AI: Hard not to read this article and NOT be concerned.

Friday, September 4, 2026

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/01/wake-up-call-for-congress-lawmakers-get-a-big-brother-warning-on-ai-01054087

Own a gun? Go to church? Do yoga? AI can find out in seconds.

  • A series of demos on the Hill has both Democrats and Republicans alarmed about artificial intelligence’s ability to plumb commercial databases for information on Americans.

By Alfred Ng

09/01/2026 04:45 AM EDT

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Republicans and Democrats across Capitol Hill are getting a glimpse of artificial intelligence’s latest power: its ability to churn out instant dossiers filled with details about ordinary Americans, from a gun store owner’s leaked email passwords to a church member’s yoga workouts to people’s visits to abortion clinics.

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Hard not to read this article and NOT be concerned.  

With all the Karens and other crazies out there that seem to think killing people is “socially acceptable”, everyone needs to be concerned.

Hell, I won’t even react to “driving bullies” on the road.  Who knows what will be the result?

Argh!

p.s., while POLITICO is a left-leaning progressive site, in this case, I think they have done a great job “nailing this to the politician’s office door”.  Well done!

“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.” — Robert A. Heinlein

Important to keep an open mind and open ears even to those who you assume are just always “wrong”.

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POLITICAL: Bad policy message by DJT47 gets rejection by all men of good will

Monday, April 13, 2026
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/05/easter-morning-message-of-hope
 
It’s getting harder to tell which side is the authoritarian theocratic regime run by demented hateful nut jobs. (You Crazy Bastards would be an excellent title for a book on the Trump 2.0 administration.)
 
By John Gruber
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https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/07/tucker-carlson-rips-donald-trump-easter-iran-truth-social-post-00861281
 

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“How dare you speak that way on Easter morning to the country?” Carlson said in a monologue on his podcast. “Who do you think you are? You’re tweeting out the f-word on Easter morning.”

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https://podscripts.co/podcasts/part-of-the-problem/bridge-and-power-plant-day?scroll_to_words=Tucker+Carlson&search_type=basic

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“Because these are laws that are not created by people. They supersede people. But on January 4th, when the President of the United States told us he was stealing that our country was stealing something that didn’t belong to us, people should have piped up and said something, but they didn’t. And that got us all the way to yesterday, which was Easter Sunday. “

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https://podscripts.co/podcasts/part-of-the-problem/trump-backed-down?scroll_to_words=Tucker+Carlson&search_type=basic

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Did Tucker Carlson coming out against Trump, his biggest, the number one right wing, you know, show in the country? Maybe, maybe it did. But what? Even if it did have an effect, what did it do? Stop Donald Trump from doing bridge and power plant day? Okay. All right, fine. Stop just more death and destruction from coming that still wouldn’t have opened the straight of her moose or overthrown this regime. Man, look, we will see where all of this goes. Obviously, it’s still a very, very risky situation. but I will say I will end this on the note that I started it on, which is that thank God Donald Trump was just completely bluffing.

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​This is what set off a Tucker Carlson rant.  And that rant was cited by @ComicDaveSmith.  That’s how I found it.  It really made the case that DJT47 is not a Christian and really terrible human being. 

Can’t say that I disagree.

Remember the Gooferment and almost all the politicians and bureaucrats are immoral, ineffective, and inefficient. As well as untrustworthy.

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