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It's not the department of war. Don't call it that to appease the toddler in chief.

> However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense" remain legally official.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...


It's not the department of war. Don't call it that.

> However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense" remain legally official.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...


But AI is absolutely an incinerator of knowledge.

A helper tool that I can ask a question and which responds with relevant information gleaned from the vast collection of human-gathered knowledge and experience would be fantastic.

What we have instead is something that often gets things mostly right, if you don't look too hard at it. And the poisoned output of this thing seeps back into the knowledge pool, reducing its accuracy and therefore usefulness.

The problem of LLMs is the dissolution of human knowledge into a sea of slop.


Flock cameras are advertised as ALPR but have facial/vehicle/etc recognition systems running on them as well. You can see one panning up to track other people near the end of this Benn Jordan video on the cameras.

https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo


> Meanwhile all this criticism totally ignores what AI will make possible and is already making possible.

I'm not ignoring it, I simply haven't seen compelling evidence of the hype.


It's not an unrealistic fear. Trump has been making noises about "taking over elections." Abolishing elections wholesale is very unlikely, sure, but a sham election rigged by a corrupt government? That's standard fare for authoritarians. And there's evidence of voting anomalies in swing states in the 2024 election.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-voting...

https://electiontruthalliance.org/


Yeah, Russia still has "elections" for all the good that does them.

Trump _says_ lots. Most of it doesn't come true.

FYI, even though you have a new account, you were banned from your first comment and all your comments automatically show up as hidden-by-default to most users.

No, that is hopium.

It's an assertion not backed by data. Non-citizens voting is infinitesimally small. Between that, Noem saying out loud "we want the right people to vote", and Trump calling for nationalized elections, it's clear what the real purpose is.


Early in-person voting and making election day a federal holiday are things everyone on all sides ought to be able to rally behind, together. Idk if any of that is in the SAVE Act though


It's not.


The idea was that the House of Reps exists to represent the people of the state, and the Senate exists to represent the state itself. The 17th Amendment did away with state legislatures choosing senators, so we have this wonky system left for no good reason.

And don't get me started on freezing the rep count to 435. I certainly don't feel represented by my congresscritter.


Yeah. The XKCD "Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature" is, I'm pretty certain, the most frightening chart I have ever seen.

https://xkcd.com/1732/


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