So tech bros, instrumental in voting Trump in, are now worried that they’re wild fantasies will come true under Trump: But if it does, as another user noted in a since-deleted post on r/Singularity, Trump’s second term may well “shift the [artificial superintelligence] future into [a] dystopia, not a utopia.” https://futurism.com/ai-bros-terrified-agi-trump Tell me I should have…
Fintan O’Toole has made a brilliant career watching Ireland (his home country) transform itself—its Catholic culture, its vanishing population, its frail economy—into something very modern and profoundly different. And he’s covered our country so well this year. Does he see something of a transformation that’s comparable in the United States?
The great German industrialists of the 1930s found Adolf Hitler crude. But they disliked democracy and taxes and regulation far more. … Those who are with Trump often reveal a harder ideological edge. Sometimes this is about the belief that Trump will be more resolute in supporting Israel. Sometimes it is openly anti-democratic. “I no…
America PAC door knockers were flown to Michigan, driven in the back of a U-Haul, and told they’d have to pay hotel bills unless they met unrealistic quotas. One was surprised they were working to elect Donald Trump. https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-america-pac-blitz-canvassing-michigan-uhaul/ Musk’s mistreatment of workers is not a bug, it’s a feature. One can see it play…
… his t-shirt should’ve accurately said ‘Zuck miserabilis est adulator’ https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/27/politics/big-tech-ceos-donald-trump-election/index.html What ever, tough guy…
The reason for Seymour’s rating came through loud and clear in some savage commentary. “This divisive approach needs to end,” said one respondent, who believed he was “losing support from many of those who may have voted for him in his electorate”. A legal firm leader said “I worry they are not focusing on the biggest issues…
Cursing under his breath at yet another round of inapt debate answers from the vice presidential candidate, venture capitalist Peter Thiel reportedly rushed onstage Tuesday to restart a glitching J.D. Vance during a commercial break. “Seriously? For what I paid for this thing, it should work flawlessly,” https://theonion.com/peter-thiel-rushes-to-restart-glitching-j-d-vance-during-commercial-break/
In which the error bands now separate.