Monday, April 21, 2025

From Artificial to Adversarial Intelligence


Breaking the Broken News:
  Pope Francis has died, and we offer condolences to all who were positively affected by his presence.  Though not Catholic, I would seriously consider accepting a position as the next Church pontiff.  All I need would be Holy water, a Bible, a shotgun and plenty of ammo (sometimes considerable force is required to make one turn the other cheek).

In recent days we've been assured by the Expert Class that artificial intelligence (AI) will soon take over a plethora of jobs performed by humans, leaving subsequently unemployed masses to. . .do what?  Spend their days leisurely attending pickle ball games until unemployment insurance runs out?  Then what?  Retrain for new jobs which will likely also disappear as AI gets its hooks into human chores?  Can you smell riots in the streets?

Shouldn't somebody stand up, face the public squarely in the face and say, hey everybody, um, those chip factories you're trying to build faster than ice cream stands -- what if, two or three years from now, we discover something way better than chips and they become equivalent to the blunderbuss in terms of modern technology?  And what if retrofitting is not an option?

Meanwhile, at Florida State University a young man shot two people to death and wounded several others, and once shot by cops himself and transported to a hospital he refused to answer any questions.  Of interest was a news reporter saying that the suspect was known to have ADHD, presumably on medications, and has also been on drugs for some such diminished growth syndrome.  Yet, just days ago the scientific media reported that ADHD was now found perhaps not to exist at all and that popular medications may have little to do with caring for a condition which may not even exist.

Regarding growth hormones or whatever this guy may have been on, I was reminded of a medical information job I had years ago where I encountered some renegade medical study where young boys on some medical regimen were required to have their penises measured for length consistently.  Whether this had any relationship to their physical height I do not know, but it was just peculiar and funny to encounter report after daily report of medical staff conducting penis measurements!

Pack 'em up and ship 'em out:  Strange how the rotten Biden bunch could fly in as many plane loads of absolutely illegal immigrants from other countries as they wished, but the courts now have a problem with Trump attempting to send them back, despite overwhelming public support for bye-bye one and all.

Bring me the head, oops, I mean bed of Abrego Garcia:  Illegal immigrants appear often so proficient at one thing -- making babies.  So many deficiencies when it comes to staying here, but so much success in the bed when offspring are produced and deposited widely at society's expense like so many fly specks.  Maryland Senator Chris Hollen has already irritated fellow Democrats and of course Trump conservatives for his bull-headed attempts to return Garcia to the USA (only, if justice prevails, to be deported again).

Speaking of MS-13 (were we?) and other gangs, we found at least some delight in a recent study indicating that tattoo inks may be toxic, readily absorbed into the body.  While we wish no toxic ink harm to legal subjects, if tattoo ink takes out members of entire criminal gangs that would be a bonus.

Then there's the other rotting fish head known as the ACLU, seemingly in my opinion a tank full of leftist lawyers afflicted not in a small way with hatred of American values and willing to go all out to protect anybody or any institution which goes against established law.  I briefly joined as a subscribing member years ago before I understood the left, but as far as I'm concerned they are to me what the Muslim Brotherhood is to several Middle Eastern countries -- that is, the MB is banned there.  Our American CAIR is an offshoot of the MB, but enjoys the freedoms in this country that it wouldn't in, say, Egypt, which considers the MB a criminal group. Make of all of this what you will.

David Hogg Returns:  He apparently left his hamster wheel in order to became vice something or another of some sort of failing leftist debris, whatever.  If he actually saves the Democrat Party from itself, we can only imagine how it will look.

Smile, you're on camera:  A University of Michigan coach was fired and arrested for finding ways to retrieve female students' and other women's personal --make that naked -- photos from individual accounts.  In my opinion, if you're stupid enough, no matter your gender, to put yourself out there minus attire and/or being suggestive, I say share the whole damned lot with the world.  At last, posed photos that show humans as we really are, instead of staged pictures where you're hugging your grandmother or petting the cat. Bring it on.

Taxes, taxes, taxes:  Congress and Trump must put forth a major tax cut for everybody, especially for "the rich" so they will use some the money to create businesses and jobs (which, isn't it strange, hardly ever succeed without startup funds).  Meanwhile, as some insist that Trump fire Fed chairman Jerome Powell, what we really need is for the Fed itself to go away and let us go back to the Treasury as our main economic source.  The Fed has too many banks involved with too many foreign connections, we believe.

Pets Need Adoption:  And they don't post naked photos of themselves on the Internet, either.  Problem is, lots of people anxious to adopt dogs, cats, rabbits, etc., are prevented from doing so for one simple reason:  One visit to the veterinarian can be costly, even financially ruinous.  Because we humans have put so many animals in precarious positions over time, maybe we should require some government funding for pet health care, and this will obviously alleviate the overflow in the nation's pet shelters.  Animals can't speak for themselves, obviously, but why should they have to communicate the needs we all know they have?