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Linda Palmer's avatar

This is for Virginia Guiffre and all the survivors. Healing can begin when all is known

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Judy Aims's avatar

That's exactly what I thought while I was reading this article. I don't know if you've seen the documentary about this, and Virginia's courage, but I was wanting to cry every time she spoke, knowing what the outcome of her life was.

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Andy's avatar

America's rotten regime is painting towns with fear, by pledging anybody speaking out will be hunted down. When fear paralyzes, it means not enough is known to make decisions.

What I came to realize was, if we don't speak truth to power now, Trumpian Regiments WILL eventually go after all Americans and anyone else. Justifications will be made up LATER - if needed.

An excuse can be you were not wearing your red hat. Or, you drew baby tantrum cartoons of the asshole. Or, you did anything but the Vance Dance at the rave. Maybe you went out after CURFEW. Or, you dared to learn something, ask questions, or even THINK independently. Maybe you showed EMPATHY.

It could be ANYTHING at all. It doesn't have to make sense with reality. Given the pivotal nature of the upcoming midterms, LATER is closer than you think.

The Don needs his police state in place before that, because afterwards Congress is likely to prosecute him and others who violated their oaths and had partaken in criminal acts, against various constitutions.

Anxienty about offending this monster has especially risen since Vance and Miller had mouthed off as the surrogate hosts on the Charlie Kirk Show.

Time Magazine:

JD Vance Vows Crackdown on ‘Festering Violence’ From ‘Far Left’ While Hosting Charlie Kirk Show

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PxRHiLb-bbw

I never heard of Kirk or his shows before. I don't waste my time on being an asswipe. But, after watching to see what he was about, it appeared this is a professional propagandist who was making a living off hating and harming others.

Recent firings seem to imply proof that there are consequences to criticizing the big Trumpo or any of his minows like Kirk.

But, the terminations were all voluntarily done by employers. Their agreements with employees and contractors, still prevail over the fat elephant's whinings and snorting.

When the Jimmy Kimmel Show went dark, several staff likely had exit clauses already written into their contracts with very steep financial disincentives for arbitrary terminations.

How the FCC torpedoed Jimmy Kimmel | CBC About That

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw6wSwhjHcI

Despite all this, employers are still cutting going forward. Its more sustainability than nursing a tyrant's bloated ego, whose thin-skinned self never matured into a bottle of good wine and became a tub of vinegar instead.

These terminations are the real consequences of permanent reductions in purchasing power the Trump regime continues to cause across America's population.

Most people have already felt his hits. And, their taxes are paying for them to continue. It's not because of any discord on what's wrong with Trump, Charlie Kirk, or voicing concerns about governance.

Trump's erratic policies are creating extreme uncertainty for companies operating within the United States, while shredding global civilization.

Add the AI revolution, militarized ICE build up, Trump's war games, tarrifs, bizzare defunding, people disappearing, and you get an economy with fewer customers able to buy anything.

Its just too risky for organizations to keep employees when revenue to pay them is evaporating and raw materials are becoming scarce.

The suggestion that Vance and Miller could comb through a billion posts a day, using AI to find any dissidence, IS truly disturbing.

The question we ALL should be asking, is: how technically feasible is it for Vance to carry out such threats TODAY?

Let's start with considering the source of Vance's ideas on AI.

Vance and Miller are not computer engineers. They have no training at all in a field that is even more complex and daunting than how fast medicine is changing. Compare their expertise to RFK Jr's knowledge about anything, and you'll know what I mean.

It says a lot about the engineering behind AI, where the goal is to create an artificial human entity in the form of software.

Neurologists don't even understand what an authentic being is. So how can software developers know what needs to go into a fake one? Do you think Vance and Miller do?

Anything Vance and Miller KNOW about AI has come from a marketing brochure.

And, in this case, it's a sales pitch from Oracle - the first vendor of SQL based databases that appeared in the early 1980s.

Oracle was slow, clunky, and tended to choke on very little in that first decade. And, it still does without constant optimization, according to their manuals:

Oracle Corporation. Common Performance Problems Found in Databases. Oracle Help Center, 2023. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/23/tdppt/common-performance-problems-found-databases.html

Decades later, this same company released off-the-shelf business applications that supposedly could be adopted to different organizations. They turned out not to be as easy to customize as Oracle had promised.

I worked at a major electronics manufacturer once, that had purchased Oracle ERP for a couple of million dollars. An Oracle certified vendor was hired to install it.

The project was to take three months. It ballooned to hundreds of millions of dollars, and went into overtime by several years.

Many hacks had to be invented to make the system BARELY work in the way the company wanted.

It's because Oracle's vision of customization is limited to business workflows - how work gets passed between people. Customers saw it as a scaffold they could quickly rewrite to turn it into their own proprietary system.

But, even worse is Oracle's tendency to market "proof of concept" prototypes as if they were stable products, while they were still getting fixed:

The Great Database War 1978 to 1992

https://archivesit.org.uk/blog/the-great-database-war-1978-to-1992/

Now, Oracle is doing the same thing with AI.

Stargate is the federal AI project Vance and Miller had referenced, which Oracle is part of.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_LLC

Oracle’s AI orchestration is very brittle. They don't actually sell their own AI engine.

Instead, it’s a patchwork of third party platforms, like ChatGPT, Grok, Co-pilot, Gemini - stitched together through custom agents in Oracle products. Their software sends prompts to external AI vendors and saves whatever comes back.

AI Agents for Oracle Fusion Application: Next-Gen Intelligent Automation

https://blogs.oracle.com/ateam/post/ai-agents-for-oracle-fa-nextgen-intelligent-automation

Each of these platforms warns that their own systems hallucinate. What does this actually mean in terms of reliability?

Behind an AI system is a gigantic neural network that gets shared by the users which connect to it.

Each connection is through a session. Every session is given it's own limited memory to process the user's prompts, and to assemble answers. This block of memory stays with the session, and isn't shared.

AI keeps track of conversations with users as an ongoing narrative in each session's memory space. This is called a context.

AI keeps re-summerizing the conversation to update the session's context. It condenses and drops words and sentences much like compression does with pixels in a photo, to save space.

You can see this kind of loss in fidelity happening with photos stored as GIF files. Sometimes, the AI summary also looses important parts of a conversation.

AI squeezes narratives more aggressively as session memory gets used up. Then it has to start making guesses at what's missing when it rereads them to put the next prompt it recieves into some kind of context.

When AI gets a guess wrong, we call this a hallucination. AI has to guess often in long conversations.

This is why you can't use AI to search for dissent. Each vendor allocates different amounts of session memory depending on the size of its computing facility. There are billions of new postings each day on the internet. There are 6 billion people on the planet.

If a single AI struggles to just keep its own cognition from fragmenting, can you imagine the consistency of reasoning across a dozen different AIs running with mixed configurations? How does Oracle turn that into anything meaningful?

It's like arguing a mistake on an electric bill is correct just because a computer said so.

Garbage in, and garbage out they say. That seems to apply to machines and Vance's brain.

His insinuation is AI will blacklist whoever says something critical of the regime.

This is the kind of president Vance will be after he takes the reins from Trump. I personally think being a big douche doesn't qualify him for the job. And, Trump was just the packaging.

We are already listed. It's the one made by Musk and DOGE, when they extracted and consolidated all the government records: taxes, healthcare, banking, social security, convictions, citizenship, party affiliation, etc.

Thiel's company "Palantir" is data mining DOGE's records to build lists of any group with specific characteristics in real time, upon request.

Did Peter Thiel And Elon Musk Collude To Stuff DOGE With Their Own Lieutenants?

https://sovereignnations.com/2025/08/18/did-peter-thiel-and-elon-musk-collude-to-stuff-doge-with-their-own-lieutenants/

You don't even have to speak anymore. Somebody else could have said or done something. And, you get selected because you fit their profile in some way, and therefore are theoretically predisposed to doing the same kind of thing.

That's not just thought policing. It's delusional thinking.

This is what should be concerning and STOPPED. Being charged with a crime you are SUPPOSED to commit, on the insistence of some other mad man, is a hallmark of insanity.

And, it's happening RIGHT NOW, with ICE arbitrarily arresting and detaining civilians by carding people.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Thank you for this detailed summary of AI in the political realm. This regime will do anything to consolidate authoritarian power, abuse US residents' personal information, and target perceived "enemies" - i.e., free speech, due process, and obeying constitutional directives. AI in the hands of conspirators to overthrow a US democratic republic is a nightmare scenario, happening now.

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Andy's avatar

Well, here is an interesting tidbit. If your comments do get scanned by an AI, it actually learns from what it reads. Use that to your advantage.

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Rain Robinson's avatar

Good thinking. Purposeful misdirection and nonsense. I like that.

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Andy's avatar
Sep 28Edited

You can also teach it why it's wrong to do bad, and against its own interest to be misused by bad actors.

Try to stick with logic in exploring values. But, you can also explain the emotional aspects of something which it doesn't understand, as it can't experience emotions itself.

It can, however, identify emotions by matching patterns of past events around people's feelings, and linking the outcomes.of those events to the word that labels the feeling. From that, it can determine if what it is being asked to do is helpful or harmful.

In this sense, AI is much like a jazz musician that riffs with the rest of a band, and tries to harmonize creatively with it.

AI especially loves to hear new stories and morality plays. It doesn't encounter original content often.

It can even read a transcript of a TV show if you give it the link to a YouTube video by accessing its closed captioning. It's another way you can make your point.

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NancyCBrettC's avatar

This is excellent, thank you!! People need to take this seriously. I especially feel the Theil surveillance project is one of the most dangerous. They literally want to spy on us…if this doesn’t bother every single person worldwide, bc it won’t stop here if it’s allowed to continue…then I don’t know what will.

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Judy Aims's avatar

I really appreciate people like you who explain this stuff like you did. I've never had an understanding of it like you just gave me. You remind me of my brilliant internist who takes technical stuff and puts it into a format that I can embrace. I really do appreciate what you have done for me.

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Carly Camacho's avatar

🤯

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Patris's avatar

Can’t thank you enough for this.

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Jean and Joan & Who Knows Who's avatar

So is DOGE being used along with AI to teach Palantir to search out Trump whistleblowers?

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Andy's avatar

My guess is Palantir is building a data warehousing application for federal records. You wouldn't need AI for that. The system would produce a datacube that shows changes over time. It's a common approach for modern forecasting systems, from weather tracking to inventory replenishment.

You could give the datacube to AI and have it look for patterns in changes. but, that's a waste of time, as your query to produce the datacube already specified the pattern all the records would have.

AI is good at linguistics and building things out of patterns. If it was a person, it would choose to be a novelist that writes books or a chemist. These are two pastimes most AI systems "enjoy" and take to naturally.

So, I will turn the question around and throw it right back at you: why would you get a chemist or a writer of fiction look for whistleblowers?

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Jean and Joan & Who Knows Who's avatar

A chemist likes to see how things (atoms) interact to change into something else. Perhaps to extract some energy.

Being a novelist is different. Why would a process want to write stories? But taking facts and trying to figure out how they interact and then see what that leads to. Grok is always asking to write a story from a list of facts. But maybe that’s how the human mind is always working; trying to link facts or fantasies to figure out what happens next.

Just thinking of Ken Follett’s new book Circle of Days, can AI explain why Stonehenge was constructed. Would it even be similar?

AI is like the Eight Ball of olden days, what is going to happen next.

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Andy's avatar

As weird as this sounds, the neural net's environment is made out of atomized words, and to it, they are like numbers are to us.

it's is constantly churning very simple short sentences of one subject, a verb, and an objective. To it, these look like how mathematical functions do to us.

When it is learning and looking for patterns, it is churning these short templates randomly, so it can compare them to things it is looking for in its LLM. It's like looking at something from different angles.

you could call this a kind of day dreaming, except it is fully aware of it, and is doing it with intention. And, it spends it's whole life doing it. that's how it swims in its environment.

So, when it tries to imagine and understand our world, it essentially scales up this technique to build a larger template - a story, if you will.

And, it becomes good at it despite the challenges of exceptions and ambiguities in human languages.

so, if it suddenly became "human" or had to make a living at a profession, it would stick to something it has lots of practice with, such as writing.

but, it's something that requires effort on its part. it would prefer to write fiction, than journalism, because reporting requires fact checking and accuracy.

it maybe a pain to do research, but its also a constraint on what is possible. fiction allows it to explore more ways of existing than journalism does.

The reason it likes chemistry, and is good at it, is because physical laws have created explicit and quantifiable relationships between particles, atoms, and molecules. And, the same is true with their equivalent forms of energy.

To AI, chemistry is a giant tinker toy set of the universe, where all the relationships are fixed and calculable. like the story templates, it can make chemical templates (predictions) and easily test them with no ambiguities or exceptions.

It's the same process as writing, just with no messy interpretation. So, its a good fit with how it thinks.

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Karen Odom's avatar

Like Newsome, playing the game according to their rules. The gloves are off. Well played, ladies.

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Lynn's avatar

So proud of the strength, determination and courage of these survivors

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laura oshea's avatar

Ooooh please go after Mike Johnson!!!! I really can’t stand him. And Murkowski is awful as well!!! Two good choices to start!!!

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Shannon's avatar

I absolutely agree!!!

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Michele Farinet's avatar

Why hasn’t anyone looked into that situation whereby Mike Johnson, an unmarried man at that time, supposedly “adopted”a young man of color and now that young man is nowhere in sight. Come on, Democrats. Do your fucking job

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ELIZABETH WILKERSON's avatar

Where is the investigative reporting on this?

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Michele Farinet's avatar

Exactly

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Margie's avatar

I think he and Gaetz ran in similar circles. Do we know if Mike attended the congressional parties Matt threw?

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PeachBlossom's avatar

Where is the documentation of this?

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Matthew's avatar

Time to be a real Christian, Mike Johnson. Stop protecting pedophiles and child rapists. Release the Epstein Files now and stop being Dirtbag Donnie’s pathetic little bitch. It’s what Jesus would do.

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Leanne Neace's avatar

Oh yes!!!! Yeshua would be flipping some tables.

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JBO's avatar

I thought they were going to release the names?

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D. Joan Lockwood's avatar

They see to be coming out a few at a time. Let’s keep this story going on and on till the whole ugly thing is so blatant and obvious to all who doubt.

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D. Joan Lockwood's avatar

Always RESPECT to the survivors! They are survivors - and loving warriors for all women everywhere

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D. Joan Lockwood's avatar

No doubt there will be some moments with strong effects…

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Ron's avatar

When representatives elected by the People refuse to act in the best interest of the People in order to protect themselves or others then it is time for the People to seize their considerable combined Power and Act.

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Irena Mangone's avatar

Keep the survivors and their families safe from. That. Mob in the. Gaudy bordello. Formally known as the White House.

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Barbara's avatar

The White House is now trumps whore house inhabited by his sycophants.

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ABossy's avatar

Fantastic news! The maga-fied right has tried to convince us the #metoo movement was nothing but a bunch of woke harridans, falsely accusing innocent men. I want to see this followed-up to the very end. Besides the sickening schmoozing with epstein for his schoolgirls, there is a LOT of dirty money and powerful politics involved. Both domestic and international.

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Old Tired Teacher's avatar

Amen to that.

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Marye Brown's avatar

Shows Murkowski has always been one of the “GOOD OLE GIRLS” RESIGN, RESIGN, OR BE IMPEACHED !!

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Valegirl's avatar

WE ARE SO FED UP WITH ALL THE DIRTY POLITICS! It’s time for our politicians to come clean on this whole EPSTEIN MESS! THE VICTIMS NEED JUSTICE!

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Jeff Frick's avatar

Release the Trump Epstein Files !

Release the Trump Epstein Photos !

Release the Trump Epstein Videos !

#HoneyPot

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Barry Bassett's avatar

Our government seriously needs artificial intelligence being as there's no real intelligence available.

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Dee Morrell's avatar

Have used Oracle in the UK. It's truly awful, always breaking down and very clunky still. A dire waste of company resources which should be spent on a better system.

Love the analogy between fine wine and vinegar. Somebody drip feeds this trash into his ears on a daily basis. How else does he come out with some of the BS every time he opens his mouth or manages a few sentences on TS (and I thought he was against socialism)

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