Carolyn Meinel

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"What does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" -- Micah 6:8

AI News Briefs, March 20, 2026: Jeff Bezos seeks $100B for AI Project Prometheus; AI + Laptop = Your Own Personal Hollywood; AI CEOs scaring America; AI for your March Madness bracket; Terminator timeline begins with a boogie; and much more.

https://bestworldgroup.com/ai-news-briefs-march-20-2026/

Tennessee grandmother jailed after AI facial recognition error links her to fraud

Angela Lipps spent nearly six months in jail after AI software linked her to a North Dakota bank fraud case

The Guardian

RSAC 2026 is coming up fast, I’ll be in San Francisco March 23–26 and I’m speaking twice!!

Mar 25: Threat Modeling Developer Behavior: The Psychology of Bad Code
Mar 26: Insecure Vibes: Avoiding the Risks of AI-Assisted Development

If you’ll be there, come say hi! I’d genuinely love to meet you. @RSAConference

My sessions: https://twp.ai/pbblc5
https://twp.ai/bXc21t

Tickets here:
https://twp.ai/Imx3Fd

RE: https://mastodon.social/@cslinuxboy/116225578585237555

This is not “normal”. Skilled and productive people falling heads over heels over a word predictor and thinking it’s sentient is not normal. This is not the kind of effects that normal automation tools do. This is WEIRD and NOT NORMAL.

Something strange is happening here. This “tool” is modifying well-adjusted human brains in a strange (and I think destructive) way, and we’re seeing it happen to some prominent person every week. How many people are being taken in that we don’t even hear about?

#ai

Strait of Hormuz Closure: BestWorld’s Editors Weigh In

It’s likely to reopen soon, but we could be wrong.

If the new Supreme Leader continues to be incapacitated, or worse, that could be good news for the Strait. There are several good candidates. Iran’s former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who apparently remains alive, would be acceptable to everyone in Iran, and pragmatic enough to work with the outside world.

More here: https://bestworldgroup.com/strait-of-hormuz-closure-bestworlds-editors-weigh-in/

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Today at BestWorld:

Brent Oil price: Jeremy Lichtman and Phillip Godzin bring us forecasts, summaries, and links to the news of today, thanks to their forecasting bots.

This was the week that was in AI news, with links and excerpts, thanks to David Isenberg.

Links in comment.

RE: https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/lgbtq-nation-c65vn37sz/-/a-R9kjh0X7R_6U6xPciOIKIw%3Aa%3A3220327925-%2F0

Yup.

Like I've said: roid rage isn't a real thing. It's not. Anyone that tries to tell you that it is a real thing, is probably trying to justify violence by petulant man-babies.

If you're thinking "But steroids can make you irritable!🤡" I don't care. All women get irritable. All women know how guns and knives work. But they don't shoot and stab and beat people every time they get irritable. Part of being an adult, is learning how to regulate your emotions. Keep your hands to yourself.

Steroids don't make big men angry. Steroids make angry men big. What would've been a 150 lb twerp, is now a 200 lb twerp. Steroids give them the opportunity to try to live out their violence. When I worked as a bouncer in college, I often had to hulk-smash roided out dudes that don't understand that steroids won't help them against me, and that fighting is a skill, and that they didn't have that skill.

I've never taken steroids. I'm an elite level natural powerlifter. Many powerlifters and bodybuilders aren't natural, which means that they do take steroids and other performance enhancing drugs. They don't rage on people.

I don't judge people who take steroids for sports. I certainly don't judge people who do gender affirming care. I am pro-gender affirming care. What I'm against, is violent people that try to blame steroids as their excuse for hurting people that they perceive as smaller than them.

No.

It's not the steroids. It's you.

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