THE DEBATE IS ON: I’m Not Saying Trump Reads VodkaPundit But…
Author Archive: Stephen Green
August 9, 2024
DON’T GET COCKY:
So after the best coverage any presidential candidate has ever received, and after taking zero questions for 19 days, this is the result. Jig is up. https://t.co/xBv1bMxQx4
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) August 8, 2024
I wrote last week that August would be “gut-check time” as the media did everything in their power to boost Harris. But they can only work with the material they have and, despite White House/Media collusion to keep her out of sight, it isn’t like she’s an unknown commodity after four years as veep.
Still… don’t get cocky.
SPOILER: SHE IS AN AUTHORITARIAN JACKBOOT. You Don’t Have to Wonder if Kamala Is an Authoritarian Jackboot, Just Look at Her Record.
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Seriously, Cirque du Harris-Walz Is Going to Make Me Miss Biden. “Now we’re getting a glimpse of what the alternatives to Joe Biden look like and it’s like dropping acid and having it and a bout of dysentery hit at the same time while you’re in a carnival house of mirrors.”
The Biden-Harris administration is quietly floating a funding cut for a national security initiative that protects America’s underwater infrastructure. At the same time, it’s asking Congress for millions of dollars for equity and “environmental justice” initiatives, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
The administration recently informed Congress that it wants to strip $10 million in annual funding for the Maritime Administration’s (MARAD) Cable Security Fleet (CSF), which protects the underwater infrastructure powering America’s connection to the internet. Hostile nations like Russia and China have repeatedly attempted to sabotage these networks, plunging the American government and military into darkness.
I’d say I was gobsmacked by the decision to cut CSF but nothing this White House does to hurt the US or help China surprises me.
THEY ALL KNEW:
EXCLUSIVE: In a newly discovered Zoom recording, the Biden/Harris team reveals how they manipulated voters to think Biden's mental decline was "disinformation". 🧵/1 pic.twitter.com/i5Spfxtjkb
— Matt Orfalea (@0rf) August 7, 2024
Meanwhile, the White House is keeping Kamala Harris virtually locked away as much as Biden was literally locked away.
August 8, 2024
IF A DRONE ISN’T CHEAP AND CAN’T BE BUILT QUICKLY AND IN GREAT NUMBERS, I’M NOT SURE IT’S WORTH IT ANYMORE: General Atomics Reveals New Carrier-Capable Drone.
MORE THAN JUST TRUE, IT WAS NOBLE: Trump Just Said Out Loud What Everybody in Washington Is Afraid To.
MAKE THEM JUMP HIGHER: Gun sales jump in response to Trump shooting and Harris nomination. “July marks 60 consecutive months – or five years – of more than 1 million monthly NSSF-Adjusted FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications for the sale of a firearm at retail.”
ANALYSIS: TRUE. Tim Walz is Bizarro JD Vance.
THE COUNTRY IS IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: Illegal Who Tried to Breach Base Was on Terror Watch List.
HERE WE GO AGAIN? Will Frivolous Lawsuits Create Another Baby Formula Shortage?
In the U.S., only two companies are permitted to manufacture specialized formulas that meet the very specific needs of premature newborn babies. According to the Wall Street Journal, “These formulas are administered by doctors in the neonatal intensive care units because breast milk alone often doesn’t contain sufficient nutrients to sustain infants with low birth weights.”
And these companies are currently under relentless attack.
Plaintiff attorneys have filed hundreds of lawsuits against Abbott Laboratories and Reckitt Benckiser, claiming their fortifying products increase the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and should come with a warning label.
But these companies cannot add any such label to their products, because the science doesn’t support the claims made in these lawsuits.
Read the whole thing.
RELIGION OF PEACE UPDATE: This is How Close Taylor Swift’s Vienna Concert Came to Unspeakable Tragedy.
Related:
America's cool youth vote: "From the river to the sea!"
Islamists: "Let's blow up Taylor Swift."
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) August 7, 2024
THIS WAS A KNOWN PROBLEM BUT THE SPEED OF IT MIGHT BE NEWS: Cannibal AIs Could Risk Digital ‘Mad Cow Disease’ Without Fresh Data.
A new study by researchers from Rice University and Stanford University in the US offers evidence that when AI engines are trained on synthetic, machine-made input rather than text and images made by actual people, the quality of their output starts to suffer.
The researchers are calling this effect Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD). The AI effectively consumes itself, which means there are parallels for mad cow disease – a neurological disorder in cows that are fed the infected remains of other cattle.
Without fresh, real-world data, content produced by AI declines in its level of quality, in its level of diversity, or both, the study shows. It’s a warning about a future of AI slop from these models.
“Our theoretical and empirical analyses have enabled us to extrapolate what might happen as generative models become ubiquitous and train future models in self-consuming loops,” says computer engineer Richard Baraniuk, from Rice University.
“Some ramifications are clear: without enough fresh real data, future generative models are doomed to MADness.”
The solution is simple, comrades — we must generate more content, faster for our digital overlords to consume.
MAN BITES DOG ALERT! Even the Liberal Media Is Acknowledging Tim Walz’s Stolen Valor.
THE SCIENCE IS NEVER SETTLED: Arctic fossils indicate ice shelf is not as stable as previously thought, scientists say.
Researchers recently analyzed fossils taken from the center of the Greenland ice sheet, widely considered to be the largest annual contributor of water into the ocean. The fossils were found to have organic matter, indicating an ice-free period during the Pleistocene Epoch, about 400,000 years ago, according to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The soil samples contained fragments of willow and wood, as well as insect parts, spike moss megaspores, fungi and poppy seeds, Halley Mastro, a graduate research assistant at the University of Vermont and co-author of the paper, told ABC News.
Paul Bierman, professor of natural resources and environmental science at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study, added: “There’s just no way around the fact that the ice must have been gone or otherwise you couldn’t have had these plants.”
The world seems to have done just fine.
THEY’VE LOST THEIR TOUCH: There’s Lame and Then There’s This Attempted WaPo Hit Piece on Trump.
NOT ALL CHANGE IS PROGRESS:
Left: Britain 🇬🇧
Right: Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦Sorry for the mix up, Saudi Arabia is on the left and Britain on the right. pic.twitter.com/WT56Fz18Gc
— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) August 7, 2024
WELL, IT’S TRUE:
BOOM 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/uhLGwTuiXK
— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) August 8, 2024
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: GOP Should Send Kamala Harris a ‘Thank You’ Card for Picking Walz. “Tim Walz is a target rich candidate for mockery. The more that undecided voters learn about him, the less there is to like. The coastal Democrats don’t care about stolen valor — Dick Blumenthal is the senior senator from Connecticut, after all.”