Archive for 2020

SKYNET SMILES… ON REDMOND? Microsoft gets exclusive access to AI deemed ‘too dangerous to release.’

The reason that OpenAI’s program was deemed so dangerous was because it is capable of being fed a piece of text and predict the words that come next to such a high degree of accuracy that it would be difficult to distinguish between it and a human.

As such, it would be able to be abused by extremist groups to create “synthetic propaganda” for white supremacists or jihadist Islamis, for example.

“Due to our concerns about malicious applications of the technology, we are not releasing the trained model,” wrote OpenAI in February 2019.

Good lord, with that kind of talent it could take over anchor duties from George Stephanopoulos or Jake Tapper.

SURVEY FINDS MILLENNIALS THE MOST INTOLERANT GENERATION: They are also most likely to seek revenge against those they believe harmed them, according to the 2020 edition of Dr. George Barna, research director for the Center for Cultural Resources at Arizona Christian University.

But here’s a question for us: Should we Baby Boomers put a hold on our tut-tutting, since we raised the Millennials and allowed the public school system and the media-driven culture to inculcate values like intolerance of contrary opinions?

I THOUGHT I WAS UTTERLY RID OF THIS WORLD. IT’S BEEN TWENTY EIGHT YEARS. BUT LIKE CATS THE DANG THINGS TURN UP WHEN YOU LEAST EXPECT THEM TO: In The Beginning.

POSSIBLY THE WORLD’S LONGEST BLOG POST. I DIDN’T HAVE THE TIME TO MAKE IT SHORTER OR I WOULD HAVE: NEKULTURNY.

NO. NO. JUST NO. YOU DON’T GET TO SAY “NEVERMIND.”  I WANT YOU TO MAKE A FULL AND PUBLIC CONFESSION OF YOUR INSANE LIES AND THEIR MOTIVES. AND SPECTATORS WILL BE ABLE TO PELT YOU WITH ROTTEN FRUIT AND FISH ENTRAILS WHILE YOU DO IT:  NY Times and Nikole Hannah-Jones Quietly Dropping Central Claims of 1619 Project.

Making kids and idiots hate their own country with a farrago of hateful lies should come at a cost.

YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE IS BEAUTIFUL? RAISING YOUR KIDS WITH CONSEQUENCES AND BOUNDARIES. SOMETHING MOST OF THE PSEUDO ANARCHISTS’ PARENTS FAILED TO DO:  Anarchy is Beautiful, Says Teen Vogue.

AND YET HAMMER AND SICKLE FLAGS ARE EVERYWHERE. BUT THEY CAN DESTROY EVERYONE ELSE’S SYMBOLS:  Thin Blue Line Flag Goes the Way of Confederate Statues.

And if it were just confederate statues, it would be crazy enough. But they’re going after ever statue, even statues of saints on  church property.

ROGER SIMON: Bullets Over Louisville.

I was about to write about why Michael Bloomberg could have seen fit to spend millions paying the fines of Florida felons so they can vote, thus courting a possible indictment of his own for bribery (short form: terminal envy of fellow billionaire Trump augmented by fear POTUS might turn off the China spigot that so enriches the former NYC mayor), when it was announced yet another cop was shot, this time in Louisville.

I had been watching the violence and destruction in that city—about two and a half hour’s drive from where I am sitting—out of the corner of my eye on my office TV.

There went my plans for next year’s Kentucky Derby, I thought selfishly, then felt sick to my stomach. How much more of this could any of us take? How many more police need be shot?

I thought back to my days as a sixties anti-war protestor, being caught up in the crowds yelling “Off the pig!” The joke then was what we would do if someone broke into our apartments with no cops available. “Call a hippie!” was the supposedly jocular response.

In truth, in those days few of us thought badly of the police (with the exception, of course, of the extremist Kathy Boudin/Weather Underground-types who killed them). It was all kind of a game to us, stupid, juvenile and pointless as it was, not to mention politically reactionary. The police were and are the working class, not the privileged college kids then attacking them.

Today, things are very different and multiple times worse, making the sixties indeed seem like child’s play.

As I type this, yet another cop is reported as being shot in Louisville, making two, the same number as were shot just the other day in L.A., with no one apprehended.

All this after it was made clear that in the Breonna Taylor case, the one all the Louisville madness is supposed to be about, the police did not break in on her apartment with a “no-knock” entry, and her drug-dealer boyfriend they were seeking admittedly opened fire first. And yet a cop, who was defending an already wounded buddy, got indicted. Go figure.

Basta.

The time has come to say clearly what many of us have muttered for a long time:

BLM… the Marxist-led Black Lives Matter… is the modern version of the KKK. The skin colors may be different but the murderous instincts and racist loathing are the same.

The veneer of social justice is less than paper thin. “No justice, no peace,” is the hollowest slogan imaginable. It’s all about acting out like a bunch of crazies in a Hieronymus Bosch painting, except now they’re drugged out on fentanyl, meth or whatever. Evil is on the march in this country.

The question is who is putting the rioters, looters, and destroyers up to their mayhem? Who, for example, rented the U-Haul from which, video shows, all sorts of ad hoc weaponry was disgorged to the supposedly peaceful protestors before the Taylor decision came down? And who paid that person and so on?

The Department of Justice knows. But will it act?