Comments on: Open thread 1/27/2025

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:14:49 +0000

For any latecomers to the comments, this is a transcript of the Tucker-Taibbi interview.
The voice-to-text is not too bad, although it insisted on substituting “blinking” for (Secretary) Blinken.

https://singjupost.com/matt-taibbis-interview-on-the-tucker-carlson-show-transcript/?singlepage=1

(h/t Clio)
https://thenewneo.com/2025/01/25/freeing-the-captive-four-more-hostages-are-back-in-israel/#comment-2784981

By: The Other Chuck

The Other Chuck — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 07:49:05 +0000

It’s still January 27 here on the coast. Never Forget. Never.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 01:04:00 +0000

About that Government naughty list: Tucker Carlson interviews Matt Taibbi, most recently of Twitter Files fame but he has been doing good investigative reporting for a long time, and is one of the few on the left who is willing to go deep into what “his side” is doing, especially if it is wrong. IOW, a classic liberal democrat from the sixties with ethics.

https://x.com/tuckercarlson/status/1883939641499258998

I don’t usually listen to talking heads, but these guys are two of the best.

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:59:46 +0000

@ David in re https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/60616.html

Per a discussion recently: I got an error warning threat from ESET on that link, although I have had no problem accessing other posts from CB.
I think there is a particular segment of your archive that is being blocked.
You could try some benchmarking to see what sequence numbers are the end-points of the “dangerous” section.

I have no idea what would have triggered some kind of “black ball” around part of the site, or even just your columns; don’t know enough about security programs or web-site organization.

Were you on the Government’s naughty list, like other pundits were?

By: om

om — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:26:28 +0000

Miguel:

Others blame President Trump for not being prepared for the criminality (Dems), betrayal (RINOs), and treason (General White Rage Milley and the Intelligence Community).

But even without punctuation you have recognized and elucidated those salient facts.

By: DAVID FOSTER

DAVID FOSTER — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:45:46 +0000

Automation is not new, and neither are automation panics. I wrote a 3-part history post in this topic several years ago:

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/60616.html

There was pushback against sound film–the ‘talkies’–on the grounds that they were destroy jobs in local movie house orchestra, and major PR campaign was mounted in an attempt to convince the public that ‘living music’ was better than ‘canned sound.’

A 1925 booklet on Unemployment and the Machine warned that unless the country went to a six-hour day, there would be “no limits to the unemployment of the future.” The image on the booklet cover showed huge mechanical hands pushing humans off a cliff into an “unemployment dump.”

By: DAVID FOSTER

DAVID FOSTER — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 23:41:03 +0000

Huxley…”Re: History of AI

AI does A. Critics say it doesn’t do B.
AI does B. Critics say it doesn’t do C.
AI does C. Critics say it doesn’t do D”

25 years ago, the kind of voice recognition that is commonplace today would have been considered AI, as would language translation offered by Google Translate.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:42:42 +0000

Mike Plaiss:

T is for Texas … and Terminators.

We’ve got (some) time left. 🙂

By: Mike Plaiss

Mike Plaiss — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:14:27 +0000

Is D terminators? I really just don’t want any terminators.

By: huxley

huxley — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 22:08:56 +0000

Re: History of AI

AI does A. Critics say it doesn’t do B.
AI does B. Critics say it doesn’t do C.
AI does C. Critics say it doesn’t do D.

Lather, rinse, repeat.