Humble Jury View (Lindsay Clancy) After 72 Hours

I've come to three humble thoughts of the Lindsay Clancy jury business.

First....eleven of them seem not that bright or intelligent....to the level that I'd probably not conclude a deal or agreement with them in business.

Second, their behavior did not form overnight.  I'd go and suggest this path goes back to the 1980s/1990s, and that they were 'trained' in some way to think/react this way.

Finally....on my index of 'liviability'.....trusting in the state mechanism to function as advertised...probably matters a good bit now.

Social Security Chatter

 The temp-boss of SSA (our Social Security) gave notice and left today.  Reason?  Well....she said that she wasn't going to give review ability to the DOGE folks.  

What's going on?  Folks have figured....in excess of 20-million folks are on Social Security and over the age of 100.  If you dig into the story....there's one gal/guy....around 360 years old.

My wife (German in nature) asked me about this.

I responded...either it's good clean living (no booze or smokes)....the person is a vampire....or some idiot opened a file decades ago for a fictious person (non-existent) and they never died.  I added....the person could be a alien (one of the Greys).  

I asked Grok....AI....about this.  He said on average....there's about 120,000 Americans in the age group of 100-to-120.  

The billion-odd dollars going out for 20-odd million folks?  Well...it might be going into an account that some SSA employee runs, and he/she has financed a retirement home in the Bahamas with the six to eight non-existent guys.

Algebra

This AM.....I read that Tucker Carlson now claims that algebra is fake, and that those people...who "add letters into numbers" are in some kind of made-up matrix.

Around the 6th grade...I was introduced to algebra.  It was a dismal failure (for year one).  The teacher kept dumping out problems as home-work....with the next day being a opportunity to stand at the board to detail how 4(x plus y) would equal 4xy.  Nothing made sense.

7th grade....basically went the same way.

8th grade....same way.

9th grade....the same way.

It was a waste of time/effort.

In the 10th grade....the teacher handed out the book, and simply said to use it...pace-yourself.  It all made sense at that point.

In this case with Carlson....I think he is suggesting that you will get into something that you will never use again.  In this case....from the group of 24....at least 15 of us never used algebra ever again after high school.

Tracking The Trackee

I watched a NewsMax piece this AM.....kids are now increasingly turning family location-tracking apps.....back onto the parents.

In the space of ten years....it's surprising how much tracking is taking place today.

By 2036?  I expect the vast number of adults and kids in America to be tracked....as well as most of their pets (horses, dogs and cats). 

I expect almost all new cars sold by 2036....to be tracked and on a national database.  

I expect nearly half of all luggage sold by 2036....to be tracked.

I expect most purchases you make....to be tracked.

AI Chatter

 This AM....I noted a comment by OpenAI's top guru.  He basically came to suggest/warn....that AI is advancing at such a rate....that it's increasingly difficult for humans to understand what's going on, and how to sustain some type of control.

I watched a podcast last year....where the science-guy suggested that 'shortly' (meaning in a year or two)....for each day of AI computing....it was advancing a full-year into 24 hours.  If you did the crazy-math here....by 2030....AI would be dragging us to some level where 'it' was 1,000 years in advanced knowledge.

Something about this....reminds me of the movie where AI has taken over the human race.

Trying to limit or control this?  How?

Three things I expect shortly:

1.  With census-data and legit license data....AI will determine that 40-odd million Americans are 'faked-up' (non-existent).

2.  Some AI will be able design and run a MLB baseball club.  Another AI will take over umpire-duty....entirely.

3.  AI will shortly start producing new Gilligan's Island, Gunsmoke and Adam-12 episodes.

Poor Farm Definition?

I got onto a reading this AM, and the term 'poor farm' came up.

So to define it....in the 1800s....in the south mostly....this was a invented 'property' where you had Christian folks 'help' people/folks, who could not support themselves, and their families had virtually no interest/willingness to help

So of a dumping ground?  Yeah.

You might use the term a psych ward, without fences or control.  It was usually run/owned by the county itself (County Commission project).

The term 'inmate' came to be used here.

You typically had a guy in charge and a couple of folks who were to keep folks 'minded'.

Who got sent?  Well....older folks with no money....disabled folks....blind or deaf folks....abandoned kids....folks with tuberculosis or syphilis....alcoholics....vagrants....folks judged insane....“feeble-minded” folks....and those who were unmanageable.

The set-up prior to asylums?  Yeah.

These later 'dumped' to bring in asylums....because the poor farm had such a bad reputation?  Yeah.

An all-in-one facility?  I sat and pondered over this.  Asylums were most for nutcases and mentally unstable folks.  

The one clear impression I get over the poor farm....once you entered....you rarely left (unless you escaped).

Pentagon 'Reality'

 Somewhere in the past couple of weeks....the Pentagon called in approximately 50 officers, and did a lie-detector test on them....to figure out who passed classified info out to journalists.

So far.....no one says much.

I'm going to suggest two scenarios likely to occur.

Number one: Virtually all fifty were found to have lied about something.  The detector-crew are likely trying to explain this obvious problem to the Pentagon 'bosses', and it's fairly confusing.  Some probably have affairs going on....some probably chat with journalists weekly but not on classified BS....some probably have financial woes which they'd rather not discuss.

Number two:  All of them (the fifty)....passed.  Now, you have a bigger problem....having to go to the next group of 200-odd folks supporting the fifty.

The odds that ten folks failed the detector test, but having nothing to do with the secret info?  I'd give it better than 50-percent odds.