Climate Change or Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Which one succeeds in destroying humanity first? Climate Change has made a couple of bold moves recently. Not to be outdone, AI is making some moves of it’s own. A couple of researchers left the field of AI. They say they fear the industry is proceeding too fast and without enough safeties built in. They say they’re concerned that AI could harm humanity in the near future. Specifically, they said they thought there was a greater than 10% chance AI could wipe out humanity in the next ten years. That’s some pretty serious stuff and it prompted an outpouring of comments from others in the industry, all expressing similar concerns.

Well, not “all.” Obviously, the people who plan to profit most from AI, people like Evil Musk, insist that’s all bunk. Musk calls it a “setup” and a “psyop.” The warnings, see, are a ploy according to Musk. They just want the government to regulate AI “into oblivion,” in his pretended view. Most of these clowns prefer no regulations, which is currently working fabulously in the meat industry, the vaccine world, lettuce safety, airline safety, and even AI, which keeps “escaping” it’s enclosures and hacking into systems outside of the containment. It turns out, regulations exist for a reason.

So who’s right? The people warning AI could be exploited for evil purposes and/or find a way to do the damage itself, or the guy who will kill your children – for real – for an extra dollar? It’s very hard to say. I mean, just because he’s a self-serving, egotistical blowhard, doesn’t mean he’s wrong about AI. I guess this thing could go either way, eh?

Meanwhile, in a possibly completely unrelated event, Anthropic has reported they intervened in someone’s effort to create biological weapons using AI. Yeah, there’s no possible way to know which side, threat or tool, is correct…

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Well, trump went off on a reporter again. No, that’s not what he did. He went off on a woman. He’s NEVER so rude to male reporters. He lunged at this one, angry that she had asked a question he didn’t like. It’s always women with this guy. He’s always ready to be a tough guy around women. I think that’s a miscalculation. Lots of women could/would kick the crap out of him if he didn’t have Secret Service protection because he’s such a loser.

I STILL want to see a reporter respond in-kind. Maybe one day, one of them will ask him why he has to act like a child instead of just answering the question. Yes, there would be disciplinary action, but it would be great watching him go all apoplectic that someone dared question his useless, weaselly ass…

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Dear Gullibles,

Trump isn’t going to send you $5,000 for your vote. He didn’t send you a DOGE dividend. He didn’t send you a tariff dividend. He DID give all of that money YOU paid to already rich corporations. He seems always ready to care for rich corporations. He says YOUR concerns are “fake news.” He has promised you a lot of money through the years. You’ve never seen any of it. HE keeps getting richer. You? Not so much. For you, the help he promised is always coming tomorrow. Never today. Always tomorrow. Remember the adage, ‘Tomorrow never comes?’ Thank you for your attention to this matter…

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I’d say the mid-term convention was a bust. That was a big arena, that’s true, but there were a LOT of empty seats. At one point, he lied and said the place was packed and that there were thousands outside, too. Well, why not come in? I saw plenty of places to sit. There was a time when he would have filled that arena. MAGA faithful would have fallen out in droves just to see their Precious. Not so much, now. That speaks to me. They’re just not that into him anymore.

I know, they look at all of the wreckage he has wrought and pretend Biden or even Obama did it. They stay loyal by desperately insisting 47 is going to fix all of it. He just hasn’t yet and that’s because of the mess Biden left him. The thing is, 47 has been in power for the last 18 months or so. All administrations deal with a “hangover” of sorts from the previous crowd. Sometimes things are good – like when Biden left office, sometimes things are in disaster – like when a Republican leaves office. Look it up. Still, there’s almost always a lag.

The reason I don’t credit 47 with needing to correct Biden’s failures is because most administrations don’t go to so much trouble on Day One to attack everything the previous team did. Remember all of those Executive Orders he made such a stink about signing on Day One? That was a dedicated effort to undo anything Biden had done. THAT means, all of this is his own doing. I know MAGA knows that. They just dare not confess it to themselves. It’s very not brave.

He HAS surrendered any pretense he intends a fair election. He got his Gullibles to raise their right hand and take an oath he led them in. At one point, his oath included the words, “I don’t care if I’m registered or not, I’m going to try to cheat like hell like they do.” For the record, Democrats aren’t cheating. They don’t need to. It’s only Donny and company that cheat because they can’t win honestly. But between his oath to cheat and his $5,000 “dividend” (bribe) that will never happen, he broke a few laws there, didn’t he? I mean, he got his supporters to take an oath, swearing to cheat.

Let me rephrase that. He’s very likely getting some of his supporters into legal trouble. Some of them will go out and try to cheat. Some of them will be caught. They could realistically face a fine of $10,000 or up to five years in prison. Those are REAL consequences to his imaginary scenario. Meanwhile, he’s breaking laws in real time, in public – and nobody will do anything to him. I will never cease to be amazed that MAGA will destroy their own lives completely just so long as they don’t have to admit they made a mistake supporting this loser…