CDR SALAMANDER: War is Brutally Honest – Name it as Such. “Too many people have forgotten what war is. When one party attacks the other, and the attacked party fights back – the war continues until one party is defeated or neither party has the ability to carry on – and there is peace. Wars are not ended until then.”

WELL, TO BE FAIR, HE’S KINDA RUNNING UNOPPOSED: If The Election Were Held Today, Trump Would Win.

But remember, the election isn’t being held today.

HMM: Elon Musk Claims AI will run out of electricity and transformers in 2025.

“The constraints on AI compute are very predictable… A year ago, the shortage was chips; neural net chips. Then, it was very easy to predict that the next shortage will be voltage step-down transformers. You’ve got to feed the power to these things. If you’ve got 100-300 kilovolts coming out of a utility and it’s got to step down all the way to six volts, that’s a lot of stepping down.

“My not-that-funny joke is that you need transformers to run transformers. You know, the AI is like… There’s this thing called a transformer in AI… I don’t know, it’s a combination of sort of neural nets… Anyway, they’re running out of transformers to run transformers.

“Then, the next shortage will be electricity. They won’t be able to find enough electricity to run all the chips. I think next year, you’ll see they just can’t find enough electricity to run all the chips.

“The simultaneous growth of electric cars and AI, both of which need electricity, both of which need voltage transformers – I think, is creating a tremendous demand for electrical equipment and for electrical power generation.”

Wind, solar, and wishful thinking won’t cut it.

SERVES ‘EM RIGHT: Democrats don’t want Biden but like the alternatives even less.

SPACE: SpaceX launches Crew-8 astronaut mission to International Space Station for NASA (video).

Flashback: Some parts of America still work.

ANALYSIS: TRUE. Anti-Semitic Lunatics at Berkeley Need a Thumpin’.

I’m so old I can remember when we were told it was good to punch a Nazi.

YOU WANT SOMETHING DONE THERE’S GOT TO BE MONEY FOR THE BIG GUY IN IT SOMEWHERE: Dorothy Brown And Steven Dean Question Biden Administration’s Commitment To Addressing Systemic Racial Bias In The Tax Code.

STAY TUNED: Supreme Court Could Rule Monday on 14th Amendment Challenges to Trump’s Eligibility.

HECK, THESE DAYS THEY HIDE OUT ON IVY LEAGUE FACULTIES: IDF Says It Captured Dozens of Hamas Terrorists Hiding in Gaza School.

OH, CANADA: Justice Minister defends house arrest power for people feared to commit a hate crime in future.

Justice Minister Arif Virani has defended a new power in the online harms bill to impose house arrest on someone who is feared to commit a hate crime in the future – even if they have not yet done so already.

The person could be made to wear an electronic tag, if the attorney-general requests it, or ordered by a judge to remain at home, the bill says.

Mr. Virani, who is Attorney-General as well as Justice Minister, said it is important that any peace bond be “calibrated carefully,” saying it would have to meet a high threshold to apply.

But he said the new power, which would require the attorney-general’s approval as well as a judge’s, could prove “very, very important” to restrain the behaviour of someone with a track record of hateful behaviour who may be targeting certain people or groups.

If “there’s a genuine fear of an escalation, then an individual or group could come forward and seek a peace bond against them and to prevent them from doing certain things.”

The peace bond could have conditions that include not being close to a synagogue or a mosque, he said. It could also lead to restrictions on internet usage and behaviour. “That would help to deradicalize people who are learning things online and acting out in the real world violently – sometimes fatally.”

Mr. Virani said the bill would strike a balance, though, and would mean that content that is “awful but lawful” would remain online.

“There’s a lot of bad stuff out there. But this is not about the bad stuff. This is a much higher level,” he said.

Well, to start.

GOOGLE SITS ON A THRONE OF LIES:

we created AI capable of answering, in seconds, any question within the bounds of all recorded human knowledge, and the first thing we asked it was to lie

— Mike Solana (@micsolana) February 21, 2024

DISPATCHES FROM THE BLUE ZONES: Another City ‘At the Brink of Disaster’ After Defunding Police.

JOSH BLACKMAN AND SETH BARRETT TILLMAN: Part II – A Response to Professor Jed Shugerman on Slate in 2017, and his most recent 2024 Tweet Thread(s), About The 1793 Hamilton Document!