The Greatest Threat - part the sixteenth [the TACO has come home to roost]

Where to begin with the shit storm Demented Dictator Don just exploded?

Firing the BLS commissioner just because you don't like the numbers is the mark of a total idiot. But it is very much in keeping with Batshit J. Moron. Remember this gem from Covid-19?

If we didn't do any testing, we would have very few cases.

Of course we wouldn't. But, just as I have been predicting: the Office of Data Integrity would, in due time, corrupt any and all government data that Batshit J. Moron gets irritated by. At least in the climate change case, he'll be long dead by the time today's kids can breathe the air or drink the water. While they broil alive.

Riddle me this, Batshit: which of your agencies actually conducts the surveys that constitute the Jobs Report? I'm waiting... Census, which does most of the survey work across the Damn Gummint. You fired the wrong bureaucrat.

You Will Be Assimilated

Well... yet more blah, blah, blah about AI. This time from The Zuck:

Superintelligence, which Mr. Zuckerberg defined as an A.I. model more powerful than the human brain, will improve "nearly every aspect of what we do," he said on a call with investors. The A.I. will help Meta's advertising business by improving its social media feed to keep users on its apps longer, which is already happening, he said. A.I. will also serve as a personal tool for users to create "a new era of individual empowerment," he added.
[my emphasis]

Well... anyone who believes his goal is really about "a new era of individual empowerment" believes it when a guy says he won't cum in your mouth. Like hell he won't. That's the best part. Takes a licking and keeps on spitting.

The Zuck isn't one to be nice to users. They are, after all, his product. He sells them to advertisers. The notion that AI will be anything else but yet another attempt by the rich and powerful to corral the 99% is ludicrous. Just ask Orwell.

Why would a greedhead like Zuck turn down the opportunity to exploit those with limited attention spans? Of course he won't. After all, his software doesn't do anything besides enthrall users. At least Lotus 1-2-3 and Excel actually have a use case centered on the user's productive life.