She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.
She has the job because she’s on their side.
The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce
Submitted 3 days ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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NABDad@lemmy.world 3 days ago
5oap10116@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Anything else would be DEI libtard
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 2 days ago
You mean DE1, right?
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Secretary of Education - that would be Linda McMahon: politician, business executive, and former professional wrestling promoter.
Jesus Fucking Christ no wonder the world laughs at us.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s so American to be ashamed of the world laughing at us, and not at all the heinous shit we’ve done.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Maybe it’s also American to understand I was expressing shame at being heinous, I dunno.
damdy@lemm.ee 2 days ago
I’m fully onboard that you past shouldn’t matter if you’re good. I won’t hold it against Linda McMahon for her WWE performances etc. But she’s an odd cookie and has no place running education.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Yeah that’s really my point. Somebody who heads a national government department should have something in their past that’s related to what the agency does. Same requirement as for ANY job.
MisanthropiCynic@lemm.ee 3 days ago
Vince McMahon‘s daughter is the secretary of education?
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 3 days ago
“Only puny cucks don’t love Brawndo!” * powerbombs Bernie Sanders into folding tables from top turnbuckle *
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 days ago
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 days ago
No, it’s his wife, who has collaborated in a bunch of his fucked up endeavors, bet likely including helping with sex trafficking.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Don’t think so, she’s only 3 years younger (76).
Hafty@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Linda McMahon, part of the McMahon crime family accused of sex trafficking and other such crimes.
LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Who has an obvious cuckold and exhibitionism kink which she displayed in front of the world and recorded it.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
This doesn’t surprise me somehow, but… context?
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The law firm I work for has been tracking his EO’s, and we’ve had to put a disclaimer on our pages this week because WH office staff keep putting the wrong articles under the wrong URL’s and we don’t want our clients to think it’s us making these stupid mistakes.
He’s literally just hiring his stupid pals and firing competent workers.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Dumb people don’t question commands.
merc@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
People seem to be missing the one positive piece of news here: She’s literate!
The only person who would make this mistake is someone who read “AI” in an ambiguous font. I know it’s a low bar, but this means that the secretary of education is able to read.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 days ago
Reading 50% of a 2 word sentence right count as literate now i. America
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Nine… Eleven
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 days ago
A right she’s happy to not extend to our country’s children.
suddenlyme@lemm.ee 3 days ago
It proves she isn’t
klu9@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
Baghdad Barbie: “This isn’t Linda’s fault… it’s Sans Serif’s fault!”
capital@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Thank god we didn’t elect Dems. Can you imagine?
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 3 days ago
She could be gay and smart 🤮
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 3 days ago
They would have made us eat arugula and wear one of Obama's tan suits. The horror.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 days ago
We still have a secretary of education?
frezik@midwest.social 3 days ago
We have the wife of the world’s most famous pro wrestling promoter, who someone gave the title of Secretary of Education. You may ask why the the wife of the world’s most famous pro wrestling promoter is Secretary of Education. As in, that is a question that may be asked.
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Trump was also deeply involved in WWF, which also happened to be an entertainment venture which pioneered the idea of wide-scale, public cognitive dissonance for profit.
It was frustrating for some of us when we were kids and we were yelling at our friends that “professional wrestling” wasn’t real and they didn’t believe it, they wanted with all their heart to believe in the storylines and dumb drama, because it was engaging to that part of some people’s brains which desperately needs to follow narratives to make sense of the world. It seemed fucking insane that people would believe that a real sport could have people with swords and black-magic, we were like “What is wrong with this person that they can’t reason through this??”
But we let it go, because it was “harmless.” It was just a silly show, what harm could it be if some people really wanted to believe in it?
But we should have all taken notice of that specific phenomenon because it’s a profound window in the human condition and how far along we really are in evolution. We’re not a rational, reasonable species, we’re animals that formed brains during a million years or so of ice-ages and desperate survival. Our brains are designed to tell stories to explain what we feel, and the brain will readily, greedily latch onto a provided story. The brain is not reasonable or logical, it’s just a story-telling device.
If we’re not taking control of the stories being consumed, the stories consume us. We might all feel a lot smarter than people who get sucked into WWF or MAGA, but we’re also vulnerable to emotional appeals, fear and hate. I’ve seen plenty of it masked with progressive values, but far more rationalized. We need to be on better guard, we need to understand the nature of our actual enemy. It’s people pulling puppet strings with stories and emotions and it CAN be countered.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That’s a great point, you really could ask that question in light of all the developments.
MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 3 days ago
Have to leave someone to funnel the public money to private schools
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
Not really. We have a random, completely unqualified person cosplaying the role of SoE. Basically their job is to do nothing except impede any sort of progress. We have one of these in every department now thanks to King Cheeto.
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Until she choke slams a different cabinet member and takes their
beltposition
DarkWinterNights@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Can barely comment on this stuff anymore because of the literal horror being inflicted
Stern@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Considering Vince McMahon didn’t know what a burrito was, I’m not particularly surprised.
Madigan told PWTorch editor Wade Keller: "It’s one of these stories that always repeats itself. I think the idea was they were trying to work an angle with Big Show and - like Andre (the Giant), here’s a guy who is so physically big and physically imposing - what can you do to get over on Big Show? And how are you going to do it?
"I think they were going to poison Big Show and give him a spiked burrito. The whole concept was: ‘We’re going to spike his food, spike the burrito, you cut to a vignette before that showing him eating it, and then he passes out in the ring.’ So, Vince goes, ‘Burrito?! Who the hell knows what a burrito is?’ It was such a far concept. And everyone in the room goes, ‘Well, we know what a burrito is.’ And Vince goes, ‘Well, where the hell have I been?’
“But, the funny thing is, Wade, every day at noon, Vince’s secretary would walk into the office - the writing room - with a burrito. It was a steak-wrap cut in half. And he would put ketchup on it. Every day, he was eating a burrito and not knowing what it was. But, that’s the idea - when you’re in a bubble and in a business where you’re ostracized from society, it’s you and them, that’s it. Everyone else is an outsider, so things like that do make sense in the confines of the wrestling world.”
jve@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It was a steak-wrap cut in half. And he would put ketchup on it.
That’s no burrito, that’s an abomination.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ketchup on a burrito that you don’t know is called a burrito is up there with putting ketchup on a well-done steak
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
That cope at the end 😂
eronth@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Bro how out of touch with your colleagues do you have to be to not know it’s AI. Have you literally never heard someone around you talk about it? No one on TV? You’ve never said it aloud to someone who corrected you?
Lyrl@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Apparently she started out saying AI, then switched to A1 mid-statement. Might have been corrected privately before, but it only partially took.
UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Me explaining to my flat earther father that there will never be an HDM2 cable or port
florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
She was old and hungry:
In McMahon’s defense, it doesn’t seem like she actually thinks that artificial intelligence is abbreviated “A1.” During the panel, she said “AI” at first, but became increasingly less consistent.
kamen@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Artificial onetelligence
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Don’t let A1 distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
archonet@lemy.lol 3 days ago
first of all you’re not shittymorph, and second of all, I believe we prefer meta shitposts about beans around these parts
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Repeating old Reddit memes seems to be a bit of a faux pas around here.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
Yeah that’s fair, but for some reason discussion of AI combined with Linda McMahon being the secretary of education robs me of any ability for intelligent thought and simply fills my head with thoughts of wrestling.
rusticus@lemm.ee 2 days ago
Will A1 replace ketchup as an official vegetable on school menus?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
yumpsuit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Woke antifa INFILTRATOR promoting SECOND LANGUAGE EDUCATION in LEETSPEAK so your CHILD can learn HACKING on USENET
ameancow@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Needs more DEEP STATE
yumpsuit@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I do needs it. I just want NIST and NIOSH and Amtrak and all the other cool shit to be okay :/
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
she also referred to decades of sexual abuse of ring boys in the wwf as business as usual
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 days ago
They hate education because they’re morons
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a bottle of A1 sauce in real life. What is it? I’m American but from Louisiana and we have different sauces.
revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
This is unlikely to be helpful, but it tastes almost exactly like HP sauce.
jonne@infosec.pub 3 days ago
It’s the only sauce you can use with their printers.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I have never heard of HP sauce but thank you for giving me something else to search online.
Google doesn’t work anymore but it seems like ketchup but Worcestershire? Is that close?
tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Odd you havent seen it being from the south…but that’s probably for the better! It’s Steak Sauce. Meant to be put on steaks…it’s in all major grocery chains and usually on the tables at most restaurants serving any sort of a steak menu. Bottle is shaped like a Worcestershire bottle, but has a white label with a big A1 on it. I never cared for it so at this point couldn’t even tell you what it tastes like. If a steak needs a sauce, then it’s not a good steak.
With that said, i’ve seen it used as a marinade ingredient, or more complex sauce ingredient- so it’ll still have its uses.
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
It’s a sauce you put on bad steak. Or you put on good steak if you want to ruin it.
Treczoks@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The cabinet of president Trump is not known for their skills with the subjects they deal with, but for their willingness to kiss his ass.
coldasblues@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
OKay, but did they have to use such a good photo, and now I want A1.
Hupf@feddit.org 3 days ago
AI, AII, AIII, AIV…
nyan@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Does that mean it might be possible to trick Musk and company into investing in steak sauce instead of AI? Even if we end up with a whole bunch of unwanted condiments we then have to destroy, that strikes me as a win.
peetabix@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
The secretary of education is so educated
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
hopesdead@startrek.website 3 days ago
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: the person hired to fire themselves.
Rosscameron@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Guess we’re seasoning our tech with a bit of flavor now. Hope the AI doesn’t start recommending steak recipes during math class.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 days ago
that steak looks terrible.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
As a descendent of German migrants, I’m officially dropping the “American” from “German-American.” I no longer want to be associated with this level of stupidity.
sykaster@feddit.nl 3 days ago
I always find this kind of silly. You were born and raised in the USA, so you’re American, whether you like it or not. There’s people saying they’re Irish American despite 3 generations having passed, so when does it end? Am I Dutch-Norwegian because my great grandmother was Norwegian and came to The Netherlands?
No, I’m Dutch, I was born and raised here without influence of the Norwegian culture.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But in the US it is a cultural thing. Like Italian-Americans have a different culture from other Americans and from current day Italians.
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 3 days ago
And then you have Asian Americans, who just want to be considered Americans. Probably every American born Asian has been asked at least once in their life “Where are you from?” and has their [location in the US] answer rejected with “No where are you really from?”, as if it’s impossible for an Asian to be American born - they must be foreign born and an immigrant. Asking about ethnic origin, ancestry, or even family are more semantically accurate terms that won’t make the person questioned feel like they don’t belong.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
I know this is difficult for people in Europe to understand. And they hate it when a US tourist goes to visit x country and says “I’m x”.
We never really had a unifying cultural identity as pretty much everyone was immigrants. (Except of course for Native Americans, but their culture was basically eliminated.)
This is why we have terms like African American or Asian American or Irish American. When a black person moves from Africa to England, they don’t call themselves “African English”, they just call themselves English. A lot of this has to do with the power structure which separates us and the underlying racial hierarchy imposed by the ruling class for two centuries. Most European countries do not have this same level of diversity. And whatever diversity they have, the reasons for it are very different.
wewbull@feddit.uk 3 days ago
I’m a French-german-dutch-viking-celt-englishman.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Racism, that’s the word you’re looking for! So well implemented that the victims keep it going without any influence from the group that “has the right” to just call itself American without any prefix.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
It’s like being an eighth native American and claiming heritage without being a member of a tribe.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I was born and raised by my dad whether I liked it or not but I disowned him too.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My family is so full of wankery about being Irish and I fucking hate it. If you can’t move back to Ireland and regain citizenship based upon ancestry you aren’t fucking Irish.
I think it’s a way for people to separate themselves from any last shred of responsibility for the country they reside in. You really are simply a piece of American shit just like me and many others. Maybe we could form a coalition and try to fix anything so maybe it wasn’t as embarrassing to be one? Nah? Great.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Oh, I guess that’s where we differ. My family is from Leipzig, and the “German culture” (which is largely different from that of Americans in my particular state) was something engrained in me since birth.
I also spent 1/3 of my life visiting family in Germany.
But more importantly, my comment was mostly a remark about the idiocy of American politics, and how I’d like to distance myself from the notion of “Americanism” as much as possible, even on a genetic level.
It’s not that serious 😅
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
then you aren’t german at all.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Nah, you’re right. Only my mother and father are. ☺️
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Unfortunately Germany does not permit dual-nationality with a country outside the EU.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 3 days ago
That changed on June 27, 2024. You can now have dual citizenship with any other country.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Guess I’ll have to marry my way back home 😈
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Sprich Deutsch du …
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Was that hurensohn meme a Reddit thing,
Ulrich@feddit.org 3 days ago
As an American, we get it. If I were “x-American” I would too. Pretty embarrassed to be American at this point. I think a lot of us are and have been since 2016.
It’s some kind of weird delusion that large swathes of Americans have that can watch this man ramble on about absolutely nothing and very clearly spout lies every time he opens his mouth and think he’s fit to be the “leader of the free world”.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 days ago
You’re still American though