”Countries have lived with imposed conditions for decades. What is new is that the conditions now reach the individual directly — and that infrastructure through which they reach them stays in place long after the emergency that justified installing it has ended.”
“ The National Endowment for Democracy:What It Is and What It Does”
Probably time for a radio play … one of the good ones. Yes, we’ve probably had this twice already but all the usual elements seem present and the nice thing is that, even knowing the outcome, it invites relistening. Sometimes it’s nice to just listen … give the eyes a rest. Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson.
(1134) This is the Lord T article on the future of AI, should you wish to repost or quote from it … you’ll recall that for posting at other sites, I used sshots, which have certain constraints on how they can be used. (1204)
AI is the future and the future is not looking good
Bear in mind that what is talked about as AI is not true Artificial Intelligence but Machine Learning algorithms written by some very smart people and because of how well it works in solving problems it gives the impression to our simple minds that it is intelligence. It does so by running so many options in parallel to work out what is the best one and so can easily appear to be super intelligent to a much slower human who analyses and processed the data in a much different way.
For example a chess computer runs many options from the current state of the board to calculate what move it makes next gives it the highest probability of a win. There are so many options so it can only analyse so many steps in the time allotted but it still beats most people. As processors get faster it will be able to do more steps and it has already started beating grand masters. It is called AI because that sounds better and sexier for marketing.
So we hear AI is going to change the world and all will be great except for a few jobs being lost. AI is undoubtedly about to change the world and it isn’t going to be sweetness and light. In fact it is already not looking good and we are still at an early stage. The next stage is to integrate AI into robots and we have already started to do that.
Simple robots for companionship, sex, planting and harvesting vegetables, carpet cleaners, pool cleaners, patrol guards, washing and ironing, basic bricklaying, invalid care and more are already here or already at an advanced stage with more being worked on. These roles are currently usually performed by unskilled workers.
Those workers then cannot get IT or skilled jobs because they don’t have the brainpower or the experience necessary. As the robot dexterity improves more and more jobs will be able to be performed by robots until eventually all manual labour will be able to be performed by a robot. With minimum wages increasing all the time and robots not taking sick days, holidays, being late for work or just not turning up at all and they can work 24/7/365 then spending £250K for a robot becomes economical.
Robots will end up being our servants, growing all our food, bringing everything to us and cooking it. It’ll even be able to clean your teeth make sure you are dressed correctly and even wipe your bottom.
What else will we need? It will initially vastly improve how we live, increase our free time and increase our lifespans but that comes at a cost and that cost will be our lifestyles and self esteem. There will be more job losses and very few new jobs will be created but as we are importing more and more unskilled people the meager jobs created will be insignificant compared to the number of people that will not have a job and no amount of education or training will get them those jobs because people with them won’t be moving on up the ladder.
There will be no ladder for them to move on to. Who will pay the taxes for all those unemployed?
Now, when the only jobs left are skilled jobs and management type roles how many employees does a company need? Especially as there will be no customers because with nobody working who will have any cash to buy non essentials. Sure we will all have the standard TV and the standard electrical gear in the house but as a robot is doing all the work the basic kit will do but I won’t need a car because I won’t be going to work or going on holiday. I won’t be able to afford it.
Firms that make cars are already highly automated but there won’t be any design jobs as basic models are fine who needs innovation to get an extra mpg from a engine when there won’t be that many selling. Who can afford meals out, holidays, expensive hobbies? So the skilled jobs will no longer be required either. We will all be unemployed looked after by robots and having simple hobbies that involve TV, social media or anything that doesn’t require money.
Our societies will stagnate. Why innovate when the robots are doing all the work and nobody has the funds to buy anything? Choice is expensive and robots won’t care what specs the latest appliance has. Why develop new appliances, technology or process methods when robots won’t need to be improved to do what they are doing? Robots will repair themselves and build new robots for those few that get damaged.
This is inevitable. Our government knows it, our tech gurus know it and most of us don’t fully realise the implications. The tech gurus see having nothing but free time as great, it is freeing us up to achieve our full potential. The Tech gurus could be right, we could move to a utopia with no real work, robots looking after us and we have the time to do anything we want. It isn’t too late but what would that entail? We would have to control AI and its interfaces to the real world.
No arming robots and allowing them to maintain and repair themselves without human intervention. No interfaces to real world systems without a human having to approve it and similar restrictions. The rate that AI is being rolled out is out of control and accelerating, look but the Geeks think it is going to be OK, they always do and they make these mistakes because they always think they can control it and they never think things through.
The governments though. Well, why do you think they are trying to bump us off with false vaccines, allow food full of carcinogenic compounds, disarming us while importing violent migrants and pushing for meek societies managed by the state, that state being a totalitarian government.
This is why governments are pushing their agendas, disarming the people, digital currency, make them conform to 15 minute cities, obey instructions mindlessly and make sure they are not educated enough to actually think. They will still be in charge but they don’t need nor want billions of useless people when they only need a million people for the tasks that robots can’t do and for those governments to oversee with them clearly in charge.
We really underestimate how duplicitous our politicians are. They would destroy our democracies, kill and imprison our people so they could rule the ashes. By the time we wake up it will take a civil war with significant losses to take back control. Even the US with its Constitution written by moral geniuses underestimated the lengths politicians will go to for power and what machinations they will do to work around the wording in that document.
At least in the beginning because politicians and civil servants will stupidly put AI in charge of actions to make their lives easier and already these AIs are protecting other AIs and lying to us. The simple people we have in government are just too dumb to realise that they won’t be in charge long. Robots were first thought of as machines to take the drudgery out of work and thus was seen as the future for mankind. Many others went different routes and made slaves of people which is a much easier tried and tested route. You just don’t want too many to control.
Our last hope will be that the robots in charge want to keep some of us.
Tom Scott’s model was to travel and tackle a topic overseas … I’m thinking he never recouped enough from patrons. Jago had only so many tube stations he could visit, did not recoup, took to adverts suddenly appearing within his spiel … no thanks.
Ruairidh is too info-dense for mine … better in a blog, poor sound quality too, Drachanifel too rambling on about ships for an hour. Chris has good topics but occasional. Girls can react to a song and make a fortune. So yes, I’m looking about for other shorts … try this one:
Some I can’t (medical) – eggs, grapefuit (though love em) … then there are those I just dislike – avocado, crab, eggplant, oysters (plus other slimy, creepy crawlies like snails), shellfish, raw fish, shrimp … also offal like liver, kidneys, brains, tripe, blood, haggis etc. Solid fat. Insects. Overprocessed, chemical.
(0522) Nondescript but at least bright dawn out there … total cloud cover. (0624)
6. Virginia and what it means in general
Part one:
Looking back, this was how the districts were:
Keep your eye on 7, 8, 10, 11. All right, here’s the new districting:
What they do is go to that 7, 8, 10, 11 and start the districts like spokes coming out of Fairfax County, the almost complete Demonrat area and divide it up so that it sways the result over the more sparsely populated rural areas. Result in seats as you see.
Yes, it is going up before the V-SC but of course, that is cobtrolled, is it not, in the way SCOTUS is controlled. Corrupt? Corrupt plus.
How the hell were voters persuaded? Well, a mixture of starry eyed ignorance:
… and fear:
Which still doesn’t completely cover why. Thing was, the question was rigged … asking do you support a fairer redistricting, more accurately reflecting etc. etc. Esp. The you g saw the word “fair” and thought oh yes, we like “fair”, stop that evil Trump.
The question then becomes … should women and the young have the vote?
Part two:
I did have a rant at OoL and let’s deal with that first. It’s a mindless argument to say things like “moan moan moan” and “it’s your own fault for using their services”.
Take gmail, youtube and blgr. The three are integrated with websearch, the fourth element, to produce a result for this blog based on preferences. Yes, you can say, “Well I can access youtubes all right without selling out to ggl.
Yes you can and you, for your purposes, get the result you want. But I’m running a blog and it depends on personal recommendations in shorts and films, plus some friends overseas dependent on gmail … so I’m locked into their level of knowledge … plus I ustd how the search engine is skewed … so one asks different questions to the norm … shan’t bore you with all the fine detail.
It’s not as if I’m operating starry-eyed in this … what is there now is the least bad option for now, when blending in all the little ways of getting around the blockages … it’s constant warfare.
For example … I started a new “thread” with one friend … it disappeared. I’ll say again … I sent an email and it had a reply, but neither of us received either. So I made a new one … also went to ether. Then a third.
I eventually found mine, plus its reply from two days ago in trash. I had not trashed it. So I started adding to it, once back in inbox. Ether again. You see, an extra step has now been added by the platform. Plus another in trash was Cloud saying I was overlimit. I checked … I was about 30% …hence it had gone to trash via ggl (a good thing they did).
Now, if I want to post a pic to OoL, it will only do it on one of the ipads, the one NOT using the latest, universally hated OS version. And even then, I have to do a runaround, three times, in order to get the pic to post.
Now readers, I’m not moaning, I’m explaining … there’s a distinct difference.
Latest … I screenshot two pics of the Virginia district maps. Both were saved, one after the other, to library. Fine … quick check, there they were. Ok … wrote this Virginia post, loaded the old districting in, went for the new one from library, where it had been sitting … warrnt there now.
It was neither in library, nor in recently saved, nor in recently deleted. Now if I say some bstd had removed it … well yes, it had been removed, having initially been there. But through one of those “extra step” requirements … and only for “sensitive” news.
What do I mean? I mean that the second district pic above is not the one I saved. The one I’d saved had a circle drawn around Fairfax and it went into the new districting far better than the one up above here now. Not only completely disappeared from my storage but when I went back to X, it had gone from there too.
And you’re going to say to me the evil muvvers never collude, never coordinate, never combine? How naive is that wishful thinking? Just how naive are you?
Going back in time … why was I suspended from Twitter hours after reposting a tweet showing footage of Floyd and the officer, showing it was bollox what the left was pushing? Yet I have a friend who insists they’re not remotely interested in what I post. Yep, that’s why I lost N.O., because they were not remotely interested. Rrrriiiggghhhttt.
Where’s all this going? It means that some content can go up in some places and not in others, it’s not consistent and it requires me to explain to our contributors that there are certainly things going on behind the scenes which the readers don’t see. /END for now.
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3. Gerrymandered Virginia
Can’t get the overall numbers yet but the bill to pass the redistricting of Virginia has passed. Obvious question is why? Was it the masses of youngsters turning out to ensure it went through? It means that a 6-5 split between the parties now becomes a 10-1 in favour of the Demonrats.
It’s not a lot different to here, where the normies still cling to new Uniparty Reform despite all the signs, still get vaxxed etc., are still drinking the kool aid.
2. DAD at 1360
a) The European Commission is granting €900,000 in subsidies for a mission to promote trans ideology. One of the main areas of focus will be defending the rights of transgender asylum seekers.
b) The Reservist Association of the German Armed Forces has called for the government to raise the age limit for army reservists from 65 to 70 years….
c) The UK. The Empty Mantra of the ‘Another Inquiry’. Britain doesn’t need to learn any more lessons—it needs the will to act.
“One in seven. That is the proportion of people in the MHRA’s own actively recruited surveillance cohort who reported a medically serious adverse reaction following Covid vaccination. Over half reported at least one reaction of any kind. The data were collected between 2020 and 2022. They were not published until September 2025, and only then because Cheryl Grainger, through an FOI request and subsequent ICO appeal, forced it out.
The paper that eventually appeared, in the journal Drug Safety, was not written as a safety paper. It was written as a description of the digital platform used to collect the data — a methods paper published five months after Dame June Raine left as chief executive, nearly three years after the data were locked. The actual adverse reaction rates are reported but not analysed. The one stratification that could determine whether those rates are real was not performed.”
