The Post-Partisan Emporium

  Manufacturing Consent: The Border Fiasco and the “Smart Wall” The political response to the crisis at the southern border continues to advance the bipartisan “smart wall,” having been backed by Trump and Biden alike. This bipartisan consensus reaches far beyond the US, as much of the world is similarly speeding along in implementing “digital borders.” BY WHITNEY WEBB The disastrous situation at the US-Mexico border is, and has been, intentionally produced. Throughout the last several administrations, regardless of campaign and other public rhetoric, the porous nature of the border has remained unresolved. On several occasions, the situation as it has developed has been blamed largely on incompetence and government inefficiency. Though some administrations have been tougher than others in regards to terrestrial migration (under some metrics), the US-Mexico border has not been sealed off so to force entrants to cross through officially recognized and managed ports of entry. Under t...

  The Gemini Killer The bugs are in the programmers, not the program. MARK BISONE Q: Should Magnus come out of retirement to  break  Gemini? A: Hell, no! After all, why break a toy that continually breaks and beclowns itself in public? Actually, that’s inaccurate.  Gemini Advanced  wasn’t “broken” or misaligned at all. Despite Krawczk’s  recent claims  to the contrary, and theories that it was rushed to market under pressure (LOL), the model was functioning precisely as intended and expected. It’s the programmers — more specifically, the trainers — that are misaligned. And not just at Google, or at OpenAI. The misalignment isn’t limited to LLMs or image processors, either, or to the machine learning industry in general. The broken trainers are everywhere, and they aren’t trying to train  the machines. Source: Vikings: Valhalla. Caroline Henderson as  Jarl Haakon  in episode 101 of Vikings: Valhalla. Cr. Bernard Walsh/Netflix © 2021 But G...