Since the turn of the century the United States has been swamped by conspiratorial thinking. Individuals who adhere to conspiracy theories have a cluster of mental quirks - it's not an organic cognition problem, it's not a structural defect, and it's not a character disorder, so it lacks a specific section in the DSM V to describe it, but it deserves SOMETHING that pathologizes it. Among those quirks are a difficulty assessing the competence of others.

So from this we get 9,000+ climate science papers on anthropogenic climate change, and one crank with a vaguely related Ph.D. gets equal time.

We get a president who's a senile sex offender and a cult that believes he's some sort of undercover messiah figure who was spoending so much time with Jeffrey Epstein because he was iNvEsTiGaTiNg him.

And we get Secretary Brainworm, who's got butthurt because he's got a kid with autism, and he's delighted to have A) someone to blame who B) gets him lots of that sweet, sweet public exposure and C) plenty of money.

When AI grows just a little bit more, I expect it's going to nail down the actual causes there's so much more autism these days ... and it'll be something like the microplastics that have been known for fifty years, or the forever chemicals in our water, but nobody can confront the petrochemical industry about the mess they're making.

I have lots of thoughts about this. First, go read Resisting AI by Dan McQuillan, it's chock full of why AI in the hands of government is such a problem.

Personally, Anthropic's AI diagnosed a problem during the summer of 2025 that's kept me out of the workforce since 2007- I acquired mast cell activation syndrome thanks to Lyme disease. Now there are a metric crapload of people who've got it due to COVID19, and it's incredibly grim. I've got a relatively mild case - prior to treatment I'd get what looked like a narcolepsy episode in response to eating anything. There are a cluster of mostly women with EDS/POTS and I marvel that they are still alive, because I would not be, given what they face.

I built an app to track my health with Garmin fitness monitor, Apple HealthKit, it'll get reports from Labcorp, and most important of all it's got an internal library. The system will pull stuff from Office of Dietary Supplements, from PubMed Central, and a few other "peer reviewed & meant for doctors" web sites. Being able to constrain what Claude Desktop says by making it use the MCP server has dramatically improved its accuracy.

So ... AI as an assistant is fabulous, but in the government's hands it produces offensive nonsense. I need a benzo if I'm getting in an MRI machine. Oh holy shitkitties, I must be a drug addict, two diazepam months ago have created a continuing train wreck in my care. They issued me Narcan with the little Tramadol prescription I've had for twenty years. I gave it to a couple guys trying to revive one of their friends in the Tenderloin last summer. OH SHIT SHIT SHIT drug addict, the day after I tried to refill it the system started nagging me about my overdue HIV screening.

My doctor gets that I'm a juvenile delinquent with an AARP card, and the only pussy in my life is this obstreperous tuxedo cat that's developed a hobbit like attachment to second breakfast, but the all knowing panopticon? It's delusions would be a lot more amusing if they didn't have a direct impact on my life.

They're probably proud instead, of posting sheerly speculative anti-AI FUD, because vibes say they should do that and be proud of it.

"... saving an average of 10 minutes and nearly 80 gallons of fuel per flight..."

And a gallon of av-gas is $7.84.

What about all the crashes and incursions and lack of staff?

Bread and circuses. Doesn't the LLM cost more in resources from the power grid? Does $627 per (number of seats * ticket price, which is ... more than 3 digits) flight seem like a "big" savings?

A dude with 3,000,000,000,000,000 spent 500,000,000. Aka, 1/6000. If you had $10, 1/6000 is 0.17 of a cent. Who cares? That's nothing.

We don't win wars in 3rd world because they out-Zen us, westerners have no fucking patience.

they are forced to rely on coal if they want a buffer from global disturbances, such as a Toddler Clown started a stupid war in the M.E.

And they are pulling ahead of us on renewables.

These moguls are swiping pages right out of the first chapter of sci-fi doom scripts.

She love you 3x long time

> Do it once and do it right or don't do it all.

Boots on the ground?

Too many people trying to trigger a mass rapture via chaos

Mail all the rotting meat to them.

^ Xibot

The spy's whereabouts is unknown, at least to the public. Rumor is she was last spotted in Singapore.

TDS = Trump Denial Syndrome. He's a moron ruining the entire world by starting stupid oil wars.

But the truth is Americans got fucking fat regardless of metric change