Author Archive: Stephen Green

SICK:

“THE REAL DIVIDE IS APPROVAL-OPTIMIZED AI VERSUS REALITY-OPTIMIZED AI”:

Read the whole thing.

SARAH HOYT’S SHOCKED FACE WAS JUST SENT TO A REEDUCATION CAMP:

CHANGE:

FACE, MEET PALM:

FLORIDA MAN FRIDAY [VIP]: This Is Exactly What I Said Would Happen if They Shut Down TSA. “It’s time for your much-needed break from the serious news, and this week, we’ll learn the number airplanes you can break into in a single day, how to piss off an Airbnb owner, and what they think of modern art Down Under.”

WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF NYC WERE AS CLEAN AND WELL-RUN AS [CHECKS NOTES] SAN SALVADOR?

UNEXPECTEDLY: Colleges drop remedial math, students drop math courses. “Starting all students in college-level math was supposed to speed their path to a degree, writes Katherine Mangan in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Instead of starting in no-credit remedial math, poorly prepared students are placed in college-level classes and offered a corequisite ‘math lab’ or extra catch-up class to learn missing skills. But the short cut is not working for many unprepared students, she writes. They end up taking longer because they keep flunking math.”

HMM:

We’ve seen the mullahs squash every other popular revolt, but there’s never been a popular revolt backed up by US/Israeli airpower.

Stay tuned.

HMM:

To be fair, LLMs are programmed to say what users want them to say in pursuit of increased “engagement.”

On the other hand, positive feedback loops are more dangerous than the unlikely event of an LLM killing to get a human body.

SO MUCH MORE LIKE THIS, PLEASE:

IT’S FRAUD ALL THE WAY DOWN:

BATTLESWARM: Iran Strikes Day 27. “Not one but two Iranian naval commanders get dirtnapped, more than 10,000 Iranian targets have been hit, Iran getting 12 year olds to join the fight, and claims it’s reinforced Kharg Island.”

WHEN A LEFTIST SAYS “DEMOCRACY,” WHAT THEY MEAN IS SOME S***HOLE AUTOCRACY:

YEAH, SAME GUY:

More:

Want to know why we stopped listening to Europe? There you go.

BEEGE WELBORN HAS A TWOFER OF GOOD STUFF FROM THE ANTIPODES TODAY.

From NZ: Nut Zeroes: Kiwis Are Up a Creek in 3 Weeks and Nearly No Diesel in the Land Down Under. “In New Zealand, fascist former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, besides taking away every last firearm in the country and locking up every living soul as she indulged her dictatorial COVID powers during the pandemic, also set the island on its merry way to net zero and disaster by declaring a ‘global climate emergency.'”

You’ll never guess what happened next.

And a related item from Australia: You Can Still Hum ‘Leavin’ on a Jet Plane’ From Anywhere…But Australia. “Neither does the fact that successive Australian governments have never once maintained fuel reserves at the level needed in case this very thing happened, even as they marched into a climate cult Kool-Aid event.”

20 years ago, there was talk of the Anglosphere as a loose alliance of like-minded peoples bringing peace and prosperity to the world. But aside from the US — and us only barely — the rest of the English-speaking world seems to have lost its damned minds.

EXCLUSIVE: Top Trump Official Sheds Light On ‘Mess’ Lying Under Hood Of Illegal Trucker Crisis.

After investigating the circumstances that led to the fatal crash in Florida, the DOT in September handed down severe restrictions against non-domiciled CDL holders and identified state governments that were purportedly issuing licenses to foreign truck drivers unlawfully. The DOT in February doubled down with more rules to keep illegal migrants away from big rigs, rolling out new screening processes and eliminating a loophole that previously allowed foreigners with bad driving records to obtain trucking licenses.

Labor groups closely aligned with the Democrat Party quickly sued to squash the new regulations, claiming that the rules would harm hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals.

Barrs argues that the rules are solely intended to keep American highways safe.

“No one wants to lose good, qualified drivers,” Barrs told the DCNF, speaking about the number of migrant drivers expected to be taken off the roads over the next several years due to the tighter regulations. “To me, this is the safety aspect — we have to always bring it back to that piece.”

“I am not willing, in the role I have at FMCSA, to compromise safety just to put someone in the seat of a truck,” he continued.

His job would be a lot easier if certain blue states didn’t hand out CDLs like Halloween candy.

THE ENEMY WITHIN/DIVERSITY IS OUR STRENGTH: