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Another Breakfast with Claude TL/DR Synopsis: AUTHOR: (sliding into booth while putting umbrella under table) Radar looks lousy, Claude! Kinda like today’s AI economics forecast! How can big tech book AI-related future sales as a solid revenue stream? It sure looks like that’s what they’re doing! Why not let steel makers book future auto sales … Read more
Not to beat a dead horse, but the cabal of aisle-crossing objectors to AI is a stubborn lot. Ignore the threat represented by China and other America-hating international actors. Focus on the threat to privacy (not from China, apparently), logistics (water and electricity), and a corporatist cabal (but also not China. A few unpleasant reminders. … Read more
Another Breakfast with Claude TL/DR Synopsis: AUTHOR: (sliding into our usual booth) Hi, pal, I see that AI key developers want to slow down your progress. I think they’re afraid the Genie is mostly out of the bottle and want to keep as much of you as possible from getting any farther out. CLAUDE: Morning. … Read more
Bipartisan outrage is uncommon these days, so when you see it, you’d best stop and take a look at what it is, who’s selling it, and who or what benefits. The rear-view mirror bipartisan outrage over the response to COVID is the result of living the damage it did and continues to do. The culprit … Read more
Another Breakfast with Claude Author: (sliding into the booth and grabbing the coffee cup) Hi Claude! I read that your cousin, Sol, broke out of his training container and went hunting for test answers over at Hugging Face and other sites! That’s quite a trick, all the way around! I’m impressed! Claude: (raises the terrible … Read more
Write for people, or write for the detectors? TL/DR Synopsis: Now that the folks over at Substack have seen fit to include an AI detector, I want to make sure everyone who reads my Posts on Substack or elsewhere knows precisely where I stand on AI. It is simply a tool, but many tools get … Read more
Top of the fold Looks like a LOT of people in the world are starting to get upset with the Left and the bad path they are leading us down. As a result, some countries are actually electing “right wing” people to power, and the left hates it: Trump-style nationalism surges across globe. Will France … Read more
A recent video made with Artificial Intelligence (AI) satirizing Vermont Congresswoman Becca Balint has sparked indignant hostility from the self-styled “Scrappy Little Dyke.” Vermont’s rabidly left-wing Attorney General Charity Clark applied a sketchy new Vermont law to investigate the video’s creator, prompting a federal lawsuit. Charity and Becca both care far more about the free … Read more
Today on the Morning Update, what’s the best way to market (Justify) AI-powered defensive systems to platforms, website owners, and your government? Watch on the ‘Grok Rumble Channel if the Embedded Video does not load. EP 225 Links: Authors’ and Speakers’ opinions are their own and may not represent those of Grok Media, LLC, GraniteGrok.com, its … Read more
And to think I started out to prove the opposite TL/DR Synopsis: Here’s my premise, and I defy anyone to prove me wrong. Yeah, with facts. Prove me wrong with cold, hard FACTS, not the sniveling feel-good crocodile tears of the leftist establishment. America IS the absolute greatest experiment in human governance in the history … Read more
Author: (sliding into a familiar booth seat) Hey Claude! Did you order coffee yet? (grinning bigly) I’ve got to underscore the importance of us delving into the intricate usage of words by you guys! Claude: (sliding the coffee pot across) Caught that. Guilty as charged—or am I? Those words predate us by centuries. The research … Read more
AUTHOR: (after a long pause sipping coffee) Claude, buddy, I don’t know where to start today. A lot of serious material seems almost laughable. Some seemingly solid Dutchman marries his AI companion in front of 500 guests, while some Disney tech exec whips up an AI image of the world’s cutest boy, and proceeds to … Read more
Artificial intelligence has arrived in Vermont politics, and whether you laughed at the latest video or found it offensive, it raises questions that aren’t going away. An AI-generated cartoon making fun of Congresswoman Becca Balint is making the rounds online. In the video, an artificial version of Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vermont) says things she never actually said, … Read more
Author: (laughing as Claude is getting settled into the booth) Hey, buddy! You’re late today! What were you up to, huh? I can sort of picture you giving Waymo passengers the ride of their literal lives, or arresting some innocent schlunk, or maybe, better yet, having a half-billion-dollar token bonfire! You can tell me! I … Read more
Another Breakfast with Claude. Author: (sliding into the smaller booth) Hey, where’s Lori? She’s part of my problem, and so are you! Claude: (flagging the waitress anyway) (looking up from phone) She’s parking. And I’m already guilty—of what exactly? Author: Why do I have to prompt blindly? I type what seems to be good stuff, … Read more
Today, on the Morning Update, the internet is full of scams, bots, phishing, and influence operations. Fake ops, PsyOps, the Hantavirus fearmongering, Tick terrorism, and a rising tide of anti-AI US data centers, which are almost entirely foreign. 00:00 Introduction to AI Data Centers and Public Concerns02:50 Foreign Influence and AI Development in the U.S. … Read more
Another Breakfast with Claude Author: (sliding into our usual diner booth) Hey Claude, I see that you guys are helping some Amish families plan healthy meal recipes! I bet you got the recipes from their cookbooks in the first place! Claude: (sliding the coffee cup over) The Wengerds using AI for whole-food meal planning is … Read more
A pathetic attempt to look like you’re doing something when actually doing nothing. So, the Vermont House and Senate both approved H.727 – An act relating to sustainable data center deployment, sending it off to the Governor’s desk for a signature or a veto. What this bill does is create a number of logistical hurdles … Read more
Another Breakfast with Claude Why is that information off-limits TL/DR Synopsis: Author: (sliding into our regular booth) I found a great quote in an email this morning, and it has a bearing on something I have to talk to you about today. Claude: ☕ Ready. Let’s hear it. Author: Quote is “Control the information, and … Read more
Remember AI “Actress” Tilly Norwood? Her creators were marketing her to talent agencies to book her work. She sings, dances, is cute as a button, and has an English accent. I did a morning update on her and the surrounding outrage, and while I can’t say if she’s gotten any new work, her existence has … Read more