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I'd like to teach the world to sing

We're already doomed. Chump says he has it under control.

You talkin' to me? Delivered by Robert De Niro as the character Travis Bickle in the 1976 film Taxi Driver. I thought the question mark might have been a hint.

Not really Foreman material is He? Nev

And what's not wrong is a lie.

Obama's IQ is substantially higher than this clown's. Literally everything Trump says is wrong.

How good is your security provider?. Nev

Be careful. It appears that those of bad intent scan your email address book. and then pretend to be someone you know and trust to send their scam/spam emails. I have received emails purporting to be from my cousin, and now from a friend who used to live a couple of doors up from me. They say something similar to "You may remember these four photos." and give a link which is unknown. Just beware. I have run system scans just in case.

They tried that. The backlash is still playing out.

Is he praising African-Americans and suggesting that the USA should have an African-American President? Americans know that spade is a derogatory slang term for an African-American. To paraphrase King Henry II regarding Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170, "Will no one rid me of this troublesome president?"

No need to worry. The tweet of the day from our orange saviour says it all..... Real tweet today: “The only control or ‘guardrails’ that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”

They should just swap the first letters - the Tronald Dump.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/donald-trumps-lies-are-just-getting-more-blatant-here-are-the-worst/?utm_source=lgbtqnation&utm_medium=directlink&utm_campaign=directlink

You've got to hand it to the Canadians. He wants his name on everything, so they've named a public toilet the Donald Trump Memorial.

rather sobering for the fans

Unfortunately the USofA is showing the no government has the power to over-rule these mega wealthy individuals. Until now we grew accustomed to the elites having more of their own way than commoners. But the extreme wealth of today's top .1% allows the tech bros to have their own unchallengable top tier of power.

Provided you know where it's gone.

Chump isn't known as one of the more responsible leaders of our time. Sadly he is at the helm precisely when we don't need him. Anthropic has for a long time called out the warning and put the brakes on or the use of offensive purposes by defence (now war) departments. That was the origin of the spat with Chump and, ironically, export controls of the model that had stronger guardrails than most. I did neglect to mention one of the issues of AI. AI mimics human intelligence - all things good and not good. Like humans, it self-propagates and evolves. Unlike humans, it does it a lot faster. But also unlike humans, it can be switched off.

It is interesting that the people doing the AI development work are now issuing warnings that the AI horse is kicking at the corral gate, thretening to bolt from all control. You know there is something amiss when the boss of Anthropic is one of those calling out warnings. However, we know that it is corporate greed that is ignoring these warnings.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-14/irish-reunification-natural-trump-says/107148712 Despite the text, the link is actually about how Trump thinks everything is ok with AI and it's just "very negative" people who worry about it. So now I'm really concerned.

I have to admit, I am not normally against people accumulating vast amounts of wealth. Again, that is based on an economic structure where the wealth did trickle down at least to those who participated - the labour force. However, the rules are changing. While I am sure if you asked one of the LLM/generative AI solutions to build you your own AI competitor, they would reneg, there is nothing in the core model that would not allow them to do it. In other words, in terms of product development, it is almost a perpetual motion machine already.. Of course, ti still requires people, but disproportionately fewer for the output - and significantly so. On that basis, trickle of wealth down will be slower than an old fella's pipe without the magic tablets they take. So, on that basis, again, the wealth will have to be forced to trickle down by outside regulation - so at some stage a) the clamps have to be put on or b) there is a point at which that wealth is taxed. Of course there will be cries that it is paper wealth and if they cashed it out it would impact the share price of investors which includes pension funds. Of course, it doesn't have to be cashed out. The government can automatically take a stake in the companies that exceed a valuation / employee ratio or something like that.

I don’t think that will get past Natalie.

My wife and I had a good ride yesterday. Weather was absolutely magnificent so we went to Richmond via the lovely bends of Grasstree Hill. At one point, coming the other way were half a dozen bikes which I exchanged nods with (no waving in the twisty bits!) - but the last one in line was a police bike. We don't know if he'd pulled out and was about to book them, or if it was a training ride (although they didn't look like learners), or if it was just a bored cop who decided to have a bit of fun himself. We had lunch at Pooleys vineyard, then went via Tea Tree and Brighton back to Hobart. After a coffee with Kate's brother we headed home via Taroona, which is also a great road for bikes. Very enjoyable day.

"Waved", or "gesticulated for the offender to pull over".... It's all in the perspective. 😜

Yes - these models are being built by billionaire tech bros, as a cohort possibly the most amoral set of scoundrels as exists in the USA. They are completely detached from reality. They have no concept of how normal people live. This AI race is simply a game to them. Why do they care if their company "wins" this race? They already have more money than they could spend in a hundred lifetimes.