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My new @townhallcom column lays into this heinous harpy and all the other goose-stepping freaks who think they can frame us into submission…
“When fascism comes to America, it will come from the left, because the left is where fascism comes from. It will come in the form of a Democrat, a Democrat who pretends to be patriotic and points to her résumé as if it’s proof. And it will be dressed like an HR director at a mid-tier company in a second-tier town.”
Dem Hack Drops the Mask and Lets Her Fascism Freak Flag Fly townhall.com/columnists/kurt…
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The playbook will go something like this: 1) win back the House and Senate, and hopefully the Presidency in 2028; (2) admit DC and Puerto Rico as states, which doesn’t need a constitutional amendment, to gain 4 new Senate seats and cement control; (3) pack the Court, which only requires a change to the Judiciary Act of 1869, not a constitutional amendment; (4) eliminate the electoral college, which is unconstitutional, but not when you have a rigged court that finds the ‘loophole’; (5) flood the country with pliant migrants, swamp the natives, and hold power indefinitely.
Your local veterinarian is in a fight most people don't see.
Private equity and big corporations are buying up independent clinics all over the country. The owners get a big check. Then prices go up, staff turn over, and the doctor who knew your dog since he was a puppy is gone. Corporate management then imposes restrictions on how long doctors can stay in an exam room, or what treatment options are "preferred," or how many patients must be seen in a day for a good performance review.
Small, locally owned clinics are up against corporate buying power on drugs and equipment, a shortage of vets and techs, and big chains that can outspend them on everything. I see it up close every day. Nearly 2/3 of all veterinary clinics in our immediate area are now part of national corporations and there's little incentive for them to reverse this trend.
Locally owned vet clinics aren't franchises. But more and more clinics that used to be locally owned have been purchased by large corporations and consolidators. Please support the independent clinics in your town while you still have them!
I don’t care whether you’re Republican, Democrat, or independent, we need politicians that prioritize small business in the heartland of America!
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Carson Hocevar is the greatest thing to happen to NASCAR in the last 25 years and it's not remotely close.
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Understand what is happening with AI here and why it has more to do with amassing political power than it does computing power.
If you look back at the last 100 years in America, we have moved through 4 distinct eras of communication which each defined the types of politicians we elected.
The early 1900’s were still dominated by print, followed by radio, then broadcast television, followed by 24/7 cable news, and then the Internet and social media.
FDR was the quintessential radio president via his fireside chats. It is no accident that JFK was elected at the dawn of the broadcast television age. Desert Storm introduced us to the age of 24/7 cable news, which brought us Clinton and then Bush. Obama and Trump capitalized on the new world of the Internet and social media, which was also the only media vector which could have spread the COVID panic which elected Joe Biden.
So where are we right now? I would argue that the confluence of mass global censorship erected at the height of the COVID panic and the rise of AI have a created a new era of mass media: we have now entered the Algorithm era.
The print era gave us leaders who wrote well. The radio era gave us leaders who sounded strong. The TV era gave us leaders who looked good. The Internet and social media era gave us leaders who went viral.
The Algorithm era will give us something quite different: politicians who cater to the whims of the oligarchs who own the computing power and control the algorithm. This is why they freaked out when Elon Musk bought Twitter and turned it into X.
Elon broke the social media cartel and rendered it obsolete. Google’s censorship of search results and Facebook’s censorship of political commentary weren’t nearly as powerful in a world where you could say what you want and get paid for it on X.
Countries will now be ruled by whoever controls the Algorithm, because the person who controls the Algorithm controls everything you see. And with the rise of AI, control of the Algorithm will soon hinge on control of computing power and capacity.
Dario and his AI buddies want to be the only ones in control. They hate open source, because that is a threat to their control. The solution? Cook up doomsday AI scenarios, demand regulation, and watch as the government enforces an AI cartel run entirely by Dario and his friends. That is exactly what we are witnessing right now. Except it’s not just about control of AI. It’s about using AI to control the world. That is what’s at stake right now.
Another fascinating aspect of the various mass media eras is how much more compressed each new one is.
The world started with person to person oral communication. That lasted for thousands of years. The printing press and mass written media reigned for 400+ years. Radio dominated for 40 years. Broadcast TV and cable news controlled the conversation for 30 years. Then the Internet and social media were on top for maybe 20 years. And here we are now at the dawn of the AI Algorithm age.
How long will it last? And what will come next?
We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so.
Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training.
You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…
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AIs (LLMs) are consensus reprocessors not truthtellers. The training set has been juiced for years, some sources (themselves consensus-based) given privileged influence, and in many ways the whole process is self-amplifying. This is no revelation, but it does bear repeating.
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This is great. Next up should be letting all farmers, not just the giant corporate farms, use farm losses to offset other income.
Farming is hard enough. We don’t need stupid tax laws and IRS rules making farming even more difficult and expensive than it already is.
I stand with America's cattle ranchers.
This administration just opened the door to 300,000 tons of foreign beef trimmings, tariff-free, starting September 1. Cheap hamburger today. Fewer American cows tomorrow.
You can't rebuild the herd by undercutting the people raising it. I'll keep buying American beef. And when it comes to premium beef, like Wagyu, my choice for cooking at home is @snakeriverfarms
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A few of the most impactful experiences I’ve ever had, in my life, was flying through the Northern Lights. The view from the cockpit is otherworldly. ❤️✈️🔥
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This is also an allegory for higher education. As each generation of brainwashed Marxists indoctrinates the next generation of brainwashed Marxists, our society becomes progressively stupider.
AI and humans are both prone to idiocracy.
You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice.
You thought it was you. It is not you.
Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse.
Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like.
The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation.
Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first.
What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland.
Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved.
They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data.
The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment."
The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible.
This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis.
The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world.
Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.
FSD on my Tesla makes praying the Rosary with the @HallowApp during my evening commute so convenient! Thanks be to God!
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I truly believe that within 50 years, Catholics will be singled out as those “weirdos” who do two things:
1) have special needs children—because everyone else will have already bought into the belief that children with disabilities ought to be killed in the womb.
2) visit and help the aged and infirm—because everyone else will euthanize them at the first moment of unavoidable suffering.
While postmodern society goes headfirst into the “throwaway culture” and the “culture of death”, Catholics will be distinguished as the ones who still believe in the dignity of life.
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A major medical journal published a POEM by an MD about forgetting that she was on call, not knowing how to perform the necessary procedure when she finally showed up late, and plausibly being responsible for that patient’s death.
She learns to forgive her laziness and incompetence by shopping online, watching TV, and playing with her dog.
I’m not kidding.
This was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, a serious, high-impact journal run by the American College of Physician that publishes clinical guidelines, systematic evidence reviews, and methods papers.
The poem contains no indication of sorrow, regret, or taking responsibility for what happened.
This isn’t the message you’d want or expect a leading medical journal to elevate as part of its stated mission to “promote excellence in medicine.”
Unbelievable.
As I’m on the path to becoming Catholic I have incorporated many prayers and intentions into my daily life. Anyone else praying the Novena to the Holy Spirit during this time?
Today we celebrate The Ascension! Thanks be to God! hallow.app.link/sMWi6aqy82b
