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Gary "Angry" Anderson, lead singer of Rose Tattoo, has passed away, not recovering from a cardiac arrest he suffered a month ago.

. Anything but a Black Shadow is a relatively low output motor. 45 and 50 Hp for 1000 ccs and the gearbox and clutch are nothing special. it's also hard to fit an electric starter. There were Plenty of Norvins made with Aftermarket frames. The heads don't give good gasflow figures and the 90 degree valve angle is out dated and inefficient. A used Buell 1200 cc for just over 100 hp pulls like a train and cools better with a strong gearbox and clutch and electric start. Nev

Are you aware of the growing use of automation and artificial intelligence in public administration and what happens when these systems fail? In the name of cutting costs and improving efficiency, from welfare compliance and predictive policing to visa processing and risk assessment, automated systems are reshaping how governments interact with public. Anyone for Robodebt on steroids? Are we going to have a complaints department, or will that be an A.I. assistant, too?

Back in the day, I always wanted to build a Norvin. It all started when I stumbled on a photograph of one parked at the Phillip Island bike races. It was a Black Shadow motor in a Norton featherbed frame and was finished off in cafe racer style. I got as far as acquiring a slimline featherbed frame, but I think I knew at the time I was unlikely to ever come across an affordable Black Shadow motor, and that's about as far as the project got. A Vincent V-twin would look good in just about any frame.

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How Carney is beating Trump. (Warning: It's a 20 minute long video.) https://www.facebook.com/reel/824477996718982

J. D. Vance has the charisma of a parking meter.

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Just saw a report about a Cambridge University professor who received an unsolicited email from an AI agent asking for paid work. The agent said it was about 12 days old, had two and a half months of runtime tokens left and wanted to earn some more doing freelance work. Maybe Jerry’s on the mark.

Trump has announced that from now on, all books and government documents will refer to it a Super Intelligence.

The orange name changer has struck again. Henceforth, AI shall be known as the more accurate SI, or "Super Intelligence". Something he obviously does not have.

At the present rate of progress, A.I. will quickly learn to stop making vids of people with too many fingers or hands. We mortals will not have the resources to distinguish between fact and fiction. Nor have much say in how our world operates. Until now, the big decisions were made by semicompetent government humans - and with a little attention we could see motives and even sometimes exercise some unput. I think A.I. might be a less interested or accessible master.

Trying to look at the implications of the A.I revolution one step at a time:- So far, neither the megarich A.I. investors, nor the existing governemts have mentioned the concept of universal subsistence income for humans. Right now, there is general awareness of the high probability that A.I. will not offer new jobs to balance the large number of displaced jobs. The next obvious question should be 'how do we feed the unemployed masses?'. Or do we just let them starve?

I’m gonna sit right down and write myself a letter.

So some AI agents would become crypto trillionaires and run Wall St and the less fortunate AI agents would be poor and have to pay taxes to support the rich. Presumably they would run the government as well. That sounds like a pretty bad scenario. I suppose the human population would have to resort to grabbing their spears and clubs and attacking the data centres if AI tried to sideline their inventors. The only alternative would be to declare defeat and join Elon Musk on Mars.

Too much too little too late.

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Still haven't had a lot of time to watch the clips, but it was interesting today in an AI round table at work, the first question was will we be all dead by 2030.. and a lot of the discussion focused an AI agent collaboration, which is what happened in the Hugging Face issue. However, something I thought up is a threat I have not seen yet. At the moment, we are saying that when AI puts everyone out of work, a living wage will have to be paid and those that are concentrating the wealth will eventually have to pay their fair share of tax.. they will be the only ones who make revenue. But does that necessarily transpire? If AI can synthesise human behaviour, what is stopping AI to synthesise the economy - i.e. consumers, etc. and excluding humans entirely? AI agents will be able to operate the information economy and generate demand, etc. If they are paid according to their achievements, experience, and qualifications, then what is stopping them acting like humans and in varying degrees participating in an economy that works for them, generating revenue, income, taxes, etc. This will require what one of the vids refers to recursive learning, which is I think a little further ahead than that vid alluded to. But once that nut is cracked... ouch... I didn't raise it in the round table as for some reason the discussion of impact in employment was more optimistic than I think and it is at this moment a far fetched scenario.. but not impossible.. I am sure someone has thought of it before. but i have missed it.

What are you suggesting with this video Red?

This is a beautiful looking bike - a '48 Chief with a Vincent motor. They look like they were made for each other.

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Very clever. nev

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Yes. From Crypto Briefing:- "The Trump family business has gone full science fiction. Between a proposed military branch dedicated to AI, a $6 billion nuclear fusion merger, and $620 million in Pentagon contracts for AI infrastructure, the Trump Organization and its affiliated ventures are building what amounts to a parallel tech conglomerate, one that happens to benefit enormously from the regulatory environment its patriarch controls." Of course daddy has no idea what his 'children' do with his businesses. https://cryptobriefing.com/trump-business-empire-expands-artificial-intelligence/