Ta, Marcie. I have no powers to wish AOT, K, into the cornfield. I'd like to slap across the face everyone who didn't vote in '24, but I don't have that power, either.
There's the rub! Birds are like... a virus. Like a particle. Birds are still the word, but they're also a figment of our imagination.
But, where did this concept, "bird," even come from? Are we or the "birds" part of an AI simulation? Are we part of an experiment to determine whether Dr. Schrödinger's "bird" is alive or dead?
How can something that isn't real be alive or dead!!??
I have worked as a writer within the adult entertainment industry, including porn, for decades. We saw this coming years ago but folks thought we were over reacting, of course. A friend is doing a lot with AI porn and it's amazing... but it needs to have boundaries.
AI is not the problem here, that's just the tool. The problem is the power structures. As you build the pyramid higher and wider, at some point a moron is going to reach the top and do a lot of damage. If there were less high pyramids and a lot more small pyramids (or just single story buildings), then it doesn't matter as much if a moron reaches the top. Hierarchy without a perfect leader selection system will always result in dictatorship. There is a chance that a culture of decentralisation can prevent that, but generally speaking you have to oppose power centralisation all over the place. And yes, that definitely includes companies.
For it to be unconstitutional, a court would have to rule it's unconstitutional, and the bill makes it against the law for the court to rule it's unconstitutional.
Come one folks, say the word: EVIL. Enough of this, my fellow libs. Enough of "gosh! We can't say the E word, that's a (gasp) choke) value judgement!" Like hell we can’t. Still have nightmares where you’re back in pomo philosophy class where Mister So-And-So says, “harumph! Give me a definition of evil, young sir, and I shall consider it forthwith…”? Well dig him up, because here it is. A whole administration of vile grinning, stupid psychotics whose daily lives define evil.
"AI ... making things up between 3 to 27 percent of the time"?
Hahahaha! That would be a big improvement over the current administration's performance so far, in which they've made things up almost ALL of the time.
Has the parliamentarian ruled that reconciliation is out of order?
This sort of thing is impossible to find just by reading the daily newsfeeds. Because no one thinks to ask, no one cares when the GOP just ignores the ruling. "What's a parliamentarian? Does that even matter?"
I think the parliamentarian would have to score the entire 1000 page bill, which s/he hasn’t done since AFAIK it either doesn’t fully exist or it’s still smudgy from the printer.
All true. I did read or listen to a podcast about the senate plan to disregard any parliamentary rules that would preclude them from passing the OBBA with a simple majority, their precious filibuster momentarily forgotten. But I’m optimistic the senate will spit out large chunks of this sausage regardless. There’s a not-small chance they never get a budget passed that both houses will approve.
I think he can, because I vaguely remember Biden considering firing the parliamentarian. But I don’t know why they’d bother. The parliamentarian has no enforcement authority.
"Courts have so far ruled against the administration 177 times: firings, department dismantlings, budget freezes, birthright citizenship, DOGE, the environment, press access, deporting people with no due process, etc., etc. All of those lawsuits would simply go away, and have to be re-filed in what would then be a clogged-to-the-gills federal court."
* Hey, who knows, maybe the 178th time will be the charm.
* A swamped Judiciary is, IMO, exactly what the Fulvous Fuckwad wants. If the courts are tied up readjudicating past cases then there won't be much time left to hold Mooseballs Mussolini accountable.
* In the short term, and maybe the long too, what the judiciary says or does is immaterial as long as the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus continues to jump the line and takes his loses to a tamed Roberts' SCOTUS -- which to date has basically said that democracy and the American way of life is secondary to appeasing the Pumpkin Pestilence.
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"This would legitimize DOGE’s ongoing deployment of an AI chainsaw inside of government systems"
Not quite. Only Grok will be used; ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, DeepSeek... will not be allowed (unless the DOGEbag-in-Chief buys a large enough stake in one or the other).
I'm so old that I can remember a time when Elon Musk signed onto a letter asking for a pause in AI development so that its potential impacts could be more carefully studied and weighed. Of course, I've aged a lot in the last two years.
So utterly infuriating. You can make it show you web results, but on iPhone that option is waaaay over to the right and you have to scroll over there every time you search something, there’s not an option for changing default search results. At least that’s what Google AI says.
"Thank you for your attention to this matter." Has officially entered the Wonkette vernacular.
There is very little in the way of the most unhinged ridiculous stupid ass shit That Monster spews that doesn't somehow get repeated by this here Nasty Vile Snark Mob.
This recent addition to PAB’s lexicon of meaningless phrases was copy-pasted from a letter demanding payment for one of his countless unpaid debts. He decided to delete “prompt” because it looked misspelled.
Thank you for your PROMPT attention to this matter.
Trump's camp learned their lesson from his first term. His evil was slowed by the sheer inertia of bureaucracy. But if you burn the bureaucracy down from the start, it can't stop you anymore.
Recently I was getting a Verizon wifi modem and the rep was trying to upsell me on a more expensive plan. His pitch was "Oh, you're a student? This one comes with AI that can write your papers for you!" He was 100% serious. (Also he wasn't listening when I said "I'm a doctor" I guess.)
Ta, Marcie. I have no powers to wish AOT, K, into the cornfield. I'd like to slap across the face everyone who didn't vote in '24, but I don't have that power, either.
All this just to discover that the cake is a lie and they made you euthanize your weighted companion cube for nothing.
Curse them and their AI.
All that and birds aren't real!? Can you believe this shit?
Does that mean they're not the word anymore?
There's the rub! Birds are like... a virus. Like a particle. Birds are still the word, but they're also a figment of our imagination.
But, where did this concept, "bird," even come from? Are we or the "birds" part of an AI simulation? Are we part of an experiment to determine whether Dr. Schrödinger's "bird" is alive or dead?
How can something that isn't real be alive or dead!!??
Maybe we're all only mostly dead after all.
I have worked as a writer within the adult entertainment industry, including porn, for decades. We saw this coming years ago but folks thought we were over reacting, of course. A friend is doing a lot with AI porn and it's amazing... but it needs to have boundaries.
AI is not the problem here, that's just the tool. The problem is the power structures. As you build the pyramid higher and wider, at some point a moron is going to reach the top and do a lot of damage. If there were less high pyramids and a lot more small pyramids (or just single story buildings), then it doesn't matter as much if a moron reaches the top. Hierarchy without a perfect leader selection system will always result in dictatorship. There is a chance that a culture of decentralisation can prevent that, but generally speaking you have to oppose power centralisation all over the place. And yes, that definitely includes companies.
I’m not a lawyer. Nor did I sleep in a Holiday Inn Express last night. However, it seems to me that all these provisions are UNKONSTITOOSHUNAL!
For it to be unconstitutional, a court would have to rule it's unconstitutional, and the bill makes it against the law for the court to rule it's unconstitutional.
Catch-22, baby!
"They’re terrible people!"
Come one folks, say the word: EVIL. Enough of this, my fellow libs. Enough of "gosh! We can't say the E word, that's a (gasp) choke) value judgement!" Like hell we can’t. Still have nightmares where you’re back in pomo philosophy class where Mister So-And-So says, “harumph! Give me a definition of evil, young sir, and I shall consider it forthwith…”? Well dig him up, because here it is. A whole administration of vile grinning, stupid psychotics whose daily lives define evil.
Porno philosophy class? This is a thing?
Pomo. Postmodern. Should have known where you Wonkers would go with that. And yes I would have gone to porno philosophy class had it existed.
I cum, therefore I am.
AI is just like Trump, it makes things up.
"AI ... making things up between 3 to 27 percent of the time"?
Hahahaha! That would be a big improvement over the current administration's performance so far, in which they've made things up almost ALL of the time.
Well, all my sphincters just slammed shut.
How can this possibly be eligible to pass by reconciliation? Seriously.
Ignore the parliamentarian. That’s the plan.
Has the parliamentarian ruled that reconciliation is out of order?
This sort of thing is impossible to find just by reading the daily newsfeeds. Because no one thinks to ask, no one cares when the GOP just ignores the ruling. "What's a parliamentarian? Does that even matter?"
I think the parliamentarian would have to score the entire 1000 page bill, which s/he hasn’t done since AFAIK it either doesn’t fully exist or it’s still smudgy from the printer.
The tax cuts they want to make permanent were enacted in a bill that had changes scribbled in the margins.
All true. I did read or listen to a podcast about the senate plan to disregard any parliamentary rules that would preclude them from passing the OBBA with a simple majority, their precious filibuster momentarily forgotten. But I’m optimistic the senate will spit out large chunks of this sausage regardless. There’s a not-small chance they never get a budget passed that both houses will approve.
PAB is pressuring Thune to fire the Senate Parliament. I have no idea if he can actually do that.Then again, neither does PAB.
I think he can, because I vaguely remember Biden considering firing the parliamentarian. But I don’t know why they’d bother. The parliamentarian has no enforcement authority.
"Courts have so far ruled against the administration 177 times: firings, department dismantlings, budget freezes, birthright citizenship, DOGE, the environment, press access, deporting people with no due process, etc., etc. All of those lawsuits would simply go away, and have to be re-filed in what would then be a clogged-to-the-gills federal court."
* Hey, who knows, maybe the 178th time will be the charm.
* A swamped Judiciary is, IMO, exactly what the Fulvous Fuckwad wants. If the courts are tied up readjudicating past cases then there won't be much time left to hold Mooseballs Mussolini accountable.
* In the short term, and maybe the long too, what the judiciary says or does is immaterial as long as the Amber Ardipithecus ramidus continues to jump the line and takes his loses to a tamed Roberts' SCOTUS -- which to date has basically said that democracy and the American way of life is secondary to appeasing the Pumpkin Pestilence.
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"This would legitimize DOGE’s ongoing deployment of an AI chainsaw inside of government systems"
Not quite. Only Grok will be used; ChatGPT, Claude, Bard, DeepSeek... will not be allowed (unless the DOGEbag-in-Chief buys a large enough stake in one or the other).
fnord
It is the Big Bad Bill that KILLS!
I'm so old that I can remember a time when Elon Musk signed onto a letter asking for a pause in AI development so that its potential impacts could be more carefully studied and weighed. Of course, I've aged a lot in the last two years.
Idiot Google AI keeps showing up as the first response to any query and at the bottom of it's summary are the words:
'AI responses may include mistakes.'
Let's not badmouth Google. I got a call just today from Google Investments wanting to buy my house.
The interest is appreciated.
Not as much as your house will appreciate.
So utterly infuriating. You can make it show you web results, but on iPhone that option is waaaay over to the right and you have to scroll over there every time you search something, there’s not an option for changing default search results. At least that’s what Google AI says.
My first experience of Google AI was to ask for examples of arias from *contemporary* opera. It gave me Verdi and Puccini in response.
To quote the fool from Lear, "Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."
"Thank you for your attention to this matter." Has officially entered the Wonkette vernacular.
There is very little in the way of the most unhinged ridiculous stupid ass shit That Monster spews that doesn't somehow get repeated by this here Nasty Vile Snark Mob.
This recent addition to PAB’s lexicon of meaningless phrases was copy-pasted from a letter demanding payment for one of his countless unpaid debts. He decided to delete “prompt” because it looked misspelled.
Thank you for your PROMPT attention to this matter.
Trump's camp learned their lesson from his first term. His evil was slowed by the sheer inertia of bureaucracy. But if you burn the bureaucracy down from the start, it can't stop you anymore.
Hey Chatbot, is SCOTUS willing to eliminate itself?
They kinda already did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_v._United_States
Recently I was getting a Verizon wifi modem and the rep was trying to upsell me on a more expensive plan. His pitch was "Oh, you're a student? This one comes with AI that can write your papers for you!" He was 100% serious. (Also he wasn't listening when I said "I'm a doctor" I guess.)
I feel bad for people who used to make money writing papers for college students. I was one of those people.