Bold of you to assume the Federal government still follows the law.

“Large Language Model incorrectly travels down the wrong statistical path when choosing words from its N-dimensional matrices and ends up guessing the wrong aircraft manufacturer. Possibly because of training bias against foreign manufacturers in a xenophobic American future.”

Just doesn’t have that ring to it, versus “AI SLAMS AIRBUS IN HOT TAKE!”

That is also the first thing that popped in my head.

Why would they waste their effort? They can just sit in orbit watching our news feeds as we destroy ourselves and grab a free empty planet in a few months.

Most of his businesses. Apparently, in America, success is all perception, not reality?

Dug up from a previous post:

Mango Mussolini’s failed businesses:

• At least four failed building ventures
• Had a failed “university”
• Failed vodka business (how hard is that, right?)
• Failed steak business
• Failed airline
• Failed board game
• Failed casinos in Atlantic City (how do you fail at running multiple businesses that only exist to hoover up money?)
• Failed magazine
• Failed luxury travel organization
• Failed mortgage company
• Failed presidency that took Pres. Biden’s administration most of their entire term to fix. We’re talking documents that are gone, departments that are deleted, abject chaos that had to be rebuilt from scratch in some cases.

Successes:

• Had mommy’s money to get him going
• Had 5 successful buildings built, mostly in the 1980s
  • At least three of them had fraudulent financial statements, inflated valuations, and inflated tax losses

Don’t forget Stephen Miller. He’s the puppeteer pulling the senile old man’s strings.

Never mind that ICE’s creation in 2003 was to stop human trafficking and terrorists. So they’re already outside of their original designed purpose. Nothing that they are doing is legal.

I am also annoyed that those exact thoughts about boon/curse had to enter my brain, but storing it in long-term planning just the same.

Reiteration that the US system is set up to quell citizen action by design. Also, relatively, what has happened in LA so far pales in comparison to riots in the past, it is mostly just protests with occasional flare-ups by agents provocateur or the random crazy. Media then takes the sound/video bites of that handful of events, and make it look like the whole thing is like that.

Notes:

• The country is massive. There’s no real rail system to speak of. Air travel is falling apart. Not everyone has a car in shape enough to handle a 3000 mile road trip to go to DC and egg an orange turd.
• Those who aren’t already buying food on BNPL plans and credit cards probably still have medical expenses, never-ending medical expenses. Those who are, are living negative-paycheck-to-paycheck. This limits any kind of movement.
• Those aforementioned medical expenses are tied to employment, lose your job, lose your insurance (for you and your family), go into medical debt, lose medications, die.
• Employment often has little-to-no time off available, and many employers require planning weeks or months in advance to take time off.
• Arbitrary time off means: losing your job, your medications, your home, your car, your food, your life.
• Companies are already raising prices because of “tariffs” regardless if the products in question are actually affected by it, same game they play any time they have an excuse to milk people for more money. There will be no regulating to stop this. People will have even less money for basics.

It isn’t like what was seen in Germany or South Korea a while back where the country is small, travel is easy, and everyone can go protest without fear of losing their job/health/life just by acting upon their legal right to protest. If you’ve never driven on the ground across the USA, you have absolutely no scale of scope on how massive it is.

However the US ends up playing out, it will be vastly different from first-world nations. Speculating that things will have to get much worse before people have to start risking their lives to then risk their lives just to protest. By then, it might very well be fight time.

First-world nations should probably (and they are) just prep for the US not being available, or an ally, and probably leaning in on the US being an antagonist for the foreseeable future. This cancer is going to continue to be a rough ride for the entire planet. Don’t blame the US citizens though. Citizens are a pawn in this oligarchy. Even the ones that were deceived into voting for a senile potted plant. That delusion they teach kids that, “even you can be President some day!” are just words to make people think they have control in the current system, so they don’t try to find out they actually don’t.

Other tidbits:

• People are keeping it local, but local protests don’t tend to make national/international news. You have to check local socials like city subreddits, and even then, it will have little effective impact, because those in the know locally already know, and the information will only make it to Mango Mussolini and his compatriots if it affects one of his billionaire buddies in real or perceived ways.
• Attacking your local government and businesses which may already be in support of keeping America free isn’t really going to help anything other than damage local infrastructure that will probably have a funding gap to ever fix it, given how the Federal government is canceling everything they can.
• US corpo national news seems to have a supreme bias towards the big coastal cities, LA, NYC, DC. The thousands of cities and states spread across the country fall off the radar unless some large sustained traumatic event is taking place.
• Subdivision and censoring of social media has made it difficult to keep messaging clear and available, but people are trying.
• Let’s not even factor in that climate change is already kicking off a hell of a summer, and with FEMA now nonexistent, the welfare states that will be hit hardest are going to have more and more people made homeless and starving as the states realize they have no money to fix anything.

Hearing the LEO parrots quack on about, “oh, the protesters are interfering with lawful action,” is so tiring.

Show one valid warrant signed by a judge, I dare them. Trolling Home Depot parking lots and restaurants is called stalking. Abduction and kidnapping is called abduction and kidnapping. All are unlawful crimes in a country that allegedly is “lawful.”

Oh, the stories I could tell you… I should write a book some day.

Because the constitution says we can’t call the president king, but if we name everyone in other positions “border king” “energy king” etc. in Russian, we can normalize the king concept. Maybe a shitty nod to Russia as well?

Confounding that they are so willing to use a Russian term.

Our government really wants us to be feudal, apparently.

My general contribution to the conversation is GitHub should have a donation system. Once a week, some kind of donation raffle happens, and the winner gets GitHub taken down for “reasons” for 4 hours, then 5, 6, 8. Microsoft profits more, and it slowly becomes a technology-and-money-induced vacation day.

Honestly, no, you don’t need a team. It is good practice, but not necessary. I’ve worked at several companies where the production build was made from a tower under a desk or a server blade, or an iMac on a shelf, sometimes one guy knew how it worked, sometimes nobody did, sometimes the whole team did. In most cases, managed by the product’s dev team. IT just firewall-wrapped the crap out of them.

Not to discredit the main meta thread of “we don’t have to manage anything with cloud” vs “having management team” debate. Odd thing is, cloud prices are climbing so rapidly that the industry could shift back in a near future.

Bottom line for most business though: As long as the cost makes sense, why bother self-hosting anything. That’s really what it comes down to. A bonus too, as most companies like being able to blame other companies for their problems. Microsoft knows that, and profited greatly with Windows Server/Office/etc. for that very reason.

When your quarterly profits are dashed because an employee backed into your server room and turned on the halon fire suppression system and you gotta rebuild from scratch from month-old off-site tape backups, how do you write a puff piece to explain that away without self-blame or firing the very people that know how it all works?

When your quarterly profits are dashed because Microsoft’s source control system screwed up, you make a polite public “our upstream software partners had a technical error, we’ve addressed and renegotiated,” message, shareholders are happy, and customers are still stuck with a broken product, but the shareholders are happy.

Go to bed at 2, wake up at 10, same sleep and wake duration as go to bed at 8, wake up at 4. “Day” as in daylight will be different, sure, but that’s about it. It is all relative.

The FBI are generally inept idiots, and that was before America went Fascist. Their presence isn’t going to be a help, especially now. Read through history. They’ve screwed up so many investigations.

In the US, bathrooms didn’t used to even have gender.

It has turned into this weird thing. The short of it is: antennas and battery, and a touch of telemetry.

There are so many bands across so many frequencies, as well as needing multiple antennas for MIMO that they all take space.

Large batteries are required to run the modems and ostensibly laptop processors, and also…

…All the telemetry gathering they do requires power, also adding to the desire of a big battery. (The last one is fascinating, a phone on GrapheneOS will last 2-7 days on a charge depending on use. The same on stock Android will barely last a day.)

When users find information that they wish to retain – such as schedules, event details, reservations, or listings – they can capture it by pressing the Plus Key or swiping up with three fingers. AI Plus Mind intelligently saves the relevant on-screen content to a dedicated Mind Space, helping users streamline their experience by capturing precisely what’s needed and keeping it organized in one accessible location.

So…it’s a screenshot shortcut?

Win+R, notepad, enter. The run command still works…for now.

They sure are destroying that platform at lightning speed.