Originally published at: How Trump and His Famous Golfer Buddy Are Trying to Sportswash the Presidency - TPM – Talking Points Memo
[Essay] The Soft Power American Bryson DeChambeau has a lot of power. If you’re unfamiliar with him, then, as The Dude says: “obviously you are not a golfer.” He has won two US Opens, famously the hardest test in golf, but is most known for being able to hit a golf ball farther than just…
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First and good morning to my friends who have nothing better to do on weekends than post comments to message boards.
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Saturday’s Heather & Paul:
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Finally got some rain overnight. The grass was turning crunchy after only one mowing. Too wet to do much except doom-scroll and shit-post.
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Definitions of “better” can be tricky. My task for the day is to assemble a portable raised bed gardening planter thing that my wife bought on Amazon. Made in China, it’s been broken down and flat-packed into something like 100 small wood pieces and maybe 500 tiny screws so it could fit in the smallest possible cardboard shipping box. Spending time here at the moment is better than facing that.
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Why Are We Surprised That Gen Z Doesn’t Like AI?Link Copied
By Allegra Kirkland
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I am of the boomer generation. I do not like AI either. It is an extremely dangerous thing to be surrounded by self aware machines.
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“Better”…
My main ‘high point’ today will be a meet up with a physical therapy gent from a home health care outfit. Gotta do post surgical PT to gain strength. Spine surgery is not easy to recover from.
“Better” will be in little daily bits. But it adds up.
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PT can be difficult, but it’s so important.
Hope you’re seeing some improvement. Please take care.
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At first blush, I think I’m OK with the new Weekender format.
Apropos of nothing in the news, I just started reading Hedy’s Folly by Richard Rhodes (of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Pulitzer fame). I’m already smitten (I was long ago but even more-so now). Beauty, brains and opinionated. Would have loved to have met her.
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The Trump administration is planning a prayer event on the National Mall. All but one of the speakers is Christian
“The only non-Christian religious leader currently listed is Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, who leads Congregation Shearith Israel in New York City and serves on Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission.”
What, JD Vance not attending and speaking? Oh right, Usha.
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Think of them more as spy bots. Modern cars the same thing. All these “smart systems” collect data on you, we have no protections for what they do with that data or who they give it to. Some of the biggest boosters of AI also have their hands in what appear to be direct mail false flag political adverts.
It’s not the AI that absolutely scares me, it’s who is secretly pulling the puppets strings. It could be used to make the lives of individual people better. It isn’t headed that direction. Automation has always replaced some tasks, that’s unavoidable, unlike much previous automation AI promoters don’t see the need for oversight and what you could call quality monitoring. The increasing quantities of bad data on your search, Google knows that’s happening but its AI search tools aren’t developing the ability to correct their errors.
So much of AI seems to be in a Mad Cow death spiral, most likely because the people in charge never have to face consequences for being wrong.
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TCF ain’t goin’ nowhere.
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Yes, why not? What has he got to lose? A processing center where healthy people’s vitals are collected to keep sewing into FrankenChump
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“unlike much previous automation AI promoters don’t see the need for oversight and what you could call quality monitoring.”
In the early days of digital aerial imagery processing, when total automation was the goal in a very labors intensive production stream, my company attempted to totally automate the ortho-image production process. The managers believed much of the hype about machine learning, edge-matching algorithms, pixel matching, etc. We delivered product to clients with very little QA/QC with humans examining the deliverables. We really got burned with a few early projects and lost clients due to errors in the data image products.
To this day, after 26 years with the company (I retired last December) they still have to have a human technician examine every single image delivered to insure the are no unexpected anomalies.
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Speak for yourself. I’m getting ready to go to the Craft Ontario Gallery to regal our visitors with my wit, wisdom and deep knowledge base.
Right now we have Kerala born artist who now lives up north in Ontario.
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It’s not the Ai, it’s how it’s used and by whom. I think we all have already experienced it in some way. You just had surgeries. How do you know it wasn’t used? I would expect that it probably was.
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Good thing none of them are. They’re just complex collation and prediction engines. None of them are anywhere near even a slug’s level of ‘thinking’.
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He plans to rule us from his death bed!
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It’s like the Hivers care what TPM wants us to talk about.
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This is final form? Do not like it at all.
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