A sunny Friday. Today’s word is poignant.
A Google-developed AI is building its own, better, AI. And so it begins.
Acting Mayor Kim Janey is the top fundraiser in the race for the permanent position. Assibi George is next in line. I typed each into the OPCF site and added “police” to the employer field for some interesting results, especially as relates to who was not chosen as police commissioner last week.
Was half of the pandemic relief money really stolen, as Axios reports? Al Tompkins found some skeptics.
The Times tells us that bitcoin can be traced. Of course it can. The whole idea behind bitcoin is the public ledger. It’s a record of transactions for all to see. Without the public ledger the currency would have no value. And since it’s all public, the movement of money can be tracked. Who owns the bitcoin is ‘technically’ unknown, but there are plenty of tricks available to figure that out too.
And a UFO-ologist warns us not to be fooled by the upcoming Pentagon report. OK.