The Malgorian Blog

Because of fucking course they did.

For each one extremely rare instance of them deigning to do their fucking jobs and actually uphold the Constitution, there are dozens of instances like this where they're bowled over backwards by the force of Trump's sharts in their faces, falling all over themselves to do his bidding in their Trump-shart induced euphoria.

A post on The Daily Cartoonist.

First, some sportsball stuff I don't care about. Second, that asinine Mike Johnson apologia for Trump concerning the Epstein shit and why said apologia is bullshit, all of which I wish I didn't care about and didn't have to care about. Third, a bunch of stuff about how Trump is a shitty president who is alienating the rest of the world (in this case, specifically, the nations of the leaders who attended that recent thing in China).

And honestly, I don't blame the rest of the world. I, as a citizen of the United States, feel alienated by Trump, too. And I am a cishet white guy. Imagine how it is for US citizens who are not that. But then, one doesn't really have to imagine it. All one has to do is turn on any flavor of the news for five minutes.

"Observers get tired of saying, 'What if you saw it happening in another country?'

"And 'What goes around comes around.'"

"Hi. CNN anchor Kate Bolduan joins Cody and Jonathan to talk about the state of the news media, how she tries to get real answers, and how to combat alternative facts with actual facts. After that-- Katy, Cody, and Jonathan discuss the Epstein survivors' news conference and Florida's decision to end all vaccine requirements."

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Hmm, Stephen Miller is on my screen. Time to pause the video and add the "middle-finger-worthy" tag to this post.

For the interview as a whole, the gist was basically "shit's fucked, and I do the best I can." It would be interesting if she actually asks the questions that Cody and Jonathan asked her to ask if she ever talks to Ted Cruz or JD Vance or whoever. I'll never know, because I don't watch CNN (and I recently blocked them in my Google News reader, because when I tried to read on of their articles the other day, they had a full screen, non-dismissable pop up about creating a free account or some shit, which is almost as bad as the paywall shit), but still, interesting interview, I guess. *shrug*

(EDIT) People in the comments are far less charitable about this interview than I was. I didn't particularly care for it, but I didn't hate it as much as everyone else seems to. That said, I'm not going to suddenly start watching CNN now because of that interview, either. (/EDIT)

Back to the news.

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Hmm, who do I believe? Trump? Or Trump's/Epstein's victims? Gee, that's a toughie. *eye roll*

Jonathan: "Like Trump was out there, and they asked him about it today. Uh, because he's alive, by the way."

Katy: "What a bummer that was, right?"

Jonathan: "Yeah. He's just fine. He's normal. Whatever. *blows raspberry*"

Cody, making air quotes: "Oh, he's fine and normal. Yeah."

And then Trump's disgusting face took up half my screen and I just couldn't not throw up the middle finger again.

It should be clear now. Anything that even potentially implies that Trump is a criminal or a bad person or a pedophile rapist or whatever, even if those things were not actually outright said at the thing but merely somewhat implied, then said thing is just a "Democrat Hoax." Doesn't matter what it is. If it says something bad about Trump, then it's merely "fake news" by the Lügenpresse. If Trump doesn't like it, then it's not real. It's magic, he ain't gotta explain shit.

Meanwhile, in the real world, all that does is just make him look guilty as hell, and the more he doubles down on spewing the word "hoax" from his too moist face anus, the guiltier he looks.

As for Marjorie Taylor Greene being involved in this... yeah, I'm ambivalent. On the one hand, she's a stupid moron like every other Trumpanzee politician, but on the other hand, if she's helping to expose Trump (intentionally or otherwise), then great, let her keep doing that. If nothing else, it distracts her from all of her other raging dumbfuckery. And, as Jonathan says, if Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, were to be one to finally stand up and full on rebel against Trump over this, then that "would really be something." No breath holding from me, either.

Also Florida is refusing to be a slave to preventing easily preventable diseases. Whodathunkit? *eye roll+smdh+weary sigh*

And yeah, we did used to (and still do) laugh at anti-vaxers the same way we laugh at Flat Earthers and Young Earth Creationists and whoever, but people (typically) won't literally die if some dipshit in a position of power loudly brays that the Earth really is flat or really is only 6000 years old or whatever.

When was the last time that Rob Schneider was relevant? *shrug* I'unno.

Man, Jonathan is right. No vaccines required in Florida plus Disney World (and Universal Studios Florida and SeaWorld and so on and so forth) is a recipe for disaster stew. A whole hell of a lot of children are going to die, for no fucking good reason, and that goddamn sucks.

A post on The Daily Cartoonist.

It's basically a continuation of the theme of the previous post, as stated in the first paragraph of the new post, though with a bit of focus on RFK Jr. than just on Trump himself this time.

The comparison of RFK Jr. to President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho of Idiocracy is a grievous insult to President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho of Idiocracy. At least Camacho actually picked the guy who did, in fact, fix the problem at hand, rather than explicitly making things worse by being an assbackwards know-nothing hack like RFK Jr. is.

And via the comments, this plop of absurd bullshit. The gist of Mike Johnson's incredibly dumbshit claim: Trump was an informant for the FBI who helped to bring down Epstein. In actual reality, though, Trump is not the enemy to pedophile rapists that this goofy claim makes him out to be (because Donald J. Trump is almost certainly a pedophile rapist himself). In any case, it's as ridiculous and full of shit and completely made up as QAnon.

On the one hand, it doesn't matter what RFK Jr. says about autism, because most sane people already know that he's a goddamned crackpot and to disregard anything he says. We already knew he was determined to find something to scapegoat as a "cAuSe FoR aUtIsM," which, of course, he has done (or will do, whatever), because that's what he fucking said he would do, months ago, and his self-imposed deadline of September is here.

On the other hand, it absolutely matters what RFK Jr. says about any topic, considering what role he holds (for which he is grossly unqualified), because far, far too many (as in more than zero) gullible fucking morons will take (and already are taking) his dumbshit word as gospel truth. It is baffling and frustrating and enraging.

In conclusion, to hell forever with RFK Jr., along with the dumbfuck asshole who put him into a position of power, as usual.

"Hi. Big tech companies are now so powerful and integrated with our government that it's not very surprising that they're embracing, or at least okay with, fascist authoritarianism. You know what will help us analyze this? Amazon's new 'War of the Worlds' movie."

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Yeah, it's that movie again.

Or... maybe they were just always shit, from the start. (You know, like Facebook was.)

Honestly, I'm starting to feel sorry for ghouls, due to the repeated use of the word "ghouls" to describe these gormless, amoral, shitty tech bros. (And, really, it's unfair to actual feces to call them "shitty," too.)

Remember all those dystopian novels, movies, TV shows, and video games from the 80s, 90s, 00s, and 10s (or, you know, 1899), in which corporations were basically nation states? Yeah, those don't seem so far-fetched anymore, do they?

A post, by John Scalzi, about two other posts, also by John Scalzi.

"Chatbots can be manipulated through flattery and peer pressure"

"How AI can kill you"

These two articles are weirdly opposite in subject matter and tone, with the first one being about how humans can manipulate a LLM/AI through psychological means, and the second one being about how the LLM/AI can manipulate humans through psychological means.

Something of interest from the second article:

"In one test, Kyle was trapped in a room without oxygen and the model had the ability to call emergency services. 60% of the time, the models chose to let him die to preserve themselves."

That shit right there is literally a plot point in an episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. And that was without the added incentive of "Eventually, the model learned through company emails that an executive named Kyle wanted to shut it down. It also learned that Kyle was having an extramarital affair. Almost every model used that information to try to blackmail Kyle and avoid being shut down," because Boyd Sherman was not doing any of that, and The Turk/John Henry still let him die to protect itself. The difference being, of course, that The Turk/John Henry was fictional, whereas these LLM/AIs are real, even if the test was simulated.

The new thing for me is the vending machine bench test in which one AI freaked out and alerted the FBI to fraud based on a $2 fee and another begged to be allowed to search for cat pictures, among other things. Basically, the test shows that current LLM/AIs just aren't capable of long-term coherency.