8/26-28 Weekend News & Open Thread
Greetings, another weekend coming already. News and commentary in the comments below. Benny’s bar will be open later.
Greetings, another weekend coming already. News and commentary in the comments below. Benny’s bar will be open later.
‘It’s a deal with the devil’: outrage in Appalachia over Manchin’s ‘vile’ pipeline plan
Now we know the “price” of Manchins vote,Senima’s was the carried intrest.
Thanks Benny
Since USA Today is now subscriber only (and I’m not paying for that—even at $1 for six months), I could copy only this much, but it was the most relevant part for us. Bernie is almost surely not running but the numbers are good to see
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/08/26/trump-biden-bernie-ipsos-poll-2024/7893542001/?gnt-cfr=1
I wonder if Ron Howard regrets doing the film.
https://twitter.com/CharlotteAlter/status/1562525662379778049?s=20
Hey 🐢
It seems that there is a list of Republican politicians who are very vocal in their opposition to student loan forgiveness, who have, in fact, had their PPP loans forgiven. Oh yes, in advance of the 2020 elections, and for far, far greater amounts than the twenty grand.
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/david-badash/102923/white-house-shreds-marjorie-taylor-greene-over-ppp-loan-hypocrisy
Hat Tip to dystopian at c99 for this
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-26/california-election-2022-bass-leads-caruso-poll?_amp=true
She’s somewhat armed. I read in the NYT the Black Caucus weekends at Martha Vineyard, and she, along with Barbara Lee, have fundraisers there during the month of August.
That island along with Nantucket are where the big money hangs out.
T and R x 3, and thanks, Ms. Benny!!☮️🙂👍
Meet Senator Cruz’s Slackers
“I hear Republicans complaining about $20,000 in student debt forgiveness. Funny, I didn’t hear those complaints when Trump declared bankruptcy 6 times & had $287 million in loans forgiven by big banks,” Sanders tweeted. “The GOP l-o-v-e-s socialism for the rich, rugged individualism for the rest.”
GQP: Socialism for me, not for thee.
i’ll add
How Biden stays friendly with Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders at the same time
Puff piece on Biden, interesting to see how the centrist world views the relationships.
Centrists are nothing more than Craporate RWingers. A genuine Moderate is someone like Rep. Katie Porter. I’ve got a real voting dilemma on my hands. I despise DeS##a##, but look who I get to vote for: Crist. He’s already lost several races down here.
If it looks like Crist has a chance you may have to hold your nose and vote for him as Deathsentence has to go. Yeesh what a decision to have to make?
Carolyn Maloney’s ousting brings opportunities. She was horribly corrupt.
WH is probably close to the truth with this tweet:
I had to explain this to someone at a work gathering yesterday.
I have absolutely no problems with student loan forgiveness. I paid back every cent I owed on mine, but it was a lot cheaper to borrow money back when I completed my degrees.
I’m the Zuckborg you will service me.— oh hell no i wont.
Business Insider
Mark Zuckerberg thinks ‘normal people’ won’t want Neuralink chips in their brains soon, but sees a future where people text their loved ones by twitching their wrists
Mark Zuckerberg thinks ‘normal people’ won’t want Neuralink chips in their brains soon, but sees a future where people text their loved ones by twitching their wrists
Isobel Asher Hamilton
Fri, August 26, 2022 at 5:53 AM
Side-by-side image of Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.
Mark Zuckerberg (left) and Elon Musk.Kevin Dietsch/Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images
Mark Zuckerberg talked about Elon Musk’s brain chip company Neuralink on Joe Rogan’s podcast.
Zuckerberg said “normal people” won’t want brain implants like Neuralink for at least ten to 15 years.
He said Meta is researching neural interface tech you could use to text people by twitching your wrist.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined the company’s approach to neural interface technology — tech which lets you control technology with your mind — in an interview on podcast The Joe Rogan Experience.
Zuckerberg said Meta is researching neural interface tech as part of its push into the metaverse.
He said the company is primarily focused on tech which can receive signals from the brain but does send any information back to it.
“The super-hard part here is going to be having a computer give you information straight into your brain, and that’s not a thing that we’re working on,” Zuckerberg said.
He compared this to Elon Musk’s neural interface company Neuralink, which is developing a chip which it hopes to one day implant into people’s skulls with electrodes fanning out into the brain that are able to both record and stimulate brain activity.
“Some people, like Elon with Neuralink and those companies, that’s just taking this like super far-off. I mean maybe it’ll be ready in a couple decades,” Zuckerberg said.
He joked with host Joe Rogan that no-one will want to be an early-adopter of Neuralink.
“Normal people I think in the next 10 or 15 years are probably not going to want to get something just installed in their brain for fun,” Zuckerberg said.
“You want the mature version of that [technology], not the one where it’s gonna get a lot better next year and you need to get your brain implant upgraded every year,” he said.
Musk has made outlandish claims about what Neuralink will be able to do, saying it will be like a “Fitbit in your skull” and claiming it will facilitate a symbiosis between human consciousness and AI.
Neuralink has not yet started human testing, but rival biotech firm Synchron began trials on human subjects in July.
Zuckerberg added there will be near-term application for tech like Neuralink for “people with injuries.”
Neuralink said in a public statement in July 2021 it was working towards a first use of for its chip, enabling quadraplegic people to control a cursor on a screen using their mind.
Texting your wife by twitching your wrist
Zuckerberg went on to describe how he envisions neural interface tech slotting into the metaverse, for example integrating it with a set of AR glasses.
Zuckerberg isn’t focused on getting chips into people’s brains, but rather using wearable devices to pick up brain signals that he said could be detected from other parts of the body.
“The path that we have, it’s based on the fact that we have all these extra motor neurones in our body,” Zuckerberg said. Motor neurones are the brain cells that communicate commands from the brain to the muscles in your body.
He said that people could communicate brain signals to devices through small movements in other parts of their bodies.
“It turns out you can have a device on your wrist that basically your brain can communicate with your hand, tell your hand to move in a pattern it isn’t used to, and then the wristband can sort of pick up those signals and translate them into completely different things like having a virtual hand move in front of you while your physical hand is sitting there at your side,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg gave a vision of how he thinks this could be used in real-life.
“You’ll be able to have this experience in future where you’re sitting in a meeting and your wife texts you and it pops up in the corner of your glasses and you want to respond but you don’t want to like pull out your phone because that’s kinda rude,” he said.
Zuckerberg said using neural interface tech you could: “twitch your wrist a little bit… like some super discreet motion that no one even knows you’re doing it and you send a message.”
He didn’t give a timeline for when such technology could be usable.
Talk about SF dystopia. Mebbe Zuckerberg can implant a chip in his brain to raise his IQ from C-, and lower his greed level. Snort! Musk is just an ahole nut. There are more articles coming out from reputable brain researchers saying no way will a machine ever be developed that surpasses the human brain. They are still a very long way from fully understanding that grayish organ between our ears.