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Comment Re:Youtube is mostly AI junk now (Score 1) 32

Clickbaiters are taking specific topics, using AI to generate 100's of variations of the same topic (with lots of inaccuracies), then posting them under a hundred different user names. One can no longer usefully search on that topic because the click-baiter flooded the topic space with AI slop.

If you can, set the date parameters to search for stuff older than 2022, when flooders had to hand-build click-bait like God intended.

Submission + - Trump reveals 'discombobulator' weapon was crucial to Venezuela raid (nypost.com)

Tablizer writes: Trump commented on the weapon when asked about reports this month that the Biden administration purchased a pulsed energy device suspected of being the type that caused “Havana Syndrome.”

That revelation followed on-the-ground accounts from Venezuela describing how Maduro’s gunmen were brought to their knees, “bleeding through the nose” and vomiting blood.

A self-identified member of the deposed strongman’s team of guards recounted afterward that “suddenly all our radar systems shut down without any explanation.”...

“At one point, they launched something; I don’t know how to describe it. It was like a very intense sound wave. Suddenly I felt like my head was exploding from the inside,” the witness said.

“We all started bleeding from the nose. Some were vomiting blood. We fell to the ground, unable to move. We couldn’t even stand up after that sonic weapon — or whatever it was.”

Comment We need a 4th Branch (Score 1) 102

What we have is the perfect storm of [all 3 branches being stuffed]

But that should be expected to happen every couple of hundreds years out of sheer probability.

a DoJ that has a sycophant that also refuses to prosecute obvious violations and instead is seeking to punish past foes

Because the DOJ is under the Executive branch, the Prez has too much influence over it. We need a 4th branch for various committees such as DOJ, department oversite committees, and Federal Reserve. Make it hard to change the board members (committee managers) such that it doesn't swing back and forth so easily. "Staid" is good for those functions, we don't want a startup or political-fad mentality in them.

And also limit the Prez's ability to remove or topple leaders of foreign countries without a Congressional vote. (The "War Powers Act" is potentially Unconstitutional because Congress can't make laws to reduce another branch's Constitutionally given powers. It would have to be a Constitutional amendment to keep it out of the whims of SCOTUS generations.)

Comment Re:More like Breaking Spoons (Score 1) 33

It's a common scheme for a big "investment group" to buy up companies with a decent reputation, start shoving ads, snoopware, and/or junk fees on it, giving them short-term profits, and then sell it off at a discount when its now damaged reputation makes it a money-loser.

Even though they sell it at less than they bought it for, the reputation milking between those events often brings in more than enough to cover company sell losses. Or they just may keep it and let it linger until the skinny over-milked cow tilts over and kicks the bucket.

The investment group's enshittification formula is time-tested. It doesn't always work for a given purchase, but does in aggregate.

I once worked for a startup whose primary goal was to gain enough customers to be able sell the startup to an enshittifier. Thus, we made a decent attempt to be nice to customers even if we couldn't make a profit.

Comment MAGA "logic" (Score 1, Insightful) 303

MAGAs' reasoning is often that because subject matter experts are sometimes wrong, their special Jesus-induced gut-feelings are more accurate. But such SJIGF's have proven even worse than experts in the past. (It was called "alchemy" and "snake-oil".)

"But those in the past were the wrong sect" or whatnot is given as an excuse. Whether that's true or not, the current group of SJIGF's needs to demonstrate their accuracy over a reasonable time before we allow them to override experts. "Just trust us because we use the right Jesus-talk" doesn't cut it.

Comment Re:Bub-ble (Score 1) 31

I forecast Intel will belly up when the AI bubble crash depresses the entire IT industry.

That is unless The Orange One wants the gov't to own even more of Intel: socialism, wooopyy!

However, the backlog of people who want to buy PC's but delay due to high prices may actually give Intel a boost after the crash, as people start buying regular equipment again.

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