Trump unveils "Stargate"
Yesterday President Donald Trump announced a new artificial intelligence program that will see the United States government team up with OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank, the tech-focused Japanese conglomerate, with investments that could balloon to as much as $500 billion. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Oracle co-founder and Executive Chairman Larry Ellison, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son joined President Trump at the White House yesterday for the announcement.
Exact details around the project have yet to be announced. The new investment should be good for the country. Jobs and technological advances that could benefit all sectors of the economy for years to come.
In other news:
Marco Rubio, the first member of Trump’s cabinet to be approved, was sworn in as Secretary of State. Senate democrats appear to be delaying the process for Trump's other nominees. The former sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for defense secretary, alleged that Hegseth was abusive to his x-wife. His x-wife says that is not true. Is this the democrats again?
The Trump administration has fired the head of the Coast Guard, Adm. Linda Fagan, and said she had not done enough to stop drugs crossing the border.
Trump ordered federal agencies to place DEI officers on paid leave and to plan layoffs. It looks like we are saving money already.
Sadly, Trump revoked Secret Service protection for John Bolton, who has been targeted for assassination by Iran. Trump is totally wrong on that one.
Trump said he would impose a 10% tariff on Chinese goods beginning next month as punishment for the Fentanyl China helped send into the US.
The Trump administration expanded immigration agents' powers allowing them to quickly deport certain undocumented immigrants.
Trump’s citizenship order conflicts with the understanding of some on the 14th Amendment, which many others believe was written to offset the Dred Scott decision which denied slaves and their decedents citizenship. It may be good for the SCOTUS to eventually take a good look at it.
Snow in New Orleans led to 10 traffic related deaths.
Isreal launched a military operation in Jenin, a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank that is considered a hub of militancy.
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Whatever snow fell along the Gulf coast broke all records.
If they once again decide to remake "the Wizard of Oz" I'm nominating this loon for the wicked witch of the west:
The one embarrassing themselves is not this woman.
76,838,984 people of voting age disagree.
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World Health Organization urges US to reconsider withdrawal after Trump's day-1 executive order:
Now they say the US only has to pay what China pays.
I think it's too late.
They're upset they just lost a very large part of their funding.
Now they say the US only has to pay $38 billion.
$38 billion too much.
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If the pledges of Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are to be believed, the incoming Trump administration will make defunding public broadcasting a priority. The Department of Government Efficiency leaders have specifically targeted the Corporation for Public Broadcasting , which directs federal funds to National Public Radio and public television. Their view is in line with that of conservatives generally, who have come to see public media as a progressive bastion.
Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism, has said, “NPR and PBS have among the bigger partisan gaps in believability.” Only 16 percent of Republicans, the Pew project has found, say they believe what they hear on NPR.
Funding controversy: NPR's struggle to be more inclusive
So, the question is do we use taxpayer money to fund partisan broadcasting?
WOW, only 16% sounds like they polled Fox News….Conservatives see everything as a progressive bastion, that is the problem, blinders must be issued the day they are born.
You mean like two cable news stations drowning in red ink being propped up by leftist corporations?
Denver has had two PBS stations since 1980, offering much duplicate content. Half the airtime is spent fund raising
Supported by the taxpayers all this time.
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Tom Cotton's message to obstructionist Democrats: "Don’t make plans this weekend. We’re going to get President Trump’s nominees confirmed the easy collegial way, or apparently the hard way."
It appears they are going to be right there all weekend doing the people's work.
How many glasses of spiked liquid did it take to believe that nonsense?
Don't say "beer."
AI is the new oil? Gee, I remember when much the same thing was said about biotech. Biotech was going to reshape the future. Food would become abundant. We'd be growing biofuel. Every disease known to man would be cured. Lifespans would increase by an order of magnitude. (In some cases the promised sounded like achieving the pure Aryan race.) Attracted a lot of foreign investment. And turned our health care system into a shithole. So, now the biotech losers are jumping on the AI wagon trying to recoup their losses? And the rest of us are left behind to suffer.
In case no one has noticed, AI is already attacking the internet. Microsoft Copilot has screwed up the works so badly that the company is now on the same path as American Motors. Microsoft screwed itself over mobile tech and the great, new, disruptive AI is a Hail Mary play of desperation. It is a real possibility that Copilot AI will force Windows onto the tech trash heap. If AI integrated operating systems were really the future then China, India, and Korea would be all over it. Seems like our adversaries are betting on mobile.
AI driven inflation won't be any different than plain old fashioned inflation. AI inflation won't avoid destroying the buying power of the dollar. Expending resources without producing anything worthwhile might make people dollar rich but those dollars won't have any value. Shitcoin is still shitcoin no matter who buys the bamboozle.