pretend in this attention test that we’re counting what DODO spouts and the unseen gorilla is ellen and her musketeens:
The original, world-famous awareness test from Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. Get our new book, ** Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It ** available July 11, 2023. Learn more and order from Basic Books, Amazon, or your favorite local bookstore. For more information, go to https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit…
Anonymous
12 days ago
anonymous posted this last thread: “you should start writing thread starters BiD”
anon, that goes for you too as well as our other mixer friends. you can tell my well’s run a bit dry lately and new beginnings would be welcome and refreshing.
Well, I posted a lot of stuff yesterday about this fake theocracy Opus Dei (see misogynistic Chiefs kicker and political OAC created, Harrison Butker), and the 7 Mountains Mandate (adherents MAGAt Mike with his porn accountability app but zero bank accounts; Bawdy Boebert with her gunslinging Xmas cards -Elon will tell them it’s good to call it Xmas; and evangelical grifter and Journey groupie, Paula White-Cain) are setting up to control the masses er MAGAts.
What folks were not paying attention to on Super Bowl Sunday aka ~Gulf of America Day~ was Elon and his helper monkeys. MAGAt and Temu Barbie, Kristi Noem, called what Elon was doing an “audit.”
In my 35 years in a finance department, not once did the banks nor the companies we hired to do audits bring programmers.
Accountants do audits, not programmers! And calling these teen weasels programmers is being too generous. They are hackers, they are committing crimes, and the GOP Senators and Reps are letting them.
Since Congress created and funds agencies, they should revoke the EO that created DOGE and charge Elon and his team with many crimes…but they won’t. Republicans in Congress are the new Nazis, I believe they are called neo-Nazis.
I read something this weekend that claimed to be a German saying : If there are nine Nazis at a table, and one who simply sits down with them and says nothing, there are actually ten Nazis at that table.
Time to call your Senators/Rep, boycott Target and WalMart and other anti-DEI companies like Coca-Cola, and give businesses to small, local businesses and Costco. Buy nothing from anyone in the 28th and stay home if you can.
Craig – Everything rounds up to meet the nickel threshold. Retailers aren’t going to eat it and round down. It’s another tRUMP tax. By the way, I rarely saw anyone use cash in Dallas, but the Midwest is very different. Folks use cash and some even write checks. Weird.
I’m still stocking up on canned and dry goods. When the March budget deadline hits, it’s gonna be bad. (F)Elon declare war on average Americans on March 14th, but there is always the next day. Beware the Idse of March.
Canada got rid of its penny in 2013 because it cost 1.6 cents to produce and had, like its American cousin, become essentially worthless. Here is the most important detail to understand: Canada eliminated only its physical coin, not the mathematical concept of 1 cent. Payment by credit card, debit card, mobile phone or check — any kind of noncash transaction — is calculated exactly as it was before the penny was abolished. If, after tax, a bill comes to, say, $20.11, a Canadian paying by credit card will be charged $20.11. A Canadian paying by cash can expect to pay $20.10.
The final digit of Canadian cash transactions is rounded to the nearest nickel: 1 and 2, nearest to 0 nickels, round down to 0; 3 and 4 round up to a nickel — 5; 6 and 7, also nearest to one nickel, round down — 5 again; 8 and 9, nearest to 10 cents, round up. I admit that the thought I might be asked to pay, say, $3.80 (cash) for something that, according to the laws of God and man, has been calculated to cost $3.79 (cash) is not only reflexively infuriating to me but a potential source of permanent confusion. The Canadian government mitigated one of those problems (no hope for the other) with an information campaign that included signs with simple charts dividing potential prices into two columns: “Round down” and “Round up.” I asked Karl Littler from the Retail Council of Canada if there were still signs at cash registers explaining the rounding. “It’s 10 years now, so even the most obtuse people have pretty much figured it out,” he said, and laughed.
Within the UnitedStates, it is accepted that the Treasury Department will relentlessly flood the penny-sogged nation with nuisance pennies until Congress passes a law to stop it from doing so. But how could such legislation ever, reasonably, be proposed? Pennies are not even important relative to other American minor coins, let alone in comparison to, for instance, the rights of man. Vaporizing every single penny would have virtually no effect on the amount of money we have in circulation. They are worth so little that almost no one I approached — including representatives for the entities that make and distribute them — was able, or willing, to discuss them.
…While consulting Title 31 of the U.S. Code (to see how much annual penny minting was required by law), I came upon a statute outlining general instructions for the apportionment of American coins. “The Secretary of the Treasury shall,” Section 5111 reads, “mint and issue” denominations of coins “in amounts the Secretary decides are necessary to meet the needs of the United States.” I reread the sentence several times. Groping for a light switch in a bolted room, had my fingers brushed over the knob of an unlocked door? Amounts the Secretary decides are necessary. What if the secretary decided the amount of pennies necessary was zero?
I contacted Christine Desan, a Harvard law professor who specializes in the constitutional law of money. I asked what she made of Section 5111. “The way it reads to me as a lawyer,” Desan said, is that “there’s nothing in here that indicates the secretary has to issue them.” No one I interviewed had mentioned this statute. In fact, every news article, government report and congressional transcript I read — as well as every person I consulted, including former Mint directors — appeared to assume that penny production could not cease until Congress passed a law halting it. But if this interpretation was correct, no law was needed. Or rather, no new law: In passing the statute, a previous Congress — a very, very previous Congress, now confined to the realm of history — had already declared that pennies could stop any time a Treasury secretary wished them to.
“Canal threats, money-laundering claims and a hotel battle: Trump’s long, weird history with Panama”
In 2011, Trump and his business partners cut the ribbon on the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower, a 70-story, sail-shaped skyscraper that loomed large over Panama City and the Trump Organization itself.
Subsequent investigations from news outlets alleged that one of the main brokers who sold units in the tower, Alexandre Ventura Nogueira, met repeatedly with Ivanka Trump while working on the project and did business with organized crime figures who may have used the properties for money-laundering, earning the tower the nickname “Narco-a-Lago,” a play on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
In 2017, businessman Orestes Fintiklis bought hundreds of units inside the hotel-condo portion of the building for between $20m and $25m from one of the tower’s bankrupt developers, making him the controlling owner. He helped lead owners of units in the building in calls to sever their relationship with the Trump companies managing the development.
A Panamanian court eventually ruled in Fintiklis’s favor in the ownership dispute, and a workman pried the silver Trump name from the sign outside the Panama tower in 2018.
The tower is now a JW Marriott, but the Trump name is clearly not leaving the headlines in Panama any time soon.”
“What Was Kendrick Lamar’s Symbolic Message During Super Bowl Halftime Show?”
***This review missed so much: Likes them young/Epstein, marching in the streets, and the great American game isn’t football, etc. So, here’s the whole thing!
“Berezyuk uses many progressive methods of psychological rehabilitation. One of them is weaving therapy. Wounded soldiers and civilians push on four pedals of a loom, pull colorful threads, and count rows to create patterns. “The method shows impressive results with patients with concussions, brain injury, and depression, helping them to heal, to stay unbroken,” said Berezyuk, who is also an advocate of micro doses of antidepressants, even in extremely complicated cases.”
So the executive used the military to enforce court orders to desegregate schools in the south. What happens when the Executive is defying court orders, and the Secretary of Defense is an appointee of the Executive? How much destruction on the Civil Service can Trump do before it becomes impossible to recreate?
I enjoyed seeing Eagles win. My snack was Doritos dipped in a pizza-type sauce and to drink, Diet Sprite. It cost taxpayers upwards of $15,000,000 to get Drumph there.
Sprinkle Stuff
12 days ago
“How much destruction on the Civil Service can Trump do before it becomes impossible to recreate?”
that’s what conservatives are trying to figure out
“Early in his performance, Lamar speaks of “the revolution,” telling the audience that “The revolution is about to be televised; You picked the right time but the wrong guy.”
But Lamar’s “wrong guy” reference, some social media users speculated, was a direct attack on President Trump, who was in attendance Sunday.”
Adolf is obsessed with Taylor Swift. Creepy.
Notice how many distractions he’s spewing: Going to the Super Bowl, renaming the Gulf, killing the penny…meanwhile the coup continues.
It will take military intervention, at which point Elon and his helper monkeys fold and start whining.
That high intensity senator, Chuckie Schumer, wants to work with “republicans” and not shut down the government. We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis with a man-baby facist and his man-bably nazi playmate trying to destroy America and Chuck wants to make a budget. It is time for the Democratic senators to sideline him and get some spine in themselves.
I am done with the elders playing like there is nothing wrong going on. They need some vinegar in the veins, not warm milk. If there is a 2026 election I am not sure how to support the same old garbage..
“Farmers facing economic ruin after Trump backs away from grant ‘guarantees’: report”
“The key problem is programs like the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Rural Energy for America Program, initiatives managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and funded by former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.”
“Farmers who signed contracts with the Agriculture Department under those programs paid up front to build fencing, plant new crops and install renewable energy systems with guarantees that the federal government would issue grants and loan guarantees to cover at least part of their costs,” the report stated.
“Over the weekend, farmers reported that their funding remained frozen — another blow to farmers who are also facing threats of tariffs and freezes to foreign aid spending that involved food purchased from American producers,” the report stated.”
So, they’ll blame Biden.
Under Adolf, government contracts are worthless.
Elon Musk reportedly offers $97.4B for OpenAI, Sam Altman says ‘no thank you’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shot down an unsolicited offer by a group of investors led by Elon Musk on Monday to purchase the nonprofit that heads up OpenAI for $97.4 billion.
“No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” Altman wrote on X in an apparent response to the offer.
“ELon Musk’s AI, Grok, has some unflattering things to say about its creator when asked if he is a good person. For those not in the know about Grok it is a chatbot/AI feature for X (formerly Twitter) whose development team is called xAI.”
It speaks, for instance, of labor practices at Tesla, writing “There have been reports and lawsuits about working conditions at Tesla factories, including allegations of racism, unsafe working conditions, and unrealistic production demands leading to high employee turnover and stress.”
“It also cites his legal battles with the Securities and Exchange Commission and his settlement for securities fraud charges for his tweet about taking Tesla private for $420 per share.”
“It takes him to task for posts on his own social network as well, writing, “His tweets have led to market fluctuations, showing a disregard for the broader economic impact of his statements.”
“Elon Musk’s AI doesn’t stop there as it reportedly accuses him of spreading misinformation regarding vaccines, COVID-19, and other topics. Grok goes as far as to criticize Musk for political donations and inconsistent statements, along with an erratic management approach for Tesla and SpaceX. Grok seemingly is at some point still drawing from older data as it mentions Musk’s posts on Twitter have fueled various controversies but perhaps the AI simply isn’t happy with the name “X”.
Back in November, Charlie Warzel wrote at The Atlantic that Musk’s takeover of Twitter was a “blueprint” for “MAGA government.”
The sudden firings and disregard for regulations and employment law; the nakedly ideological character of the process; the unilateral lease terminations; the sudden RTO-as-attrition technique; the open hostility to current staff; the wild and immediate claims of uncovered fraud and scandal. That an email urging federal employees to accept a strangely worded buyoutlike offer shared its “fork in the road” subject line with a similar email sent to Twitter’s employees suggests a self-aware performance here — Musk wants the world to think he can do to the government what he did to Twitter. That some of what DOGE is up to is almost certainly illegal isn’t lost on him, either. He’s making it clear that he doesn’t care and that such laws shouldn’t apply to him anyway.
Employees considering accepting their “fork in the road” offer would do well to read up on the multiple lawsuits from Twitter employees who claim they were denied severance, as well Musk’s history of rooting around in internal systems to justify cutting people loose.
Lawmakers, regulators, and judges caught flat-footed by the Tesla guy threatening his way into federal offices and saying a bunch of deranged stuff, some of which you know to be untrue: Strap those eyeballs open and stare directly into the feed. Witness the fixations on the woke mind virus and the Great Replacement and immigrants eating pets. Notice that QAnon is back, all of a sudden. Read it like an aspirational legislative agenda or a docket, and note that he constantly speaks in apocalyptic terms; know, also, that people bet money on how many times a week he’ll post and that the currently favored range is between 650 and 674 times.
Last August, TheWall Street Journalreported that the $13 billion borrowed for Musk’s acquisition was “the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008-09 financial crisis.”
Providing coding assistance is one of the few early ways AI firms have figured out how to make real money, and they also invest a lot in acquiring or licensing nonpublic training data. Musk owns xAI, an OpenAI competitor that is mingled with X in the form of Grok. It’s raised a bunch of money, hired a bunch of talent, and made big steps to catch up with its more established competitors, including OpenAI, which Musk co-founded, split from, and has since been antagonizing. Every big AI company is hungry for data and losing money; even within that context, xAI has a lot of catching up to do, especially now that OpenAI is getting its first government contracts. You know what might help with all that? A vague, broad push for AI across the federal government spearheaded by people who have worked at Musk’s companies. Or maybe a right of first refusal for a wider range of tech and software contracts across agencies? Petabytes of government-sourced training data would be a bonus.
That the South African nazi thinks “artificial intelligence” is real says it all. He is stupid. He is drug addled. Just the other day I queried the various “AI’ products for a simple recipe – ‘I need a recipe for mushroom ketchup’. The data search would have created a nice amount of recipes. I went for the top three “AI” search programs. Each recipe was defective, missing ingredients, missing steps of how to go through the recipe, and finally, some amounts failed spectacularly. And, it was obvious there were some translations from non-English recipes that were really funny.
The results of my simple query were not worth the time I wrote it. Notice I refuse to add any human effects to the “AI” thing. The thing is not meeting the hype. At some point it will, but that is in the future.
If the South African nazi own twit site “AI” program cannot pop out a good mushroom ketchup recipe, it is not ready to run the U.S.A. federal government.
“Donald Trump Admits He Doesn’t See JD Vance As His Successor”
Baier noted that Vance would probably like to know where he stood with Trump by November next year, saying, “By the time we get to get to the midterms, [Vance] is going to be looking for an endorsement.”
However, Trump ignored that and instead pivoted to one of his favorite tactics for avoiding something he doesn’t want to speak on: praising himself.
“A lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening — almost three weeks — in the history of the presidency,” Trump said.
Opening? It’s just a fking show to Adolf.
Well, it has been a sh/t show.
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Sprinkle Stuff
12 days ago
“ The thing is not meeting the hype. At some point it will, but that is in the future.”
Sam Altman didn’t just turn down $100 billion because AI is bullshit
Elon wants Open AI because of the government contracts and potential for grabbing even more.
Read the links; there’s a lot of bad blood between them. Elon’s xAi (Gronk) isn’t up to snuff…but it does seem to be a good judge of character.
Sprinkle Stuff
12 days ago
i watched a Dr. Who from 1973 warning of the dangers of AI, libs still can’t figure out what the game is
had 50 years of warnings
you’re hipper than Dem leadership, BiD, you understand the challenges and resources needed, they sure AF don’t
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Sprinkle Stuff
12 days ago
my recommendation is taking a page out of the Republican playbook and primarying every sitting Democrat congressional representative possible
Just deleted Google maps. I’ve been checking to see if they would change the name of the Gulf if Mexico…and they did. They’ve also been removing DEI holiday from Google calendars.
Delete Google apps if you can.
Already ditched Google as a search engine, as it’s gotten increasingly worthless since late January.
There is a gulf between 99% of the population and the 1% at the top. That is the gulf of America.
pretend in this attention test that we’re counting what DODO spouts and the unseen gorilla is ellen and her musketeens:
The original, world-famous awareness test from Daniel Simons and Christopher Chabris. Get our new book, ** Nobody’s Fool: Why We Get Taken In and What We Can Do About It ** available July 11, 2023. Learn more and order from Basic Books, Amazon, or your favorite local bookstore. For more information, go to https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/tit…
anonymous posted this last thread:
“you should start writing thread starters BiD”
anon, that goes for you too as well as our other mixer friends. you can tell my well’s run a bit dry lately and new beginnings would be welcome and refreshing.
Thread starters always welcome. Thanks to PatD for leading the way.
TODAY: Rally to protest Trump attacks on Social Security
Where: SSA Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD
When: Monday, Feb. 10 at 12:30 PM
Where: 6401 Security Blvd., Woodlawn, Maryland 21207
Well, I posted a lot of stuff yesterday about this fake theocracy Opus Dei (see misogynistic Chiefs kicker and political OAC created, Harrison Butker), and the 7 Mountains Mandate (adherents MAGAt Mike with his porn accountability app but zero bank accounts; Bawdy Boebert with her gunslinging Xmas cards -Elon will tell them it’s good to call it Xmas; and evangelical grifter and Journey groupie, Paula White-Cain) are setting up to control the masses er MAGAts.
What folks were not paying attention to on Super Bowl Sunday aka ~Gulf of America Day~ was Elon and his helper monkeys. MAGAt and Temu Barbie, Kristi Noem, called what Elon was doing an “audit.”
In my 35 years in a finance department, not once did the banks nor the companies we hired to do audits bring programmers.
Accountants do audits, not programmers! And calling these teen weasels programmers is being too generous. They are hackers, they are committing crimes, and the GOP Senators and Reps are letting them.
Since Congress created and funds agencies, they should revoke the EO that created DOGE and charge Elon and his team with many crimes…but they won’t. Republicans in Congress are the new Nazis, I believe they are called neo-Nazis.
I read something this weekend that claimed to be a German saying : If there are nine Nazis at a table, and one who simply sits down with them and says nothing, there are actually ten Nazis at that table.
Time to call your Senators/Rep, boycott Target and WalMart and other anti-DEI companies like Coca-Cola, and give businesses to small, local businesses and Costco. Buy nothing from anyone in the 28th and stay home if you can.
Congrats to the Eagles!
All week long it was about the Chiefs 3-peat. I kept thinking…. if I was an Eagles player, I’d use that as fuel…. they obviously did.
BTW… I never mix sports and politics. I can’t stand how everything has become political lately.
Our lucky pre-game Taste of Philly cheesesteak did the trick.
Is this a dumb question? How do cashiers make change without pennies? This feels like a first step toward replacing our currency with Trump bit coins.
Craig – Everything rounds up to meet the nickel threshold. Retailers aren’t going to eat it and round down. It’s another tRUMP tax. By the way, I rarely saw anyone use cash in Dallas, but the Midwest is very different. Folks use cash and some even write checks. Weird.
I’m still stocking up on canned and dry goods. When the March budget deadline hits, it’s gonna be bad. (F)Elon declare war on average Americans on March 14th, but there is always the next day. Beware the Idse of March.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennies-united-states-economy.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennies-united-states-economy.html
It’s a dense and informative article but also an opinion piece.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/magazine/worthless-pennies-united-states-economy.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-panama-canal-hotel-lawsuit-history-b2669911.html
“Canal threats, money-laundering claims and a hotel battle: Trump’s long, weird history with Panama”
In 2011, Trump and his business partners cut the ribbon on the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower, a 70-story, sail-shaped skyscraper that loomed large over Panama City and the Trump Organization itself.
Subsequent investigations from news outlets alleged that one of the main brokers who sold units in the tower, Alexandre Ventura Nogueira, met repeatedly with Ivanka Trump while working on the project and did business with organized crime figures who may have used the properties for money-laundering, earning the tower the nickname “Narco-a-Lago,” a play on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.
In 2017, businessman Orestes Fintiklis bought hundreds of units inside the hotel-condo portion of the building for between $20m and $25m from one of the tower’s bankrupt developers, making him the controlling owner. He helped lead owners of units in the building in calls to sever their relationship with the Trump companies managing the development.
A Panamanian court eventually ruled in Fintiklis’s favor in the ownership dispute, and a workman pried the silver Trump name from the sign outside the Panama tower in 2018.
The tower is now a JW Marriott, but the Trump name is clearly not leaving the headlines in Panama any time soon.”
https://www.newsweek.com/kendrick-lamar-symbolic-message-super-bowl-halftime-show-2028856
“What Was Kendrick Lamar’s Symbolic Message During Super Bowl Halftime Show?”
***This review missed so much: Likes them young/Epstein, marching in the streets, and the great American game isn’t football, etc. So, here’s the whole thing!
https://www.nfl.com/videos/kendrick-lamar-s-full-apple-music-super-bowl-halftime-show
https://www.newsweek.com/kendrick-lamar-symbolic-message-super-bowl-halftime-show-2028856
“What Was Kendrick Lamar’s Symbolic Message During Super Bowl Halftime Show?”
***This review missed so much, so here’s the whole thing!
https://www.nfl.com/videos/kendrick-lamar-s-full-apple-music-super-bowl-halftime-show
Did Adolf leave early on taxpayer money?
RR-
https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-is-why-vladimir-putin-will-never-win-the-war-in-ukraine/
“Berezyuk uses many progressive methods of psychological rehabilitation. One of them is weaving therapy. Wounded soldiers and civilians push on four pedals of a loom, pull colorful threads, and count rows to create patterns. “The method shows impressive results with patients with concussions, brain injury, and depression, helping them to heal, to stay unbroken,” said Berezyuk, who is also an advocate of micro doses of antidepressants, even in extremely complicated cases.”
So the executive used the military to enforce court orders to desegregate schools in the south. What happens when the Executive is defying court orders, and the Secretary of Defense is an appointee of the Executive? How much destruction on the Civil Service can Trump do before it becomes impossible to recreate?
I enjoyed seeing Eagles win. My snack was Doritos dipped in a pizza-type sauce and to drink, Diet Sprite. It cost taxpayers upwards of $15,000,000 to get Drumph there.
“How much destruction on the Civil Service can Trump do before it becomes impossible to recreate?”
that’s what conservatives are trying to figure out
today’s meme…
Sprinks… my weaving is helping me stay sane in these times.
thanks for that post!
Just converted my Italian Sunday Sauce leftovers into a Baked Ziti for tonight
Steve Bannon to plead guilty to fraud charges for ‘We Build the Wall’ scam: report
https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-guilty-fraud/
Duh..When will everybody figure out they’re going to ignore the courts.
“Judge finds Trump administration violated court order halting funding freeze” https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/judge-finds-trump-administration-violated-court-order-halting-funding-rcna191528
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5135981-kendrick-lamar-super-bowl-halftime-performance-serena-williams-drake-not-like-us/
“Early in his performance, Lamar speaks of “the revolution,” telling the audience that “The revolution is about to be televised; You picked the right time but the wrong guy.”
But Lamar’s “wrong guy” reference, some social media users speculated, was a direct attack on President Trump, who was in attendance Sunday.”
https://www.eonline.com/news/1413269/president-donald-trump-mocks-taylor-swift-for-getting-booed-at-super-bowl-2025?cmpid=sn-syndicate-aolfeed-us-
Adolf is obsessed with Taylor Swift. Creepy.
Notice how many distractions he’s spewing: Going to the Super Bowl, renaming the Gulf, killing the penny…meanwhile the coup continues.
It will take military intervention, at which point Elon and his helper monkeys fold and start whining.
That high intensity senator, Chuckie Schumer, wants to work with “republicans” and not shut down the government. We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis with a man-baby facist and his man-bably nazi playmate trying to destroy America and Chuck wants to make a budget. It is time for the Democratic senators to sideline him and get some spine in themselves.
I am done with the elders playing like there is nothing wrong going on. They need some vinegar in the veins, not warm milk. If there is a 2026 election I am not sure how to support the same old garbage..
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-usda-farmers/
“Farmers facing economic ruin after Trump backs away from grant ‘guarantees’: report”
“The key problem is programs like the Environmental Quality Incentives Program and the Rural Energy for America Program, initiatives managed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and funded by former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.”
“Farmers who signed contracts with the Agriculture Department under those programs paid up front to build fencing, plant new crops and install renewable energy systems with guarantees that the federal government would issue grants and loan guarantees to cover at least part of their costs,” the report stated.
“Over the weekend, farmers reported that their funding remained frozen — another blow to farmers who are also facing threats of tariffs and freezes to foreign aid spending that involved food purchased from American producers,” the report stated.”
So, they’ll blame Biden.
Under Adolf, government contracts are worthless.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-reportedly-offers-974b-for-openai-sam-altman-says-no-thank-you-215634146.html
Elon Musk reportedly offers $97.4B for OpenAI, Sam Altman says ‘no thank you’
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman shot down an unsolicited offer by a group of investors led by Elon Musk on Monday to purchase the nonprofit that heads up OpenAI for $97.4 billion.
“No thank you, but we will buy Twitter for $9.74 billion if you want,” Altman wrote on X in an apparent response to the offer.
https://www.thefpsreview.com/2025/01/29/elon-musks-ai-repeatedly-answers-no-when-asked-if-the-tech-billionaire-is-a-good-person/
“ELon Musk’s AI, Grok, has some unflattering things to say about its creator when asked if he is a good person. For those not in the know about Grok it is a chatbot/AI feature for X (formerly Twitter) whose development team is called xAI.”
“Elon Musk’s AI doesn’t stop there as it reportedly accuses him of spreading misinformation regarding vaccines, COVID-19, and other topics. Grok goes as far as to criticize Musk for political donations and inconsistent statements, along with an erratic management approach for Tesla and SpaceX. Grok seemingly is at some point still drawing from older data as it mentions Musk’s posts on Twitter have fueled various controversies but perhaps the AI simply isn’t happy with the name “X”.
Ha!
Well, a penny for Trump’s thoughts would be greatly over-paying.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/elon-musks-doge-is-also-a-bailout-for-x-tesla-and-xai.html
Back in November, Charlie Warzel wrote at The Atlantic that Musk’s takeover of Twitter was a “blueprint” for “MAGA government.”
The sudden firings and disregard for regulations and employment law; the nakedly ideological character of the process; the unilateral lease terminations; the sudden RTO-as-attrition technique; the open hostility to current staff; the wild and immediate claims of uncovered fraud and scandal. That an email urging federal employees to accept a strangely worded buyoutlike offer shared its “fork in the road” subject line with a similar email sent to Twitter’s employees suggests a self-aware performance here — Musk wants the world to think he can do to the government what he did to Twitter. That some of what DOGE is up to is almost certainly illegal isn’t lost on him, either. He’s making it clear that he doesn’t care and that such laws shouldn’t apply to him anyway.
Employees considering accepting their “fork in the road” offer would do well to read up on the multiple lawsuits from Twitter employees who claim they were denied severance, as well Musk’s history of rooting around in internal systems to justify cutting people loose.
Lawmakers, regulators, and judges caught flat-footed by the Tesla guy threatening his way into federal offices and saying a bunch of deranged stuff, some of which you know to be untrue: Strap those eyeballs open and stare directly into the feed. Witness the fixations on the woke mind virus and the Great Replacement and immigrants eating pets. Notice that QAnon is back, all of a sudden. Read it like an aspirational legislative agenda or a docket, and note that he constantly speaks in apocalyptic terms; know, also, that people bet money on how many times a week he’ll post and that the currently favored range is between 650 and 674 times.
Last August, The Wall Street Journal reported that the $13 billion borrowed for Musk’s acquisition was “the worst merger-finance deal for banks since the 2008-09 financial crisis.”
Providing coding assistance is one of the few early ways AI firms have figured out how to make real money, and they also invest a lot in acquiring or licensing nonpublic training data. Musk owns xAI, an OpenAI competitor that is mingled with X in the form of Grok. It’s raised a bunch of money, hired a bunch of talent, and made big steps to catch up with its more established competitors, including OpenAI, which Musk co-founded, split from, and has since been antagonizing. Every big AI company is hungry for data and losing money; even within that context, xAI has a lot of catching up to do, especially now that OpenAI is getting its first government contracts. You know what might help with all that? A vague, broad push for AI across the federal government spearheaded by people who have worked at Musk’s companies. Or maybe a right of first refusal for a wider range of tech and software contracts across agencies? Petabytes of government-sourced training data would be a bonus.
https://fedscoop.com/openai-expands-chatgpt-work-federal-government/
“OpenAI further expands its generative AI work with the federal government”
Ah-ha! That’s Elon wants to buy Open AI.
That the South African nazi thinks “artificial intelligence” is real says it all. He is stupid. He is drug addled. Just the other day I queried the various “AI’ products for a simple recipe – ‘I need a recipe for mushroom ketchup’. The data search would have created a nice amount of recipes. I went for the top three “AI” search programs. Each recipe was defective, missing ingredients, missing steps of how to go through the recipe, and finally, some amounts failed spectacularly. And, it was obvious there were some translations from non-English recipes that were really funny.
The results of my simple query were not worth the time I wrote it. Notice I refuse to add any human effects to the “AI” thing. The thing is not meeting the hype. At some point it will, but that is in the future.
If the South African nazi own twit site “AI” program cannot pop out a good mushroom ketchup recipe, it is not ready to run the U.S.A. federal government.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jd-vance-not-my-successor_n_67aa7179e4b038077c882007
“Donald Trump Admits He Doesn’t See JD Vance As His Successor”
Baier noted that Vance would probably like to know where he stood with Trump by November next year, saying, “By the time we get to get to the midterms, [Vance] is going to be looking for an endorsement.”
However, Trump ignored that and instead pivoted to one of his favorite tactics for avoiding something he doesn’t want to speak on: praising himself.
“A lot of people have said that this has been the greatest opening — almost three weeks — in the history of the presidency,” Trump said.
Opening? It’s just a fking show to Adolf.
Well, it has been a sh/t show.
“ The thing is not meeting the hype. At some point it will, but that is in the future.”
Sam Altman didn’t just turn down $100 billion because AI is bullshit
Elon wants Open AI because of the government contracts and potential for grabbing even more.
Read the links; there’s a lot of bad blood between them. Elon’s xAi (Gronk) isn’t up to snuff…but it does seem to be a good judge of character.
i watched a Dr. Who from 1973 warning of the dangers of AI, libs still can’t figure out what the game is
had 50 years of warnings
you’re hipper than Dem leadership, BiD, you understand the challenges and resources needed, they sure AF don’t
my recommendation is taking a page out of the Republican playbook and primarying every sitting Democrat congressional representative possible
purge the party or dissolve it
We’re going to need some candidates
Just deleted Google maps. I’ve been checking to see if they would change the name of the Gulf if Mexico…and they did. They’ve also been removing DEI holiday from Google calendars.
Delete Google apps if you can.
Already ditched Google as a search engine, as it’s gotten increasingly worthless since late January.
There is a gulf between 99% of the population and the 1% at the top. That is the gulf of America.
Most folks who live in its vicinity just refer to it as the Gulf.
The “gulf” is between the mangled ear and the other one.
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