Weekend Edition 18 – Wow, It’s Legal Now... Lol What Hath Been Wrought Over the Holidays?

Twitter Files, SBF, Biden Gaffes, SouthWest Falls From Sky, Moar Big Tech Money Troubles, AI & x-86, Self-Driving News, Android Learns from iOS.

WE 18-1: The Twitter Files, a Snarky Recap
Ok, the Twitter Files have been a revelation, for normies, at any rate... The Gatekeepers have tried to make them sound unimportant and unconsequential, but if that is the case, why minimize and deflect from the fact that 3-Letter Agencies basically gave Twitter marching orders in terms of accounts to ban or at least stifle through the algorithm. They also don’t want you to see that Fauci and co also manipulated us through the magic of Twitter, if we paid any attention to that annoying blue bird in the first place (I never did). I guess that could be part of why I saw some things years before those who are more connected to that font of nonsense that has been radically over-emphasized since it was founded. Hopefully all of this will help wake a few people up. I won’t post links on this, as it is simply a quick recap. I would barely bat an eye if some 10 year old shoots the dirty blue bird with a BB gun, and it dies. Good riddance, that kind of micro-blogging has only encouraged the degradation of society as a whole, in my opinion. Come at me if you think it has been any kind of net positive for the world. The comments section awaits you.

WE 18-2: SBF’s Escapades
Where the Bahamian authorities absolutely refused his request for bail, as soon as he was extradited to the US, the same system where Epstein *didn’t* kill(ed) himself, the judge, whose palms must be about as greasy as an oil rig worker, instantly granted his bail request. How’d he come up with $100 million, when he claimed to be down to his last $100k in the bank. This feels like a set up for the very kind of slap on the wrist that I figured would happen a month ago. Many people were completely defrauded by his choices to allow Alameda Research to raid FTX’s user’s accounts at will. What the hell is that? I guess this is where we see how far his campaign contributions take him. I was glad to see that he was arrested so quickly initially, but now he is a free man, rather than sitting in a jail cell, where he belongs. Big shade, y’all, big shade. So, who is gonna be left holding the bag on this one? Even Madoff was thrown deep in jail, even though he was an old man. What’s going to happen with this young, Jewish man who destroyed so many lives by allegedly stealing so much money from them? Time will tell.

WE 18-3: Biden Gaffes (Ok, this happens whenever Brandon opens his pitiful mouth)
His latest gaffe had him admitting what anyone with a braincell and a half has known for the last 20 months, that we are in a recession. About time that his mouth got around to cutting past the gaslighting that the rest of his admin seems to be doing around that issue. I wish I could say that I don’t sense an even more significant crash coming soon. I don’t want to alarm anyone, but with the juggernauts of Big Tech executing mass layoffs to cut costs and “tighten their belts” to “get through” the next season, how can we expect anything else? Well, how about we work together to create a parallel economy that has nothing to do with the Fed? There are many who have been working at this for years now, but I am concerned that those efforts are not enough to cushion enough people to make it worthwhile, yet. Let’s do this thing, all. Choose to trade locally whenever possible, I know that is far harder for urbanites, but it can be done. I sense that that is the solution, though. Just a wild thought, since part of why you follow me is that you likely sense something similar, and a need to be more independent of the larger systems which are so easily manipulated by those who have been in power. Sound tinfoil hat enough for you? Yes, I am aware that this could be considered a “conspiracy theory” or at least just adjacent to one. I don’t want to get off into those weeds though, so here is where I talk just a touch about the SouthWest issues.

WE 18.4: SWA (South West Airlines) Falls Out of the Sky
Oops, we pushed all of our employees to get the jab in order to keep their jobs, and now in the weather and at the height of the holiday travel season, most of our fleet is grounded. Buttigieg absolutely failed to handle this catastrophe appropriately (big surprise that the guy who nearly ran South Bend into the ground, and only has the job he does because he is gay would drop the ball when he is most needed and go fly on a military jet rather than on an airline). Can Brandon’s so-called administration get any more pathetic? First there was the bevy of diversity appointments (mostly sexual deviants, queer BDSM freaks, kleptomaniacs, furries, and so-called trans or gender-fluid people). I can’t even. I don’t understand this bizarro world, you guys. Brandon and all of these circus people need to get tossed out on their rear ends, like 2 years ago. But I digress... SouthWest really dropped the ball here, and had no real solutions for their problems which affected so many crews and flights. It seems that they have been shamed into refunding those ticketholders. That doesn’t undo the missed family time, missed business opportunities, and all the rest, though.

WE 18.5: Big Tech Continues Layoffs
Amazon, Meta, Google, and the rest continue laying people off as they forecast very rough times coming. I alluded to this earlier. Part of me is gleeful, but they aren’t falling to bits because of patriots taking their business elsewhere. They are “cost-cutting” so that their businesses can survive, just as average families have had to do since Brandon allegedly became president ( I can’t believe I put those words so close together... Somebody slap me and wake me up from this nightmare). Between gas prices that are a direct reflection of policies which made Big Oil stop prospecting and drilling for more Texas tea in the US, as the WH has loudly proclaimed that they want to see America be oil-free by 2035 or some nonsense like that. These companies are just allowing older refineries and similar infrastructure to shut down because it is not worth the time or money which they’ll never recoup to get those things running to effectively handle the crude we already produce. Then there is the rest of the inflation that they only force higher by making the money printers go brrrr and the imaginary balances rise with the Fed. Even Samsung is feeling the pinch, as we just did CES in Vegas this last week. I have very little interest in gadgets at this point, otherwise I probably would have done some sort of rundown piece. I’m not into being Eeyore, so I’m gonna change the topic now... How about AI?
Amazon, et al: https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/17/tech/amazon-ceo-layoffs-andy-jassy
Samsung: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/05/tech/samsung-profit-sinks-intl-hnk

WE 18.6: AI on x86 Chips, and Self-driving Nonsense...
AMD, Microsoft, AI, Tesla, and self-driving strollers... Ok, one thing at a time... AMD has included AI engines in their latest round of CPUs, a first in the x86 architecture. All well and good, except that Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon saying that Windows will be redesigned by AI, ok, I can’t breathe. Laughing too hard at this... Gasp, gasp, snort... Ok, AMD, what are you claiming that these things can do? Well, extend battery life, allegedly allowing for up to 30 hours of video playback on a single charge on your laptop. Yes, you heard that right... That is what Dr. Su is claiming. She also claims that these are 20% faster than the ones in the Apple M2 silicon. What else could that mean? Well, the head of AI at Microsoft was on stage with her, and hinting at great things they could do for video calls (blurring backgrounds, detecting eye contact, and even auto framing people while using less battery. I trust MS about as far as I can throw them, so the concept of their involvement in the AI space (I know they are already neck-deep in it, don’t get me wrong) gives me the willies. https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/4/23539873/microsoft-panos-panay-ai-windows-amd-ces-2023

As for Tesla, apparently the Model Y has scored very highly on its self-driving tests in Europe, though those features are much less flashy there, with a limit of 1/10th the distance for self-parking and retrieval, among other things. Tesla is still struggling like the likely CIA construct it probably is (oops, there comes my tinfoil hat again) in terms of market cap woes, after Musk liquidated billions of $$ worth of his personal stock to seal the deal to buy the dirty blue bird. https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/07/business/tesla-euro-ncap-autopilot
As for the self-driving stroller... Wait, what? Who the hell would trust their child to an AI-controlled stroller?

What’s next? I mean, on one hand, the examples that the comapny behind this hair brained concept mentions are somewhat compelling, but at the same time, who has $3300 to spend on a stroller? I know how expensive the luxury ones are, but come on. A stroller that can allegedly roll with you as you carry the baby, or rock the baby to sleep as you do your run at the park , or keep the stroller from running away from you if you drop something like your keys while walking down a hill. Who programmed the AI? Who trained it? How “self-driving” is it, really?
https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/04/tech/self-driving-stroller-ces

WE 18.7: Android Learns New Trick from iOS
Media Notifications, so that your Android ecosystem devices feel more convergent, like Apple’s seamless experience. What does this do? Allow you to move songs playing between devices, and other services in the same vein, such as Phone Hub, Nearby Share, and Fast Pair. Media Notifications will allow you to listen to the same song (it will prompt you as you get close to a compatible device) on another of your devices. It uses all of the network capabilities of the devices in question to ping and look for those devices, kind of like how Apple “helps” you find a lost AirTag. This feels like a bad idea for privacy, because that will allow any user to be pinpointed even more accurately than with simple BT, WiFi, and mobile data connectivity on an older device. I see this as an evolution of track & trace. We saw what that did during convid. Do you want to help them track you that easily? I don’t. Let’s find a way to make this private and open source, rather than constantly talking to Mountain View. The problem is even if you have the more private version, as soon as you ping a device that hasn’t been freed, you may as well not have bothered to free yourself... The other device will tattle on you.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/android-is-catching-up-to-apple-in-an-important-way-at-ces/

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