It’s really sad how many Americans put stock in their so-called “Democracy.” First, it’s controlled from the beginning by the corrupt two party system, then there’s a layer of voter suppression, filtered through the electoral college (more voter suppression) and a huge cloud of lies and media.
In the computer security world, the vulnerability of open above-ground transformer parks is a well-known problem. It’s been a hypothetical on many a threat model for decades.
Anyone who wants this is welcome to it.
Biden just demonstrated it. Basically, he just said “I don’t give a shit because none of this will affect me” and signed off on the Willow project – the largest oil extraction plan for Alaska, ever.
I got a request for a “ghetto shiv” and, naturally, it had to happen.
As you possibly recall, I suck at writing fiction. So I enlisted the help of ChatGPT.
I paid a brief visit to my old friend Gary McGraw, who used to work in computer security with me, but has switched to focusing on AI applications in that field. He’s my “go to guy” when I have questions about AI, and I was surprised that his view of ChatGPT3, etc., is that they are toys.
This is an entire posting elaborating on a comment I made over at pharyngula, regarding whether AI “creativity” poses a problem for great artists.
I am stealing a meme from pharyngula [phar] high tech industrial spy IX-103 responded to a question with:
When I started noodling with midjourney, I used Ronald Reagan and Marilyn Monroe as prompts, because I figured there were lots of pictures of them.
