Monday, June 02, 2025

Did We Do This To Ourselves?

Or are these people just a bunch of idiots? I hope his lawyers got paid in advance.

Remember what I said about what a hell the Administration must be with Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff?
Stephen Miller summoned 50 senior ICE officials from around the country for a bonkers emergency meeting about deportation numbers, according to a new report from the conservative Washington Examiner. One official after the meeting: “They’ve been threatened, told they’re watching their emails and texts and Signals. That’s what is horrible about things right now. It’s a fearful environment. Everybody in leadership is afraid. There’s no morale. Everybody is demoralized.”

… “Miller came in there and eviscerated everyone. ‘You guys aren’t doing a good job. You’re horrible leaders.’ He just ripped into everybody. He had nothing positive to say about anybody, shot morale down. Stephen Miller wants everybody arrested. ‘Why aren’t you at Home Depot? Why aren’t you at 7-Eleven?'”

… One official stood up and told Miller that DHS and the WH said they were only supposed to be focused on migrants who had criminal records: “Miller said, ‘What do you mean you’re only going after criminals?’ Miller got into a little bit of a pissing contest. ‘That’s what Tom Homan says every time he’s on TV: ‘We’re going after criminals,'” the ICE official told Miller.”

… Apparently what they say to the public is not the same as what they are saying internally to senior ICE officials.
Now I think when Miller dies, Satan is going to move out of hell. Oh, and I found out what Lindell blamed on Satan. Probably not what you think:
Outside the courthouse, Lindell was asked who masterminded the alleged theft of the 2020 election from Trump: “Who’s behind it all? Satan. This is a nation that’s turn its back on God.” He then claimed that he is being railroaded because the state of Colorado deleted all the evidence that he needed to prove his innocence. Things are going well.

He’s a former cocaine addict, you know. 

Maybe we did do it to ourselves:

I am not a lawyer so I don’t know what it would take to use the 25th amendment, but as a psychologist, I could put together one heck of a report of factual evidence that would indicate this person does not have the mental clarity to have a job where he wasn’t closely supervised.

Not even vaguely how the 25th works. 

The 25th allows the President to declare himself unable to do his job; or the VP and a majority of the Cabinet Secretaries tell the President Pro Tem of the Senate, and the Speaker, that the President can’t do the job. If the President tells them he can do the job, and the VP and the majority of the Cabinet beg to differ, the matter goes to Congress. Have you seen the Congress conduct an impeachment inquiry? Or trial? And this would be the whole Congress, at once. Not half, and then half.

I mean, it ain’t gonna be a court of law.

Not that I doubt that Trump “does not have the mental clarity to have a job where he wasn’t closely supervised.”

Speaking of “closely supervised”:

I'm writing a piece abt AI. But I don't actually use AI at all. Not really for any ideological reason when it comes to basic search type stuff. I just haven't. So i tried asking a few questions to ChatGPT and I asked for suggestions of books on a topic. out of 8 at least 1, the first one I ...

2/ checked because the title seemed weird to me turns out not to exist. This is a pretty basic AI thing obviously. So I was seeing how quickly I could get to one. And that was pretty quick.
Which means AI is already as sentient as the average college student. But it’s hardly going to be taking over the world anytime soon.
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2 comments:

  1. The Thought Criminal9:40 AM

    "AI is already as sentient as the average college student." I'd never last as a college teacher because if a student used "AI" to write a paper I'd flunk them on the spot. I suspect it would be impossible for even a relatively well known academic to keep a teaching position if they held out against it.
    As for Trump, he is the froth at the top of an already mature sewer. I have been tempted to do the research into how he as other fascist buffo leaders there are in the world now and the kind of instrumental reasoning that Joseph Weinberg warned resulting in cultural, political, academic and scientific decadence but my health prevents me from doing the research to write it down. Though I've moved to using B6 pencils, that makes the writing a lot easier, if smudgier at times.

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  2. Rmj9:52 AM

    When I was teaching it was pre-written papers found, or purchased, on Google. The former were easiest to find. I had Google, too.

    They don’t catch the smart ones.

    The latter were harder to prove. But I never had a student challenge me when I said it was a purchased essay, not their work. And those were papers written by someone, somewhere.

    AI is still just GIGO. Nothing fundamental has changed.

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