mcguinness.ai
"The easiest way to predict the future is to satirize it."
– me
Bay Area, barely.
Full-time AI developer, part-time AI blogger:
https://mcguinnessai.substack.com
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That's very perceptive.
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A MAGA hat makes them a cult member, so you can see why they think hats are determinative ;-)
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It would take around 3,000 planeloads to move 500K people.
Why did nobody tell us Joe Biden had the superpower to coordinate 3000 flights in a single fricken' day? That's amazing.
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I am constantly amazed how people who seem highly educated can be so dumb. In this remake of "Goodfellas", this is the life they've chosen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8L4H...
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She must be kicking herself for selling her soul at the bottom of the market.
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defector.com/after-the-sa...
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Those who do not appreciate due process now will come to appreciate it in the future when they are called to account for their crimes against humanity.
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That definition is from here:
encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/a...
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I hope those responsible find themselves in the dock at an international trial.
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Would this have gone differently if the government lawyer hadn't told the truth about his deportation (e.g., being a mistake)?
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This is AI malpractice, just gussied up algorithmic phrenology without any reason to believe its accuracy.
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85% of the European cases are in Romania
80% of the US cases are in Texas
Both are fueled by high levels of vaccine skepticism, the very kind relentlessly pushed by RFK Jr.
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AI has better spelling.
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This is after Microsoft tried to avoid paying for the required expansion of the electrical grid.
"Chief among the power company’s concerns […] is what will happen if it invests billions of dollars into new grid infrastructure only for […] the AI bubble to burst"
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This was obvious to anyone who read the coverage. bsky.app/profile/mcgu...
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And "untrustworthy".
Trump negotiated the trade deal with Mexico & Canada; now, on a whim, he's blowing it up. Nobody will believe that the USA is negotiating in good faith or honor our commitments.
A future, decent President will have no answer to "So what if MAGA comes back into power?"
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Seems like papers treated this as a purely local event, and so didn't place it in a larger context. They could not see the forest for the trees, as the saying goes.
8/end
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Just for laughs, Fox News:
4th graf: "thousands", rather obliquely.
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The Globe and Mail (Canada):
Lede: "Thousands of people poured into the streets of Washington and other U.S. cities Saturday..."
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www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Now, foreign press.
The Sunday Times (UK):
First words of the story:
"Hundreds of thousands of protesters flooded the streets in all 50 American states over the weekend"
Somebody gets it...
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www.thetimes.com/us/american-...
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LA Times:
3rd graf: "The crowd easily numbered in the tens of thousands" (LA only)
7th graf: "More than 500,000 people nationwide RSVP’d to attend one of the 1,200 protests"
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www.latimes.com/california/s...
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WSJ:
2nd graf: "Tens of thousands turned out in Washington, D.C."
www.wsj.com/us-news/prot...
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WaPo (almost didn't find the story it's so buried):
First paragraph: "Tens of thousands of people crowded in front of the Washington Monument and in cities across the nation on Saturday"
Eighth paragraph: I think they suggested 100K in DC, but the paragraph is poorly written.
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I've been in tech since the 80s & it's obvious:
Trump wants to be a mad king & he's got mad down pat.
Musk is a spoiled toddler throwing toys out of his pram.
Self-censorship in tech is not as bad as the Quisling GOP's in Congress.
Being good at tech doesn't mean being good at anything else.
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Weird that none of them seemed to predict large scale, anti-Trump violence. Perhaps they do need a weatherman to see which way the wind blows?
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The hardware issue is an interesting one if the existing hardware that runs COBOL loads is not the right hardware for non-COBOL loads trying to perform the same work. Scalability isn’t free.
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Once Disney paid protection money, it was all over...
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Four years of maybe peace for an eternity of being known as a quisling law firm seems like a bad trade-off.
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You know he's thinking they didn't even say Thank You.