What inactivity? Investigations are ongoing. Trump's handling Cuba and Iran at the same time. He's 37 & 0 for primary picks in the GOP. If this is "inactivity" to you, I dread to think how much energy is required for "movement".
Oh and in case you forgot James Comey has been arrested already. That's one big name for you that's going to trial. Meanwhile hundreds of grunts and networks are being crushed every day. Here's a few I found in less than 2 minutes of searching.
- https://www.dhs.gov/news/2026/05/11/making-america-safe-again-ice-arrests-murderers-pedophiles-violent-assailants-and
- https://www.dhs.gov/wow
- https://www.usmarshals.gov/news
But sure, "nothing is happening". Riiiight.
Think logically.
How will dems get the house or senate if trump is securing ballots from the mail in bullshit by eo, is getting rid of millions of illegals who can't pack the vote, is demanding voter roles are cleaned, has a scotus who are undoing racial gerrymandering, and has a high popularity for his activities?
He can't do tribunals until he has full control of every branch ideally, and at least max control of the senate rather than a hairline control.
As much as i want all that sorted yesterday I suspect any real actions will start ramping up after the midterms, not before. Optics is optics, and no amount of hand waving will make the optics go away.
Trump is nearly at a point where he can prove all his claims openly. However, if his admin starts railroad ING Democrats and the media they'll cry "tyrant" and fund more riots again to scare voters away. If he holds on squeezing the trigger till he can see the whites of their eyes in November, he will win on all fronts.
The knife used was not likely to be a kirpan. Most are about 3in blades with 3in hits (Total of 6in), and are purely a faith based tool that can only be drawn in self defense. The killer used a shastar (which is effectively a weapon for offense in their culture), specifically a pesh-kabz. That is an 8in blade that is not permitted under uk law to be carried around to my knowledge.
However the killer had a bit of an arsenal of knives as well in his home, and shouted a lot to indicate he was very much the aggressor in the case. I suspect there was something boiling up in that twat's nature which caused him to seek out someone to kill, and poor Henry got gutted by this lunatic.
The politicians capitalising on this to ban all knives (again) are basically conflating the two. It's like calling a bb gun a hunting rifle because they both shoot projectiles.
Sikhs are not Muslims, and there is not much similar to Islam for sikhism. Islam is closer to an Abraham i faith, while Sikhs were spun out of India. They don't have prophets, and are believers in reincarnation and merging with God instead of what Islam teaches. It has also had a lot of historical and modern contention with Islam.
They are also very pro self defence, with the kirpan blade a religious item on their person specifically to protect themselves and others from harm. The Sikhs I have known are very much aware of the responsibility having a weapon (even the tiny ass knife that a kirpan is) on them implies.
The death of Henry Nowak is an example of a single sikh trying to use their religion and their racial traits as a means to escape justice from murdering a defenseless boy. Any honest sikh would not consider this an act of self defense, nor would they condone what happened (which the man in the article actively condemned based on what I read). The weapon used wasn't even something than could be considered a kirpan either as it was significantly larger than that style of weapon. Trouble is that tensions are so high right now, everyone is about ready to attack anyone else for the wrong clothes/religion/skin color.
The people who should be demonized are the UK police, especially the officers involved in this incident. In particular the guidance documents in use today must be stripped out entirely. There is no equality today under the law based on race, and it is more likely for a white person to be subjected to an arrest than any minority groups.
They went from the Stephen Lawrence trial and being "racist to blacks" (arguable as that case was a bit of a farce as well) and pulled a 180 so hard that now they actively refuse to arrest or sanction any minority offenders due to those minorities having an over representation in crime stats. The reality is that the vast majority of violent criminal acts are performed by said minority groups.
I would also like to note that Reform is already saying they'll ban the kirpan because a weapon that wasn't a kirpan was used to kill a white boy. Such is just further evidence that they are controlled opposition seeking to disarm the population of everything except assault spoons.
"vote harder" rarely ever works.
Britain has a bigger problem though, and that is its laws aren't really determined by politicians. They are both usually drafted and implemented by the civil service. People like to think the politicians are creating the legislation and whatnot, but the reality is darker.
In all honesty, although most believed "Yes, Minister" and "Yes, Prime Minister" were comedy series, they were some of the most in depth docudramas about how British politics actually worked in the 70s and 80s. Such systems of politics are still in place and just as pervasive. It isn't just dodgy politicians Britain needs to cull, but nearly the entire Civil service as well.
This. 10000000 times this. That is a huge piece of what ai helps manage, and i can tell it is a big problem for series writers. I keep a living bible of my stuff, but I fed that to the ai as a checking tool.
I'm literally listening to a series where whole characters, items, and concepts were basically forgotten about or treated poorly because of the need to shift the plot significantly. One item got mentioned twice in a single sentence across 2 books that were 4 books apart in the series. Whole concepts have been abandoned, and "interludes" seemed to be forgotten about.
Top Kek. That shit is coming from a country that got its credit rating downgraded last year and is struggling with 10% unemployment, has about as much military strength as a hedge mouse, and is precariously close to Russia.
Oh and given Iran is asking for surrender without any eu support? Yeah, he can talk bullshit all he wants but will still need a breath mint afterwards if he wants anyone to pay actual attention to his words.
Top kek that
Yeah, never try to write using ai directly. It is soooooooooo bad at it. Helping to name or flesh out an idea you came up with? It can be good at getting the creative juice flowing and thinking in a way perpendicular to your own. Getting it to create prose, however, is painful and a waste of its own response time.
Im avoiding the big publishers as they aren't great with a lot of modern fiction genres like the ones I've been listening to. Litrpg and progression fantasy seem to be supported more by more niche publishers like aethon, podium, and royal guard publishing.
Okay so... First off congrats for getting 12k out of anthropic I guess? They settled that case at 3k per work stolen on pirated sites, so you'll get a nice paycheck now. That said, chill out dude. You can feel strongly about ai if you want, but you dont have to throw your toys out of the pram because people recognise ai does some things well.
Secondly, as an editor I'd expect you to read at least the tldr if not the whole post rather than make specious claims about how it was written. From your first sentence (you used AI to make a long summary about how useful AI is) it is rather clear you didn't. I'm not sure if it was an amygdala hijack here, a reading comprehension issue, or if you just felt the need to go on the attack over a neutral and mostly negative take on ai because your work was stolen by a Corp using it in an ai. Either way, it wasn't necessary or warranted.
I highlighted 5 items that ai did well, none of which were writing things beyond high level summaries of research papers. It is objectively shit at writing prose of any kind, which is why I don't ever use it for that purpose, and get pissed when it tries to suggest how to write things for me. I also highlighted 9 things it does badly. Which is higher - 9 or 5? Last I checked it was 9, so i am nearly twice as negative about ai as I am positive about it in my post. How you get "I find ai quite useful" is beyond me.
Thirdly, I didn't use ai to "write the post", and I've never even tried Claude. I did used chatgpt to fact check myself, and make sure I wasn't going up the wrong tree on my negative views of it because I'm inherently biased against it. I've had to use ai for data quality and for 80% of dq errors it is good at identification because it works on probabilities. Some LLMs are great for finding double spaces in a naming convention that is causing duplicates. They suck at abbreviations though and simple volume variances. I also highlighted how they cant deal with time because all computers suck at the concept. The ai admitted that and then demonstrated it. There is a difference between validation and creation, and if you cant comprehend that, well all i can say is im sorry for you.
Fourthly, I didn't actually comment on my opinions of ai as a writing tool at all. If I had, the OP would be a lot more negative. In fact, I agree with you - ai writing, especially writing any prose, is horrifically shit. it is templated at best and winds up being boring as fuck to read. It is also fairly obvious when you see it, and i have no idea why anyone would use it to write their work unless they are poor at writing generally and think an ai's half assed malformation is even better than they are (which is sad if it is true for anyone who is writing).
I started writing because there were no new stories in other forms of media anymore, and I wanted to create something both humorous and mildly grim dark that poked fun at litrpg gently, did homages to my favorite authors like Pratchett, Matt dinniman, shirtaloon, and the Monty python crew, and get a chance to use absurdist humor to get people to laugh (like the MC's eldritch horror summon that the MC's girlfriend finds cute beyond reason, but screams like a host of the damned in a thresher machine while she pets it like Blofeld from Bond did his cat). It got me actively doing something productive again as a requirement to have built ai products knocked me out of my career path. I wrote every word myself, and got fed up with AI suggesting how to write any of it during the rewrite. That's why I use it only to flag where I haven't done something I told it I have to do as part of my that rewrite I doing (mainly for the missus, but I'm committed to the bit now that I'm 40 chapters in).
Finally, as I said before, ai hasn't written any of my book. However, It has been helpful in the following:
- Helping me to find names for unusual character concepts I fed it. Eg: how to call a sentient mimic in the form of a house that could integrate into the MC's system instance for my litrpg version. It told me about a dnd site which had a fungal mimic form called a mycomimic that I wound up using for the genus. Beyond d&d games, I'm unaware of a house made of a semi sentient fungus that eats mice, bugs, and burglars and uses them to create it's own furniture being in any book. Still working out how to make it work in the prog fantasy version, but as the system is now basically a mentally unstable book held by the MC, it will probably develop a bit of mold on its spine or cover or something to enable the theme.
- Ideation of how to remove a "system" from a litrpg novel, but keep the frameworks i already built so the whole book doesn't fall apart. It suggested some high level ideas, one of which I took (a grimoire) as a concept, then worked on the idea myself, and developed it into its own sentient (and then sapient) character without using the ai to do any of that part. It went from a dry tome speaking like Ben stein to John cleese esque as it evolved from sentient to sapient, and ai had nothing to do with that process, just the method for encasing a system into a prog fantasy novel. That process alone is taking me months to get right, and adding over 100 pages so far to the novel. the litrpg stuff permeated everything as the first instance of the book had a system that was a burgeoning character in its own right. Now I've had to create a more advanced meta lore and a whole new set of frameworks that a re loosely based on the old ones just to make it all work. (The things we do for our wives...)
- Ideation of how said grimoire can create a party chat and then turning that ideation session into an interlude parodying all sorts of socmed platforms, from FB to 4chan as failed experiments done surreptitiously on the local wildlife when the mc is in transit between towns.
- Confirming I am not leaving elements of the original litrpg framework behind in my rewrite. Because it is literally everywhere, I kept finding elements of my "system" appearing over and over in my rewrite. I couldn't make any progress rewriting anything if I had to keep going back to the start to make sure i hadn't left something behind. I've even forced the instance of that chat in openai to not give me new ideas because a) don't want them, b) don't need them, and c) it wastes space and memory. I rewrite it, then run it past the ai to make sure i dont miss terms or keep quantifications that I'm not supposed to be using anymore. It doesn't write anything, it just makes sure I haven't broken my own rules that I defined.
Your argument is like saying "if you use a proofreading tool like a spell checker, you didn't write it yourself". I get you dislike ai and its plagiarism because you found an ai doing it to your own work. That sucks, but im glad they settled and you'll get a decent cut of the proceeds based on what you already said and how much they owe per book.
However, that doesn't give you the right to go off half cocked at any other writer and accuse them of having no ownership over their own writing just because they used the tool for any purpose whatsoever. Your feelings and beliefs, as grounded in your own trauma as they may be, do not equate to truth when it comes to how other people use the tools available to them. It's only if they use it to write for them that you have a decent argument.
So my purpose is largely to enable a rewrite, one which I did after I finished my first draft entirely. I wanted it to identify if I made the book too much like a lit rpg genre while simultaneously preserving a bunch of frameworks I need to use to keep the progression fantasy elements in play. So I wrote out all the frameworks in a doc, pdfed it, uploaded it to a project file for the book along with the original version of the book. I took seed data from prior instances of auditing and revision analysis I was doing with it to preserve character ideation. Then rewrote each chapter, copied it into chatgpt with that seed data and ruleset in place. I also told it don't give me ideas, just flag the stuff I didn't do. Been working on it that way chapter by chapter.
Yeah collision detection in 3d graphics without the right algorithm is naturally a nightmare, but for ai it is doubly so. That said, I did see a seamless collision algo that actually worked without all the little glitches last year. Once they can incorporate that into ai videography, it will be much better at object permanence, provided it can understand a railing isn't part of a person and can't pass through people without lots of blood involved.
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