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Dazed And Confused Mitch McConnell Reappears After Three Month Hiatus

Dazed And Confused Mitch McConnell Reappears After Three Month Hiatus

He’s 84-years-young and the poster child for term limits – Mitch McConnell has been a thorn in the side of the Trump Administration for years.  A classic Neo-Con, McConnell has continued to oppose voter identification under the Save Act and Trump’s tariff policies.  He blames Trump for the events of January 6th and criticized Trump’s sweeping pardons of J6 political prisoners.   The Kentucky Senator has also been a primary proponent of US intervention in Ukraine, and much like the late John McCain and late Lindsay Graham, he has clamored for more military spending and aid which places the US at odds with Russia. Mitch McConnell has remained largely out of public view from mid-June to mid-September after “a fall” at his Washington home that led to hospitalization.  He last voted in person on June 11th.  His office gave few details for weeks which fueled speculation about his health and fitness to serve.  This is not the first time the Senator’s physical and cognitive health have come into question.  In 2023, McConnell seemed to break down …

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much

Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much

Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech These days, it’s not enough to sit and watch as AI destroys a generation of students, makes it impossible to find a new job, and generates military targets by the thousands — you gotta be grateful for it, too. That, at least, is the attitude of the tech elites who’ve spent years pushing AI on the masses, only to find the public is in no such mood. As the New York Times observed over the weekend, the particular characteristics of what some have called the “AI bubble” diverge from similar moments in economic history in one key way: practically everybody hates it. “I can’t really remember a boom with such active hostility to it,” William Quinn, co-author of the 2020 history tome “Boom and Bust: A Global History of Financial Bubbles,” told the NYT. “People usually find new technology exciting. It happened with electricity, bicycles, motorcars. …