Peace being in quotes is an eyebrow raiser for sure.
Obviously not a fan of UBI, but even if this scenario does play out in “our favor,” what is going to happen to the people who either are going to lose their jobs due to advancements or, alternatively, people like me who can’t find a job currently because AI is judging their resumes as trash?
On a societal level, I don’t want what’s happening in the recruiting sphere right now. I don’t want what is essentially an AI oligopoly deciding on a résumé’s score in advance of a human reviewing it. Algorithmic monocultures are already causing systemic bias issues because so few vendors are used by so many companies.
I understand some people want to create Skynet and maybe Trump is trying to prevent it from developing.
But I disagree with the assumption that an AI can be benevolent, because I have yet to see emotion expressed by “artificial intelligence.” I also reject the assumption that a pure logic machine is the apex of the technological future.
As a society, it seems like we’re moving toward leaving humans behind on either side of the process you’ve laid out, bubble. How do we keep that from happening?
Apparently it’s a form of B2 Visa
There is a type of B2 visa for "household members" of other nonimmigrants (e.g. you on H1b) that do not qualify for a derivative visa type. These "household members" can include co-habitating partners, elderly parents, etc. It is described in 9 FAM 402.2-4(B)(5) of the Foreign Affairs Manual. Such people can be admitted for an initial duration of stay of 1 year, and can apply for extension of status in 6-month increments indefinitely during the main nonimmigrant's stay in the U.S. This memo also describes the procedures of changing status and extending status for these people.
A new development full of insanely over priced houses went up near a family member’s residence in the last two years. 95% of that development consists of individuals of Indian and South Asian descent.
The worst parts of me wondered, as soon as I saw they brought every extended family member with them, who was paying for their new abode and tech job. I want people to achieve the American Dream, but when your American born friends can’t find jobs, when you can’t afford your own bills, when everything you’ve worked and dreamed of achieving is getting handed to immigrants that, in some instances, are paid to come here and take these positions, I have to admit I hope these people get sent home sooner rather than later.
It’d be nice if the sane people of LA decided to stop taking the BS imposed upon them like this.
But I don’t see that happening any time soon.
Since Murkowski was one of them, probably worth sharing this…
lol.
Still waiting for that to happen. Not holding my breath at this point.
I’ve never really followed him.
There’s always the option that he was being used to tease things to get people to make incriminating mistakes “before the story dropped.” There’s also always the option he was feeding people stories before publishing to make sure they fit the narrative. The fact Kortan was passing this draft on to Page and Strzok to make sure it read like they were ~just doing due diligence~ really grinds my gears.
Whenever someone tells me they’re a journalist I now say, “Oh, you like telling stories. Unlike a reporter, who just provides the facts.” They usually get offended, but I am tired of dealing with talking heads.
They forgot the Fed.
Yeah, it could be he was used as a plant that Page, Kortan, and Strzok were stupid enough to not see through in order to get them to dig a deeper hole for themselves re: “controlling the narrative.”
It’s also possible he also possesses a lukewarm IQ and was trying to help the FBI paint the picture they wanted. Kortan goes back to Page and Strzok in the full files I linked to ask if Solomon’s final draft was okay for publishing.
Solomon being a useful plant would be the only reason I’d consider him providing Circa’s story to the RussiaRussiaRussia squad for a “context check” would be acceptable.
I didn’t really have opinions about him, but perhaps this shows no one should trust someone who previously worked for WaPo…
Also, for anyone interested, there’s files in here related to Hillary’s emails. I’m not entirely sure why, other than Strzok and Page were asked by Michael Zapotosky if a grand jury was empaneled over her emails (because that was the reason given for the redactions, and the jury convening had not been made public at the time)
Can’t get the bloodwork covered I need to get prescription refills that would be honored at a site like that.
Just not worth it anymore.
I don’t think I’m making it to the end of this fight, everyone.
The financial burden has become too great, and I’m about to lose my health insurance coverage, which means I’m losing access to the medications literally keeping me alive.
I hope you all make it to better days. It’s been real.
This post is titled “if anyone had any doubts about Trump’s popularity amongst MAGA as we head into the midterms.”
Are you suggesting this was in relation to other midterms than those in November?
For one, it cuts down on labor costs because you’re not having to pay a human to make graphics, provide voiceover material for commercials, copy edit, etc.
In terms of how valuable your data is, Datapods calculated it about $263 a person back in 2023. The real worth of data harvesting, as I was taught in my behavioral marketing classes, is that you get specific data on specific audiences and can fine tune how you target them with advertisements.
I’m sorry you’re tired, but I would appreciate not being lumped in with the people dooming simply because I’m trying to say “taking 30% of a voter base showing up to the primaries as a sure sign we’ve got a November victory locked down is ill-advised.”
There is still work to do.
34% also shows not that many people cared about Gallrein and Trump’s endorsement of him to make sure he got the spot.
It does not happen with every single technological advancement.
In terms of this conversation, you specifically mentioned railroads, which is why I brought up the issues regarding the creation of the railroad system in the US. To suddenly throw every single technological advancement from the 20th century into the pile to support your side of the argument seems a bit unfair and illogical.
I am by no means suggesting the US become a hermit society. In terms of argumentation, this is not a claim I made. So I won’t be responding to it.
Obviously, stagnation is a problem. No part of my response suggested I am pro-stagnation.
But I am seeing how LLMs are making students in academia incredibly dumb and incapable of thinking for themselves. I see a technology that went from AI to rebranding as LLM, because it isn’t really intelligent due to a failure to prompt itself, and I am reminded of Theranos.
I am seeing how data centers are largely being set up by
Google, who we here know has never been up to good works
Amazon, who has essentially created a monopoly on goods distribution in this country and driven smaller businesses largely out of commission
Microsoft, who is no one’s favorite tech corporation
Facebook, which Q literally connected to DARPA,
And other tech oligarchs, who are not on our side.
The technology is simply not up to a level of precision or usefulness, in my opinion, to allow for the sudden hoarding of resources that is occurring across the nation. It seems like another way to lull the masses into failing to think for themselves. And it seems like a gross reappropriation of our lands and resources to people that have shown they are not on our side akin to the farmland Gates and the Chinese managed to broker under prior administrations.
The real cost to normal people of these data centers is not just propaganda or fear mongering, as you suggest.
Consumer Reports reported a 267% increase in electricity prices in areas with data centers over the last five years. Water use is also expected to increase by similar percentages.
I am on my phone, so I cannot easily link to other studies that are less about fear mongering and more about hard numbers.
Who is improving the grid? Who is improving already strained water systems like those in Arizona and Texas?
I am still waiting for the infrastructure improvements Trump promised to come to fruition.
My community is currently having to fight tooth and nail to not have one of these things installed on the main water source used to cool the nearby nuclear plants and provide fresh water to our homes. Exelon already has issues running these plants, and I don’t want to add another strain on our infrastructure.
The negative impacts of these things currently outweigh the potential positives—that still have not shown themselves, no matter what the companies I’ve worked with say—and I don’t think average Americans should be footing the bill for it.
I’m used to you putting more effort than this into your replies.
A shame.
Statistical analysis is not dooming, it is pragmatism.
That’s all well and good.
Suggesting his loss is a sure sign of victory in November, though, is a false equivalence.
It’s fascinating to see how railroads have somehow become this case study people on the right are waiving around as a defense of data centers.
Nevermind things like the Credit Mobilier scandal, where the government was defrauded and politicians were bribed to let it happen, that we gave away more land than California and New York combined to people like the Vanderbilts through land grants, or that the government was inept (shocker) and created oversaturation through the land grant chaos which resulted in the original Great Depression, the Panic of 1873 before the big one in 1930. More of an in depth discussion can be found here.
I was a toddler in the 1990s, so I know less about whatever telecommunications panic might’ve existed back then other than Y2K. I think many of us agree on this sub, though, that sometimes technological concerns are warranted, like 5G and its health consequences. Or mRNA, for that matter.
In terms of data centers and LLMs, the drain on community resources is very real. Simply put, I do not think the 21st century version of a railroad baron—Kevin O’Leary, or Zuckerberg, or Bezos—should be able to drain or poison the water of a surrounding community and hike their utility costs with zero detriment in the name of “technological progress.”
Particularly when that “progress” is in the news every week for hallucinating data sets, hallucinating reports from places like McKinsey (lol), and producing false results for firms like EY/Deloitte as well as for world governments without recourse.
Until LLMs serve a useful purpose that isn’t doing people’s homework for them incorrectly or scraping every shred of data off the internet, we shouldn’t be acting like they aren’t, at the moment, the 21st century version of snake oil.
If we consider that only ~34% of the people registered to vote as Republicans came out for this primary election, I wouldn’t be this confident we’ll have a similar result in the general elections come November.
State of Kentucky Voter Stats as of April 2026: 311,007 Republicans registered.
105,361 people voted in the 4th yesterday, give or take.
Massie failing to compromise on anything was a problem. He definitely had controlled opposition vibes when it came to some of the Epstein stuff.
But to suggest him losing is a sign that Republicans win in November is, imo, a poorly informed conclusion to jump to.
I think this may be fixed in part by the fact mail is now getting postmarked when it is processed rather than received, no?