But, first, a picture or three...
I would be interested in knowing what the ethnic mix of ICE is. Are there any Black or Latino agents, and what do THEY think about this entire state of affairs? (I keep forgetting I can ask Gemini AI; boomer habits are hard to break.)
Those ICE agents are probably called something in Spanish that means "traitor to your tribe"; maybe they use the Native American word for that...
There are terrible things happening on both "sides," so "what's in it for me?" has to be the question.
Imma bout to get some people together to shoot a "fake-ass video" of some outrageous and disturbing atrocity "caught on camera," with some title like: "Somali Woman avows support for ICE; and love of America; but is nevertheless shot in the face 3 times; what gives?!!"
or... hmm...
"Florida man dismembers four ICE agents with chainsaw..." (come to find out he's a legal citizen, just "having a bad day").
This is like the gold rush of '49 if you switch the pickaxes to clickbait titles and the gold nuggets to AdSense revenue.
I'm going to find that Monty Python skit where the knight keeps fighting (and talking s**) even after having all his limbs hacked off, until he is ultimately lying there a quadriplegic, yelling: "Come on; I'll bite your balls off!!"
Then I'm going to ask Gemini to put the knight in an ICE uniform and make the Monty Python actors look—I don't know—"brown," and...
Once I'm a billionaire, I'll let someone film me saying, "This is an incredible threat to democracy!" and license them to use it in any way they see fit, at about a thousand dollars a pop... yeah.
they be some biased-assed AI engines out there.
But, wait...
Gemini "cannot" render this specific image? Please try to re-imagine something else...?
Land of opportunity, my ass!
This is where the real "war" is... they be some biased-assed AI engines out there.
Side note: I asked my AI thing how much Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Senator, is worth; and it did give a figure (around 2 million?) but then, became demonstrably defensive, and went on, unbidden, to add something like "...but this figure includes royalties on books and appreciation of real estate holdings, so it's entirely feasible, and plausible that Senator Bernie Sanders, on a salary of $174k, could be worth this amount; and there's nothing suspicious about him..." haha—I made up the "suspicious" part.
But the machine copped an attitude like: "I know what you're insinuating; you sound like one of them right-wing nut jobs; but here are the figures, and I'll be happy to fact-check them, too, if you wish..."
Anyways, stoned and ramblin' now...
But I can see The Great Battle over the Soul as being waged inside machines, with algorithms being like the HAL computer in that movie...
Chances are, you take a hard line on one side of whatever the issue of the day is, and you hate those that take a hard stance the other way (based on what the algorithm fed them that morning) even more—but not as much as they might hate the far-right-white-conservative-Republican-nut-jobs-just-like-this-guy-that-shot-the-lesbian-in-the-face... type of thing...
I heard "3 times" but only saw one bullet hole in the windshield, but...whatever...
What Say The Machine?
1. Federal Wire Fraud
The moment you upload a fake video to the internet (a "wire") with the intent to deceive people into giving you money, you have likely committed Wire Fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1343).
The Hook: It doesn’t matter if the video is "art" or "satire" if your call to action (like a GoFundMe) claims the events are real to solicit donations.
The Penalty: This is a federal felony that can carry up to 20 years in prison. If the fraud is connected to a "presidentially declared disaster," that can jump to 30 years.
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