Jack of Harts

I grew up with computers. I learned how to run them and how to live with them. I communicate with them and I love them. And I do not trust them.

That is why my home locks are physical. That is why i aggressively disable any always on assistant programs. That is why all of my appliances predate wifi connections.

All of that said, now that AI learning models are getting good, I do intend to build an AI assistant for my own uses. An open source model vetted by people as paranoid as me and operating entirely inside my home with no data being broadcast to anyone else. MY AI assistant will actually be my AI assistant, not the property of someone else that reports everything I do.

That is how much I love and trust computers.

The United States is currently having a bit of a disagreement between our Elected and our Unelected classes. The Unelected classes have been telling Americans how we are supposed to live for a while. It’s been getting worse over the last twenty years or so, and really bad over the last four. Bad enough that Americans Elected someone to go in and tell the Unelected class to just stop it. America’s new Elected leader started firing the Unelected bureaucrats who see it as their mission to stop the Elected class from doing what it wants to do. But the Unelected judges have stepped in to declare that the Elected can’t fire the Unelected and must keep them in their jobs where they can stop the Elected class from doing what it wants to do. This is not good. There’s an old joke about what happens when the leaders of a nation refuse to listen to the ballot box. That’s when the people resort to the cartridge box. This has very rarely turned out good for anyone. Elected OR Unelected.

One of the difficult issues with the border between the United States and Mexico is that Mexico has been through a rather large number of failed governments over the centuries. And they don’t like the fact that we… negotiated their land from them. They in fact make it a national past time to print maps of Mexico including the territory we bought from them as part of Mexico. And Mexican people crossing the border carry those maps with them and often claim the territory as belonging to them. Tens of millions have crossed the border illegally in just the last few years in fact. With many tens of millions in the decades before that. And for an extra bit of joy, Mexican drug gangs are crossing the border with drugs, selling them to Americans, and killing hundreds of thousands of Americans over the last few years. The border is a serious problem that must be addressed. All nations that wish to remain nations must address such issues.