plus there are going to be barely any jobs left after ai hits…maybe it’ll hit zero at some point within my lifetime? what if everyone loses their job and the government decides to hire some people back? what if only some people can pass the government screening to get their jobs back? what if there’s a stipulation for a bread line or what if they start making social credit scores because the job market is too competitive? stay smart out there.

sometimes i wonder if people think i’m republican when i post a streak of pro-republican posts, but here we go

i wonder if it’s just me being born in 1986 and raised from there, but i wonder if people have friends in other countries and wonder how they’re able to get and keep jobs in a country without freedom of press, freedom of speech, etc….i was raised to want to do well in school and get a good job after, and people are ruining their chances of getting and keeping whatever jobs are going to be left in the future by being outspoken against the (american) government when it’s best to just be polite or not talk about it at all in a public setting, which of course includes everything public that’s online. maybe everyone else is doing that and it’s just the outspoken people on the internet that are doing that, but i feel like a lot of people are wasting the hard work they’ve put in over the years over what they’ll see later as stupid mistakes, like my generation when we thought we could put stupid drunk photos online and our future employers would never see them. but still, when i was in school there were a lot of people who still cared about getting and keeping a job whether they were going to college or not, and now it seems like the people who otherwise seem like they’re doing everything right are setting themselves up to get caught going against the government when before it was only the weirdos who were willing to give up future job prospects to go that far. who knows what government job contracts or company bailouts or unemployment checks in the future will require. maybe they’ll only keep the people on board who are loyal to the government and pay them as government employees with taxpayer money, for example, or something else like that where it’s best to do the politics and religion thing and just keep silent and be polite and courteous. plan for the best possible future for yourself and try not to let doors close on you over stupid mistakes that are avoidable.

AI help?

 

Build American AI

People care more about us winning in the Olympics than about all of us having any sort of economy in the future. AI is going to be here whether we like it or not, so we have to get there first. It’s like any industry, only this one really matters because the few jobs left available should go to us and what we can provide as #1 in the world in science and technology already. It’ll keep the world safer and keep the future headed in the right direction.

what if indoor malls were a garage in the center surrounded by stores on the outside? + algorithms and new ideas

I’ve been thinking a lot about how platforms like Polyvore or even malls used to work—and how nothing has really filled the creative or social gaps they left behind. I had this idea: what if you combined the convenience of strip malls with the walkability and community of indoor malls, and literally made the space half-garage/half-retail—like a breathable hybrid of browsing + drive-up access?

Also, in terms of algorithmic culture: I don’t think the algorithm is ironic at all. It feels more like everything is reversed—like the things that would’ve ended up in the clearance bin at Target or Walmart are now the ones that surface first online. Not because they’re “funny,” just because the system flipped and now low-engagement-looking content is what performs. Not Z-A as a joke—just the math of what slips through and scales.

I wish there were a way for people like me—who aren’t rich or connected—to just donate our ideas to help build better systems or platforms. I don’t want credit or money, I just want the world to move in a smarter direction faster. If that means someone at OpenAI or any startup sees this and runs with it, go for it.

tags: #openai #simon #westfield #amazon #target #walmart #intellectualproperty

tv writing/AI algorithms/writing for fans not for art or money (until it’s proven its worth in those categories I guess?)

 

More “spirit of the law” stuff

If it was the state governments fault, then doesn’t that mean it was corruption? And the voters themselves shouldn’t be punished?

“…voter registration forms in that county did not included driver’s license and Social Security numbers.”

Also people get unregistered just because they didn’t vote in the last 2 elections? Why do you have to re-register? Sounds like more corruption, not an ethical law made with the right spirit.

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North Carolina’s State Board of Elections has removed 747,000 people from its list of registered voters within the last 20 months, officials announced Thursday in a press release.

The State Board of Elections in the release said the majority of those stripped from the rolls were deemed ineligible to be registered because they had moved within the state and did not register their new address, or because they did not participate in the past two federal elections, prompting an inactive status.

Other reasons for removal included death, felony convictions, out-of-state moves and personal requests for removal, the board said.

North Carolina is one of seven swing states likely to decide the presidential election between Vice President Harris and former President Trump. Only one Democrat this century, former President Obama in 2008, has won the state in a presidential contest, but Harris has been polling close to Trump.

The state is also home to a tough gubernatorial contest between Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson and Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein.

The purge comes just a few weeks after North Carolina Republicans filed a lawsuit that said the state had failed to act on complaints about ineligible people on voter rolls.

In the GOP lawsuit, a Wake County resident in North Carolina claimed that voter registration forms in that county did not included driver’s license and Social Security numbers. 

“By failing to collect certain statutorily required information prior to registering these applicants to vote, Defendants placed the integrity of the state’s elections into jeopardy,” the GOP lawsuit read.

Republicans also filed a lawsuit recently raising concerns after state approved digital IDs issued by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a valid form of voter ID. That claim was rejected by a local judge.

The state now has around 7.7 million registered voters. The Hill has reached out to the North Carolina State Board of Elections for comment.

Link: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4901476-north-carolina-purges-747k-voters/