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Tired of the AI shit, which is going to happen no matter what the peasants think. Like 2020, nobody on any side is telling the truth.

Carver says LOOK ABOUT YOU. TAKE HOLD OF THE THINGS THAT ARE HERE.

Look about you: I could look at the VA hospital from my house if trees weren’t in the way. It’s a mile west of HERE. The hospital is at the center of a story involving the same factions as the AI shit, with amazingly little partisan crap.

As told by Spokesman, the problem started in 2018 when the VA acquired a new electronic records system from Cerner for a price of 10 billion. It was tested first here in Spokane in 2020, then another hospital in Ohio. It went haywire quickly, causing thousands of errors and considerable harm to patients. This wouldn’t have happened before the current crop of tech tyrants. In the IBM era, and ESPECIALLY in medical work, big systems were rigorously tested before they were released to the customer.

Cerner was then bought by Larry Ellison’s Oracle. Ellison is the OG of tech tyrants, the source of Move Fast And Break Things and Let The Fires Burn.

The Biden admin halted expansion of the program and tried to get Cerner to fix things, but as always they didn’t try very hard and didn’t mobilize political publicity behind the effort. Their public voices were too busy screeching about bizarre delusions like “democracy” and “insurrections”, no time to show us their real positive WORK.

Meanwhile, Ellison contributed 45 million to Trump’s 2024 campaign, and received a new order to Move Fast And Break Things, along with an extra 17 billion. Good investment, 38000% rate of return!

Now the amazing part: BOTH PARTIES in Congress are angry! Nothing will happen, but bipartisan agreement on an issue directly involving tech tyrants and Trump is a marvel in itself.

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Move Fast And Break Things is the shortest definition of a psychopath. If we ran proper QA tests of political systems, anyone who fits this model would be rigorously debugged. First do no harm is the diametric opposite of Do infinite harm at infinite speed.