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I normally think it’s cringe for Americans to mark Guy Fawkes Day but I guess for the first time we also have the chance to keep a bunch of adult Catholic converts from blowing everything up

Brian wrote: Wed Nov 06, 2024 6:51 pm
2. I don't want to deal with the cries of despair and the gnashing of the teeth from everybody else on my friends list.

hepcat wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:31 am I'm heading back to Elden Ring until 2028.

Isgrimnur wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 11:29 am It will run on your smart refrigerator except during the Two Minutes Hate.

Harris’ 5-point win here was the closest for a Democratic White House contender since 1992 and comes after Trump lost the state by 14 and 16 points, respectively, in his last two races.

WYBaugh wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:33 pm Do y'all believe that things will just continue as normal concerning elections? The group of election fraud and January 6th are just going to relinquish power?

WYBaugh wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:33 pm May be the wrong spot to ask but I keep reading people's comments (not necessarily here) that it's just 4 years. Don't stop fighting, etc.

Do y'all believe that things will just continue as normal concerning elections? The group of election fraud and January 6th are just going to relinquish power?

Is there something that is going to stop the Republicans from re-making things how they want it?

Skinypupy wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:40 pm

WYBaugh wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:33 pm May be the wrong spot to ask but I keep reading people's comments (not necessarily here) that it's just 4 years. Don't stop fighting, etc.

Do y'all believe that things will just continue as normal concerning elections? The group of election fraud and January 6th are just going to relinquish power?

Is there something that is going to stop the Republicans from re-making things how they want it?

Nope. Nothing at all.

I'm fully expecting US elections to end up as a perfunctory exercise that can be used for them to publicly say "See, we're still a democracy!" while MAGA gets 96% of the vote.

Smoove_B wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:39 pm

WYBaugh wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 2:33 pm Do y'all believe that things will just continue as normal concerning elections? The group of election fraud and January 6th are just going to relinquish power?

Yeah, this is where I am when I see people commenting on how things will be fine or that it's "only" 4 years. His last term was genuinely insane. Maybe COVID-19 really has wiped out those memories or perhaps people did manage to live those years without being impacted at all by all the crazy shit he said and did.

This time is different; it's decidedly worse to have him back and I don't believe for a second the 2028 election will be what people think. Even if it is, he's going to absolutely destroy the fabric of government and pack the courts, likely impacting our trajectory for another 25+ years; I'll be dead before this is turned around, if it ever can be.

Pyperkub wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 8:58 pm You really can fool some of the people all of the time.

Zarathud wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 3:17 am America literally survived race riots and slavery. We can get through it. It won’t be pretty, but giving up is surrender. It only seems inevitable.

Zarathud wrote: Fri Nov 08, 2024 3:17 am America literally survived race riots and slavery. We can get through it. It won’t be pretty, but giving up is surrender. It only seems inevitable.

Blackhawk wrote: Thu Nov 07, 2024 10:44 pm The problem is that the Republicans know that there is a way back, and they likely have enough control to spend the next two years locking that down.

Anthropic has announced a partnership with Palantir and Amazon Web Services to bring its Claude AI models to unspecified US intelligence and defense agencies. Claude, a family of AI language models similar to those that power ChatGPT, will work within Palantir's platform using AWS hosting to process and analyze data. But some critics have called out the deal as contradictory to Anthropic's widely-publicized "AI safety" aims.

On X, former Google co-head of AI ethics Timnit Gebru wrote of Anthropic's new deal with Palantir, "Look at how they care so much about 'existential risks to humanity.'"

The partnership makes Claude available within Palantir's Impact Level 6 environment (IL6), a defense-accredited system that handles data critical to national security up to the "secret" classification level. This move follows a broader trend of AI companies seeking defense contracts, with Meta offering its Llama models to defense partners and OpenAI pursuing closer ties with the Defense Department.

In a press release, the companies outlined three main tasks for Claude in defense and intelligence settings: performing operations on large volumes of complex data at high speeds, identifying patterns and trends within that data, and streamlining document review and preparation.

While the partnership announcement suggests broad potential for AI-powered intelligence analysis, it states that human officials will retain their decision-making authority in these operations. As a reference point for the technology's capabilities, Palantir reported that one (unnamed) American insurance company used 78 AI agents powered by their platform and Claude to reduce an underwriting process from two weeks to three hours.

Blackhawk wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 10:15 pm You mean the crystal balls that an entity with harmful intent corrupted in order to provide those he perceived as a threat with misinformation in order to demoralize them to the point of giving up resistance or to turn them to his views?

Those magical crystal balls?