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I don’t think he feeds off it, unless you mean that it generates anger and grudges that he uses for energy.

But he certainly doesn’t seek it out. He’s a malignant narcissist. His smirk is that the only way he can cope, to act like (and believe) that everyone booing is deranged, since he is perfect (including in victimhood). But narcissists have extremely fragile egos, which require full time care to protect with their delusions. The booing hurts him to his core.

Unfortunately, despite the smirk and delusion, narcissists often react with long, drawn-out revenge and punishment schemes for even small slights. Good thing Trump hasn’t shown any signs of irrational revenge plots…

I think you’re getting piled on here too aggressively. This is literally “nostupidquestions,” so I’m assuming you asked because you’re open to explanations, not to troll or start a fight.

If that’s true, here are some reasons to be very skeptical and careful with AI (especially corporate AI; I’m neutral myself on fully local home AI), and a last line how that turns into “hate”:

• They are not as good as you think they are, which is devious. They will convince you they are “smart” but they are just statistical models. So they will confidently tell you false things and if you trust them, you will believe false things. They can’t do math, they can’t actually “think.” You are just getting a statistical approximation of grammatically plausible language from the training data.
• They train you to not think for yourself and rely on them. There is some ambiguity whether there may be complex benefits, but it’s clear how they’re being used now is harmful to learning and development, even used by people who think they’re being careful.
• They asymmetrically benefit owners versus workers. Corporate AI is being pushed so hard because owners believe it will further funnel more income to them versus workers, and they benefit from this trade even if it can’t do tasks as well as workers. That means less jobs for the workers and worse experiences for the customers.
• Huge environmental costs for all of this.
• Data centers take up huge amounts of water from communities.
• Data centers increase electrical costs to communities.
• Huge increase in consumer hardware prices from corporate AI buying all the graphics cards, CPUs, hard drives, RAM, etc, leading to pricing out many people from home computing or gaming.
• AI tools are privacy nightmares. Everything you say in moments of vulnerability will likely be used to sell you something or against you in the future.

Are there benefits? I actually think there are. But the costs are very disproportionately high. And AI has not been allowed to just grow and specific uses to be shown useful over time. It’s been shoved down our throats. With the above costs which most of us online see, and didn’t agree to, that motivates a lot of legitimate hate.

“If he chooses to nominate somebody else and asks me to go do something else, I will say, ‘Thank you very much. I love you, sir.’ I don’t have any goals or aspirations beyond that.”

So he has no goals or aspirations beyond doing what the president asks him, and makes sure we all can hear that he loves him (“sir”).

So… a totally independent AG committed to upholding the rule of law then.

It’s like the Mitchell & Web Lucentio sketch, but with the roles reversed. Todd, are you sure you wouldn’t like to just…have a sweaty tumble with Trump, and leave others to sort out the admin of…I dunno, upholding justice?

The court merely reopened the case, it’s not yet clear whether they will prohibit it. And though Todd Blanche told lawmakers the fund was dead, there’s nothing stopping him from changing his mind.

(Edit) Despite the editorialized headline, it appears the bill that passed doesn’t allocate the money, but that they merely refused a Cassidy amendment seeking to affirmatively bar the fund from being created from other funds. Someone can correct me if I’m wrong here, but that’s what the article seems to say.

It’s worth remembering, though: Republicans, are truly pathetic sycophants who will shirk any hint of responsibility, to a person. A judge and Blanche’s comments would probably be enough for them to pass it and rationalize that it’s “dead” anyway (before a big “oh well!” when it actually happens later).

I’m so glad I can finance a demented megalomaniac’s insatiable need for self-gratification with the portion of my mortal life I’ve exchanged for these tax dollars.

Thanks especially to Scott Bessent and the other sycophants who are coldly calculating and agreeing to exchange my life for their power.

I think the point was, both sides exist but arguably there’s a bias towards calling the angry side the “true” side. It’s also commentary about who gets to decide what the “true” side is.

Stephen King is good people.

The meaning behind the proverb is also subject to debate among scholars. Gordon suggested that the inn also apparently served as a brothel (he notes that the word used in the proverb for inn or tavern, “éš-dam”, can also be translated as “brothel”, and it was common in ancient Mesopotamia for prostitution to take place in these establishments[3]), and thus “the dog wanted to see what was ‘going on behind closed doors’”.[4] Nett suggests that the punchline could be a pun that is incomprehensible to modern readers, or a reference to some figure who was well known at the time but similarly unfamiliar to modern readers. Gonzalo Rubio, another Assyriologist, cautions that this ambiguity ultimately means it is simply not possible to definitely categorize the proverb as a joke, though he and other scholars like Nett do point to the recurring use of innuendo in such proverbs as indicating that many were indeed intended to be humorous.[3]

Just pasting for people as lazy as me.

Tldr: nobody knows what the joke is, which itself is the joke.

There’s an irony to Zuckerberg’s and the rest of the oligarchs’ fevered delusions about AI, and it would be pithy if it weren’t so tedious:

They wanted to discard their need for other humans, and all they discarded was their own humanity.

Thanks for posting the text. Not surprising to see Neomi Rao lobbing softballs to the DOJ and signaling what she needs them to say to vote in favor of Trump.

Mon cheries?

While planning is ongoing and details are in flux, discussions have centered on having the firms voluntarily cede the shares to the government, the people said. The returns on the investment could then be directed to public purposes, one of the people said, such as distributing a dividend payment to all American households.

I don’t believe either of these two assertions has any chance of happening.

But such an arrangement could also pose novel governance challenges, given the complications of the U.S. trying to effectively regulate something it partially owns, while also arguably increasing the incentives for a federal bailout.

Even if by some miracle the US has “shares” of the companies not paid for by tax dollars, it creates an anti-regulation incentive, forcing the public’s interest to align with the AI companies’, which is going to be worth at least whatever we would have paid to those AI companies.

Anyone else seeing this GIF as a psychedelic pulsating seizure?

Finally, a win for the common man.

U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is pursuing federal government access to most Americans’ medical records, in a quest to research a link between vaccines and autism — a connection the medical establishment studied for decades and flatly rejects.

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking data from little-known state systems that allow hospitals and clinics to exchange detailed, identifiable patient information, KFF Health News has learned.

In private meetings, some public health leaders have objected to giving Kennedy’s team access to such data, raising doubts that it’s legal or that the information would even be useful.

They have also expressed concerns about allowing the federal government to peer into the minutiae of Americans’ medical records, which could mean viewing anything from doctors’ notes to prescription history. HHS has offered no insight into how it will protect or handle the personal health information it obtains.

RFK Jr. couldn’t find a link between vaccines and autism that could survive the scientific rigor still present in the HHS despite his every attempt to fire all the actual scientists. So his solution is he needs more raw data from which to cherry pick.

What exactly has RFK Jr. seen that makes him so resistant to facts and reality? It’s like he’s a man dying of dehydration, who refuses any water despite the world throwing full bottles at him, and rather than just drink, he instead tries to convince the world it is in fact they who don’t need water.

Trump flexing one of his only two moves again: reward friends, punish enemies.

His mind is going, and he is pure id at this point. So he is his audience, and his actual social media audience is just a proxy for his own self-gratification.

So all we’re seeing with these posts is what an 80-year old demented narcissist likes to see: himself, as he sees himself, in all its masturbatory self-delusion, for only himself.

What a shock. Trump is replacing the former AG who was and continued to act as his personal attorney with a new AG who was and continues to act as his personal attorney.

Ah. They found fingerprints but lack any identifying evidence linked to a single suspect. Guess they gotta close the case!