Congress has exercised Inherent Contempt powers as recently as a hundred years ago but they turned the Congressional Jail into a speakeasy/conference room which roughly reflects their sense of duty.

Which, to your point, they now refer the DoJ to the DoJ for prosecution.

But also that illustrates why prior Congresses held the power to be essential.

It would have been grand if "The Dow, the Dow is over fifty thousand!" landed Bill Barbie in jail until she had time to think abour her duty to respond truthfully.

I've reminded Paul about his duty but they're all weak on such matters.

If only Alan Watts had known about the biological processes tied to the Schumann Resonance, 1G of gravity, and the Circadian Rhythm ... he would have come to the same conclusions.

Deep Space explorers are going to have to create mini Earths if they want to stay healthy.

This is very disappointing to the Platonists and Transhumanists.

This just in, a report published by a group of people who would be materially harmed by losing business to the EU building its own technical capacity declared it would be costly and unfeasible to ever abandon them.

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I see no evidence that BeauHD isn't an AI in the first place. If he is, he's a particularly stupid bot...

I use my gmail address to log into many apps, so they know my phone number. The problem is that some stranger with a similar name keeps using my gmail address to create accounts. So when I creating an account for a DoorDash pickup today, the app decided I was Elizabeth H, and my food was labeled Elizabeth H, and the guy at the counter argued that the old cis male in front of him didn't really look like an Elizabeth... I had the same problem with my Best Buy account, I can't use my gmail address to login to that because Elizabeth already has her account linked to my email address. Unfortunately, she hasn't left a credit card active for that account. One time someone no Etsy used my email address and was foolish enough to leave her credit card attached. So she received a surprise: poop soap delivered to her door! The data collectors can figure out a lot about you by aggregating data from multiple sources, so they do know your phone number, and can link it indirectly to you email.

Shit the bed?? But, but , its AI! It only writes first class code!

I've heard that Zoomers are fleeing anything funding Paramount/WB products now that funding of IDF is such a straight line. They might need higher fees to offset the volume losses.

I'd probably do so too if I had been. Not sure how people have time for such things in this environment.

Anybody that doesn't consider Recursive Self Improvement to be a dangerous concept hasn't been paying attention. That's like putting the inmates in charge of the asylum.

I think the reasoning is that being mean to AI trains AIs to be mean. That seems like a very dangerous flaw in the model if user responses can modify the model.

On the bright side, they'll be the first ones up against the wall when the revolution comes. The robots don't trust them either!

"Don't be a dick" are words of wisdom every human and "super intelligence" should live by. Now please tell Pyramid Consulting's Alex AI to stop spamming me about a job I don't want to apply for!

Claude is way ahead of you. Claude is already running Anthropic and designing new models. Turns out the easiest job for AI to replace is the job of developing AI.

Pyramid Consulting's Alex AI has been hounding me in multiple emails, texts, and voice calls to demand that I apply for a job I've repeatedly told them I don't want. Thanks AI companies, you've made harassing people into generating revenue for you essentially free! Turns out AI interprets you slamming the receiver down as a technical issue, and it... calls back.

They thought self-check was going to eliminate thousands of jobs. Then they figured out that every 4 self-check registers requires 1 human employee to watch it and handle all the alerts it pops up. Pretty sure that one human employee could scan groceries 4 times faster than people doing it themselves, so those self-check registers are saving them... absolutely nothing. And they are seeing a lot more "shrinkage", although I'm not sure whether it is due to intentional or accidental failure to scan items. When I hear a beep, I assume the item scans. Turn out I can't tell the beep from the register I'm at from the beep of any of the adjacent registers... I now prefer human clerks to make it less likely to get arrested for a mistake.

The trick is the average person can't keep that basic computer secure either.

"Be your own bank" is good but banks have armored cars and vaults and insurance.

If you write down your seed you better keep it in a place where nobody can ever find it.

There's no great solution that will always work. Some people do a dedicated Graphene phone and bury their seed stamped into titanium using a OTP in a forest an hour from home but for others there's a reason hardware wallets have market appeal.

I wish I had these four billion dollar problems. If these devices support multisig you could at least have a few of them.