I love how you got downvoted for stating facts. Classic passive aggressive behavior here on /.

Holcomb is hated here in Indiana. He wasnâ(TM)t liberal enough for Dems and betrayed his Republican base during his term. Heâ(TM)s a has-been looking for a new political angle.

The Biden-era FBI targeted devout Catholics. See here: https://judiciary.house.gov/me...

This seems to be old vs young instead of left vs right. Both my progressive and GOP friends under 40 hate these things; anyone over 60 seems to love them. The people who have the most stuff seem to want them badly, and everyone else sees them as privacy-destroying nightmares.

I think there's also a party-in-power vs not-in-power dynamic. When Biden surveilled a bunch of large Catholic families via the FBI becuase they liked their religion, GOP railed and Dems turned a blind eye or made excuses. Now that the shoe is on the other foot and its progressives being targeted, everyone's roles are reversed...

As Lord Acton said: Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

We give a lot of surveillance power to law enforcement already. Adding this temptation is stupid and will not solve the crime problems.

The UK has socialized medicine and socialized local governance, and many MPs openly advocate for socialism. Just because the Labor Party society is not called Socialst Party does not mean it is not socialist. In point of fact, most socialist movements try to avoid the label why embracing the principles.

There is no need to put export controls on AI chips; AI is not intelligent. It has limited usefulness, and even the major players like OpenAI and Anthropic are realizing that they may never become profitable. The entire thing might be a boondoggle 10x the size of Bitcoin. Being worried about someone acquiring this technology is stupid.

Let us imagine for a second that you are a billionaire. You have been told by the state of California that you must surrender hundreds of millions of dollars because you are worth billions of dollars on paper and they want this money and believe they can take it from you.
 
Rather than pay them anything you hire lawyers at the tune of tens of millions of dollars to fight this in court for years if not a full decade.
 
  You spend tens of millions of dollars to fund their political opponents.
 
  And you spend tens of millions of dollars moving your money to places where they cannot touch it anyways. Imagine wealth sanctuary states that refuse to cooperate, like a uno reverse of California sanctuary cities. Texas would surely volunteer.
 
Despite all these expenditures, you still come out ahead versus rolling over and letting them grease you up from behind. That is how this plays out.

AI at commencement speeches is a losing proposition. There is too much fear and angst at the moment. Even if LLMs create prosperity- and this is still speculation- that is cold comfort to college grads who are being told they spent $100,000 on nothing.

It makes for good marketing for his rather mediocre film if he says that this is his way of disclosing aliens for real. Does he really believe this, or is it just spin?

Did you know that if the UK were the 51st state in the United States it would have the lowest standard of living? Even lower than traditionally poor states like Alabama. This was not the case 70 years ago, then the UK decided to fully embrace socialism, and now they rank below everywhere in the US.

I like the idea of other trusted parties creating exchange markets. The Wall Street Bros have had their vice grips on the nuts of American investors for far too long; let's see if Kraken can help break the stranglehold.

They would never violate anyone's privacy, pinky swear!

So much of academic publishing is uninspired and derivative slop. AI just poured gasoline on the fire.

Now that Hollywood has calcified into old-guard money and thinking, YouTube has become a great laboratory for filmmakers to hone their craft. Perhaps Disney will let a YouTube director have a crack at the next Star Wars movie?