I wish. There would be no surer way of destroying the current Israel, than having this sack of orange shit in the pilot’s seat.

I think that governors and presidents alike shouldn’t have direct veto power. Their job is to enact the will of congress and the people.

If veto is retained in a future America, I suggest the following:

• 1: The leader nominates an congressionally approved law for being vetoed.

• 2: A 30 day window opens, where voters can send in a ballot to approve the veto. 51% of the ballots have to agree with the veto to cancel the incoming law.

• 3: Voters can mark on their ballot whether to automatically prevent the leader from being able to nominate laws for veto. If 51% of the cast ballots agree to lame the leader, that leader loses veto power for the rest of their term.

• 4: If a lamed leader is voted into office for another term, a ballot is sent out to voters. They will decide whether to restore veto powers to that leader. 51% of cast ballots have to agree to do the restoration.

A leader has to risk losing their veto privilege when exercising it, especially if it becomes a cudgel of choice for them.

This makes no bloody sense. Either the pipe is in use, or it isn’t. The “water” itself is infinite, so long as the device on the other end has electricity. I assume people in France already pay their electric bill.

I think part of the problem with pardon power is that it can be freely done.

I think a president should nominate someone for pardoning, then congress critters have to give a 51% vote in favor of pardoning for it to ultimately take effect. 30 days have to pass during the nomination period for them to review the pardon, the pardon to be public knowledge, and congress critters having their name attached to their vote. Particular crimes should be noted for the pardoning, and a pardon doesn’t void new infractions of the same kind of crime.

A second 30 day direct voting period then takes place to confirm the pardon. The general public sends in a vote, based on all voters who send in a ballot. By default in this stage, the pardon passes unless 51% of the ballots reject the pardon.

To sum up:

• 1a: A president nominates a person for pardon for specific crimes at the time of the pardon.

• 1b: The nominated for pardoning must be considered a flight risk, and prevented from free international travel during the review stages.

• 2: After 30 days of review, 51% of congress must decide whether to approve of the pardon, attaching their name to the vote.

• 3a: Following approval by the congressional voting period, direct voters from the public can send in ballots to cancel the pardon. 51% of voters who submit a ballot must agree to cancel the pardon. This window lasts 30 days.

• 3b: Direct voters can choose to automatically prevent the leader from nominating pardons. 51% of the voters have to agree to remove the pardoning power. This state lasts for the current term of the leader. If this leader is elected again, a ballot is sent out to ask whether their pardoning privilege is restored for their new term.

IMO, the important part of a pardon is for national security purposes - but right now, it is too easy to pardon bad actors in the name of factional forgiveness or bribes.

The problem isn’t the AI, the issue is that the elites are trying to horde it and keep it from us little people. If we are to have agency, having personal ownership over local AI, collectively owned AI, and regulations, are all key to ensuring that democracy and egalitarianism is secure.

The elite will not willingly surrender power, especially there is a void that they can colonize. Ordinary people like us should fill the vacuum, to deny the elite from having total control over AI.

He is at the head of the Donorcrat party, because that lets him have a sustainable career. The Turdpublicans are the roman candle of conservative politics, burning brightly and burnt out swiftly.

He basically wants to do this for the rest of his life:

While I like AI, this fundamental rule is no different from a human coder: Do QA before letting it go live.

Hopefully those ICE agents are disappeared…into the forests and oceans, or becoming strange fruits. They are domestic terrorists and human traffickers.

It would require further development of AI before it can automate physical factories. There are assorted species of critters that cannot be mass-slaughtered, because they require surgical cuts to remove bones or work around tough parts. An sufficiently advanced AI can X-ray and measure the carcass, then carve up the beast with minimal waste.

Of course, this would be very expensive, requiring entirely new infrastructure and procedures to implement. I suspect that the transition to industrial-application of AI would be slow - then sudden, after testbed factories prove the viability of AI automated workflows.

Why don’t we eat alligators?

That isn’t surprising. The Onion is a reputable and honest news outlet, with excellent reporting.

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This timeline is weird, man.

Considering how the USA currently is, can you blame the AI?

Frankly, I am going to just assume the worst of any American AI company that cooperates with the Trump Regime. Use models like Apertus, DeepSeek, or Qwen.

At this point, one can only assume some mixture of malice, stupidity, and blind greed from American industries.

If there is a 2nd American Civil War, we can do Lula a favor and handle this piece of fascist trash.

No thank you. The glasses I use, my medicine, the books that store the thoughts of others, my car, and my fridge augment my abilities. Far as mother nature is concerned, we are freakish, because we aren’t as tightly bound to her rules and timescale.

AI is no different. My “psychosis”, is just part of an emerging society that is unrecognizable to you.

My future, at the very least. It has allowed me to do things that were simply outside my ability to feasibly do. I certainly can’t write programs or make art. My local AI restored some game DLC into working order, doing the archaeology and rewiring.

You are welcome to be oldschool. Your cohort are simply taking an path that will look increasingly strange to future generations.

Video Killed the Radio Star

Sooner or later a Greater Depression will come. Hopefully I will have sold my old PC, ditched my debt, and saved up enough Euros or Yuan to buy myself some Blackwell GPUs.

AI is the future. Anthropic is a dinosaur, doomed to become a historical curiosity.

Thank you. :)

Hopefully my projects make the lives of other people a bit better, alongside my own.

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I am thinking about starting up a $5 tip jar at Patreon, with my files free for anyone to download. If I can get enough money saved, I would be able to decrease the amount of time it takes for a project. So far, my projects take 3-7 days to succeed or fail, bottlenecked by the AI speed.

Unfortunately, my projects are pretty niche. Bastion, TEVI, System Shock 2, Ast Libra, Shrift, Sailing Era, The Humankind Odyssey, Alpha Protocol, The Jupiter Incident, and many others are probably too obscure to interest people.

Currently, using the Strata backend with Qwen-Flash-Next. It has successfully made 4 save game editors, 2 plugins, and did some work on La-Mulana 2006 to make the controls and graphics play nice with Windows 11, plus my gamepad. The DLC restoration mod is largely successful, I am doing QA for making the DLC accurate to what was offered in the ad copy.

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Hermes Agent is my model of choice, and I have Strata using 256k context, on a IQ3. I find that Next-Flash is much faster than the smaller 27b, and has more personality. Sometimes it can get a bit loopy. I typically have the AI keep a bible of findings, and start a fresh Hermes session - then tell it to condense the information from the old workspace and session into a more relevant version. Save on context, and makes it more effective since it discards findings that have been superseded.

Hardware wise, a TRX50 AI TOP motherboard, 7965WX CPU, RTX 4090 and x2 RTX 3060, with 128gb of 5600 RDIMM. Down the line, I might try some GPU unlockers when other folk have tested them for bugs. So about a month or two?

https://github.com/JustAResearcher/gpu-unlock-ada

https://github.com/Zagitta/gpu-unlock

https://github.com/impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK

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I bought my memory and the CPU from Ebay, for prices a bit lower than at Newegg. If I could redo my GPU purchases, I would have gone with a RTX Pro 4500 Blackwell. That has 32gb of VRAM, and occupies a single double-width PCIe slot, and sips energy. The RTX 4090 is only 24gb, and takes up 1 and 1/2 of my slots.

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Qwen-Flash-Next is an experimental model, the official version might come out in a month or so. If it is the same size or smaller, I will switch to that as my main driver. My current AI model feels useful to me, but clearly has raw aspects to it. Vision is a big one, since this AI can fail to see or understand details.

I want the personalization…without Big Brother. My personal and local AI, should work solely for my interests. I have been using my local AI for creating an customized cookbook, making save editors, and right now, an restoration mod.

Never before have I had so much agency in my life. AI has great potential for self actualization, but corporations and government will be working to undermine it. Hopefully, everyday people will recognize that and make local AI the norm.