Apparently if bats didn’t have wings they’d be as sick as dogs.
The key to bats’ health seems to be flight, or at least the effects that evolving flight has had on the bat body.
For all the billionaires trying to cheat death, who wish to stop aging as if making some childish fantasy novel into reality, the answer seems obvious.
Grow a pair of wings over a million years.
But seriously, immortality is best achieved through acts of charity.
A few months ago I wrote that Sam Altman seems to lying on purpose, just like the product he became infamous for spreading.
My argument back then was nobody should trust OpenAI (or Microsoft) when they promise data is safe in ChatGPT.
Nope. NOT safe.
…Microsoft reportedly suspended use of ChatGPT internally a few days ago.
Or more to the point, ChatGPT seemed to be a lying machine of constant integrity breaches, not unlike Altman’s other dubious ventures.
A CEO of a software company allowing constant state of data integrity breaches is no accident; that’s a management decision. It’s like a financial company that can’t balance its books, or a payment card processor with constant privacy breaches.
Apparently my assessment of trust was closer to the truth than even I realized because OpenAI just fired their CEO, citing an inability to believe him.
Mr. Altman’s departure follows a deliberative review process by the board, which concluded that he was not consistently candid in his communications with the board, hindering its ability to exercise its responsibilities. The board no longer has confidence in his ability to continue leading OpenAI.
Will they fire ChatGPT next?
But seriously, an interesting footnote is the board also says they forced their chair to step down but didn’t fire him. That message hints at a conspiracy without sufficient evidence to hold the chair as accountable as Altman.
Update February 2024:
“X Twitter Keeps Promoting Slavery. It’s No Accident.”
Not very surprising, but very late. This should have happened years ago.
Gerber, who held some 420,000 shares of Tesla stock as recently as this spring and is the CEO of Gerber Kawasaki Wealth and Investment Management, said his clients are “pissed off.”
“Getting a flood of messages from clients wanting out of Tesla and anything to do with Elon Musk,” he wrote on X. “Many saying they are selling their cars as well.”
Turns out that all the lies and fraud that built Tesla’s grossly inflated valuation were related to a CEO who … wait for it … grossly spreads lies and fraud.
Swastika (formerly known as Twitter) is turning out exactly as I warned here back in April 2022.
Getting “pissed off” at Bernie Madoff or Lance Armstrong is a natural reaction, so it’s no surprise with this fraud either. But those guys at least didn’t spread such dangerous hate speech along with their scams.
The Tesla brand now is basically promoting harm as a hate symbol. That increasingly was the case ever since Elon Musk cruelly stole it from the founders. Now it is obvious.
People are starting to finally come to terms with their own role in supporting a hate platform.
For anyone who really wants to understand the American businessman to lunatic trajectory, please read the 1958 analysis of Henry Ford.
…can a genius be obtuse and even stupid? Can he be a man of uniformly limited ability, talent, and judgment? There is a mass of evidence, most if it uncontroverted, to show that Ford was all of these things. […] Nor would any man of political wisdom or even of ordinary political shrewdness have had truck with the Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion, a known forgery, or the rest of the racial rubbish that month after month appeared in the Dearborn Independent along with Ford’s own page and which blamed the Jews for virtually every misfortune ever experienced by man. When, in the end, the objection to this farrago became overpowering, Ford set a new standard for audacious falsehood by explaining that someone had put it all in the paper when he wasn’t looking. (Previously he had defended it as “eminently fair, temperate, and judicial.”)
Ford’s much-touted economic and social philosophy was a fraud.
Every Ford sold had a copy of the CEO’s unhinged anti-Semitic hate speech on the front seat packaged as “news”.
Adolf Hitler loved and admired Ford for such hate propaganda, in a similar way to the politicians who love and admire Musk today.
In other words if someone still says Ford or Musk deserve any respect they are either woefully ignorant of basic history, or a probable threat to democracy.
by W.E.B. Du Bois, as published in The Crisis, Volume 18, Number 1, May 1919
…by the God of Heaven, we are cowards and jackasses if now that that war is over, we do not marshal every ounce of our brain and brawn to fight a sterner, longer, more unbending battle against the forces of hell in our own land.
We return.
We return from fighting.
We return fighting.
