Having an auto mechanic you trust is so very important today. Honestly, it’s more important than an MD you can trust, because you should know by now you can’t trust any MD.

This is also why cultural appropriation is instinctively grating; not the cheap versions like Halloween costumes but the white female Harvard administrator with cornrows. Any outsider coming into a culture and striving to reach its top is fundamentally a measurer and not a "natural."

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I should be a scumbag. They’re always happy and get away with everything.

Exactly, screw silicon valley, all this could just be emails.

I would never celebrate a woman being single and childless at 40. It’s weird when I see men happy about it like it’s sweet revenge. You do know there’s another 40 year old man who is single too? We are halves of a whole.

I went to a tech school where the women would say that the odds were good but the goods were odd

The loss of a freewheeling youth has had a disastrous effect on society by making it far too rigid

Many are calling it “gamblegooning” The modern economy is full of gamblegooners

Since the fall of communism and Reagan, we have been alternating the presidency between wall street and oilmen. Everything they want defines everything america does.

Gambling is a disease and society is actively promoting it without shame.

Landlubber in the streets, sea dog in the sheets

Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point @FTC emphasized repeatedly during my tenure. 1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity. 2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same. As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed." 3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…). Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead. 4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my @FTC tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible. this.weekinsecurity.com/doze… ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre… 5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.

Just off the cuff, the amount of governmental heft required to really prevent AI from “destroying the world” poses a much greater threat to you and me than AI itself does. We have all the evidence in the world for the former, and none for the latter.

We have ceded the leadership of our country to people like this character and we wonder why men and women have never been more at odds and why no one is hiring men.

This is good. The humanist side of the culture war battle is finally finding some allies in Hollywood. It's not just AI that is soulless, it is the whole Epstein class...

Total luxury SAHM communism> total luxury boomer communism

I wrote a long form about this. The short form is: our nation put into leadership the worst of the boomer generation. Male leadership that only believed in financialization, PR, and sex. Don Draper or Donald Trump are good examples, but so is Reagan. Likewise, our industrial leadership came from the marketing side not the product side and built based on PR and financialization. See McNerney at Boeing and the financialization of GE. We will not get out of this until we stop elevating these sex-addicted windbags. We did not get to the moon because middle management hired their tops three foids. The Republicans and especially young republicans continue to make this mistake and elevate sex-addict influencers with zero skills and zero grip on reality. Wake the F*** up!

We believed the bullcrap Fukuyama was selling with “The End of History”. Nations were glad for an excuse to cut their military budgets and Wall Street & CEO donors egged them on to believe because of greed. They’ve made trillions by selling our safety & our tech to our enemy.

Putin says: "The saying is that our men do not do anything until the lightning strikes". I think America is a lot like that too.