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#DOGE Plans to Rebuild #SSA #Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse

#SocialSecurity systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in #COBOL , an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

> #deluded or #lying ? They couldn’t even handle building that website.

wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s

WIRED · DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System CollapseBy Makena Kelly

Arresting officers realize they can lie to secure confessions. Senior officers know they can exaggerate to lobby for bigger budgets. For some, a form of “noble cause corruption” is at play—a sense that any means will justify the ends of securing social order and making sure the bad guys go to jail.

thewalrus.ca/why-do-cops-keep-
#Cops #AboveTheLaw #Lying #Police

The Walrus · Why Do Cops Keep Lying? | The WalrusWidespread perjury among police is well documented. Obfuscating has become a routine part of policing

Ukraine Daily summary - Sunday, March 16 2025

Russia readying to attack Sumy as Donbas front stabilizes -- 'Putin is lying to everyone' — Zelensky calls for 'strong pressure' on Russia after UK summit -- Duda denounces Russia for 'imperial greed,' reiterates calls to deploy US nuclear weapons in Poland -- Russia attacks Ukraine with 178 drones overnight, targets energy infrastructure -- and more

writeworks.uk/~/UkraineDaily/U

writeworks.ukUkraine Daily summary - Sunday, March 16 2025Russia readying to attack Sumy as Donbas front stabilizes -- 'Putin is lying to everyone' — Zelensky calls for 'strong pressure' on Russia after UK summit -- Duda denounces Russia for 'imperial greed,' reiterates calls to deploy US nuclear weapons in Poland -- Russia attacks Ukraine with 178 drones overnight, targets energy infrastructure -- and more
#voa#tesla#russia

A quotation from Hannah Arendt

If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie — a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days — but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Interview (1973-10) with Roger Errera, Office de Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (ORTF)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/arendt-hannah/45162/

Director claims #BBC 'push false narrative' amid Traitors staffing row

The broadcaster's level of Scottish off-screen talent working on the hit TV series has been called “unacceptably low” by director and producer Peter Strachan, who said it has been a “conscious decision” to overlook Scots in favour of London-based worker

BBC #lying to hide their unwillingness to invest in #Scottish broadcasting as they are obliged by law to do. I apologise for the image.

thenational.scot/news/24926157

It turns out that Google's AI is not that gouda

Gizmodo: Google Had to Fix an AI Mistake in Its Super Bowl Ad

"...In the Wisconsin ad, a cheesemonger uses Gemini to help write copy for his business’s website. Gemini’s AI-generated text says that gouda makes up “50 to 60 percent of the world’s cheese consumption,” which, as it turns out, is not true...."

(ps. I know you pronounce "gouda" as "howda" actually, except in the US, where everyone calls it "Goo-dah")

gizmodo.com/google-had-to-fix-

Gizmodo · Google Had to Fix an AI Mistake in Its Super Bowl AdIt's an accidental advertisement for AI's real feature: making stuff up.