Augmented Reality
New York City Mayor Mamdani is promising $15 million of taxpayers' money to pay for “hormone therapy, surgery and mental health case management” for “trans people” in New York City. Taxpayer-funded cosmetic surgery for gender-confused people. Makes sense … somewhere … just not in the real world.
The Rule of Law...yers
Idaho tried to make it illegal for a male to use the female bathroom and vice versa, and a federal judge barred them from doing the sane thing. It seems to me that the Constitution bars the federal government from overruling States (the 10th Amendment), but, hey, I’m not the king, so what say do I have? But we’ve come a long way from rational thinking when we define “male” and “female” by “how I feel” rather than biology and chromosomes and consider that "reasonable."
Reality Check
As if in response to our conversation about the basic goodness of humanity, two stories surfaced this week … to suggest otherwise. First was the feds in New Jersey seizing two websites specializing in making AI-generated fake explicit images of famous women. The second was the report on minors being targeted by AI-generated fake images of minors in nude or explicit conditions. Add to that the admission that more than half admit to having created AI-generated porn themselves, and we have a serious problem across the board. The reality is we’re sinful beings at the core … and our “artificial intelligence” has no moral boundaries at all. We're naive if we think it will make ours a better world. But your federal government is seeking to literally give AI more power. Even so, come Lord Jesus.
Risky Technology
If that last story doesn’t concern you, this next one won’t either … but should. Now they’re testing the “world’s first” vaccine designed solely by artificial intelligence. It’s supposed to treat a large swath of viruses. Now, given the well-documented failures of human sciences on understanding and coping with these things, and realizing that AI is only the extension of human thought and human knowledge … what makes them think this amoral, not-actually-intelligent system that we have made will be able to succeed where we have failed? Isn’t it more likely that AI will succeed in creating unintended consequences to a greater level than we have?
Your Trusted Source for Fake News
The Bee made a joke about Iran winning $300 billion for coming in second in the Iran War. Turns out, this “peace agreement” between Trump and Iran does include a $300 billion payout to Iran (actual story). We ridiculed Biden for abandoning $7 billion in armaments in Afghanistan for the Taliban to use. Now we’re giving “peace-loving” Iran $300 billion? I’m sure they’ll only use it for nice purposes. It only gets worse from there. Using Trump’s approach, a husband successfully negotiates his wife down to absolutely everything she wants. Meanwhile, wold leaders are lining up to ask Trump to bomb their countries for a little while so they can receive a few hundred billion as well. (Reminds me of The Mouse that Roared.)
Must be true; I read it on the internet.
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