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.
The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce
Submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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florencia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We still have a secretary of education?
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months 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.
frezik@midwest.social 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
That’s a great point, you really could ask that question in light of all the developments.
MECHAGODZILLA2@midwest.social 11 months ago
Have to leave someone to funnel the public money to private schools
spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Until she choke slams a different cabinet member and takes their
beltposition
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
she also referred to decades of sexual abuse of ring boys in the wwf as business as usual
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
AI Bundy
AJ1@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Dude, Peg was so hot, why didn’t he ever want to bang her? Cyclops Peg was arguably hotter though.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honesty though I would too! If it was called A1! But its not! So I don’t because I’m not a fucking retarded asshole Mormon, that’s right, autocorrect, I wanted to say Mormon, not Morton or Norton or morrone.
nulluser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Has anyone checked if she’s an AI? That’s the kind of thing an AI would screw up.
NABDad@lemmy.world 11 months ago
She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.
She has the job because she’s on their side.
5oap10116@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Anything else would be DEI libtard
zenpocalypse@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You mean DE1, right?
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
DarkWinterNights@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Can barely comment on this stuff anymore because of the literal horror being inflicted
FutureDeathStar@lemmy.world 11 months ago
🥩
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
It’s a sauce you put on bad steak. Or you put on good steak if you want to ruin it.
revv@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
This is unlikely to be helpful, but it tastes almost exactly like HP sauce.
jonne@infosec.pub 11 months ago
It’s the only sauce you can use with their printers.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t think steak sauce is a thing in South Louisiana. Prime rib gets a horseradish/sour cream sauce. Au jus is common with steak. But we also tend to eat more seafood than beef so the standard sauces are something like Crystal Hot Sauce, Tabasco, etc. Ketchup for making cocktail sauce. (A lot of places serve oysters or whatever with a little cup of horseradish and you decide how spicy your cocktail sauce will be by adding ketchup and stuff.)
I’ve definitely eaten more calamari than steaks. So, by no means is this a universal concept. I’ve just never seen anyone put A1 on anything.
MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At this point, any AI, even the Filipino powered one, would be an improvement over any Trump appointed Secretary.
Interstellar_1@pawb.social 11 months ago
Well, they probably use AI a lot already, so I’m not sure
andros_rex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Might as well dump some A1 on every IEP in a state on the wrong side of the Mason Dixon line….
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
that steak looks terrible.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That’s because it is. I worked at a place that did this kind of photography for businesses years back. That steak probably got 20 seconds on each side to sear, the grill marks and caramelization painted on, the juice around it some colored glue, the steam some guy’s vape; those sorts of things.
You’d never want to eat the photography subject afterwards.
pirat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yummy! I’ve heard they’re using hair spray too, in order to keep things in place and/or glossy.
drool@lemmy.catsp.it 11 months ago
Needs more micro greens. Handfuls and heaps of micro greens and micro carrots
Archangel1313@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Smartest person to put in charge of education.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Repeating old Reddit memes seems to be a bit of a faux pas around here.
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 11 months 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.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
One too many chairshots to the head.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months 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 11 months ago
You’re still American though
vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
then you aren’t german at all.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Nah, you’re right. Only my mother and father are. ☺️
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Sprich Deutsch du …
jaybone@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Was that hurensohn meme a Reddit thing,
sykaster@feddit.nl 11 months 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.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
No, I’m Dutch, I was born and raised here without influence of the Norwegian culture.
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 😅
aesthelete@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I was born and raised by my dad whether I liked it or not but I disowned him too.
dirthawker0@lemmy.world 11 months 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 11 months 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.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It’s like being an eighth native American and claiming heritage without being a member of a tribe.
wewbull@feddit.uk 11 months ago
I’m a French-german-dutch-viking-celt-englishman.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Unfortunately Germany does not permit dual-nationality with a country outside the EU.
fartsparkles@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That changed on June 27, 2024. You can now have dual citizenship with any other country.
loaf@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Guess I’ll have to marry my way back home 😈
UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Me explaining to my flat earther father that there will never be an HDM2 cable or port