than actually hiring the person. I’d like to think the Hollywood IP folks would have addressed this by now, but not that I know of.
Speaking of that cesspit, I’m personally upset that writing is about top on the list of ‘replaceable jobs.’ Unless you’re the first to find and report on a story, AI can piece everything together for a ‘novel’ publication on whatever-site.
More importantly, I’m deeply concerned with the ongoing and accelerated endumbening of our species. Comfort directly leads to complacence and lethargy. Not sure ‘the solution’ to it all is, but I imagine a decisive event will occur to make the wave crest. No idea how it’ll fall, and I’m confident things will be mostly-ok in the short-term, but that froth’s gonna have to burst in some way, at some point.
These euphemisms keep pulsing, urging to burst forth with their precious fluid. (“Almost sexual isn’t it, Smithers?” “Um. Yeah.”)
I saw a Sabine Hossenfelder video the other day. She predicted AI will be blahblahblah by the end of 2027. I thought ‘wait a minute I just saw a report that they are already doing that’. So I went back and looked…yeah they had just achieved…whatever it was. I go back to the Sabine video to see when she posted the video.
20 hours prior.
ChatGPT 4.0 just got released. Before we get used to that it will be v.5.0
The industry is telling us they stopped making predictions more than two weeks out.
I think y’all are wrong. We will see soon enough.
And Doc…it’s not gonna be all hammocks and mai tai’s . We are gonna have a rough bump to get over first.
The LLM maximumists have been saying a lot of things, most of them wrong (IMO). Based on the earliest predictions, we were already supposed to be at gAI. Instead, what we have is LLMs creating text chains that have a high probability of being comprehensible. They do not think, they can not solve problems, and they can’t even do tasks that should be immediately in their wheelhouse.
I had an image I wanted to use as an avatar on a site with a series of restrictions (pixel height and width, max file size, and file format). I could jump through the hoops converting it myself, but then I thought “This seems like something an LLM should be able to do simply.” Tried it with Gemini, after three attempts, it could not get a single of the criteria correct.
To put it simply: LLMs are very good at summarizing the status of a long running ticket with a lot of notes; LLMs are very, very, very bad at saying what the next step should be in troubleshooting the problem described in the ticket.
(Source: The company I work for is pushing LLMs into everything, and they’re all garbage at doing things like not
hallucinatingmaking shit up that sounds good.)If you know exactly what you want, they can be a useful coworker.
For a while I’ve been thinking, “I should learn how to write a JSON Schema for this complicated YAML file I maintain” but. Learning JSON Schema definitions for something I’d rarely do didn’t seem like a gd use of my time.
Claude generated a JSON Schema for the file in a couple of minutes and, within the hour, I had incorporated it into the pre-deployment sanity checking script.
That sort of assist is a big win.
I’m not worried about it putting me out of a job, though. It wouldn’t know what to do, but was good at the specific task I gave it.
Suthen, I’ve got a name for you – Marvin Minsky. The original AI hype artist.
Yes, it works well with that sort of thing.
Which is kind of amusing because a simple Google search used to at least help with finding someone who has solved the problem before Google and the rest enshittified.
Anything with a clear set of inputs, outputs, and rules for turning inputs into outputs can be automated.
AI starts getting into using a collection of suggestions to convert inputs into outputs. It’s a probabilities game. Sometimes the results are great; sometimes terrible.
AI cannot think, or reason, or create. Images, music, words, and etc. that are produced by AI are not created. The are assembled in the form of some vastly intricate collage. But it is not new. And for a huge chunk of “creative” industries that js good enough for most of what they do.
AI will put many, many people out of work. But it will not replace all human work.
“what are we all going to do when humans are unemployable?”
Get rid of them, of course. How else can we achieve the population level the Georgia Guidestones recommended>
Artificial General Intelligence isn’t even on the horizon. We can’t even electronically emulate a flatworm’s nervous system.
Without AGI, robotics is just Industrial Revolution v 2.1.
I’m not worried.
Even if they have a steenken badge?
Especially if they have a steenken badge.
I ask again, what are we all going to do when humans are unemployable?
Not gonna happen, so I don’t waste my time thinking about it.
From what I’ve seen, “AI” is just the new buzzword.
For example, I was just reading about a new system for aircraft safety and it mentioned something like, “all of the inputs from the sensors will go to an AI” and I’m thinking, “hasn’t MODICON been doing that very thing for the last 60 years?”
Maybe I’m just full of bunk. I’ve never needed AI and, to my knowledge, have never used AI.
I may be wrong. We will see.
Late ’90’s I went to every business in Shreveport, Monroe, Alexandria and various towns in between. I told them the internet was going to be the future of commerce, they should get in now. Unanimous reply was “That will never happen”
That’s because it was Shreveport.
Usurper
The mayors of those cities — all of whom are Black and Democrats — have pushed back against Trump in recent days, pointing to data that shows crime is down in their communities.
“I think it’s very notable that each and every one of the cities called out by the president has a Black mayor, and most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime,” Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott told CNN. “The president could learn from us instead of throwing things at us.”
Oakland, Calif., Mayor Barbara Lee and New York City Mayor Eric Adams have declared they will not allow federal law enforcement to take over their cities.
Are we talking crime, or reported crime? At some point, it’s not worth the bother.
Commies gonna commie.
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“most of those cities are seeing historic lows in violent crime” This is objectively not true at all. It is lower than the 90s, but much higher than most of this century.
Listening to Joe Rogan and he and a comedian (Joe DeRosa) I don’t know were talking about crack and it led to Hunter. Joe pulled up a clip of Hunter describing it, though not wanting to speak too much to not go into “euphoric reminiscence” and the *way* Hunter spoke was interesting. Joe said what I about agree with, in the interview Hunter was obviously sober, but he isn’t “dumb.” Intelligent way of speaking, though I do imagine he knows very little of the actual facts and numbers he peddles when using the ‘sound-goodery’ so often used. He was taught to be an obedient latchkey, and I can see how that would fuck one up. He was an eager, drugged-out pawn in Game of Life. (His response to Melania’s legal threat with that simple “Fuck that.” Was that real? I kinda love it but shouldn’t.)
I did coke pretty regularly for a few years, and I did add some to make “coke smokes.” That’s a solid hit, and I can see how real crack would intensify that. I’ve technically smoked meth, once at a friendly get-together. A lightbulb was used. Groggy and unpleasant. I didn’t have any fun with it. Good.
The guy who supplied it was a high school friend who later was on Ru Paul’s Drag Race. I’d like to give his full name, but I don’t wanna doxx involving this story, cuz his birth certificate pretty much nailed his character as a casting name. Gayest man in the county, and it wasn’t even goddamn close. Damn. My smokes lit just being *adjacent* to him.
“We’re not going to allow a military occupation of the city,” Lee told ABC7. “This is part of [Trump’s] effort to dismantle democracy, to militarize cities where people live, which he does not recognize, understand or see.”
I bet there is a substantial segment of the population of Oakland who would be gladly willing to trade your performative “democracy” for a little peace and quiet.
Big mouths with no interest, vile snakes,
No mention of all the times CHP has come in to save Oakland from itself, either.
Ill say it now, cops are pussys, they tal a lot of cop shit to intimidate you but speak law and they wilt, pussies
Modern cops
I had a great day golfing today.But a lot of stupid shit moves that pissed me off.Dumb cop moves dumb.People moves dumb human moves.I’m glad I made it home