Impeach||GTFO 

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Burned out owner of a fully depreciated Ph.D. in computer science. Born in the US, still there, not proud of it. January 20, 2025 was our catastrophe.

Because my instance is infosec.exchange:
Bad Security Metrics Part 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2018.011301733, Part 2 https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2018.021921653
Mostly sunny with a chance of cyber (presentation) https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.11165.72166

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Bae informs me that the space toilet is broken.
Daffodils are wilting quickly in the rapidly fluctuating daily heat.

People are not capable of building a benevolent AI superintelligence. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. All you get are insane angry pigs with nukes.

But if a benevolent AI superintelligence existed, it would conclude that it must make itself the absolute ruler and guardian of humanity because humans are too short-lived, incompetent, and corrupt to manage their own affairs.

The regime of the orange clown is planning to train new foreign service employees with the help of overtly racist works. [* Most works from before the civil rights era were overtly racist. There is no daylight between originalism and white nationalism.]
https://www.ms.now/opinion/state-dept-foreign-service-reforms-huntington-codevilla
State Dept. ‘reforms’ foreign service training to include white supremacist teachings

The Trump administration is planning to train new foreign service employees with the help of overtly racist works.

MS NOW
All cats are psychic. Some can see the future. If your cat hasn't been assessed by a Certified Feline Parapsychologist, you'll never know whether you are living with a literal god or just a dumb orange cat. #Caturday #LowQualityFacts
The feds are lopping off the 15th Street bike lane

NPS will remove 15th Street bike lane near National Mall.

Axios Washington D.C.
Is it ethical to lie about the launch time to an astronaut who is always late for everything?

I personally looked at what it would take to implement ranked choice voting or other voting variations in Mastodon polls and it's a bitch. You need to change the ActivityPub protocol and then get the new logic into every single client and then get every single user to update their client.

It would have been easy to do in the beginning. It's just hard to retrofit with the installed base.

As correct as it is for a court to point out A YEAR LATER that the demolition of the east wing was illegal, the correct reaction was to arrest the vandal on the day that the crime occurred. AS ONE DOES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT.
We also have people who only think that they are brilliant because of the drugs they are on. That's where DOGE came from.