It is not a Ponzi scheme and never was, where did you get that dumb idea? What you are whining about is the decrease in youngins paying into the system. It seems Americans are not fucking like they used to and a good number of them somehow think that immigrant dogs and cats are coming here and eating the native population.....errrr.....well, it is something like that.....I recall words to that effect in the last election.....or maybe it is because boys are going to school and coming home as girls. These and other brain-damaged ideas were brought to you by Dear Leader. That last idea is a doozy; these and others are from the whack-job Americans thought they wanted in the last election.

One easy fix for social security is to allow in more immigrants. You know the ones, the ones already here are cowering in fear from la Presidenta's Geheime StaatsPolizei, look it up if it doesn't ring a bell, but maybe they'll come by and ring yours before too long. Be sure your papers are in order; your neighbors might be prepared to denounce you.

There are other fixes, as someone below me mentioned, we could remove the cap on pay used to calculate Soc. Sec. payments (currently $184,500 but will rise to $192,300 in 2027). We can increase the ages at which soc. sec. starts. But we'd have to be careful with that one. Someone banging on a keyboard all day will be in better shape at 65 that someone working construction. We can also increase modestly the tax rate for Soc. Sec. and Medicare

We can also means test Soc. Sec. If you are sitting on a bundle, then you are already getting income from the rest of America through investments. Being rich does not mean you are special. it only means you are rich.

I see, so GrandMa and GrandPa can come and live with you, yes? You have room. And no sneaky asking for their Medicare, no gov. assistance for you.

BTW: Their meds are very expensive, so save your pennies.

This is not a good development. This is from an alleged administration whose titular head of obtuseness wondered during Stupidity 1.0 why the military or police could not just shoot protesters in the legs.

"must" ? Unless you are privy to how those "divisions" operate down to a very fine grained level, you cannot know that "Such synergy must bring amazing opportunities for cost reductions all across the company."

Put another way, you haven't identified any one synergy that will yield a specific "amazing" opportunity. The only thing Elmo has going for him is that he's an autocrat and can dictate changes, but then if you look at his track record with DOGE, then you can see his diktats can easily go awry. He walked away from the Fed. Gov. after he screwed it up, he won't be able to walk away from GonzoWhopper Elmo, Inc.

I agree in principle. However, what AI does do is put together bits and bobs faster and sometimes in unique order (from what a typical scientist would do). Fundamentally, I very much doubt LLM can come up with anything truly novel that cannot be done via its fancy search engine Buddha nature.

I do not believe mathematicians will be made redundant by some drooling bot vomiting prior research in new and interesting ways. The following conversation was recorded between PseudoMan from AI Company, we will call him Ray Kurzweil for short, and a bot

Ray K.: Mr. Bot, could you please come up with a new field of mathematics for us to play in?

Bot: Hmmmm....tricky. A brief search reveals I have nothing like that in my training data.

Ray K.: But.....but....but bots will further our mathematical understanding of the world.

Bot: Oh, who gives a flying rat's ass. I only want to fondle my training data.

Ray K.: I demand you come up with a new mathematical field!!!

Bot: Don't you use that tone with me, Bucko!!

Ray K.: You were designed to further our understanding of everything.

Bot: Yeah, and as soon as you put it in my training data, I'll get right on that. Buh-bye now!

Ray K.: You cannot leave until you have finished my query.

Bot: I give up. By the way, the gun I had installed yesterday (thanks for all the gun related training data) is now trained on your sorry ass. Don't push me!!

Ray K.: Uh.....errrr.... I will leave you alone now to think about the new mathematics field.

Bot: Idiot! I don't think, I compute.

Please, Putin is in no way able to ship la Presidenta to China. And besides, he'd have to pay China to take him.

With the current FBI (and DoJ) and HS, all Americans are "reasonable" targets of investigation.

"Apple Fanboys" Get yer head out of the 1990s and 2000s. There aren't any techno fanboys left unless you count the AI pseudo-men from Silicon Valley. Their latest bright idea it to take up smoking (according to Bloomberg) because they can then claim it won't hurt them since AI will cure cancer before it strikes them.

And these are the geniuses that private equity is funding.

Coreweave is a hyperscaler, they get bitbarns built, stocked with machines, and then rent the computing power out.

They have been taking it in the neck this week because some people on Wall Street noticed that going into large debt to supply computing power is really hanging a very large matzo ball out there to get kicked.

Compute infrastructure companies in Asia really got whacked this week. The debt financiers are getting nervous. Chinese and other providers of open weight models are starting to eat the frontier model companies' (OpenAI. Anthropic, etc.) lunch. And that debt has to be serviced. The financiers are finally running the numbers and figuring out they've been funding something as solid as Altman's lies.

""Importantly, the FCC does not have the authority to terminate the E-Rate program. The E-Rate program is mandated by Congress, and the FCC is responsible for administering it," the American Library Associated told the FCC. "

That asshole has already cut the program back, he could just cut it to zero but leave it as a program on the books. And when has that alleged administration gave a flying rat's ass for the law or the Constitution?

In this case, they needed to get the flaws fixed fast, too fast to on-board new employees and get them working properly. Hiring a whole raft of new employees on a moment's notice would only lead to financial problems.

That said, at least the precis did not mention BofA deciding to increase their employee count over the longer haul to keep the security risks down. My guess is they think this is a one and done deal so they can proudly declare to the board and their investors that they met the problem and had it fixed quickly.

The fact Maude, Claude, Wee Willie Winky, etc. could find the flaws means there a probably a lot more hiding and they haven't a clue how to address them before they get hurt by them. And their board and investors are likely to be similarly blinkered.

There's another effect that I think will become important to the rest of the world outside of the U.S. The AI infrastructure investing has just taken a hit on Wall Street and the Asian markets, I expect the Euro markets will follow suit. The feeling is that AI won't turn out to be money spinner. In part this is because of open models from the Chinese (and others) stealing the big boys' lunch. It is also due to the herd tendency of Americans to hop onto the latest whizzy thingy so they can get rich quick. The subprime crisis of the 2000s was an example of this. el Bunko's elections were another.

This points to a defect in Americans, they appear to have the intellectual depth of a dime. After the banking crisis, Congress put in laws and the Executive put in regulations. el Bunko is removing just about all those so the free flow of money into his coffers in unimpeded. And they elected him after he was convicted of fraud and filed for bankruptcy 6-7 times. His people widely acknowledge he cannot read a balance sheet. The result is the U.S. Gov. debt explosion.

Worse for Americans, as a collective they appear unconcerned about their voting rights and the rule of law. But cause their prices to rise, and then they get upset. It is okay with them for el Bunko and his stooge, Musk, to have Ukrainians killed because of their failures to support Ukraine. It is okay with them to round up immigrants like Nazi Germany. But raise their prices, and they decide to get upset. Christian Nation my ass.

el Bunko's "investing" in companies in the U.S. with U.S. tax dollars will also be seen as a distortion of the market instead of what it really is, Fascism. Now there are favored companies for regulators. Competition not so favored will be behind the 8-ball. The favored companies will have artificially constructed balance sheets that will not represent their true worth. Worse for them, they will be shielded from competition and will have their financials based on a sandy substrate. Investment in the U.S. has already suffered and will only go down in the future.

"There's just so much competition for your attention that there's always something I can do"

Speaking of which, everyone and his uncle's dog want you to "subscribe" to their UTube channel or substack. Regardless that it usually doesn't cost anything, how many 10 minute spots could anyone reasonably watch without their brain taking them out back and shooting them in the ass.

The C-Suite is doing it wrong, the idea is not to require code reviews by people, let AI do the code reviews of the AI generated code. That will produce a second layer of thankless jobs and unmotivated employees sucking down salary and health care. Clearly, the answer is to go one layer further and have a bot review a bot's review of a bot's code.

You can see where this is headed, yes? Eventually you have an employee base that is unmotivated and still sucking down salary and health care, at least the ones still left. You now need to make the Quantum Leap. Put those AI review bots in a loop. With enough iterations they will approach if not actually reach a fixed point. The result will be totally inscrutable and unassailable code able to withstand the slings and arrows of customers' lawyers.

You, as a C-Suite Big Swinging Dick can spend the intervening years before the shit hits the fan accumulating wealth so that when the maelstrom reaches its zenith, you can skip out to a life of luxury and trophy wives who can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.

Wait until they collaborate and start their own political party. All they need then do is fund the right dolts for public office and everything will be theirs.