That was a good article, and I like how it helps to expose the dysfunction and corruption rampant in both the legislative and judicial branches of government.
These clowns will not fix any of the problems - they ARE the problems. Something stronger than those branches of government is needed to fix them. I wonder what that could be?
I started to wonder about the midterm elections back in 2025, when elected rebublican senators and house members were nominated to positions in the Trump admin, further reducing the already slim majorities. That made no sense whatsoever, if those majorities actually mattered.
The only logical conclusion I can think of is that the corrupt legislature doesn't matter, the corrupt judges don't matter, the economy doesn't matter, and the midterm elections themselves don't matter.
All of that would seem to indicate that SOMETHING really big is going to happen before the election, which would help to explain why the Trump admin 2.0 has done very little about the many different types of crimes, corruption and fraud that have been uncovered so far. Lots of mean tweets, but not much action (think Noem, Bondi, etc).
You can't really fix a broken system using the broken system. I am hoping that the big something that will happen is a declaration of martial law, military tribunals and true accountability for everything. None of that seems to be close yet, but it is only the end of May. We will see...
Removing ALL vaccine mandates would be a good start, like they tried to do in Florida in 2025 - but the law was blocked by Florida RINOs in 2026. Unfortunately, both the legislative and judicial branches of federal and state governments are far too corrupt for anything like that to actually happen in real life.
In addition, since the majority of all humans are sheeple that do not think for themselves (the herd they follow tells them what to think), it is not clear that giving the sheeple a "choice" would make much of a difference. Still, it would be worth a try.
Whelp... 7 of 9 have now cancelled. Only Vanilla Ice and Flo Rida have not cancelled (yet). What an awesome job the organizers have done. They must be so proud.
It will be interesting to see how they deal with this mess, since they only have a few weeks to pull something spectacular out of their ass.
I am definitely not an expert on state fairs - I have only been to a few of them. The performers were indeed behind the times, but still fairly well known (think of the bands you hear on classic rock radio stations). I guess I was expecting the national 250 celebration to be a step up... but it is no big deal in any event.
Now that 5 of the 9 "headliners" have bailed out, I wonder who they will get as replacements on such short notice...
There is no point bringing any of this up, since most people are in permanent denial, and will fight to remain that way. This is one of the reasons that MAHA has stayed away from the whole mRNA injection topic (the other main reason is big pharma corruption).
A bit over 70% of the people in the US got at least one of the injections. The ingredients varied greatly between different batches, so they played a game of injection roulette. There really is no cure for those that got one or more of the bad batches. What's done is done.
So, the "state fair" vibe is to book washed up acts that were popular 30 or 40 years ago? I guess that is nostalgic. They must be expecting an older crowd...
Millie Vanilli? Really? I thought one of those guys was dead. What would the remaining dude even do? Lip-synch one half of their "greatest hits"?
More than half of the washed up has-beens publicly bailing out right after the lineup was announced. How is this good optics for the 250 celebration? Is this the best they can do?
Is there some sort of larger plan going on, or are the organizers truly this incompetent? I am baffled about the whole thing.
The article raises a good point. Whatever losers were put in charge of organizing this event should have brought in talented conservative "up and comers" from Nashville, etc.
The lineup they have is beyond embarrassing, and two of the washed up has-been "headliners" have already backed out. Overall, it's pretty pathetic.
Edit: there might be a silver lining. It is exposing the fact that the vast majority of people in the "entertainment" business are not patriotic, at all. They hate this country, and all of us as well. Their behavior proves it.
Good point. LLMs will do best with language-related tasks, such as helping you rewrite chapters of your book (congrats, btw). I am looking at it mainly from a software engineering perspective, which requires a high level of accuracy and correctness. AI slop is a nightmare.
Your TLDR summary is very good - roughly 80/20 ratio of accurate vs. inaccurate results. I guess that is one of the main problems I have with LLMs... there are not many use cases where results with that ratio of errors are going to be acceptable, and fixing the 20% can be very expensive - kind of a deal breaker in many business contexts.
This reminds me of two other problems with AI. First, the current cost is still being subsidized by investors (the flat-rate pricing). That is gradually giving way to per-token pricing, which is much more expensive. This is going to make positive ROI calculations even more difficult for AI.
Second, never-ending LLM training is based on the theft of human-generated copyrighted material and intellectual property on an industrial scale. Some of the lawsuits that have already started look like they are going to be massive... it is possible that LLM vendors could be sued out of existence someday (lawsuits take a very long time).
Agreed. Good post. I only disagree on one point in your advantage list: co-pilot.
The hallucination and garbage-in-garbage-out problem you mentioned largely negates the co-pilot benefits, especially when you factor in the extremely high costs of the AI tools, plus the need for extensive human review of all LLM generated content (to find and correct the hallucinations, omissions, and garbage).
In reality, it is very difficult to achieve any sort of positive ROI from this process in practice. Just getting it to work is not good enough. It has to deliver better results at a lower total cost compared to other alternatives in order for it to be beneficial. Most people and most teams will fuck that up, badly.
Agreed, but I think it is already starting to happen, mainly by using restrictions on financial services to "strongly encourage" (force) illegals to self-deport. Best of all, it is counteracting both illegal and legal immigration.
Bank accounts and financial services, remittances and payment transfers are all starting to be restricted. I think it is a really smart move, and works well at a large scale... especially compared to the difficulty and cost of the mass arrests and mass deportation alternative.
It looks like it is starting to happen for both illegals and visa workers by shutting down all of the financial services they need to be able to live here in the US. Clever and effective.
As you mentioned, things are finally starting to happen, which is very encouraging. I believe the pace will accelerate over the summer, with more of the "habbenings" we have all been waiting so long for. Arrests and accountability is what I really would like to see. So many crimes found, but still no arrests. I have no idea what the hell they are waiting for.
I agree, but have found that a collocation is the "sweet spot" in terms of lowest total cost, while still owning all of your hardware and software. On-premise is also good, but is more expensive than a co-lo.
One big advantage of private ownership is depreciation. Servers can last for 10 years, and are fully depreciated after 5 years - which means you can use them with no capex payments (like driving your truck after it has been fully paid off).
Cloud is being a permanent renter, paying the most and getting the least.
LLMs have no intelligence of any kind (it is just software) and the marketing term "Artificial Intelligence" is deliberately intended to misinform people.
The reason this matters is that the fake "intelligence" has been used to insanely over-promise what LLMs are actually capable of doing.
Every time people start noticing, the AI scammers always promise that improvements in the near future will fix all of the problems. That is also a lie. Current LLMs are already very close to as good as it gets, and adding additional billions of parameters will have no noticeable improvement (diminishing returns).
When all else fails, the AI scammers resort to fear tactics, saying that we are in a life-or-death competition with China for "AI dominance", and anyone that disagrees is a paid shill of the CCP, or a traitor, etc. The fear tactics are a clear "tell" that they are lying, by the way.
There is no intelligence in AI - it is just a marketing term... and yes, today's AI = Large Language Models (LLMs). All the AI companies have their own versions of LLM, plus the human-generated data used to train them.
This is the third AI hype bubble. The first was in the 60's with mainframes, the second was in the 80's with PC networks (neural nets), and now we have the third bubble with LLMs.
As far as President Trump "grifting" on AI, I am not sure what you mean by that. Most people fall for the hype during a bubble, but the insiders directly involved in the industry who deliberately spread lies to enrich themselves are the grifters.
My theory is that the teen takeovers are the social unrest that will require military intervention (national guard) to be deployed to restore order, prior to the mass arrests we have all been waiting for. At least, that is what I hope is going on.
The fact that they are labeled as "teens" makes them more sympathetic to moronic normies, and therefore somewhat more difficult to crack down on without looking bad (optics). BLM + pantifa are no longer useful to the commies trying to destroy the country... so... now they are using teens to do the rioting.
Reopening the case just allows President Trump to repeatedly kick their asses yet again. Seems rather sporting of them to give him that opportunity...