#221 In which next time we’re taking the train

Let us sum up one particular news item for you. The folks at Anthropic do not want its AI used for surveillance of Americans or deployed in humans-free autonomous weapons. Apparently Pete Megadeth, cabinet director of the Department of Fussin’ and Feudin’, and others in the Administration, including the man of wealth and taste himself, believe otherwise, that is, that we should use AI for surveillance of Americans and it should be deployed in humans-free autonomous weapons. According to Claude, who might right now be looking over your shoulder, both Skynet and Sarah Connor were unavailable for comment. 


In other news, Homeland security officials are heating up the battle against rampant illegal voting by undocumented immigrants. They are not letting the fact that there is no rampant illegal voting by undocumented immigrants stand in their way. Officials have referred about 10,000 of 49.5 million voter registrations to Homeland Security Investigations for further investigation. That’s roughly 0.02 percent of the names processed. And they’re just possibilities, not proven cases. 


And lastly, we were checking the preferred spelling for “OK boomer” on Google and got this: 


What? “Is Donald Trump a boomer or silent generation?” This is a question “people also ask”? What people? Can we get their names and addresses? Can we get Homeland Security to take them off the voting rolls? 


Jeesh!!!







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