The answer is simple: Don't buy stuff that might be being sold this way. That includes everything from Sony, now. Movies, music and so on are not necessities of life, in spite of marketing.
If people keep on "buying" from Sony after this, more fool them.
Bitcoin, NFTs and AI all try to seem credible by relying on having lots of computers, doing stuff that isn't easy for normal people to understand. The suggestion is that the results must be valuable.
It's also noticeable that as the cryptocurrency and NFT crazes cooled off, some of the people involved started talking about a "pivot to AI" because they reckoned the same scam tactics would work there.
I fix spelling and grammar errors, edit articles about long-dead software into the past tense, and correct errors of fact.
None of the stuff Sanger is talking about sounds helpful to what I do, or as if it would improve anything, except that thin-skinned right-wingers would be more able to pretend their opinions are facts.
they seem to assume that reality is on your side, and they don't need to do their jobs well. Are there organisations on the US right who do their lawyering well, or are they all lazy?
Remember when Trump, during his first presidency, suggested that injecting disinfectants had potential as a COVID-19 treatment? He got less deference on medical issues after that, much to his displeasure.
Pools are something he might have been expected to know a little about, as a real estate developer. But he keeps proving that his ignorance and overconfidence is universal.
Trump needs a plentiful supply of cabinet members less competent than himself. They make him look better, and can be fired as distractions from loosely-related problems.
"What were we thinking? We tried to replace skilled people with chatbots that could write text or code with good spelling and grammar, but didn't understand anything. That meant they could do work that was pointless anyway, but creating anything that was new and complicated that way was pretty much impossible."
"In any case, it only looked cost-effective while the chatbots were being subsidised by venture capital. Once the prices were increased to make them profitable, the only organisations that kept on using them were the ones who had no choice, having got rid of too many staff. Few are still around."
So it’s a dated Chinese phone, slathered with Trump’s name, gold paint, and an incorrect depiction of the U.S. flag — that’s a year late, not particularly secure, and pre-loaded with propaganda (Truth Social).
Those are the values that Trump attributes to America. And he was re-elected. The USA, as a whole, has not repudiated these values. and I doubt it ever will. Less obvious corruption has been the way it did business for generations. Trump just means the country no longer gets credit for aspirations.
Most people don't have coherent motivations for things that are based on emotions like fear or disgust. Because they have a vague feeling that they ought to be able to explain their motives, they embrace conspiracy theories.
Modern communications, including, but not limited to, social media allow a single conspiracy theory to spread to millions of people. Politicians embrace those theories to gain support. And then you have Trump and RFK Jr in power.
Trump is, fundamentally, a confidence trickster, one of the most accomplished ones of modern history. Even now, there seem to be some Republicans who hope to gain from backing him against their vestigial consciences. They're going to be very disappointed.
I've been avoiding saying that for months, in the hope that nobody else would bring it up.
There's a fundamental thing that Trump, RFK Jr, and just about all of their followers are missing. Human life isn't naturally safe, comfortable and prosperous. We've built up a lot of complicated systems to make it that way. They aren't super-robust because their designers didn't think anyone was stupid enough to deliberately mess them up. However, because people have come to just accept them, idiots are trying to steal the money that pays for them, unaware of the consequences.
Lesser evil
Prosecution is prosecution. Is there someone in Iowa who can do it? Forcing pardons to happen is worthwhile: it means the pardoner owns the crime.
Boycott
The answer is simple: Don't buy stuff that might be being sold this way. That includes everything from Sony, now. Movies, music and so on are not necessities of life, in spite of marketing. If people keep on "buying" from Sony after this, more fool them.
"I’m sure the Department of Justice will get right on that"
Are the Do"J" the only organisation capable of bringing charges? Can't judges do it themselves for crimes commited in their hearings?
Are there potential perjury charges here?
Watching the regime trying to get Todd Blanche confirmed while he's facing perjury charges would be quite amusing.
"All this computing power must create something of value"
Bitcoin, NFTs and AI all try to seem credible by relying on having lots of computers, doing stuff that isn't easy for normal people to understand. The suggestion is that the results must be valuable. It's also noticeable that as the cryptocurrency and NFT crazes cooled off, some of the people involved started talking about a "pivot to AI" because they reckoned the same scam tactics would work there.
. . . no way in hell this letter was actually written by someone in ICE’s OPR . . .
Can you be sure about that? Assuming any ICE office is functioning as it should needs evidence these days.
I'm a very low-level wikipedia editor . . .
I fix spelling and grammar errors, edit articles about long-dead software into the past tense, and correct errors of fact. None of the stuff Sanger is talking about sounds helpful to what I do, or as if it would improve anything, except that thin-skinned right-wingers would be more able to pretend their opinions are facts.
If your lawyers are deeply committed to your ideology . . .
they seem to assume that reality is on your side, and they don't need to do their jobs well. Are there organisations on the US right who do their lawyering well, or are they all lazy?
Credibility draining . . .
Remember when Trump, during his first presidency, suggested that injecting disinfectants had potential as a COVID-19 treatment? He got less deference on medical issues after that, much to his displeasure. Pools are something he might have been expected to know a little about, as a real estate developer. But he keeps proving that his ignorance and overconfidence is universal.
“speech rights, educational opportunities, and creative freedoms of all Americans.”
Damaging those seems completely in character for this regime and its Congress. Indeed, they seem to be being unusually competent at it.
And yet, even this will leave him with millions of supporters who are supposedly functional adults
America needs to take a hard look at how it got here. Trump is making the problems obvious, but he isn't their sole cause by a very long way.
Another bit of the pendulum swing.
German court finds Google liable for errors in AI Overviews
So why not just get rid of him?
Trump needs a plentiful supply of cabinet members less competent than himself. They make him look better, and can be fired as distractions from loosely-related problems.
. . . the ongoing declassification of UFO-related files.
The future, looking back on today
"What were we thinking? We tried to replace skilled people with chatbots that could write text or code with good spelling and grammar, but didn't understand anything. That meant they could do work that was pointless anyway, but creating anything that was new and complicated that way was pretty much impossible." "In any case, it only looked cost-effective while the chatbots were being subsidised by venture capital. Once the prices were increased to make them profitable, the only organisations that kept on using them were the ones who had no choice, having got rid of too many staff. Few are still around."
“made with American values in mind”
I doubt RFK Jr *has* a coherent motivation
Most people don't have coherent motivations for things that are based on emotions like fear or disgust. Because they have a vague feeling that they ought to be able to explain their motives, they embrace conspiracy theories. Modern communications, including, but not limited to, social media allow a single conspiracy theory to spread to millions of people. Politicians embrace those theories to gain support. And then you have Trump and RFK Jr in power.
Politicians are really bad at spotting confidence tricksters
Trump is, fundamentally, a confidence trickster, one of the most accomplished ones of modern history. Even now, there seem to be some Republicans who hope to gain from backing him against their vestigial consciences. They're going to be very disappointed.
"And when its attorneys came to this Court to explain their conduct, the senior attorney . . . sat silently by . . ."
I'm struggling to see why that "senior attorney" wasn't having to defend himself against an on-the-spot charge of contempt of court?
Tetraethyl Lead
I've been avoiding saying that for months, in the hope that nobody else would bring it up. There's a fundamental thing that Trump, RFK Jr, and just about all of their followers are missing. Human life isn't naturally safe, comfortable and prosperous. We've built up a lot of complicated systems to make it that way. They aren't super-robust because their designers didn't think anyone was stupid enough to deliberately mess them up. However, because people have come to just accept them, idiots are trying to steal the money that pays for them, unaware of the consequences.