So, does this mean that GMC will change the name of their big SUV to the GMC McKinley?

https://x.com/DavidYeshua4/status/1882105347135169022

The Dems running back to the very-tired OMG NAZI SALUTES! crap tells me they have nothing else and know it:

https://x.com/skscartoon/status/1881684476956402005



Even Elon told them something like "you all need to get some new dirty tricks!" LOL

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Originally posted by HRK:
So, does this mean that GMC will change the name of their big SUV to the GMC McKinley?

https://x.com/DavidYeshua4/status/1882105347135169022

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They were using the Denali moniker long before 2015.

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They were using the Denali moniker long before 2015.

Denali is a nameplate used by GMC for its highest trim level on its vehicles. The Denali nameplate started as the top-of-the-line version of the GMC Yukon for the 1999 model year. It was also GM's first attempt to go after sales from the new-for-1998 Lincoln Navigator.

I was always under the impression that Denali was the local name for Mount McKinley and it had been that way for years but the names were used pretty interchangeably by people. I was in Alaska in 2002 with the ANG and it seemed that way to me then.

https://x.com/libsoftiktok/sta...844109587235107?s=42

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When I was in Alaska, the explanation was that Denali was an indigenous term meaning “The Great One,” which it is. McKinley was evidently applied to the mountain in memory of the US president who was killed by an assassin. I always believed that the original name was more appropriate as I’ve never been a fan of naming major geographical features after politicians, even though it has been very common. How many people today even know who McKinley was, much less why the mountain was named for him?

Dakor posted:

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What was announced was a $500 Billion investment in a national AI initiative corp, the first apparent application of which is medicine. The examples that the brilliant men provided were not intelligent. You are listening to Silicon Valley AI guys talk about healthcare/biomedicine without involving a physician researcher or biomedical scientist to this point, otherwise they never would have provided the stated examples. Healthcare record AI was attempted by IBM's Watson and failed miserably.

Further, Ellison mentioned sequencing a tumor and applying anti-sense mRNA against the tumor's expression... uh, OK we can do that now w/o AI. It's freakishly simple in fact. The problem is cancer is multivariate, oncogenic drift/escape is dynamic, DNA/RNA seq only provides a snap-shot and many other issues.

I won't go into the details but the rub is the reporters don't know shit about either topic to ask good questions, but what else is new.

I am reposting this because it’s very important, and I haven’t seen this on any place on the web. They have proven themselves thus far to be snake oil salesmen.

I did see that today Musk threw cold water on the “Stargate” investment program, saying they don’t have enough money.

I don’t trust Sam Altman. I don’t trust what they’ve done with OpenAI—originally funded by Musk—taking it for-profit. And I don’t trust the political neutrality of ChatGPT.

If I had to choose between the “Stargate” team and Musk, I would take Musk in a heartbeat. I hope he will privately talk to Trump about it. Not that they shouldn’t do the investment—not asking for public funding—but the promises so far are virtually snake oil.

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I don’t trust Sam Altman. I don’t trust what they’ve done with OpenAI—originally funded by Musk—taking it for-profit. And I don’t trust the political neutrality of ChatGPT.

If I had to choose between the “Stargate” team and Musk, I would take Musk in a heartbeat. I hope he will privately talk to Trump about it. Not that they shouldn’t do the investment—not asking for public funding—but the promises so far are virtually snake oil.

I completely agree with you.

Here's more on that:

Yesterday, CNN ran a story headlined “Trump announces a $500 billion AI infrastructure investment in the US.” President Trump said the one project is expected to create 100,000 American jobs.

There’s a lot to say about this deal, which bears an insane name that will fuel countless conspiracies: “Stargate.” But first, let me make this obvious observation: Trump has tamed tech. Trump has somehow corralled all his former enemies into attending his Inauguration and furthering his economic agenda.

This might be my imagination, but over the last two days I could swear ChatGPT has ditched wokeness. Either way.

The three tech titans attending yesterday’s press briefing were Oracle’s Larry Ellison, SoftBank’s CEO Masayoshi Son, and OpenAI’s baby-faced CEO Sam Altman. During the presser, they collectively pledged $500 billion dollars over the next four years (i.e., Trump’s term), to build out what Trump called the “largest AI infrastructure project in history.”

Details were sparse, but apparently, Stargate will have multiple parts. The first part, a million-square-foot data center, is already underway in Texas. “I think this will be the most important project of this era,” Sam Altman said, adding, “We wouldn’t be able to do this without you, Mr. President.”

And there it was. All three men praised Trump to the roof. It was a development that made Democrats hate them and want them to fail even if that means the Chinese win the AI arms race. It’s often confusing to be a Democrat.

Apart from that, not many details were supplied about Stargate, except that Larry Ellison tried way too hard to sell AI as a medical miracle. Quite unfortunately, Larry picked mRNA cancer drugs to use as his example, bragging that AI could help speed up detecting cancer particles floating around in patients’ blood (particles=bad), and then “within 48 hours” could help make a personalized cancer “vaccine” that would force folk’s cells into making even more cancer particles that will float around in their blood (particles=good!).
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The more I’ve learned about mRNA technology, the more it seems like the dumbest idea science has ever had, a wormhole of stupidity. The basic idea is to genetically engineer a shot forcing your cells to create some kind of protein, so that your natural immune system then mounts a response, killing all the transfected cells (which used to be healthy) as well as the targeted cancer itself.

That’s the idea anyhow.

But … if the goal is spurring the immune system with cancer proteins, why do we need the whole mRNA process in the first place? Why not just inject the protein that spurs the immune response, and leave the risky transfection process out of it? After all, that’s how traditional vaccines work. And in Ellison’s scenario, if detectable cancer proteins are already present in the blood, it’s not completely clear how forcing cells to produce more of the same proteins could solve the problem instead of making it worse.

Sadly, I think the answer to “why mRNA” has more to do with things like patents and profit potentials rather than the mRNA platform supporting any stargate to a health paradise. We’ll see. But unfortunately for the mRNA scientists, we are all onto them now. We know too much.

If we have anything to do with it, a whole parallel dimension of fierce mRNA criticism is preparing to flood through the Stargate.

Anyway, I don’t think Ellison was labeling the Stargate AI project as an mRNA project, as some of the hot takes have suggested. Ellison constantly says nerdy, dumb stuff about AI, like how it can help stop crime by constantly surveilling everyone. He’s not a great public speaker, and he’s certainly no politician.

This time, I think he just picked a horrible example of how this Stargate AI project might help people. He’d hoped to open a portal to a new dimension of AI hype based on his poor understanding of mRNA cancer vaccines, which he probably acquired by reading corporate media. The truth is, they’ve been trying to develop “personalized” mRNA cancer vaccines for 20+ years now without success.

Maybe AI can solve that puzzle, but I doubt it.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com...ack&utm_medium=email

Peter Doocy reveals the contents of Biden's letter to Trump that he left in the Resolute Desk.

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Originally posted by oddball:
Peter Doocy reveals the contents of Biden's letter to Trump that he left in the Resolute Desk.

I wonder what former President Joe Biden would have written to Kamalatow, had she been elected.

Probably "You're in MY chair."

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Originally posted by oddball:
Peter Doocy reveals the contents of Biden's letter to Trump that he left in the Resolute Desk.

I wonder who wrote that? Jill?


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Originally posted by Sig2340:
I wonder what former President Joe Biden would have written to Kamalatow, had she been elected.

Probably "You're in MY chair."

Or "Remember, Kamala, this time you get to sit behind the desk of power, not under it."


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Chris was our local Philly conservative talk radio guy for about 10 years, glad that he just got nationally syndicated. Met him a few times, a really nice guy

He's 100% spot on about these Democrats:

https://x.com/ChrisStigall/status/1882058506125095044

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Dakor posted:

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What was announced was a $500 Billion investment in a national AI initiative corp, the first apparent application of which is medicine. The examples that the brilliant men provided were not intelligent. You are listening to Silicon Valley AI guys talk about healthcare/biomedicine without involving a physician researcher or biomedical scientist to this point, otherwise they never would have provided the stated examples. Healthcare record AI was attempted by IBM's Watson and failed miserably.

Further, Ellison mentioned sequencing a tumor and applying anti-sense mRNA against the tumor's expression... uh, OK we can do that now w/o AI. It's freakishly simple in fact. The problem is cancer is multivariate, oncogenic drift/escape is dynamic, DNA/RNA seq only provides a snap-shot and many other issues.

I won't go into the details but the rub is the reporters don't know shit about either topic to ask good questions, but what else is new.

I am reposting this because it’s very important, and I haven’t seen this on any place on the web. They have proven themselves thus far to be snake oil salesmen.

I did see that today Musk threw cold water on the “Stargate” investment program, saying they don’t have enough money[...]

If I had to choose between the “Stargate” team and Musk, I would take Musk in a heartbeat. I hope he will privately talk to Trump about it. Not that they shouldn’t do the investment—not asking for public funding—but the promises so far are virtually snake oil.

I think Trump rushed this announcement b/c the esteemed gentlemen were in town for the Inauguration and he wanted them by his side when the news broke. You could see their hesitation when Trump asked for examples on how this would benefit the U.S. I think Musk is spot-on of course and I agree 100% that Altman is not to be trusted.

Hopefully Trump realized their combined mistake and will release more details - when the time is right and true experts in the desired application(s) are consulted. Until then, any initiatives are bound to replicate what others have been doing (some for decades in biomedicine, even w/o AI) and that take into account the need for precise & validated data sets necessary for machine learning and neural networks to truly provide useful solutions. AI is like any other process in that garbage in, means garbage out.

I posted a few examples as to what this grand initiative should focus on in my original comment but decided to remove them and see what others (on and off this forum) would come up with.

I trust Trump completely to get this right and to learn from yesterday's lesson.

The Butler, PA Assassination Attempt

This is also available as audio only on Spotify if you listen to things like this in your vehicle. The assassination attempt was discussed in the now locked “Year IV” thread.

You’ll hear things you hadn’t heard before in this discussion, as well as all the things we still don’t know 6 months later. I think it’s well wort your time.

Sean Davis is CEO and co-founder of the conservative website, The Federalist.

Coffee and Covid was great today, esp the World News and Commentary section. I am unable to post a link but maybe someone hear will be able to do so. I don't think there is a paywall just a gmail thing for me.

If I have an internationally publicized presidential pardon in my hand AND the president said on widely broadcast TV "immediate release"... what is the lawsuit settlement payment for every additional day I am still locked up in the DC hoosegow ? asking for a DC taxpayer..