I know this narrative is very popular these days cause it allows to frame voting against one’s interests as some sort of justified rebellious act, but let’s not forget that the opposition to renewables is a decades in the making, paid for, “opinion-shaping” operation (uncharitably, brainwashing)

Eh, I think the "political agenda" brainwashing is overrated and the real issue is more "anything to get me elected / to get people to watch advertisements".

Abortion/environmentalism/crime/drugs/whatever are the selected political issues because it's what successfully gets people emotional to watch tv and vote. Sure there are people with agendas pushing these things but the real reason they're the issues is evolutionary -- the ideas at the center are there because they upset people not because they are the subject of dark motives of people pulling strings. They throw everything they think of at the wall and whatever sticks becomes the agenda.

You’d think so, but in fact it’s almost the opposite! You can own your land all you want but your neighbor has a final say on what’s allowed on your land.

> managing a swarm of idiot savant chatbots with "OK, that looks good" or "no, do it better" commands.

That’s what the management class thinks of software development process anyway, LLMs are just more idiotic and more savant than swes

Tangentially related, but how does one protect themselves against the bank account/brokerage being hacked? Can you print out a proof of funds/securities owned to take to court to be made whole?

Your screenshot/PDF is kind of worthless since it's trivially editable. Still a good idea to have it.

Banks are required by law to be able to produce account balances in a few days. In some countries the are required to submit them to account protection institution regularly so that if a bank fails they can quickly reimburse people to prevent panic spreading to other banks.

You can probably request some sort of notarized proof of accounts, but it will probably cost you $100.

Aside from FDIC’s insurance, nothing.

And if banks get hacked and money gets wired out - maybe we’ll come up with ways to roll back the damage.

Who knows - this is new territory.

> the DOJ can't turn around and charge you with a crime, if they advised you beforehand it was not a crime

this sounds like the kind of rules we, as a society, decided to dispense with, so the DOJ can absolutely turn around.

But that documentation itself is likely AI-generated

At least it saves me from having to generate the docs myself!

X is not Y — it’s Z.

Because: - A: … - B: …

With JD Vance things will go even worse

From all I've seen, he actually argued against this war prior to paying lip service to it. He'd be an improvement.

I thought Vance was the actual isolationist America first guy? Not Trump kind who's opinion changes based which authoritarian he last had a phone call with.

In this specific case maybe Vance is least worst option.

Vance called Trump "America's Hitler", then ran as his VP.

He's a windsock.

> it's the first agent that many people who usually avoid AI simply LOVE.

Not arguing with your other points, but I can't imagine "people who usually avoid AI" going through the motions to host OpenClaw.

It's classic hype/FOMO posturing.

My work partner set it up on telegram for himself and his wife and she uses it constantly. He was very surprised.

> My guess is you couldn't get a roomful of experts to agree on what "DEI" means

let's not pretend that anyone involved cares one bit