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[In terms of data protection, there is a setting that means it doesn't 'save' your query for generative learning. If you trust them to do so is another day's work. Most corporates insist if you use AI yourself to enable that.]

In terms of data protection, there is a setting that means it doesn't 'save' your query for generative learning. If you trust them to do so is another day's work. Most corporates insist if you use AI yourself to enable that.

In terms of where things are, not far beyond individuals using it for emails, synopsis and coding/macros yet. Customer service places have been messing  with chat bots but the reception has been negative.

I'm hearing things about big data but that is limited in scope.

Accounting bodies have given a hard no. People just won't pay lawyers for AI content. Banks are already to the bone staff wise, no jobs to automate.

Medicine looks to be genuinely about to be transformed but that is human in the loop, no jobs should go.

I suspect many companies will use AI as an excuse to lay off with no real detail as to specifics.

For now it is individuals mostly using as a timesaving tool.

I once asked ChatGPT what it knew about me, and it knew a fair amount about what kind of thing I like to ask it for. Didn't seem to know where I live or anything identifiable. I asked Claude the same question and it knew nothing. Said it didn't keep records.

I've been using Claude quite a bit, and my use of Google has dwindled.

I use it for writing code at work. It's been a while since I wrote any piece of code from start to finish. You still have to understand the underlying concepts and know what to ask it, but it does take out a lot of the grunt work.

When my test results recently came back from the hospital in medical jargon, I fed it into Claude to get it translated into plain English, and it worked a treat.

Very handy.

Big boost for Newsom with the passage of Prop 50. Raises his national profile further. I know they say a Californian can't win, but I'd bet good money on Newsom for president in 2028.

AOC and Mamdami are still young yet, plenty of runway for them to go further. Mambami's victory speech was very impressive, Bernie-flavoured rhetoric delivered with Obama's style.

Newsom's speaking style is a bit different, he doesn't do the Obama-style soaring oratory because he speaks without a teleprompter. His dyslexia means he has to know his stuff and speak without notes, which has all sorts of advantages and disadvantages.

Mamdami wasn't born in the US so there will be no presidential bid in the future

Could get as far as governor or US senate though. That's not nothing.

Big boost for Newsom with the passage of Prop 50. Raises his national profile further. I know they say a Californian can't win, but I'd bet good money on Newsom for president in 2028.

AOC and Mamdami are still young yet, plenty of runway for them to go further. Mambami's victory speech was very impressive, Bernie-flavoured rhetoric delivered with Obama's style.

Newsom's speaking style is a bit different, he doesn't do the Obama-style soaring oratory because he speaks without a teleprompter. His dyslexia means he has to know his stuff and speak without notes, which has all sorts of advantages and disadvantages.

Too many people have become millionaires in congress.

[the right wing regimes in West who played a role in creating the environment that led to the invasion.]

It is, but the hard left are fan boys.

The people you call fan boys actively criticise and condemn Russia and Putin, they just also happen to condemn the right wing regimes in West who played a role in creating the environment that led to the invasion.

You trying to smear people with positions they don't hold is fairly desperate. The left don't support Putin, they criticize and condemn him largely. Conflating criticism of the West, their military industrial complex, expanding borders and meddling in countries with democratically elected governments with supporting Putin or Russia is without foundation and it is a smear.

What?

• Real Life
• Belfast Child
• Alive and Kicking

Very hard to choose three. I loved a lot of their stuff.

Giving Trump the Nobel PP would be akin to giving a bravery award to a fireman even though the fireman  receiving the award provided the arsonist who started the fire the petrol and the matches.

Spot on.

Yet to be seen if this ceasefire will last and if it does will the Palestinians be  allowed basic freedoms.

We'll be back here again in about 10 to 12 years. The survivors of this holocaust, many of whom have no living relatives left, are far more likely to be pushed into the arms of extremists, especially if Israel prevents any rebuild of Gaza.

"But I also did a cognitive exam, which is always very risky, because if I didn't do well, you'd be the first to be blurring it. And I had a perfect score. And one of the doctors said he's almost never seen a perfect score. I had a perfect score. I got the highest score. And, uh... That made me feel good. When they asked, would I like to do one, I said, 'yeah.' I said, did Obama do it? No. Did Bush do it? No. Did Biden do it? I definitely did... He... Biden wouldn't have gotten the first three questions right. No, Biden didn't do it. Biden should have done it.

I'm actually a person that believes that if you're president, you should do a cognitive exam. But last time I took a cognitive exam and it was a perfect score. The doctors announced it uh...

And by the way, not the easiest test. The first few questions are pretty easy. Once you get into the middle, it gets a little trickier. And there aren't a lot of people in this room that would get every single question right. I can guarantee you."

" The Economy is doing well. Prices are down. We have virtually no inflation. Everything is going good. We're respected by every nation in the world and you know what happened? The Democrats want to shut it down. They want to give trillions to illegal migrants—people who came into our country illegally."

Dallas ICE shooter texts revealed!

[Oh and today I had a little call from HR to warn me that someone is watching me on Twitter.]

Seems like MAGA is going on full denial mode that the shooter was one of them. Jimmy Kimmel has been canceled for saying he was one of them. Here's what he said:

"The MAGA Gang (is) desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it," Kimmel said. "In between the finger-pointing, there was grieving."

Nothing inaccurate there, but his show has been pulled just for speaking the truth. They've threatened to pull ABC's license over it.

Oh and today I had a little call from HR to warn me that someone is watching me on Twitter. They reviewed my comments on Twitter and found that I'm not in violation of any policies and didn't say anything inappropriate, so I'm not in trouble.

But here we are. This is Orwellian stuff.

Today on "Things that Never Happened"

Yeaa context would be helpful here. What did he actually post on Twitter?

I say a lot of things on Twitter, most of it about cycling and bike lanes and the like. I posted a few things about the Kirk business, mostly saying the the shooter was right wing.

"But you know, we have a border, strong, and we have a shape and the shape doesn't just go straight up. That shape is amorphous when it comes to the atmosphere."

It was an intentional lie* to suggest the shooter was a MAGA guy, despite much information suggesting the opposite at that stage [3 days later].

Bob Iger saw the chance to trim the fat and took it. $10millon a year conservative estimate.

*"We had some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and with everything they can to score political points from it."

The shooter was hardcore MAGA. Reputable sources have reported it. The MAGA crowds need him to be a liberal so badly that they're determined to swamp the airwaves with distractions like the Kimmel cancelation.

Have the Democrats just lost the 2028 presidential election?

How so?

The cheerleading after Kirk's death would have tilted the moderates away.
It'll depend on the economy/inflation. I expect either high inflation or a recession or even both in 2028.

Not sure what you mean by cheerleading, I can't say I've seen much of that outside of some social media memes.

You might be right about the inflation/recession thing. For all we know we might be in recession now.

I'd say the mass doxxing campaign by the right is probably going to motivate a lot of Dems to get active and organize to take things back in 2028, so that could backfire.

Texas will be the state to watch in 2028. It's on track to turn blue around that time. There will be a lot of voter suppression and disenfranchisement by the right to prevent that from happening, but there are limits to how much of a difference that's going to make in the face of sheer demographic change.