I mean, it can’t have all the information! There’s a lot of information out there that can’t be known because it never ends up online. Like, the internet wouldn’t know I just farted real bad because I never shared that info online for anyone else to read about it.
Wait shit
FWIW, apology for failure doesn’t suggest a lack of trying. I think that is the angle most are coming from. People are out there organizing and protesting, but it’s just not enough.
Weird that it would be coming from Americans given how often US media has depicted the importance of the homefront during the various wars that America has participated in.
Militaries still need food and supplies to operate, so someone has to be making/raising/growing all of that stuff. And those workers need to be paid, accommodated, and kept happy, so every other industry like banking, education, healthcare, entertainment, etc. needs to keep running at full steam to prop up all aspects of the supply chain.
Yeah Top Gear went to…weird places after the whole kerfuffle.
Ah, of course! What trio could be more iconic?
!Does anyone else hear what sounds like an angry mob of British car enthusiasts outside?!<
The secondary rules also do say no AI generated content, just as an FYI
Woah now, think of the poor algorithm!
“Cooked” is Gen Z slang, basically means “done.”
“This guy’s cooked.” (He’s had too much/he’s out of it/he’s screwed)
“I’m cooked, chat.” (I’m out of options/it’s over for me)
In the context of this meme, which is from the movie Back to the Future, Marty is in the past and using slang that hasn’t entered popular use yet, so Doc thinks he’s talking about cooking food and is confused about what he means.
Also not to be confused with similar “Let them cook” (they’re onto something, let’s see where this goes).
For anyone who has it on vinyl, don’t feel like you’re missing out. Just replace the microwave’s turntable with the record and all of your food can be infused with the smooth groove of psychedelic rock (and probably some groovy carcinogens, too!)
Real “Marie Antoinette having an entire fake rustic village built to pretend to be a peasant for a day” energy.
The Biden FCC briefly brought it back but it was quickly killed by a Bush-appointed judge based on the conservative majority Supreme Court’s ruling on Loper Bright v. Raimondo which ended the practice of Chevron Deference.
Chevron Deference was a policy that allowed federal agencies to be the interpreters of ambiguous regulations, and in this particular case the uncertainty was whether or not the internet counted as a “utility” akin to electricity and water. The updated interpretation is that the FCC doesn’t have the right to treat the internet as a utility if it is not explicitly defined as a utility by law, so net neutrality was killed.
There is still hope that a later, more progressive Congress and administration could pass regulation declaring the internet to be a utility, or that a later court could change their minds on that interpretation, but for now it’s not looking good.
Nintendogs
If you want more info about some other Anglosphere countries and their comparable organizations, along with a healthy dose of “Wait what the hell are these governments doing”, the Five Eyes article on Wikipedia has a helpful table of its member states and their respective intelligence apparati.
Gonna love those microplastics leeching in over time as well.
Subreddits that are critical of Musk/DOGE are getting locked/banned. There was also a ban on many LGBT/Porn/Piracy subreddits, but most were unbanned because apparently that was an “oops”.
From what little I know if it, it’s sorta twofold what it does:
It looks through documentation across a patient record to look for patterns a doctor might miss. For example, a patient comes in complaining of persistent headaches/fatigue. A doctor might look at that in isolation and just try to treat the symptoms, but an AI might see some potentially relevant lab results in their histories and recommend more testing to rule out a cancer diagnosis that the doctor might have thought unlikely without awareness of that earlier data.
Doctors have to do a lot of busywork in their record keeping that AIs can help streamline. A lot of routine documentation, attestations, statements, etc. Since so much of it is very template-heavy already, an AI might be able to streamline the process as well as tailor it better to the patient. E.g. the record indicates “assigned male at birth” and an ER doctor defaults to he/him pronouns looking only at the medical birth sex marker, but the patient is also being seen by a gender clinic at which she is receiving gender affirming treatment as a trans woman and brings up that earlier data to correct the documentation and make it more accurate and personalized for the patient.
In reality, I am sure that practices and hospital systems are just going to use this as an excuse to say “You don’t need to spend as much time on documentation and chart review now so you can see more patients, right?” It’s the cotton gin issue.
When I heard about the targeted moves against the FBI by DOGE, I got to thinking that the FBI is not the sort of organization you want to anger if you have skeletons in your closet. And even if you don’t, they’ll put one there to find.
But I’m worried we’re already at the point where the entire agency can be discredited (not entirely undeservedly) just because President Cheeto and Supreme President Musk could label any findings as “fake news” and the majority of Americans would take it as fact.
They could be the SA to whatever SS the Trump admin wants to replace them with (the Proud Boys?)
Just to nitpick, the CIA is more the “topple governments” organization.
I am sure the FBI is involved, but their operations are primarily internal affairs. It’s like MI5 and MI6 in the UK.
American sports fans literally don’t know any other chants besides “Let’s go (Team Name)! clap clap clapclapclap” for domestic games, or “U-S-A! U-S-A!” for international ones.