AI research papers are getting better, and it’s a big problem for scientists. Fakery has to be dealt with firmly. Or else the whole industry of science publishing will need to be changed radically. Science is not well-served by AI slop.
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New credit card readers on Seattle transit charging untapped cards. It seems that the credit card readers are way too sensitive, no? People can get RFID-blocking wallets for their credit cards. They even make RFID-blocking cards themselves, which are about the same size as credit cards. They generated blocking signals when they detect the radio frequency that these readers send out.
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This guy started to get bizarre emails with strange subject lines. It turns out that they're generated by email agents from others. I don't get them probably because I haven't been targeted by these script kiddies. But this portends what we can expect when more of these idiots sent their agents out into the wild, scraping data and using it to target people with their stupid emails.
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Just what society needed: 3-D animated ads on trucks. Nice distractions. I'm sure there won't be any accidents happening because of the distraction.
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The Fix for Homelessness? Get Rid of All the Big Money to 'Fix' Homelessness. More people are realizing that NGOs don't want homelessness to go away, or else they won't have a business. NGOs are what progressives form to stay employed. They get grants, pay themselves a salary, and do absolutely nothing. Meanwhile the homeless are nurtured and their lifestyle cultivated. I recall when the homeless started out in cardboard boxes. Now they have the latest tents from REI. Where they can continue to use drugs, with paraphernalia provided by the city in the name of "harm reduction". They should not be given camping equipment and gear. They should be taken off the streets and plugged into social services and rehab under involuntary commitment. But no one has the guts to enact this in the major Northwest cities.
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Hawaii skirts the Citizens United v FEC Supreme Court ruling by passing their own local law that forbids corporate spending on election. Now, only the labor unions can spend money to influence the elections. Sounds fair.
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Oregon SoS says state is ‘going to defend’ mail-in voting as Election Day approaches. Back in 2010, Chris Dudley won on election night, but the winner wasn't declared until the next day, after more ballots were counted and then Kitzhaber miraculously won. They said it was because ballots counted in the major Blue cities took longer to count. Uh huh. Then there is the situation of early ballot submissions. Preliminary results from these ballots aren't announced to the public, but the ballots are opened and processed by election officials. We've seen how crooked some election officials can be in other Democrat states. How secure are they in Oregon? After seeing what happened in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona and Georgia, I am not confident that mail-in ballots are safe and secure. Then there is the documented practice of utilizing the situation of the homeless population to target ballots. Shelters can receive them for the homeless and supposedly the homeless person has to sign the outside of the envelope. But that's not a very difficult obstacle to surmount is it? And we know that some ineligible voters got ballots they shouldn't have. And Tom Fitton's Judicial Watch sued to get Oregon to clear their voter rolls of 800,000 inactive voters (roughly a quarter). They say that these people didn't get ballots, but who really knows? Why did they stall on this? So much of the vote-by-mail system relies on the integrity of the postal system, the chain of custody and signature verification. Knowing that a ballot came from a certain zip code might influence an election official. Ballot curing could be asymmetric, i.e. only Democrat ballots get cured promptly before the deadline. Drop boxes from certain zip codes might get treated differently from those in the big cities. Oregon law allows ballot harvesting, too, and this can be used by corrupt harvesters, who might "forget" to turn in a ballot or discard it if it's for the wrong candidate.
We just need to get back to voting the old-fashioned way. It might not be as convenient, but it's a lot more honest.
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