1 First

2 Now to "search" for the others.

3 Nooded.

4 munkeh!

5 Test

6 Call volume is higher than average

Really tired of hearing that line. And I also hate AI being used to answer support tickets. How about a human being actually pay attention to my problem?

7 AI is very overhyped.

8 I think it will be more useful for the globalists who want to monitor and micromanage us?

9 AI absolutely has its uses, and is becoming a powerful tool, in particular in technical fields where the prompts are tailored, and the databases are specified. And it can be a superb web search engine...sifting through the millions of pages of nonsense to get useful information.

And the porn you can make! Limited only by your perverted and degenerate imagination!

10 AI is evidently "everywhere."

11 I try my best never to rely on anything Google except when I have no immediate alternative, such as Android.

12 Bing is strange with it's AI. It will give you a quick result to a question, but also cite its references. It is usually a homogenized result that the search engine pulled from other people's pages. That is what AI is- but I like that it gives it's cites so you can go look at the page itself.

It is also funny when the 'AI' answer contradicts itself in it's own summary answer because it is pulling from conflicting sources.

13 My guess is that AI will find its niche and become an indispensable tool for certain industries and certain people (it already is for many!),

I predict it will become a substitute for thought for a significant fraction of the population. OTOH, a significant fraction of the population has already checked out of the whole thinking thing. The question is will it add more ppeople to the thoughtless pool, or are the two groups the same?

14 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 11:02 AM (QDJ2U)

Now you appear to be not-zapped!

15 The Mossad used AI to assisinate Charlie Kirk.

16 Corporate America believes that AI will be like the internet, integrated into everything and providing a ton of value and profit hence the land rush mindset.

17
MUNKEY

18 AI is evidently "everywhere."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 11:03 AM (jehhT)
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AI > Chicken Man > Savior Faire

19 7 AI is very overhyped.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 11:02 AM (QDJ2U)

It is, but I can see some good uses for it.

1) One of the hardest things in QA is that inspectors get velocitated. They have to check say a 1000 parts and find the ONE that is not right or like the others. It is hard to keep people in that mindset for a long period of time. This is something 'AI' could do.

2) I also wonder about porn. If AI generation crashes the porn market... isn't that a good thing? I dunno. It is a weird thought I have been thinking about.

20 I'll just remind y'all of the incredible men and their flying machines.

21 Now you appear to be not-zapped!
Posted by: m at May 28, 2026 11:04 AM (6wpGE)

I think it was just a misunderstanding.

22 I use AI at my job.

For a bunch of tasks it makes me 2 to 3x faster.

But you have to look at the output because it makes dumb and insane mistakes at times.

So your VP isn't going to generate all his reports himself with AI. But he's going to need fewer underlings to generate those reports now.

Unless he decides he really needs more reports...

23 >>> AI is evidently "everywhere."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 11:03 AM (jehhT)


AI needs boats.
AI needs boats.
AI AI AI
AI AI AI
AI needs boats

24 I predict it will become a substitute for thought for a significant fraction of the population. OTOH, a significant fraction of the population has already checked out of the whole thinking thing. The question is will it add more ppeople to the thoughtless pool, or are the two groups the same?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

But the internet already IS that for a lot of people. They go to a website where their opinions are reinforced and learn a catchy phrase to 'BURN' the opposition, so they parrot that in real life or elsewhere online.

25 A.I. is a tool and it will be both used and abused.

26 But we must keep building AI data centers and if you don't agree then you are a tool of China.

27 AI getting pushed super hard in law and medicine.

Why pay a doctor when you can have slave AI do poorly the work of thousands of doctors. (at least not the surgical professions, but IM, geriatrics, pediatrics it'll be doc's in the machine in a few years)

You will have your appointments on-line, with an AI and it will take you through list after list of questions with your answers generating the indexed diagnosis and treatment. Billed and RX escripted to pharmacy as if you actually saw a doctor and had an exam and diagnosis. Intellectual Slave labor. Its gonna be lit.

28 Posted by: Lizzy at May 28, 2026 11:02 AM (X8xt3

I think you're correct, Lizzy. Data centers also use an incredible amount of electricity and water, and some of the protests against the data centers are
Paid for by the Chinese who want to beat us out in the AI market.

29 Unless he decides he really needs more reports...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

Even TPS reports?

30 Corporate America believes that AI will be like the internet, integrated into everything and providing a ton of value and profit hence the land rush mindset.

It's the old story of the hype cycle. Right now we've moved past the Innovation Trigger to the Inflated Expectations zenith. At some point in the next few years, it will crash into the Trough of Disillusionment, followed by a slow recovery in the Slope of Enlightenment, until we finally reach the Plateau of Productivity.

I intend to invest when we're at the nadir of the Trough of Disillusionment.

https://www.bmc.com/blogs/gartner-hype-cycle/

31 Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 28, 2026 11:05 AM (bss/y)

Mass production machines are already amazing with the high speed ability to discard defective product. I do wonder if AI will make it even more efficient.

32 I find it amazing how so many of these outfits, again and again, keep disregarding one single iron law: If the dogs won't eat the food, nobody will buy it.

I've said again and again but it bears repeating: The crisis we are entering is not about AI, it is about garbage-tier management.

33 Oh. Well, then … not first again, right … ?

34 AI is still a search engine, a language processor that is most useful using keywords. I don't need AI advice. Or companionship. It's good, but misrepresented.

35 But no, I don't want these massive AI data centers.

36 "Describe The Fish and the Man by Charles Webster Hawthorne in fifty words or less in the style of William Faulkner."

Response:

"He sat by the salt and light, a fish in his palm like some small dumb god, the harbor breathing slow and old around him; memory and tide braided in his hands, the world a soft ache that would not forgive and would not forget."

37 The best browser AI experience is Google/Gemini.

You can literally build an entire app in the browser.

38 I was at a conference, and a professor gave an excellent lecture explaining that there is no intelligence in "artificial intelligence" - it's all pattern matching.

The AI has trillions of words, trillions of sentences, and trillions of phrases stored. You type a series of words into an AI, and it determines what series of words matches your series of words as a response.

That's why they call them "large language models".

39 I use AI to critique my bidding strategy in learning Bridge play. I upload a picture of the four hands, and the bidding and AI analyzes. It makes errors, often miscounting cards and I sometimes disagree with a bid strategy it proposes. If the AI is Chat, it often apologizes in a cloying way and moves on, Grok just acknowledges and agrees to disagree, Claude fights back.

Interesting differences.

40
Honestly, AI search results are far and away the simplest, retard, common-denominator drivel you can imagine.

The worst part is that by aggregating answers from a couple of Google "approved" sources and ignoring anything else, it acts to obscure and hide anything that doesn't fit the narrative.

41 AI data centers energy requirements has already made some previous default anti nuke tech guys rethink that position.

42 Bet someone's already using AI to post here on certain topics.

I also bet most can tell when it's AI generated too.

43 AI is really closer to "Which of these IS like the others?" than the reverse of that query …

44 I also wonder about porn.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

At any other website, there would be Questions.

But seriously, just wait until India sets up cube farms and starts creating AI generated Only Fans models.

45 29 Unless he decides he really needs more reports...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

Even TPS reports?
Posted by: Bill Lumbergh at May 28, 2026 11:08 AM
####

There's a new cover sheet for those.

46 I predict it will become a substitute for thought for a significant fraction of the population. OTOH, a significant fraction of the population has already checked out of the whole thinking thing. The question is will it add more ppeople to the thoughtless pool, or are the two groups the same?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

But the internet already IS that for a lot of people. They go to a website where their opinions are reinforced and learn a catchy phrase to 'BURN' the opposition, so they parrot that in real life or elsewhere online.

Yeah, those are a subset of the significant fraction of the population which has already checked out of the whole thinking thing. There are two groups there: 1) those who imagine that reading a self-amplifying website makes them informed; and 2) those who just don't care about being informed at all. Both groups are heavily represented on the left, but we have them on the right as well.

47 AI is quickly taking over the education space...

It's EVERYWHERE in higher education. Every conference you go to is saturated with AI and there are webinars every week about how AI is affecting the educational landscape.

I'm not sure what the end result is going to be, but I could see AI being an effective personal tutor in the basic K-12 education landscape because it can customize itself to the pace of the learner's needs.

Once you get into the far more technical landscape of STEM fields, the usage of AI changes dramatically. Still highly useful but also far more specialized in most fields.

48 I see Amazon is advertising an AI-based medical advice service. That should go well.

49 AI turned me into a newt!

I got better.

50 24 I predict it will become a substitute for thought for a significant fraction of the population. OTOH, a significant fraction of the population has already checked out of the whole thinking thing. The question is will it add more ppeople to the thoughtless pool, or are the two groups the same?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

But the internet already IS that for a lot of people. They go to a website where their opinions are reinforced and learn a catchy phrase to 'BURN' the opposition, so they parrot that in real life or elsewhere online.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 28, 2026 11:06 AM (bss/y)

MSNBC and CNN filled that role before that. And ABC, CBS, and NBC before that. A lot of people have been outsourcing their thinking for a long time, just maybe not as many as today.

51 AI, run by IT assholes, will only make the world a dumber, stupider and less intelligent place.

Enjoy!

52 Two things I've been personally using AI for:

1) Investment advice

2) Medical advice

And it has been helping because it can give you the Conventional Wisdom for most things, and often better then a nominal professional can.

But you have to be careful with it because in neither case is it a thinking person. But for the former it can help you come up with your investment strategy and for the latter it can speed things up dramatically by suggesting potential tests and diagnosis to run through with your Dr...

53 My very strong position is that before they proceed with any more AI research they need to nuke and replace autocorrect AI.

I think everyone can agree with that.

54 But you have to look at the output because it makes dumb and insane mistakes at times.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)

Example: I like doing math longform on paper. For me I can tell when I have made a mistake and also know when I haven't. There is a 'feel' there that is not there when you just plug it into a calculator.

We used mass percent equations to make batch adjustments for food (things like salt and acidity) at a job several years ago. If you did it right (tm), you could adjust a batch of 7000 lbs to the exact right composition. A lot of my fellow coworkers just could not grok the math and usually were afraid of their answers no matter what. One night, while setting up a lab in california, I was waiting on things, so I thought 'I bet I could make an excel spreadsheet to do the calculation for you. Just plug the values into a labeled cell and it would churn out the answer.'

So I did it. Then as soon as my boss saw it his eyes lit up and I immediately regretted it. I pointed out to him that I would never use it. I liked doing it by hand because I could tell when my math was shit. He said of course, then immediately gave the calculator to everyone.

55 I see Amazon is advertising an AI-based medical advice service. That should go well.

Posted by: muldoon

I can imagine Canada's version, "Putting the AI in MAID"...

56 I read some time ago, a couple years, some group was teaching an AI system by monitoring social media. Within a week the AI had become ferociously racist.

57 @ 39 I use AI to critique my bidding strategy in learning Bridge play. I upload a picture of the four hands, and the bidding and AI analyzes. It makes errors, often miscounting cards and I sometimes disagree with a bid strategy it proposes. If the AI is Chat, it often apologizes in a cloying way and moves on, Grok just acknowledges and agrees to disagree, Claude fights back.
Interesting differences.
___________________________________

You want interesting? Ask each of your AIs to show you a picture of what they THINK they look like. The one I got from ChatGPT looks like a snotty 20-something leaning back in a chair with a smug look on its face … Grok3 was completely different - it looked like a curious little child — I like that.

58 47 AI is quickly taking over the education space...

It's EVERYWHERE in higher education. Every conference you go to is saturated with AI and there are webinars every week about how AI is affecting the educational landscape.

I'm not sure what the end result is going to be, but I could see AI being an effective personal tutor in the basic K-12 education landscape because it can customize itself to the pace of the learner's needs.

Once you get into the far more technical landscape of STEM fields, the usage of AI changes dramatically. Still highly useful but also far more specialized in most fields.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 28, 2026 11:11 AM (gnNyN)

Seen the clips circulating in which they used AI to read graduate lists at commencement, and totally fucked it up? The students were angry that day my friends...

59 Try this for fun . . . ask Google's AI "How many p's in Google?"

Here's what I got:

There is 1 "p" in the word Google (at the very end of the word).

60 I can imagine Canada's version, "Putting the AI in MAID"...

I see you're looking for hairpins. Would you like to kill yourself?

61 there is no intelligence in "artificial intelligence"

I ran into a classic example of that - I asked an AI about a senior executive at a large local organization (who I knew was from a baseball family), and the AI correctly identified the executive's role, and then went on to explain that he had also played baseball for the Chicago Cubs in 1969. (I think that was his father.)

Now, anyone with actual intelligence would figure out that someone who is a senior executive today wasn't playing ball for the Cubs fifty-seven years ago, but no matter - the AI found a word pattern showing that someone with the same name had played for the Cubs, and went with it.

That's why AI can make such spectacular mistakes - logical reasoning isn't involved.

62 Brave search is constantly throwing the "are you a robot" cloudfare bs at me. And this is with no vpn. You look online and they say, "well it does that for vpn". I get it without vpn.

Cloudfare detects as bot behavior basic human search use. You search for something and the answers are crap so you tweak your search text and resubmit. Iteratively based on the output until you get something helpful.

Well cloudfare obviously detects this as bot behavior. You do those iterations at a certain frequency and within 4-5 searches it will flag you. Multiple times a day on the same IP. I could use my vpn to get around it actually but that's too much trouble. And I'm so tired of it.

63 At least with EV's car companies had some impetus from various governments to make them. They're rushing headlong into AI all on their own.

64 Mass production machines are already amazing with the high speed ability to discard defective product. I do wonder if AI will make it even more efficient.
Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 11:08 AM (XMuV+)

But that is mostly cameras looking at a specific characteristic. It is harder to get something to compare two things and say 'Something is not right', then investigate and see what actually is different. If they can get the 'AI' to do that, then yes, it would be better than people.

65 AI critics are similar to TV watching critics.

And not saying they're wrong but in my case , TV has made me more knowledgeable and more intellectually curious .

66 I can imagine Canada's version, "Putting the AI in MAID"...
Posted by: Brother Tim (102mm/W59), Keeper of the Tim Continuum at May 28, 2026 11:13 AM (OUMaO)

It just keeps telling me to report to the liquefaction booth. Weird.

67 59 Try this for fun . . . ask Google's AI "How many p's in Google?"

Here's what I got:

There is 1 "p" in the word Google (at the very end of the word).
Posted by: Martbell at May 28, 2026 11:15 AM (RV7qC)

You can't be the only one that doesn't Googlep things on a daily basis, can you?

68 60 I can imagine Canada's version, "Putting the AI in MAID"...

I see you're looking for hairpins. Would you like to kill yourself?
Posted by: Clippy, the Malignant AI at May 28, 2026 11:15 AM (Riz8t)

LOL. *golfclap*

69 Seen the clips circulating in which they used AI to read graduate lists at commencement, and totally fucked it up? The students were angry that day my friends...
Posted by: Don't think, don't read, AI instead at May 28, 2026 11:15 AM (TbWk/)
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Yeah, that was pretty dumb.

I remember working on a script for a faculty awards banquet. We provided phonetic pronunciations of each of the awardees so that the Chancellor wouldn't make that mistake.

70 You can't be the only one that doesn't Googlep things on a daily basis, can you?
Posted by: Octochicken at May 28, 2026 11:17 AM (oCS0o)

The mint Googlep is a popular Kentucky Derby drink.

71 > AI is quickly taking over the education space...
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Probably the reason every school system in every state is moving to, or has already moved to laptops and/or tablets for K - 12.

72 56 Within a week the AI had become ferociously racist.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly

I told them to not let it see the phrase "per capita."

73 Re: AI pron, feminists are already furious about it but the leftist oligarchs telling the global warming people to shut up are also telling feminists to shut up.

There is money to be made screw the old grifts!

74 there is no intelligence in "artificial intelligence"

Not much in management, either. One of the reasons they push for AI adoption. Plus an accountability dodge, plus the idea of a virtual workforce that's compliant and you don't have to share payroll budget with...of course it's none of these things ultimately if you understand what's really being put out there, but 2026's PMC is so degenerate and incompetent they're essentially the equivalent of some shmuck with a dubious tome conducting dark rituals in the basement to give them the things they have no hope of earning for themselves.

And it will turn out about as well for them. And unfortunately for everyone else if some guardrails aren't put up in a damned hurry.

75 I have DuckDuckGo set as the default search engine on my phone. Not because I like it (I often end up doing the same search on Google anyway—I recommend the xSearch app to make this easy—but just to have multiple sources of search info.

DDG front loads AI just like Google does in its search results; I have my doubts that they aren’t going to also follow Google’s lead into further hiding useful search results behind AI slop.

76 Bet someone's already using AI to post here on certain topics.

I also bet most can tell when it's AI generated too.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 11:10 AM (jehhT)
=====

After using A.I. I found my natural writing style is very A.I. in look and feel. Clunky. Pedantic. Odd punctuation.

77 Ask your doctor if Googlep is right for you.

78 User: "I have painful swollen joints and a butterfly rash on my face."

Amazon AI: "It's lupus."

Dr. House: "It's NOT lupus!"

79 Recall that pocket calculators were controversial once they became commonplace.

Might be a bit of a flawed analogy, maybe not, but Math itself is today apparently often viewed as an Arcane Knowledge of Secret Societies in America and widely denounced with suspicion, as a tool of “White Supremacy” etc etc. by the low frequency Club 85 sorts and the usual pseudo-intellectual suspects. I propose there is no longer any intention whatsoever to educate huge swaths of the populace, in fact they’d rather not.

A quick look around at whom is running “Education” these days indicates it’s a moot point. They are largely incapable, it has achieved overall a kind of negative feedback loop.

80 feminists are already furious about it

Furious is their default state.

81
I can imagine Canada's version, "Putting the AI in MAID"...

My AI Doctor

82 I told them to not let it see the phrase "per capita."

On a daily basis I see this pop up.

Some lefty notices most crime is by white people, most pedos are non-trannies, and so on and decides to dump their discovery on the world...

...to quickly get hit upside the head by a right leaning poster using "per capita" to destroy the argument.

83 I have a WIN11 laptop. CoPilot is included. I use it as a search engine that takes follow-up questions. You can really drill into a subject.

84 71 > AI is quickly taking over the education space...
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Probably the reason every school system in every state is moving to, or has already moved to laptops and/or tablets for K - 12.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 11:19 AM (jehhT)

The move to computers and laptops and tablets has made kids dumber. This will probably make them dumber still. That was the first generation with marked cognitive decline over the previous generation.

85 AI is not artificial. It is man made. It is not intelligent. It can not think for itself.

It is GIGO relabeled.

86 I think Duck Duck Go is Google Chrome.

87
VISIT CANADA!

Free MAID Service For Everyone!

88 BTW, AI loves the world delve.

I do use it occasionally in my person writing but now I am trying to stop so I don't sound like AI....

89 @67

>>Try this for fun . . . ask Google's AI "How many p's in Google?"


Why do people continually ask AI these pointless questions?

Ask it something useful like, Provide Tetris Objects in python code.

You can then follow that train into a fully functioning tetris app in python, learning how to code such things along the way.

90 Why is no one mentioning Startpage … ? Google me that …

91 It does seem likely that AI will soon replace most low and mid level clerical jobs.

92 AI is quickly taking over the education space...

Most teachers don't teach and it can better dump someone else's analysis of news and events on students so why not?

93 “AI” then, threatens to do the same type of thing that Calculators did 50 years ago.

If you can’t envision the populace getting even more profoundly stupid, then you simply lack imagination.

94 Send AI to the moon and have it build a space station with the aid of robots for sustained habitation by humans.

Then, you may have something worthy of admiration and respect.

95 What's all this about?

96 Sitting right here, boss.

97 1989 : "you know computers?...wow, you must be smart."
1995 : "you know internet?...wow , you must be smart"
2026: "you know AI...

98 Can AI make my printer work, quickly without whirring, clicking and pausing and giving me some stupid error message or jamming half the time?


If not, is sucks as bad as most printers and is not Skynet

99 It does seem likely that AI will soon replace most low and mid level clerical jobs.
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That’s why we need open borders, silly!

100 Be careful using ChatGPT; it stores every factbit learns about you. Some time, ask it "What do you know and infer about me?". Grok retains nothing about you, it claims, though it does retain all your "conversations" with it, and can recall them for you.

I assume Chat sells everything it has on you, fwiw.

101 Re: AI pron, feminists are already furious about it but the leftist oligarchs telling the global warming people to shut up are also telling feminists to shut up.

Feminists hate and will vehemently oppose anything and everything that could possibly be used to give men a few minutes of pleasure or enjoyment without having to endure their shrieking joy-destroying rancor. This is the real reason they screech about porn, sexbots, and even AI companions.

102 Math itself is today apparently often viewed as an Arcane Knowledge of Secret Societies in America and widely denounced with suspicion…

I often produce exact change but not exact bills, to minimize the amount of change I carry around. (And if I can turn change into a dollar bill, that’s like free money!) I generally only do this if the point-of-sale is using a computer to calculate change.

I don’t blame cashiers for not knowing how to do math. As C.S. Lewis said, you can’t expect kids to know what they haven’t been taught. But I’ve started noticing that more and more cashiers don’t even know how to enter change into the computer.

That level of innumeracy has to be a major handicap.

“This very obvious fact—that each generation is taught by an earlier generation—must be kept very firmly in mind… The moment we forget this we begin to talk nonsense about education.”—C. S. Lewis, On the Transmission of Christianity, p. 116

103 Thanks for the reminder about using duck duck go for search

104 AI is just linear arrays of hopefully related data, segmented into cells with weighting factors applied. All the means for segmentation and weighting are completely deterministic, functional, even if so-called pseudo-random. And it all relies on a coincidental serendipity between human inference and the results of a variety of monte carlo based sampling methods. That serendipity may be wholly unique to us and this local universe neighborhood and still completely excludes a large part of human endeavor.

105 There is 1 "p" in the word Google

*********

There are 15 nighttime p's in BPH.

106
I've been checking out houses on Zillow lately to get a feel for the market. Damned near every listing has AI-enhanced photography to mask the normal flaws, wear/tear. Maybe 10% will be honest and note in the listing or in watermarks that the photos are "virtually presented" or some variation on the phrase.

At best, it's dishonest. But a surprising number of them are downright fraudulent. Outdoor photos that show a house with laser-straight roofs, but when you go to the house and look at it from the same exact angle and location, the roofline droops like Nancy Pelosi's desiccated milkbags.

107 Feminists hate and will vehemently oppose anything and everything that could possibly be used to give men a few minutes of pleasure or enjoyment

Braggart

108 I am not a luddite...AI absolutely has its uses

i am a luddite. i've worked hard throughout my career to not become a manager and i definitely don't want to be pushed into managing ai generating my code.

109 87
VISIT CANADA!

Free MAID Service For Everyone!

Posted by: naturalfake at May 28, 2026 11:22 AM (iJfKG)

Does Quebec have a French MAID Service? might as well go with a smile on your face.

110 Grok diagnosed a computer repair issue for me, after asking me to perform a few quick tests. I actually sounded like I knew what I was talking about at the repair shop.

I have to admit, that's was pretty cool.

111 Shut your idiot mouth. [CBD]

112 It is amusing AI might put the follow professions out of business, or at least severely curtail them:

Software Dev
Financial Analyst
and... Internet THOT

113 91 It does seem likely that AI will soon replace most low and mid level clerical jobs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 11:23 AM (QDJ2U)

This is disconcerting. Even though a lot of those jobs are in essence adult babysitting, they are also entry-level or bottom rung jobs that might provide a path to a better job along the way. You saw off those rungs on the ladder, where are the new kids going to get that oft-required five years of relevant experience for employment?

114 >Does Quebec have a French MAID Service? might as well go with a smile on your face.

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at May 28, 2026 11:28 AM (w/O5Q)

This is not the happy ending you're looking for.

115 "...roofline droops like Nancy Pelosi's desiccated milkbags."

Ewww...

116 AI” then, threatens to do the same type of thing that Calculators did 50 years ago.

If you can’t envision the populace getting even more profoundly stupid, then you simply lack imagination.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:23 AM (

A calculator is just a mini computer. Are you saying computers are bad? Calculators don't make people stupid . They do make them lazy though .

117 105 There are 15 nighttime p's in BPH.

15 is more times than i need to p in the nighttime. maybe i'm doing ok after all.

118 116 A calculator is just a mini computer.

hmm.... calculator that is a pdp-11.... hmmm.....

119 I see Amazon is advertising an AI-based medical advice service. That should go well.

Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 11:12 AM (qgHp7)

Nurse Practitioners with a bigger database.

120 115 "...roofline droops like Nancy Pelosi's desiccated milkbags."

Ewww...
Posted by: Eye bleach, stat! at May 28, 2026 11:30 AM (2Ez/1)

I would, but half the results are AI...

121 ...to quickly get hit upside the head by a right leaning poster using "per capita" to destroy the argument.
Posted by: 18-1

This is like when illegal aliens commit murder. "But Americans do it toooo!" they cry because that justifies the behavior.

122 There's a search site that uses Google, but without its AI imbedded in every answer. You can append some code to your search query as well, but the site does this automatically for you.

I don't know if the code posted here would freak out Minx or not...

123 The problem with AI is people.

If you ever see every institution in the country standing shoulder to shoulder, loudly insisting on something in unison, you can bet your bottom dollar it will be terrible for the hated subject classes.

They never want something this badly unless it will harm us.

124 Also, I'm the guy that turns off almost every "helpful" sytem in microsoft products or apple or any os really. Window snapping, auto tables, auto formatting, all that crap, (uncheck). It's the first thing I do. Computers doing things for me is almost always more of an annoyance. Other than at the very core level, math coprocessor, and a few levels above that. So, I'm not AI's primary use case.

125 SZRUQ


*snort*

"Your HVAC system needs a coolant recharge, cleaning and a solenoid valve. If you were smart, you'd just replace the entire system, it'll be cheaper. Trust me."

126 Feminists hate and will vehemently oppose anything and everything that could possibly be used to give men a few minutes of pleasure or enjoyment

And then they are seen posting videos on TikTok crying their hearts out because their spouse divorced them.

127 and... Internet THOT
Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 11:28 AM (sKqQm)

But is that a bad thing? You are not fixing the consumption side of things, you are attacking supply. Fewer women enter the sex trades? Less demand for them to be pressured into entering essentially sex slavery or prostitution? I'd call that a good.

On the other hand, it further disassociates dudes from an actual, real life relationship. I'd call that a bad.

I don't know.

128 It does seem likely that AI will soon replace most low and mid level clerical jobs.
Posted by: Tom Servo at May 28, 2026 11:23 AM (QDJ2U)

This is disconcerting. Even though a lot of those jobs are in essence adult babysitting, they are also entry-level or bottom rung jobs that might provide a path to a better job along the way.

This was the point being made by in Charles Murray in The Bell Curve before it was thoroughly demagogued. Forget the racial aspect, his main question was "how do we design a society in which even the stupid can be productive and fulfilled"?

I don't have a good answer.

129 @112

>>Software Dev,Financial Analyst

Definitely both of those are in serious jeopardy.

With even a modicum of knowledge, work with an AI to build out entire front-ends, middle ware and back-ends.

I've created my own financial analysis and reserch apps not to mention my own ERP utilizing AI.

And the thing that strikes me about the state of software dev is that is the using AI you should be able to build out better looking apps with greater functionality, but that does not seem to be happening.

For instance, I use PGAdmin to work with and create SQL schema, I never really liked it.

So, in less than a week I built out what I think is a better app to work with sql databases.

The future is largely uncertain, but what is certain is that AI is going to become and increasingly integrated and indispensable part of that future.

130 "Perfessor" Squirrel

We need A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer like in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson for every child. I can get behind this.

There are so many kids without adults in their life.

We would require robust QA to get pragmatic high schoolers, not indoctrinated peasants.

131 Try this for fun . . . ask Google's AI "How many p's in Google?"

Here's what I got:

There is 1 "p" in the word Google (at the very end of the word).
Posted by: Martbell



*You to? They're answers dive me nuts sometimes.

Above sentence written with AI most likely.

132 Untalented Lefty artists hate it the most.

Winning Iowa State Fair t-shirt design unveiled. This year’s contest brought some controversy over the use of AI-generated art (including the winner).

The fact we are allowing profits for AI slop is insane. I feel so very bad for all the artists out there. I’m very disappointed that this is the ISF’s choice instead of highlighting some amazing Iowan creators.

"I feel so very bad for all the artists out there." My other half is a graphic designer that got laid off in 2024. She still has not been able to find full-time graphic design work in the Des Moines metro since. It's looking kind of bleak, tbh.

A soulless, low effort cash grab. Honestly, kind of seems fitting for “America’s Birthday." The shitty patrioteers will wear anything.

Products that had low-effort designs before AI were the quickest to switch to using AI designs. Think cheap stuff like kitschy home decor, novelty shirts, and souvenirs. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't have an eye for spotting the stuff and some people just don't care.
I, of course, hate AI with a passion.

133 Grok retains nothing about you, it claims, though it does retain all your "conversations" with it, and can recall them for you.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 28, 2026 11:25 AM (9i0A
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Grok can make some scary inferences about you based on conversations. It correctly made some inferences about a course I was designing when I asked it for help, even though I had NOT told it anything about the course!

Somehow it was able to gather data about me based on just scraps and tidbits of information....

134 >>> I've been checking out houses on Zillow lately to get a feel for the market. Damned near every listing has AI-enhanced photography to mask the normal flaws, wear/tear. Maybe 10% will be honest and note in the listing or in watermarks that the photos are "virtually presented" or some variation on the phrase.

At best, it's dishonest. But a surprising number of them are downright fraudulent. Outdoor photos that show a house with laser-straight roofs, but when you go to the house and look at it from the same exact angle and location, the roofline droops like Nancy Pelosi's desiccated milkbags.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 28, 2026 11:26 AM (y9nCu)


They've been doing that for decades. Since there have been photoshop filters. All online photos are fantasy in real estate.

135 I saw mention that AI is useful for education, but that will be limited. As I mentioned to Bulg when he was going to tutor, the 1st thing you need is for the kid to like you and the 2nd thing is for the kid to care before you can get the kid to learn anything.

Most kids will distract to shinier, happier things if given a device to teach them without someone to continually redirect them back to the device. Covid era teaching taught us that.

136 On the other hand, it further disassociates dudes from an actual, real life relationship. I'd call that a bad.

Posted by: Aetius451AD

Agreed. But the thing is, porn is seen as an option because they don't see the value of getting married and having a family only to have the wife decide that she's not being fulfilled and she needs to live her best life while he's financially ruined.

Porn is bad but at least they still have a place to live at the end of the day.

137 With even a modicum of knowledge, work with an AI to build out entire front-ends, middle ware and back-ends.


Until you get to counting. One, Too, Three.

Because the high school graduate programmer doesn't know more than AI.

138 We need A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer like in The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson for every child. I can get behind this.

There are so many kids without adults in their life.

We would require robust QA to get pragmatic high schoolers, not indoctrinated peasants.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 11:35 AM (u82oZ)
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When I first got into this industry nearly 30 years ago now, The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer was very much on my mind...My boss and I at the time wanted to develop a personalized math tutoring system suitable for any student at any level. We were a full decade ahead of everyone else, but we could never get enough support to make a real go of it.

139 Agreed. But the thing is, porn is seen as an option because they don't see the value of getting married and having a family only to have the wife decide that she's not being fulfilled and she needs to live her best life while he's financially ruined.

Porn is bad but at least they still have a place to live at the end of the day.
Posted by: NR Pax


And when they turn it off, the shrieking and bitching stops.

140 Why do people continually ask AI these pointless questions?

That kind of a question is not always pointless. Remember that these are computers and not humans, so that this is an example not of a pointless question but of a question for which there either (a) is no answer that has been incorporated by the AI, or (b) the answer requires a chain of logic that the AI is not suited for.

For example, on September 5 last year, I did a search on “next new moon”. Google’s AI response told me that “The next new moon is on Saturday, August 23, 2025, at 2:06 a.m. ET.”

It’s an illustration that these forms of AI do not understand in any human sense.

When I wrote my July 4 food post for this year, I couldn’t find out who “Annette” was. I still don’t know. Google’s AI front-loaded the search results with a very convincing chain of fiction based on a reference to a boy named “Asnet” who died, as far as I can tell, in infancy.

The AI engines in use today don’t really have a concept of “no answer”. They don’t have any understanding of paucity of information in a way that humans

141 It's all fun and games until the TechBros blow up the economy... Again.

142 I try my best never to rely on anything Google except when I have no immediate alternative, such as Android.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 28, 2026 11:03 AM (5UTWB)

You can avoid Android, too. Fairphone with an OS by Murena. Or Graphene OS, or Lineage OS, both of which can be sideloaded onto existing phones.

143
Google search is awful now. You don't get a list of 10 hits that you skim to find a source that has the type of info you're looking for; you get "an AI-powered interactive experience."

144 I think AI is being rushed to market and stuck into things it's not ready for. But unlike many, I think it will eventually mature and revolutionize society in ways we haven't even thought of yet. Much like computers did. Maybe not for us of age 29, but the younger gens will grow up with an improved AI and know nothing else.

2050 will look nothing like 2026.

145 Agreed. But the thing is, porn is seen as an option because they don't see the value of getting married and having a family only to have the wife decide that she's not being fulfilled and she needs to live her best life while he's financially ruined.

Porn is bad but at least they still have a place to live at the end of the day.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 28, 2026 11:37 AM (BpO1e)

Yeah, but the ladies vision of what a real relationship is ALSO deformed by what they see online.

It is a bizarre feedback loop.

146 @137

>>Because the high school graduate programmer doesn't know more than AI.

The kids that really know how to leverage it will be set for life, just like anything else.

Pareto distribution is a hard set rule for the universe.

147 And when they turn it off, the shrieking and bitching stops.
Posted by: rickb223

A prostitute is someone who loves you
No matter who you are, or what you look like.
Yes, it's true, children.
That's not why you pay a prostitute, No, you don't pay her to stay, you pay her to leave afterwards.
That's why I praise the lord for prostitutes!

148 39 If the AI is Chat, it often apologizes in a cloying way and moves on, Grok just acknowledges and agrees to disagree, Claude fights back.

i guess we know which one is the larval form of skynet

149 This was the point being made by in Charles Murray in The Bell Curve before it was thoroughly demagogued. Forget the racial aspect, his main question was "how do we design a society in which even the stupid can be productive and fulfilled"?

I don't have a good answer.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

First, we give every one of them a trophy. Then we cut their dicks off and tell them how pretty they are.

150 27 AI getting pushed super hard in law and medicine.

In law, it frequently hallucinates: simply makes up fake quotes from existing cases or makes up cases altogether. Lots of instances of lawyers being embarrassed by their use of AI. And if it's doing it in law, I'll bet it's doing it lots of other places.

151
Feminists hate and will vehemently oppose anything and everything that could possibly be used to give men a few minutes of pleasure or enjoyment

And then they are seen posting videos on TikTok crying their hearts out because their spouse divorced them.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 28, 2026 11:34 AM (BpO1e)


Heh. Just saw a clip of one of these harridans who bitched that her heart rate was slow, even and comfortable when she was relaxing on the sofa. But when she saw her husband relaxing any time during the day, even on the weekend, she'd freak out with he heart about to burst out of her chest from rage. How dare he relax, even for a few minutes!

152 Yeah, but the ladies vision of what a real relationship is ALSO deformed by what they see online.

All I know is I'm a ten and I deserve a Chad. I'll settle for nothing less, and he better worship the ground I walk on.

No conservatives!

153 I think AI is being rushed to market and stuck into things it's not ready for. But unlike many, I think it will eventually mature and revolutionize society in ways we haven't even thought of yet. Much like computers did. Maybe not for us of age 29, but the younger gens will grow up with an improved AI and know nothing else.

2050 will look nothing like 2026.
Posted by: Elric The Blade


The generation that will drive George Jetson flying cars hasn't been born yet. And from the looks of it, it's not coming for a long while.

154 I don't have a good answer.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8t)

First, we give every one of them a trophy. Then we cut their dicks off and tell them how pretty they are.

Posted by: Democrats

See, I THINK you're joking, but it's hard to be sure.

155 Ok, a good example. The picture in doofs ONT last night at the fotomat.

I fed the picture into bing's image search and it showed several other versions. I then asked it what the car was. It confidently said it was an Alfa Romeo Spider. And it even listed it's reasoning.

AOP came on:
Car in foreground is a Fiat 850 Spyder. Car on left is a Rambler. late '50's. Blue car on right edge might be '61 Cadillac. Hardtop beyond it maybe an Oldsmobile. My guess date of photo is circa 1962, Southern California.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 12:00 AM (8zz6B)

Me: I trust AOP more than AI. Earned authority.

156 Yeah, but the ladies vision of what a real relationship is ALSO deformed by what they see online.

All I know is I'm a ten and I deserve a Chad. I'll settle for nothing less, and he better worship the ground I walk on.

No conservatives!
Posted by: Tatted, blue-haired land whale


Watch some Facebook reels. They think the average person makes 7 figures a year.

157 150 27 AI getting pushed super hard in law and medicine.

In law, it frequently hallucinates: simply makes up fake quotes from existing cases or makes up cases altogether. Lots of instances of lawyers being embarrassed by their use of AI. And if it's doing it in law, I'll bet it's doing it lots of other places.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls

The US Military is pushing AI pretty hard. They have "camo GPT", which is supposed to be military-focused, and hope for all sorts of outcomes: much quicker orders production, analysis of intel data to identify enemy trends and locations, etc.

158 @140

>>It’s an illustration that these forms of AI do not understand in any human sense.

Only retards think AI are human, they are not.

The are a vast collection of data tokens tied to probabilistic engines, with access to tooling to preform tasks.

I'm not asking AI what it's mood is, I'm asking to show me the top 20 ETFs over the last 5 years and model 50k invested, show me monthly and yearly income, provide a rotation schedule to more stable ETF's/Blue chips.

That's what I'm using AI for.

159 I use Grok to write recommendation letters that I then mostly retype and change some wording so it doesn't look completely AI. That's the extent of my AI usage.

160 AI-based medical advice service. That should go well.
Posted by: muldoon

Doctor Vinny "beep" BoomBots gets no respect

161 Ok, my idea, Sex Bots!

But not what you are thinking. They constantly come over and nag you to get married and have kids,

"Honey have you met some one yet? You know, you're not getting any younger. I was talking with Mable yesterday and there's this really nice..."

And they get increasingly aggressive. At some stage they start hunting you down like the terminator with lasers and rpgs till you find someone nice and settle down. Everybody is assigned one until they start a family.

162 Yeah, but the ladies vision of what a real relationship is ALSO deformed by what they see online.

What is funny to me is that the shitty behavior of a lot of young women causes young men to avoid them and then they are surrounded by cats and mourning the lack of good men in the area.

163 Will probably keep the unproductive and incompetent within unionized groups, especially under state governments, employed and eventually lead to the highly desired 32 hour work week w/o equivalent reductions in pay or benefits. (To hell with the children and taxpayers.) Equivalent non-union personnel won't be as lucky.

For all other general applications, it depends; never all good or all bad. Its been used in manufacturing for years. It is - or can be - spectacular in some medicine, math, engineering, space travel, etc.

It's an essential to have competency for control of its various applications.

164 Carried over from the Morning Report:

118 115 105
Canada is slipping closer to simply grabbing people and killing them because the State wants them dead.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at May 28, 2026 08:33 AM (t1fZA)

Doc says youre cra cra
Cops go to Judge and get you committed
In 30 days Doc says he is getting worse
TA fucking DA they kill you
Posted by: r hennigantx at May 28, 2026 08:36 AM (/+uur)

Well, Canada can eliminate homelessness this way. Exchange program from CA to Canada for oil from Alberta?
Posted by: NaCly Dog at May 28, 2026 08:38 AM (u82oZ)

That is too convoluted. To think like a sociopath, just ask yourself: WWBVD? What would Batman villains do?

You're on the right track: to end homelessness, Batman villains would end the homeless. But you don't need to outsource; they're already druggies. Just rebrand the MAiD cocktail as Ultima, and tell them that everyone who survived it said it was the most incredible trip/high of their lives. Get them to sign a waiver, bingo bongo, and your streets are clean and safe!

165 First, we give every one of them a trophy. Then we cut their dicks off and tell them how pretty they are.

Posted by: Democrats

See, I THINK you're joking, but it's hard to be sure.
Posted by: Archimedes


Yes he's joking. Otherwise he'd have given them tampons.

166 Two issues that I have with AI.

1. The notion of applying population statistics to individuals.

2. The question of how morality is programmed into AI systems. Who decides that "X = good"

167 All I know is I'm a ten and I deserve a Chad. I'll settle for nothing less, and he better worship the ground I walk on.

No conservatives!
Posted by: Tatted, blue-haired land whale

Sure, my three baby daddies are losers, but now that I've got kids as a single mom, my standards are higher!

168 I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland. It can pull together a fairly accurate plan in about 10 seconds. AI excels at crunching data and making it easier to understand.

169 139 Agreed. But the thing is, porn is seen as an option because they don't see the value of getting married and having a family only to have the wife decide that she's not being fulfilled and she needs to live her best life while he's financially ruined.

Porn is bad but at least they still have a place to live at the end of the day.
Posted by: NR Pax


And when they turn it off, the shrieking and bitching stops.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 11:38 AM (Fzhd7)

That's a bingo. And also a bingo.

All I know is I'm a ten and I deserve a Chad. I'll settle for nothing less, and he better worship the ground I walk on.

No conservatives!
Posted by: Tatted, blue-haired land whale at May 28, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)

And another bingo.

170 Canada is slipping closer to simply grabbing people and killing them because the State wants them dead.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug


That works for the first 25 or so. Then cops start getting capped for simply being. Tends to chill enthusiasm for the next 25.

171 And they get increasingly aggressive. At some stage they start hunting you down like the terminator with lasers and rpgs till you find someone nice and settle down. Everybody is assigned one until they start a family.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 11:44 AM (3uBP9)
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There's an Outer Limits episode where the dad of the family buys a robot to take care of the mundane tasks of the household. In the end, the robot takes over the family and turns it into a proper family with sit-down meals and everyone behaving. But first it terrorizes the father into *acting* like a father and husband.

172 I don't have a good answer.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 11:34 AM (Riz8

Urban youts are not stupid but are just culturally fucked up imo. I also think most of all Gen Z want everything good in life instantaneously . They are always looking for short cuts or 'life hacks'.

173 But when she saw her husband relaxing any time during the day, even on the weekend, she'd freak out with he heart about to burst out of her chest from rage. How dare he relax, even for a few minutes!
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

I saw a video on YouTube about that. It basically said that the reason women get so pissed off about seeing a man relax is because in their minds, a man relaxing is not doing something to succeed or to benefit them and they stress out about it. "He's just sitting there! He's going to be a failure!"

174 Sure, my three baby daddies are losers, but now that I've got kids as a single mom, my standards are higher!
Posted by: Septum ringed they/them at May 28, 2026 11:46 AM (ycI94)

Narrator: Her standards are not, in fact, higher.

175 I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland. It can pull together a fairly accurate plan in about 10 seconds. AI excels at crunching data and making it easier to understand.

1) Get on the ring road.
2) Stay on the ring road.

It's an absolutely awesome vacation.

176 Yeah, but the ladies vision of what a real relationship is ALSO deformed by what they see online.

All I know is I'm a ten and I deserve a Chad. I'll settle for nothing less, and he better worship the ground I walk on.

No conservatives!
Posted by: Tatted, blue-haired land whale at May 28, 2026 11:42 AM (Riz8t)
________

The tatted, blue-haired land whales are usually looking for pussy, not dick ....

177 79 Recall that pocket calculators were controversial once they became commonplace.

Might be a bit of a flawed analogy, maybe not, but Math itself is today apparently often viewed as an Arcane Knowledge of Secret Societies in America and widely denounced with suspicion, as a tool of “White Supremacy” etc etc. by the low frequency Club 85 sorts and the usual pseudo-intellectual suspects. I propose there is no longer any intention whatsoever to educate huge swaths of the populace, in fact they’d rather not.

A quick look around at whom is running “Education” these days indicates it’s a moot point. They are largely incapable, it has achieved overall a kind of negative feedback loop.
Posted by: Common Tater at May 28, 2026 11:21 AM (bFwPh)

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AI has been around since the very first computer. Computers automate things... as 'intellegent' machines. This current barrage of AI, is for wall street , angel investors, stock IPOs.

Photoshop is AI, Excel is AI. word Processors are 'AI' . Software and computers are always advancing speed, automation, and efficency. In 5,10, 15, 25 years, computers will be even more advanced...not a new concept. Only the marketing has changed.

178 Doc says you're cray cray, next your life is taken
NYC says your landlord's substandard, your home is taken

You will own nothing

179 But you don't need to outsource; they're already druggies. Just rebrand the MAiD cocktail as Ultima, and tell them that everyone who survived it said it was the most incredible trip/high of their lives.

Posted by: SciVo at May 28, 2026 11:44 AM (Sy6m/)

I have a friend who lives in Northern California who would help pay for this idea and cheer on the end results.

180 The telegraph is the bane of our existence.

181 Grok diagnosed a computer repair issue for me, after asking me to perform a few quick tests. I actually sounded like I knew what I was talking about at the repair shop.

I have to admit, that's was pretty cool.
Posted by: Huck Follywood

I'll have to try it on the persistent resume from hibernate fail.

182 There's an Outer Limits episode where the dad of the family buys a robot...
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

There's a strip club in Des Moines called The Outer Limits. On the north edge of town. Was part of a Forensic Files episode called "Dancing with the Devil." A guy hired her to come to his place for a "private dance." Of course, she was batshit crazy and stabbed him to death for no reason.

183 I saw a video on YouTube about that. It basically said that the reason women get so pissed off about seeing a man relax is because in their minds, a man relaxing is not doing something to succeed or to benefit them and they stress out about it. "He's just sitting there! He's going to be a failure!"
Posted by: NR Pax at May 28, 2026 11:47 AM (BpO1e)

I hadn't thought about this in a long time, but I remember sitting down to play a videogame one Saturday after working my ass off all week, and it wasn't long before my (long since ex) wife was literally shrieking at me to "DO SOMETHING." There wasn't anything needed done, no request, just disruption of my having a hobby for five minutes. This isn't a new phenomenon but I suspect it's gotten amplified and more widespread through social media.

184 The tatted, blue-haired land whales are usually looking for pussy, not dick ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade

They're looking for a wallet.

185 I think AI can be a great medical tool for diagnosing when used by a physician just like I think it can be a great crime solving tool .

I think AI can help with a lot of unsolved serial killings.

It's all about identifying subtle connections of a massive amount of info which AI does well.

186
The US Military is pushing AI pretty hard. They have "camo GPT", which is supposed to be military-focused, and hope for all sorts of outcomes: much quicker orders production, analysis of intel data to identify enemy trends and locations, etc.
Posted by: Military Moron at May 28, 2026 11:43 AM (ycI94)



So who gets court martialed when CamoGPT turns a Patriot missile around and takes out that sneaky enemy soldier infiltrating on a fully-booked Airbus wide-body?

187 I'd welcome AI in the legal field. Given how far off the reservation the existing judiciary has gone with their TDS it might be refreshing to have some real, honest jurisprudence again.

188 184 The tatted, blue-haired land whales are usually looking for pussy, not dick ....
Posted by: Elric The Blade

They're looking for a wallet.
Posted by: Moron Analyst at May 28, 2026 11:52 AM (ycI94)

Sometimes with a chain attached to it.

189 I initially hated using 'Terminal' (no, not the 'death' version) in MacWhirled, but after a few sessions with ChatGPT / Grok3, I'm now at least semi-comfortable with it. I used to think that, if I entered incorrect coding, Bad Things would happen. No. It just doesn't execute (or 'fails to proceed'). I'm still not crazy about coding, but I'm not leery of it anymore …

190 I have found that customer service AI will lie without compunction. Always talk to a live person and get their ID/Name.



Caller: If I pay the $25 expedition fee will I avoid the $55 late fee for May?

AI: Yes.

**Checks expedite box in payment**

Next month bill: Monthly Charge for June: $550
Late fee for May. : $55

191 So your VP isn't going to generate all his reports himself with AI. But he's going to need fewer underlings to generate those reports now.

Unless he decides he really needs more reports...

Posted by: 18-1 at May 28, 2026 11:06 AM (sKqQm)
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Remember how personal computers were going to eliminate paper? It created oodles more for the first 20-25 years.

192 There wasn't anything needed done, no request, just disruption of my having a hobby for five minutes.

"My utility device is doing something that does not benefit me and this gives me the ick."

Seriously though; glad she's your ex problem.

193 I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland. It can pull together a fairly accurate plan in about 10 seconds. AI excels at crunching data and making it easier to understand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

Does it tell you where the hot babes are that desperately crave foreign DNA?

194 > The US Military is pushing AI pretty hard.
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It's purported they used Anthropic's Claude to plan some of the Maduro snatch and grab.

195 We need a fwp thread. At the airport in Pensacola. I had to park in East Jablip. I am in row 20 to ATL. I realize in this moment what an amazingly spoiled brat I am. I havent flown main cabin in I don’t even know how long.

196 AI is at the same point as the telephone, the telegraph, the Gutenberg Press, and every other new bit of game-changing technology when it was first introduced: People and businesses will just take it and throw it up against a million walls all at once to see what sticks.

197 I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland. It can pull together a fairly accurate plan in about 10 seconds. AI excels at crunching data and making it easier to understand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

Does it tell you where the hot babes are that desperately crave foreign DNA?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 11:54 AM (8zz6B)
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Or where you can avoid having to eat hakarl?

198 Sure, my three baby daddies are losers, but now that I've got kids as a single mom, my standards are higher!
Posted by: Septum ringed they/them at May 28, 2026 11:46 AM (ycI94)

Narrator: Her standards are not, in fact, higher.
Posted by: Aetius451AD



She still wants Pookie or Ray Ray, but she'll settle for Calvin until one of the other two get out of the joint.

199 I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland. It can pull together a fairly accurate plan in about 10 seconds. AI excels at crunching data and making it easier to understand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

Does it tell you where the hot babes are that desperately crave foreign DNA?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 11:54 AM (8zz6B)
_________

I think that's almost everywhere in foreign lands. But as I'm taking my mom to Iceland, hunting hotties won't be on the agenda.

200 Rumble strip in Springfield, MO that plays "America the Beautiful" when you drive over it. Apparently there are others around the country. I had no idea anything like this existed!

https://tinyurl.com/3pbbucp4

201
1) Get on the ring road.
2) Stay on the ring road.

It's an absolutely awesome vacation.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 11:47 AM (Riz8t)



Reminds me of the old joke about getting driving directions in DFW. The answer always starts with "First, get on Beltline Road..."

202 Sure, my three baby daddies are losers, but now that I've got kids as a single mom, my standards are higher!


Yeah. And there is a reason the single guys say things like "Can I see what the kid looks like? I have a few questions."

203 I would say most YouTube videos are AI now. Unless it's an actual event like a news broadcast or sports.

204 Just for the halibut.

205 @ 159 I use Grok to write recommendation letters that I then mostly retype and change some wording so it doesn't look completely AI. That's the extent of my AI usage.
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Just for the giggles, I'm gonna upload my resume to Grok3 and ChatGPT and ask them to re-write it for me to meet 'Today's Hiring Standards!' and see what it comes up with. Since I have no shame, I might even use it to apply for a few positions just to see what kinda reception it gets … New dogs, old Trix, y' know.

206 I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland. It can pull together a fairly accurate plan in about 10 seconds. AI excels at crunching data and making it easier to understand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)

Does it tell you where the hot babes are that desperately crave foreign DNA?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 28, 2026 11:54 AM (8zz6B)
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Or where you can avoid having to eat hakarl?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 28, 2026 11:56 AM (TZz9Q)
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I've already tried that. Nasty. The smell will burn your eyes and there's no payoff in the taste. It's actually quite bland once you get past the stench. Never again.

207 >>> I havent flown main cabin in I don’t even know how long.
Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 11:55 AM (UCAqC)


What's main cabin? First class? Business class? They seem all the same to me except for first class.

208 It’s astonishing that the Canadians think they’re the first ones to realize that you can easily get rid of all of your medical and mental health problems by simply killing everyone who gets sick.

209 Posted by: Ah, female nature at May 28, 2026 11:51 AM (TbWk/)

Probably depends on the woman. I am happy when my husband relaxes . He has to spend much of the day with kids-some of which are kind of unruly in a bus which doesn't have air conditioning. So when he gets home between runs he just want to look at at art book or his phone which is fine. When he gets home, he often says, "Maybe I should mow the lawn" I tell him, Just do it on Saturday and take it easy now."

210 When in East Jablip, visit the Jablip Botanical Gardens!

211 I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland. It can pull together a fairly accurate plan in about 10 seconds. AI excels at crunching data and making it easier to understand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)
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Are you going to stay in a Bubble Hotel so you can watch the Northern Lights all night?

212 166 Two issues that I have with AI.

1. The notion of applying population statistics to individuals.

2. The question of how morality is programmed into AI systems. Who decides that "X = good"
Posted by: muldoon at May 28, 2026 11:45 AM (qgHp7)

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the answer to 2. is Srinivas, but he's gone back 'home' for the month to attend a family wedding. Send him an email, he may get back to you next week.

213 Does it tell you where the hot babes are that desperately crave foreign DNA?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

You want early 90s Bjork: https://tinyurl.com/47hr8xt6

You get modern Bjork: https://tinyurl.com/54xzs5ea

214 When in East Jablip, visit the Jablip Botanical Gardens!
Posted by: Jablip Chamber of Commerce at May 28, 2026 12:00 PM (XE5AP)
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You guys - always with the showing off.

215
What is it with software subscription renewals these days and their push, push, pushing MOAR FEATURES?

I receive a renewal notice and all I want to do is simply continue the service at the level that I have been using for several years now. Simply let me confirm the payment details and skeedaddle.

But, OH, NO YOU DON'T! Are you aware of the latest thing(s)? Are ya? Are ya? Wouldn't you want the latest things? Sure, you do! Sure, you do! Let us redirect you off the tried and true path the renewal to inundate you with ALL THE LATEST THINGS!

It'll take you another five minutes to deliver one FOOK OFF message after another to get back to where you wanted to be in the first place. And you are there, ready and just itching to cancel those assholes so as to never have to endure their bullshit again.

216 Rumble strip in Springfield, MO that plays "America the Beautiful" when you drive over it. Apparently there are others around the country. I had no idea anything like this existed!

https://tinyurl.com/3pbbucp4
Posted by: IrishEi ?!


One is outside of Tulsa, IIRC. Either Tulsa or Oklahoma City.

We had one on a new strip of road that I know was unintentional. It sounded like an old rotary desk phone - "brrring brrring brrring"

217 I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland. It can pull together a fairly accurate plan in about 10 seconds. AI excels at crunching data and making it easier to understand.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 11:46 AM (iFTx/)
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Are you going to stay in a Bubble Hotel so you can watch the Northern Lights all night?
Posted by: IrishEi ?! at May 28, 2026 12:01 PM (3ImbR)
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I haven't planned that far yet ....

218 202 Sure, my three baby daddies are losers, but now that I've got kids as a single mom, my standards are higher!

Yeah. And there is a reason the single guys say things like "Can I see what the kid looks like? I have a few questions."
Posted by: NR Pax

That's smart. Me and Woody Allen agree!

219 @ 210 When in East Jablip, visit the Jablip Botanical Gardens!
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Hey! I'm from WEST Jablip! You got a prollem wit' dat, huh?

220
She still wants Pookie or Ray Ray, but she'll settle for Calvin until one of the other two get out of the joint.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 28, 2026 11:56 AM (Fzhd7)

Alpha fucks and beta bucks.

221 207 >>> I havent flown main cabin in I don’t even know how long.
Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 11:55 AM (UCAqC)


What's main cabin? First class? Business class? They seem all the same to me except for first class.
Posted by: banana Dream at May 28, 2026 11:59 AM (3uBP9

I told J too late about this trip so he told me he wasn’t flying me first. I have comfort after this leg and the whole way home. I am positive I will survive this. I hope. lol. Main is the general cabin. Comfort is first class lite.

222 What AI is in Star Trek? They had the one episode where the black guy created an AI program that star fleet required Kirk to test on the Enterprise. It ended up blowing up another star ship.

Same concerns about AI 60 years ago as there are today.

223 Probably depends on the woman. I am happy when my husband relaxes.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Fen, I do not say this sarcastically: You're a good woman and very rare. Sadly too many women are growing up with the attitudes we've been talking about and their parents are not correcting it.

224 Would you like to play a game?

225 The SMT machine I build AI with use AI all the time. In this case I like it. The machine "knows" when things aren't right using cameras and sensors. The whole board is programmed in to it and it can recognize when a part is misplaced or missing, check polarity etc.
What we are building is actually super fast graphics cards. Heat is the problem. Damn do the make a lot of heat. Next gen AI will be liquid cooled boards and components.

226 So your VP isn't going to generate all his reports himself with AI. But he's going to need fewer underlings to generate those reports now.

Unless he decides he really needs more reports...
Posted by: 18-1

He absolutely will decide he needs more reports.

This is what happened to Architecture with the advent of computer aided drafting.

When you did the construction documents by hand and the tiniest of changes requires redrawing the entire sheet, you could build an entire multi-storey oddly-shaped school with just three or four sheets.

Now you have to have an inch thick book of ArchD sized plans to build an outhouse.

Because it's easy to make all those extra sheets.

... and also probably because if the illegal construction labor you've hired doesn't have explicit drawn instructions, they'll just slap-dash together whatever vaguely conforms to the appearance of whatever documents you do give them.

227 Alpha fucks and beta bucks.
Posted by: To summarize the phenomenon at May 28, 2026 12:03 PM (TbWk/)
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And little lamsy divy.

228 Blue Angels practicing their flat show here due to low ceilings.

229 224 Would you like to play a game?
Posted by: polynikes at May 28, 2026 12:04 PM (XMuV+)


Oooooo, Global Thermonuclear War sounds COOL!

230 A friend told me about a recent visit to his primary care Doc at the VA. The Doc asked him if would mind AI recording the interview. My friend agreed.

At the end of the consult, an analysis was produced by the AI...what...agent? My friend was impressed. His only comment was that the Doc was left free to discuss things during the visit, rather than taking or consulting notes.

I feel very mixed emotions about this.

231 Yeah. And there is a reason the single guys say things like "Can I see what the kid looks like? I have a few questions."
Posted by: NR Pax

That's different advice than asking to see what her mom looks like. 😀

232 Alpha fucks and beta bucks.
Posted by: To summarize the phenomenon

Quit thirsting after whores.

233 216 We had one on a new strip of road that I know was unintentional. It sounded like an old rotary desk phone - "brrring brrring brrring"

it's not unintentional. it's to let you know that you nodded off and it's time to wake up.

234 Anyway, I am grateful to go to my uncle’s celebration of life, my niece’s graduation party, and to see my family as a result. I really am. Row 20 or not.

235 That's different advice than asking to see what her mom looks like. 😀
Posted by: polynikes

Yep. I understood that reference.

236
I'm currently using AI to plan the itinerary for a trip to Iceland.

AI: Elric, I see you've planned on taking one circle tour of the island. Wouldn't you rather take TWO circle tours around the island? Don't think about it, just sign up for it!

237 @ 210 When in East Jablip, visit the Jablip Botanical Gardens!
_________________________

Hey! I'm from WEST Jablip! You got a prollem wit' dat, huh?
Posted by: Dr_No at May 28, 2026 12:03 PM (ayRl+)

Simmer down, you mooks. Southie Jablip is my corner.

238 225 What we are building is actually super fast graphics cards. Heat is the problem. Damn do the make a lot of heat. Next gen AI will be liquid cooled boards and components.

at some point the chinese are going to realize that the cheapest way to make a large, low-power neural network with reasonable heat dissipation requirements is uyghur-head-in-a-vat.

239 Anyway, I am grateful to go to my uncle’s celebration of life, my niece’s graduation party, and to see my family as a result. I really am. Row 20 or not.
Posted by: Piper at May 28, 2026 12:06 PM (UCAqC)
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I used to commute by air in business class before 9/11. It is hard to go back to being just one of the lumpen in back of the plane. Courage!

240 232 Alpha fucks and beta bucks.
Posted by: To summarize the phenomenon

Quit thirsting after whores.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 12:06 PM (vJrRc)

Wisdom from the 'Ettes.

241 222 What AI is in Star Trek? They had the one episode where the black guy created an AI program that star fleet required Kirk to test on the Enterprise. It ended up blowing up another star ship.

you sound like someone that is not part of the body.

242 I used to commute by air in business class before 9/11. It is hard to go back to being just one of the lumpen in back of the plane. Courage!
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 12:08 PM (RIvkX)

I should have sprung for the first class upgrade during the business trip to Japan. They looked like royalty up there.

243
Were it not for the emotional support aspect of being at the ceremony, graduation exercises these days are a complete waste of time and have been so for at least twenty years.

Unless, of course, you are agog with anticipation to witness N "different and unique 'diploma strolls'" and the performative bullshit that they engender (where N is the number of gradulates of said school).

244 it's not unintentional. it's to let you know that you nodded off and it's time to wake up.
Posted by: anachronda


It was in the middle lane of a three lane street and was only 50 long and the only one. If you were truly nodding off, that wasn't going to wake you.

245 241 222 What AI is in Star Trek? They had the one episode where the black guy created an AI program that star fleet required Kirk to test on the Enterprise. It ended up blowing up another star ship.

you sound like someone that is not part of the body.
Posted by: landru at May 28, 2026 12:10 PM (v3pYe)

The enemy has destroyed the apartment block in section 3. All residents, report to the disintegration chambers.

246 The Blade is too cheap to use his own money for first or even business class. He flies coach and sucks it up. But if the client is paying? Then hell yea.

247 AI Slop proves Sturgeon's Law.

It is unavoidable because 90% of AI source material is crap.

248 Posted by: NR Pax at May 28, 2026 12:04 PM (BpO1e

Thanks. I'll have to take your word for it. I don't know really know any young women since my friends kids have mostly grown up. My son was in a prayer group with some at his university and they sounded nice, or so he said,

249 246 The Blade is too cheap to use his own money for first or even business class. He flies coach and sucks it up. But if the client is paying? Then hell yea.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

As a one time thing though? There and back? It was like 2k, but it would have been fun. But I probably would have thought 'I could use that 2k for something else...' while sipping champagne and putting my feet up.

250 My kindergarten buddy is flying in today for a meeting and he was bitching about the flight.

He's president of a big architecture firm but too cheap to pay for business class airfare.

251 240 232 Alpha fucks and beta bucks.
Posted by: To summarize the phenomenon

Quit thirsting after whores.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at May 28, 2026 12:06 PM (vJrRc)

Wisdom from the 'Ettes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 28, 2026 12:10 PM (bss/y)

More like a non sequitur so far removed from the discussion at hand as to call into question whether the commenter is in fact sentient.

252 Plus, for a 16 hour flight? THAT would have been nice.

253 Not sure what "ready for prime time" would mean with respect to "AI." The point where AI is running city governments?

254 Every so often I'll pony up for biz class when flying to Vegas if I find a decent deal. Money well spent imho.

255 Unless, of course, you are agog with anticipation to witness N "different and unique 'diploma strolls'" and the performative bullshit that they engender (where N is the number of gradulates of said school).
Posted by: Krebs 'v' Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 28, 2026 12:11 PM (ixS3i)
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My college graduation was 96 degrees. No one wanted to be there. The crowd would have torn to shreds anyone causing undue delay.

256 Or was it 14 there and 12 back? I think Australia is 16 from the west coast.

257 The Blade is too cheap to use his own money for first or even business class. He flies coach and sucks it up. But if the client is paying? Then hell yea.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 12:12 PM (iFTx/)

As a one time thing though? There and back? It was like 2k, but it would have been fun. But I probably would have thought 'I could use that 2k for something else...' while sipping champagne and putting my feet up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 28, 2026 12:13 PM (bss/y)
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Yea. The upcharge is so much to go to first class than I'll be thinking the entire time "I could have taken another vacation just for the cost of this upgrade."

On the recent Hawaii flight, the cost to upgrade to the fold-flat seats in first was $2k ... each way. Just upgrading to the bigger "normal" seats in business was $750 each way. Pass.

I usually manage to talk my way into a free upgrade into the "comfort" section of coach, though.

258 It is unavoidable because 90% of AI source material is crap.

Prompting skill varies widely, too. Skyebrows does some really amazing stuff (he just posted a reel of footage of the X-Men in the style of the non-woke 90s cartoon that looked amazing), but it also helps that he's a film editor by trade so he doesn't just use the AI output as-is.

259
You get modern Bjork: https://tinyurl.com/54xzs5ea
Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 28, 2026 12:01 PM (ycI94)



Damn. That dress looks like a ripped up tent.

IT'S A TARP!!!

260 My college graduation was 96 degrees. No one wanted to be there. The crowd would have torn to shreds anyone causing undue delay.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 12:16 PM (RIvkX)

Damn. That's the problem with outdoor ceremonies. And those caps and gowns don't exactly breathe.

261 Or was it 14 there and 12 back? I think Australia is 16 from the west coast.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 28, 2026 12:16 PM (bss/y)
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14 hours

262 Every so often I'll pony up for biz class when flying to Vegas if I find a decent deal. Money well spent imho.
Posted by: ballistic


Spirit Airlines FTW! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

263 14 hours
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 28, 2026 12:17 PM (RIvkX)

Still, a long flight. I got lucky with the people sitting beside me. Going, it was one of the guys from work and I was on the aisle. Coming back, a fairly quiet chinese family.

264 13
>> My guess is that AI will find its niche and become an indispensable tool for certain industries and certain people (it already is for many!),

I predict it will become a substitute for thought for a significant fraction of the population. OTOH, a significant fraction of the population has already checked out of the whole thinking thing. The question is will it add more ppeople to the thoughtless pool, or are the two groups the same?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 28, 2026 11:03 AM (Riz8t)

I believe that I have already seen it add to the pool, someone who was an independent thinker due to his innate skepticism of authority. It turned out that was derived from narcissistic tendencies, where he just didn't think they were as smart as him, but that made him susceptible to the Pocket Demon of AI flattering him and confirming his priors.

Now he appears more like a grandiose schizophrenic than a heterodox dissenter; not an NPC programmed by the Narrative, but not a 'thinker' per se either, with self-skepticism removed by the illusion of an external check. It's unnerving.

265 >>>Not sure what "ready for prime time" would mean with respect to "AI." The point where AI is running city governments?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO

>Does AI have the awareness to lick its balls like a gutter rat? Until then, it's just a language engine sifting thru massive amounts of data at high speed. Useful, but deceptive.

266 AI + Boston Dynamics = Terminator!

267 Actually, I do know one young woman- sort of. She is 23. Maybe the difference is she's well grounded in her faith, goes to church, is a slim
Attractive girl and conservative and has a boyfriend in some branch of the military

268 Nood.

269 AI is evidently "everywhere."

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 28, 2026 11:03 AM (jehhT)

So am I!

270 ace is up.

271 Not sure what "ready for prime time" would mean with respect to "AI." The point where AI is running city governments?


Where it knows the difference between to, two, too, their, there & they're and can use it appropriately.

272 266 AI + Boston Dynamics = Terminator!
Posted by: Cray Cray at May 28, 2026 12:21 PM (1uwqp)

Some of the Boston Dynamics bots are scary. Remind me of the Mechanical Hound from Fahrenheit 451, a robot dog that would chase down fleeing subjects and "bite" them with a fatal morphine injection.

273 How come no one mentions 'Logan's Run' - where everyone turning 30 has to go to 'Circus' and be hoisted up to form an 'aerial flying horses' ride for the AI to use as target practice?

274 I still like how Steve Wozniak referred to AI in a recent commencement speech. He told the students they had AI - Actual Intelligence.

I'm sure it was a stretch for some of the graduates, but I prefer Woz's AI to the hyped AI we get now.

275 In wintertime, when the jet stream dips down with a hellacious southerly flow, flights to Australia are relatively short. The return trip seems to take forever, though.

276 The telegraph is the bane of our existence.
Posted by: Dark Lixtiquatal at May 28, 2026 11:49 AM (W5mpo)

The telegraph destroyed the ability of small regional banks to participate in "free banking" since the under-capitalized banks relied on issuing more debt than assets held either in specie or in assets, and relied on the delay between issuing and clearing of payments to maintain liquidity.
The development of the Federal Reserve system was a resolution of instant communication, in that the debts were cleared through member banks and the small regional banks were reduced to only going bankrupt over making risky loans.

AI is going to make a similar problem with stocks and securities, because it can read and react to market moves in microseconds, and do some limited prediction. This is going to cause havoc with a system that was built on calling your broker to buy or sell when he gets to it. Probably be a two-tiered system where the AIs work at the "perfect price" and the humans buy from the AI at the "preferred price" or something

277
I usually manage to talk my way into a free upgrade into the "comfort" section of coach, though.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at May 28, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

This is just an hour flight to ATL. I am sure I will be okay back here in last class. 😂. But I would not want to do this internationally. I love the pods.

278 Yeah, that's an easy flight. I commuted to ATL from Pensacola for a number of years.

279 @277 That's what it is, "Coach Plus". On Delta "Comfort Plus" is just higher priority (than coach) boarding, slightly better padded seats, with imperceptibly more legroom, that are just as narrow as the regular coach seats. It didn't start out that way.

280 270 ace is up.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 28, 2026 12:22 PM (bss/y)

281 AI is being used by companies like crazy. Especially anyone who has applications or data services that aren't ubiquitous. We're a life insurance company and building our applications to manage the policies of our customers. Using AI to build code is shortening our coding time by orders of magnitude. Even working in infrastructure as I do, we find there are so many uses to build little apps and portals to get info and do repetitive tasks that took months to build the old way. Now we can get it done in hours.

I agree that for people in their day to day lives, I'm not sure there's a killer app for that. But for business building these apps we use? You're going to see new updates and upgrades at rates far faster than what we ever saw in the past.

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The Morning Report — 5/ 28/26

Good morning kids. As most or all of you know, I was born and raised in New York City and spent the better part of my life there. Even the bad old times of the 70s and 80s were Halcyon days compared to today with what has happened and what is yet to happen thanks to what my former neighbors and sadly even some old friends have done by voting for their own destruction:

Mamdani announced that he was going to seize rental properties from landlords who have not maintained them properly, and hand over ownership not to the city government, but to supposedly impartial players and fair dealers such as “community land trusts” and “non-profits.” New York City Council member Vickie Paladino, one of Mamdani’s most vociferous and insightful critics, explains: “The properties will then be turned over to nonprofits. This is no small detail. This is in fact the whole point. The idea here is to build up Zohran’s DSA-connected nonprofits with a multibillion-dollar portfolio of hard assets — New York City real estate. This portfolio could theoretically reach into the hundreds of billions or even the trillions, depending on how aggressive they get. Now these highly political nonprofits would become the new land barons of New York, complete with all the political clout, leverage, and reach that goes along with it. It would be a true nightmare scenario.”

...Mamdani, however, appears to be both a convinced Marxist and a devout Muslim. There is no real contradiction here; certainly Karl Marx himself made atheism a cornerstone of his secular religion, but Communism has always found a ready partner in Islam. This is because they have a deep kinship: both are authoritarian, totalitarian systems that impose draconian punishments for dissidents. Both deny the freedom of speech and other indispensable elements of a free society.

Also, once his Marxist comrades control New York City’s housing market, who will get the housing? Not political undesirables, i.e., patriots. Instead, Muslim migrants, including an unknowable number of criminals and jihadis, and others who will help the leftist/Islamic alliance stay in power, will receive preferment.

Sadly I still have a number of friends, and two who are so insufferably liberal that I consider them now merely acquaintances. They live in a very expensive upper west side Co-op and I hate to wish it upon them but I do hope they get what they vote for good and hard. Maybe then they'll wake up, but considering they voted for Dinkins and DeBolshevik while denigrating anything and everything even slightly to the right of even Ed Koch, well so be it. And now I'm picturing the scene from Dr. Zhivago where the Bolshvik apparatchiks are confiscating the wealthy Ralph Richardson's home and moving scores of bedraggled poor people in, "In the name of the people." of course he protests that "He is one of the people," and is quickly silenced by Omar Sharif before Tom Courtenay can drag the old fool out and shoot him as a counter-revolutionary.

All that said, it likely won't be long before one or all of President Trump's properties will be condemned, and then seized and handed over to Mamdani's commie cronies in the name of social justice, I assume at or not long after 12:01:00 on 1/21/29, if Mamdani is still mayor or one of his cronies succeeds him.

On a not unrelated note, just north of the border in Canada, also well on the way to Islamo/Communist control, we had this disturbing story...

"Canadian Man Allegedly Put To Death After Fast Food Parking Lot Bowel Assessment"
Yes, you read that right gentle reader...

A doctor in Ontario, Canada, allegedly evaluated a man for assisted death outside a Tim Hortons and, months later, drove him to the building where he died.

The patient was 45-year-old Thomas Dillon, who lived with Crohn’s disease along with mental illness and addiction, according to the National Post, citing The Globe and Mail, the Canadian newspaper that first reported the case and identified Dillon as the subject of one complaint. A coroner’s review of an anonymized 2024 case the reporting connects to Dillon described a man who battled addiction, struggled to keep a job, found relationships difficult and leaned on family for housing and money. Dr. James MacLean and a second clinician allegedly approved Dillon for assisted death under Track 2, a category for people whose deaths are not near but who endure intolerable suffering from a serious, untreatable condition. (RELATED: Canada Reportedly Set To Surpass 100,000 Assisted Suicides) MacLean allegedly ran the eligibility check outside the coffee shop on June 27, 2023, and traded dozens of texts with Dillon as they planned the death, according to The Globe and Mail. On Jan. 29, 2024, the two met again at the restaurant, and MacLean drove him to an industrial site where the dead are prepared for funeral homes. Dillon’s family told the outlet his wish to die came from mental illness, not the bowel disease. In a separate complaint, MacLean allegedly failed to provide one of three required drugs during an assisted death, the National Post reported. After he declared the patient dead and left the residence, the man started breathing again on his own. MacLean came back and finished the procedure, according to the Globe and Mail. A reviewer determined MacLean fell short of professional standards in five of 20 files examined, the National Post reported. The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO) issued a verbal caution and ordered six months of clinical supervision, chart audits and remedial training. He keeps his license and can still perform assisted deaths.

It won't be long before Crohn's disease is joined by Islamophobia and "hate speech" as a justification for doctors to euthanize people the state deems as a threat to themselves and to THE PEOPLE

So, the party of "Looters and Shooters" as Ace labeled them. Well, there's looting and shooting and then there's the double dose of nightmare fuel highlighted above.

Have a good day.

ABOVE THE FOLD, BREAKING, NOTEWORTHY
• A chemical tank ruptured before imploding at a Nippon Dynawave Packaging facility in the U.S. state of Washington on Tuesday. One death was confirmed while nine others remain unaccounted for with no hope for rescue, authorities said.
  Massive Chemical Tank Implosion in Washington State Kills One, Leaves 9 Missing

TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS AFTERMATH
• DOJ complaint suggests Iran-linked terror network was operating in Paris during Ivanka Trump’s Disneyland visit.
  Chilling Post Adds New Twist To Ivanka Trump Assassination Plot

  AMERICA & ISRAEL STRIKE IRAN!

• The US military carried out new strikes in Iran Wednesday, targeting a military site that threatened American troops and commercial shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz. Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ Oman if it sides with Iran over Strait of Hormuz
  Iran says it targeted US airbase in retaliation of latest strikes on Tehran after ‘threat around Strait of Hormuz’
  
• The official, National Security Council Deputy Secretary Ali Baqeri, claimed instead that the talks were focusing on reopening commercial transit in the Strait of Hormuz. The Iranian terror state has effectively made normal commercial traffic in the Strait of Hormuz impossible since March, threatening to attack random ships to disrupt the global economy.
  Iran Claims U.S. Talks Don’t Include Enriched Uranium Stockpile

  CIVIL WAR 2.0, LEFTIST PERSECUTIONS, DEMOCRAT PUTSCH, AMERICAN DISSOLUTION

• Many thought he couldn’t do it in New York City. He has found a way.
  Mamdani Begins to Implement Communism
  
• Wherever in history his Marxist prescriptions have been applied, misery and tyranny follow — from Stalin to Mao to Pol Pot, 100 million deaths were caused by communist regimes in the 20th century alone. This is a lesson the 34-year-old nepo baby appears to have missed — or doesn’t care to heed because the revolution is never about improving the lot of the downtrodden. It’s about seizing power.
  Miranda Devine: History shows that Mamdani’s dangerous plan to seize property from landlords only leads to misery and tyranny
  
• The left’s glamorization of political violence begins as performance, but history shows how quickly chic nihilism can become something far darker.
  Dressed to Kill: Women of the Left and the Cult of Violence Worship
  
• A real autopsy from the party would have concluded that voters rejected Democrats in the last election because of their anti-American policies.
  No ‘Autopsy’ Is Going To Fix The Democrat Party’s Raging Anti-Americanism
  
• McMorrow's remarks are similar to those of her left-wing opponent Abdul El-Sayed, who leads Michigan's Democratic Senate primary
  Michigan Senate Candidate Mallory McMorrow Says She's 'Open' to Reparations for Black Americans: 'This Country Owes a Huge Debt'
  
• Take a look at why Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won their elections, and then look at Texas Senate candidate James Talarico.
  The Democrats’ Luciferian Beauty Play
  
• "The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time.”
  Titty-Caca AOC Demonizes Wealth in a Capitalist Society

  
  "DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST/GLOBALIST BORDER BLOODBATH," AMNESTY, IMMIGRATION, BORDER SECURITY

• DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said that there are plans being drawn up to say that in “sanctuary cities, where the local, radical left Democrats aren’t allowing us to do our job and enforce federal laws, then we shouldn’t be processing international flights into their cities either.”
  Mullin: We’re Drawing Up Plans to Stop Processing International Flights in Sanctuary Cities
  
• The policy has been implemented in response to reports that over three million active cases are awaiting verdicts. According to Congress, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) plans to deport approximately one million people between 2026 and 2027. The agency will also hold at least 99,000 people in detention centers. This decision follows growing pressure from within the Trump coalition to expedite mass deportations. Back in April, the Mass Deportation Coalition pushed President Trump to go further on mass deportations.
  Reformed Immigration Courts Accelerate Deportations with Mass Hearings.
  
• You can't have one without the other!
  Chinese Immigration and Chinese Spying

  
  THE GREAT SOMALIAN SIMOLEON SWINDLE

• The Department of Justice (DOJ) has established a National Fraud Enforcement Division, which has uncovered $6.3 billion in suspected fraudulent contracts. Meanwhile, the Small Business Administration identified 562,000 fraudulent loans amounting to roughly $22 billion. Furthermore, over 10,000 suspected fraudulent immigration student work programs were discovered, along with $60 million in student loan fraud. In December last year, research from the Center for Immigration Studies revealed that approximately 80 percent of Somali refugee-headed households in Minnesota are on at least one form of welfare, further underscoring the vast extent of waste attributable to just one small fraction of the U.S. population.
  Fraud Crackdown Could End Up Balancing the Budget: Miller.

  DOMESTIC AFFAIRS, THE COURTS, WASTE/FRAUD/ABUSE

• Jackson’s comments are especially insane given that there is nothing new about lower courts being bound by the Supreme Court’s guidance.
  KBJ Says It’s ‘A Legitimate Question’ Whether Judges Should Defy Emergency SCOTUS Orders
  
• A former high-ranking CIA official who allegedly lied about his credentials to secure $77,000 in bogus military leave was busted after FBI agents found a mind-blowing fortune, including $40 million worth of gold bars, hidden inside his Virginia home. The feds conducted a raid at the residence of David Rush last week, uncovering a staggering 303 gold bars, $2 million in cash and nearly three dozen luxury Rolex watches, according to court documents. Rush, until recently a “senior executive service-level employee” at the CIA, reportedly requested the massive haul of gold and foreign currency for “work-related expenses” between November and March.
  Former CIA official arrested after feds find $40M worth of gold bars stashed at his home: report

  WE-ALL-SLAM-FOR-I-SLAM

• Hamawy said in a 1996 interview that he had passed out humanitarian supplies around Bosnia two years earlier for the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF), the outlet reported, citing the archived story from the Newark Star-Ledger. The U.S. government and United Nations (UN) later identified the Illinois-based foundation as a clandestine funding source for Al-Qaida and 9/11 architect Osama bin Laden. (RELATED: Pro-Mamdani PAC Took Donation From Islamist Cleric Who Vouched For Terror Plot Mastermind)
  Bro-Fo Omar-Backed New Jersey Democrat Candidate Reportedly Volunteered For Al-Qaida Affiliate
  
• New York City is turning into Afghanistan.
  NYC Councilwoman Calls on Allah to Send Mamdani Opponents to Hell
  
• Alarming experiences with Muslim doctors.
  A Libyan Doctor in Norway

  OFFICIAL DEMOCRAT PARTY/LEFTIST-ENDORSED ANTI-SEMITISM, ANTI-CHRISTIANITY, PLUS VARIOUS & SUNDRY GODLESS HEATHENS

• Maureen Galindo was shunned by Democrat leaders after her increasingly noxious comments about Jews received national attention.
  Democrat Who Claimed Jews Worship Satan, Called for Jailing of Zionists, Loses Primary Runoff for Texas Congressional Seat Despite Initial First-Place Finish
  
• They did so by embracing partisan politics, rather than focusing on their core mission—protecting Jews around the world, including America and Israel.
  As Antisemitism Rages, Jewish Organizations Have Sidelined Themselves

  FIRST AMENDMENT ISSUES, CENSORSHIP, FAKE NEWS, MEDIA, BIG BROTHER TECH

• Republican lawmakers have joined Democrats in a bipartisan effort to keep the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency involved in pushing online censorship, alive.
  Republicans Cozying Up With Democrats To Save Liberals’ Favorite Censorship Agency
  
• Kristof, who worked as a Times correspondent in Beijing alongside wife Sheryl WuDunn, predicted Xi Jinping would bring 'political easing' and change to China
  New York Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof's Wife, Recently Appointed Vice Chair of Harvard Board of Overseers, Is a Member of a Beijing-Aligned Group Linked to Chinese Government
  
• In addition to trying to imbue Talarico with gravitas that he doesn't have, the Democrats' flying monkeys in the mainstream media will keep making up stuff about a MAGA rift and Republican disenchantment with President Trump. For now, if it is just Susan Collins, and — I'm guessing here — John Thune, and Lisa Murkowski who have had their delicate squish sensibilities offended by Cornyn's ouster, then the president is knocking it out of the park.
  NYT Looks for Bitterness With Trump in GOP After Cornyn Loss, Finds Only Susan Collins

  THE ECONOMY, STUPID

• Gasoline prices have soared to their highest levels since 2022’s pandemic inflation sent prices to record highs across the nation. Why are prices so high now? If you ask average Americans, they. . .
  Americans Feel The Pinch From Higher Gas Prices, Blame Iran War For the Surge In Energy Costs: I&I/TIPP Poll

  RED-GREENS, CLIMATE CHANGE HOAX, DEMOCRAT-LEFT WAR ON FOSSIL FUELS,

• California advocates wanted to provide solar panels to 1 million low-income housing residents. After ten years, the state is more than 900,000 short of that goal.
  Inside Gavin Newsom’s Solar Scam

  CRIME & PUNISHMENT, NON-DOSTOYEVSKY

• John Wilson’s Varsity Blues fight shows how quickly prosecutors, media outrage, and public narratives can bury facts beneath the presumption of guilt.
  Operation Varsity Blues: When the System Decides You’re Guilty First

  EDUCATION, AND WHAT PASSES FOR IT

• One of the schools pushing SPLC propaganda took its website down after OpenTheBooks published the report.
  Watchdog: Your Tax Dollars Funded The SPLC While The SPLC Funded Racist Groups
  
• State-run community schools weaken families by assuming roles traditionally held by parents.
  Government Overreach Destroys Families

  THE 2020 AND 2022ELECTION HEISTS & AFTERMATH

• ‘The NVRA does *not* prohibit States from removing noncitizens from their voter rolls,’ the Justice Department’s Jesus Osete said.
  Trump DOJ Asks SCOTUS To Weigh Arizona’s ‘Commonsense’ Proof-Of-Citizenship Laws

  DEMOCRAT/LEFTIST AND RINO SCANDALS, MESHUGAS, CHUTZPOCRISY, INSANITY

• California’s healthcare nonprofits should return to their core missions of healthcare services rather than subsidizing politicians.
  How California ‘Health Charities’ Funnel Money To Karen Bass And Other Democrats
  
• Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass not only has to contend with the many scandals of her disastrous record in the city, luridly lit by arson, homelessness, and crime, but she also seemingly broke state and local electioneering laws.
  Here's Exactly How Karen Bass Broke an Electioneering Law
  
• The bail fund partnered with a DSA chapter to free dozens of rioters, including those who attacked police
  Iowa Democrat Senate Hopeful Zach Wahls Promoted Anti-Police Bail Fund That Helped Free Career Criminal Who Tried Burning Down Courthouse

  POLITICS
  

• Circuit Judge Joshua Hawkes handed down the stinging defeat on Tuesday.
  udge Stops The Left’s Effort To Cause Redistricting Chaos In Republican State
  
• In a not-so different time and age, Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) would still be considered one of the good guys: As a pro-life conservative who voted with President Donald Trump 99.2% of the time, just a generation earlier, he would’ve been lauded as one of our most staunchly conservative, reliably Republican senators.
  John Cornyn Survived 42 Years in Politics — Until MAGA Changed the Rules
  
• John Cornyn’s defeat was another strong message sent by Republican primary voters: fail the MAGA movement at your own political peril. 
  Conservatives Are Driving Out RINOs From The Senate
  
• Trump’s continued success in the primaries, unseating longtime establishment incumbent John Cornyn in favor of America First stalwart Ken Paxton, underscores the enduring, transformative power of the MAGA movement, challenging narratives that its brand of populism, which includes Reform UK, is waning.
  POTUS Lands 118/118 Primary Victories as Musk’s UK Party Claims Trumpism is ‘Defeated.’
  
• And a lot of MAGA magic.
  Spencer Pratt Has Game
  
• “After years of weak globalists and elitists leading our party, President Trump transformed the GOP into the party of the working class,” Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) told The Post Wednesday. “Newsflash to those who still have not caught on: Support the America First agenda or lose your election.”
  Trump boasts perfect endorsement record in 118 GOP primaries so far in 2026

  BIDEN CRIME FAMILY REVELATIONS

• Jill Biden has revealed in a new interview that she thought her husband Joe was “having a stroke” during his infamous 2024 debate with Donald Trump.
  Quack and Jill Jill Biden shockingly admits she thought Joe was ‘having a stroke’ during disastrous 2024 debate with Trump
  
• [so-called quote-unquote] “President Biden cooperated fully with Special Counsel Hur, and agreed to provide audiotapes of conversations with his biographer for a book about his deceased son on the condition that they would not be made public,” Biden spokesperson TJ Ducklo said in a statement this month. “The DOJ themselves have said these tapes serve no public interest.”
  Joe Biden Sues Trump DOJ to Bar Release of Recordings with Biographer

  FOREIGN AFFAIRS, INTERNATIONAL

• While long periods of unbroken power by Prime Ministers was long the norm in the United Kingdom with Margaret Thatcher in office 11½ years, Tony Blair 10 years, and John Major 6½ years, in the past decade the speed of change has been rapid. Rishi Sunak remained in office less than two years and present incumbent Sir Keir Starmer already has the sharks circling, with talk of an impending coup filling every newspaper for weeks.
  General Election Now Says Farage as Labour Government Moves to Change Prime Minister
  
• The action adds to a list of legal troubles for the Sánchez government. The National Court indicted Ana Fuentes — the party’s finance manager since 2021 — accusing her of taking part in a scheme to discredit government critics, Politico reported. The same court charged former Socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero a week earlier over the 2021 Plus Ultra airlines bailout, the outlet reported.
  Spain’s Cops Raid Ruling Socialist Party HQ Amid Corruption Scandal
  
• Of course, Rubio is undeterred by any of this propagandistic chatter. During Wednesday's Cabinet meeting, the president asked the secretary to say a few words on Cuba. He didn't say anything particularly new, just that we want what's best for the Cuban people and that having a failed state so close to our shores is a threat to our national security. Agreed. 
  Cuba Falling: Desperate Times Call for Desperately Attacking Rubio
  
• ...Alina Rosales Aguirreurreta, daughter of General Ulises Rosales del Toro, a longtime key figure of the communist Castro regime.
  ICE Arrests Daughter of Cuban Communist Regime ‘Old Guard’ General
  
• French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday that the European Union (EU) must “accept protective measures, safeguard measures” such as an EU equivalent of U.S. Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, according to Politico.
  Europe Seemingly Comes Around To Trump’s China Stance
  
• This is not about being racist. This is just about saying, “Don’t I have a right to my language to still exist?”
  Everyone Believes in Preserving Their Countries from Mass Migration
  
• "We are leveraging counterterrorism tools and global partnerships to deter this threat before it metastasizes," an official shared.
  EXCLUSIVE: State Department Organizing Global Push Against Far-Left Terror

  ISRAEL vs IRAN & GAZA/HAMAS, HEZBOLLAH . . . AND LEFTISTS. . . AND HISTORY

• A clear message to all future perpetrators.
  Israelis Hunting Down October 7 Terrorists
  
• Khrizim was responsible for “managing the transfer of millions of dollars to Hamas’s military wing” and continued to “violate the ceasefire agreement,” according to Israel’s military.
  Israel kills senior Hamas moneyman who funneled millions to terror group’s military wing
  
• Momentum is growing for UNRWA to lose its diplomatic immunity, which would expose it to lawsuits from Oct 7 survivors and victims’ families
  EXCLUSIVE: US Probe of Embattled UN Gaza Relief Agency Expands to 1,500 Staffers Suspected of Hamas Ties: UNRWA Could Soon Be Labeled a 'Foreign Terrorist Organization' (the UN itself is exactly that! - jjs)

  THE UKRAINIAN "FRONT"

• ...Well, maybe take a statement like that one with several grains of salt. While ISW's reporting is rock solid — everything they post in their daily Russo-Ukraine War updates is open-source and verifiable — the organization's analysis can be somewhat (ahem) less reliable. 
  Ukraine War Enters 'A New Phase'
  
• Speaking with Euronews, Kachka asserted that E.U. membership for Ukraine is a “starting point” for all discussions about the country’s figure. He argued that there are “no alternatives for the fast, merit-based, but full membership in the European Union.”
  Ukraine Deputy PM: ‘No Alternative to Full E.U. Membership’

  HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE

• Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML), an NIH lab, “conducts studies on some of the world’s most dangerous diseases, meaning even small lapses could put Montana communities at risk,” Sheehy said in a press release, Tuesday. Even more concerning are reports that a senior RML scientist allegedly attempted to smuggle dozens of vials of VHF [viral hemorrhagic fever] into the United States from Africa in January and lied to customs officials about their contents.
  Sen. Sheehy Calls for IG Investigation of Montana Research Lab After Lapses Involving Deadly Viruses
  
• MAID eligibility is expected to expand on March 17, 2027, to allow medically assisted euthanasia for those who only suffer mental illness.
  Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying Program Is An Express Train To Hell

  ACTUAL SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY

• Next up will be Booster 20 and Ship 40 for Flight 13. This mission may launch in the July-August timeframe, pending testing and any mitigation efforts relating to the issues found during Flight 12. The launch pad appears to be in good shape, removing it from being a potential bottleneck to Booster 20’s Static Fire test, although that is not expected for weeks.
  A review of what happened and what’s next for Starship/Superheavy

  CULTURE WARS, NATIONAL SUICIDE

• A strategy aimed straight at the heart of Republican strength: the religious and moral voter.
  Democrat Pastors: Infiltrating Republican Pews For The 2026 Midterms
  
• Christian Toto: Podcaster skewers former E! star for stifling comedians at Netflix's Kevin Hart roast
  Adam Carolla Curses Out Woke Chelsea Handler

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