“Everyone hated that”
Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote
Submitted 3 weeks ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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joyjoy@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you want to see how dumb voters can be, there is no better evidence than Ted Cruz.
I followed his recent Senate race in Texas. In a speech, Cruz said he was fighting against the elite.
- His father owns an oil company
- He attended a private prep school in Houston. His classmates were kids from the Bush family.
- He went to Harvard and Princeton
- His wife is a senior executive at Goldman Sachs
Fighting against the elite? What a joke.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 weeks ago
You have to remember it’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. As I always say, we’re all susceptible to that to some extent, but the republicans have it bad.
Shirasho@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
So what I’m hearing is this is a bill to distract from more important things and to delay.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Not really, the entire bill is the worst thing to happen to the USA in a hundred years, Ted Cruz’s tiny portion was just so stupid that even the party of destruction disliked it.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Rafael doesn’t belive in preferred name. Stop clan Rafael, Ted.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
But states rights? What happened to states rights?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
states’ rights to opress people was the full thought
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
States rights was never really an ideal (in general, if it’s wrong to allow something in one state, it’d be wrong to allow it in the rest, after all). It was just a thing to bring out whenever the federal government disagreed with something they wanted but someone states didn’t. But now that they control the federal government, it becomes a liability, so they drop it.
einlander@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Why is this foreign born person still in the US? Didn’t Trump say he wanted to deport naturalized citizens? Deport
TedRafael Edward Cruz back to Canada! Send him back!leftytighty@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
After all the shit you’re giving us to deal with in Canada this would be the final straw that leads to war. He’s a product of your culture and his power comes from you, he’s your creation.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Yes everyone know’s a Canadian’s shit doesn’t stink and the country definitely doesn’t have it’s own fascism problem.
Definitely.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I thought the 1 vote had to be
the Zodiac killerTed Cruz, but no:The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
Did he just not get the memo, or is he that paid off?
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So unless my math is wrong there are 100 senators. And if the only yes vote was my own lovely senator Tillis, Cruz voted against his own thing?!?
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Yup, even Cruz voted against it. Reality is truly stranger than fiction.
meco03211@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And how does anyone vote for something that’s 99-1 unless you happen to be the first? Some things you should make a principled stand sure, but that’s not this.
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
is that the self proclaimed black Nazi?
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I don’t think so? Dude looks like he’d be a WASP if he wasn’t Catholic. Unless he was doing some internet sock puppet shenanigans or something.
tomenzgg@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
I don’t think he’d won his election; I also think it was a local election, rather than a federal one? But, I’ll admit, I hadn’t been following his race very closely.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
Rafael Cruz hates Rafael Cruz so much that he voted against his own amendment.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
🤣🤣🤣
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
So… Ted voted against his own bill?
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ted Cruz can go fuck himself.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
lol he even voted against his own plan. Imagine being the schmuck who was the one dissenting vote
aceshigh@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wasn’t there someone else who created a bill and voted for it, but told others to vote against it?
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
99 problems but this bitch ain’t one.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
All my homies hate Raphael
digredior@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
This time
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
? I don’t see them trying to sneak an AI regulation ban again anytime soon. This is about the strongest bipartisan support against a bill I can recall in my life.
Many of the people that voted against this are to blame for many of the other problems we’re about to be hit with.
However, of all the scary shit in that bill, this was one of the most concerning to me. Specifically in terms of irreversibility to the damage it would do, the creation of national AI surveillance databases being built across the country, and the kind of environmental and safety regulations that will have to be ignored in order to power them.
The closest thing to hope, I hold for my own state, is that I just hope whatever lesson we ended up serve as in future history books isn’t on the same scale or worse than Chernobyl.
I can breathe a little easier knowing that the entire country won’t be facing a mandatory federal law demanding they be more like Louisiana in terms of deregulation in order to make a terrible idea actually profitable, regardless of how many people it hurts.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ted Cruz. The ULTIMATE bottom.
digredior@lemmynsfw.com 2 weeks ago
Nothing wrong with bottoming…
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
No, but there is something wrong with Raphael Cruz.
devolution@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sure the fuck is what Trump is your top.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
So how much did this cost?
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
False, nobody can ever lose respect for Ted Cruz. There’s none to lose.
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Some nuance I read recently: The argument from above is basically that they want Ai research to continue as it has national security value. Therefore, any limitations or regulations to AI research should only happen on a federal level.
The idea is that all states should share the same playing field so that any researchers do not have to treat states differently.
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
No, that’s the rationalization. They admin wants to use palantir to collect data on American citizens, including giving ICE mobile camera installations to do face tracking. They want to do a 1984, and they don’t want any speed bumps from the states
Also, AI companies gave Trump money and there’s talk of restricting their power/water access to data centers to prioritize the people living nearby
meyotch@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I don’t buy it.
A diversity of regulatory approaches especially in such a complex subject really does need the 50 state laboratory.
In fact because states are smaller markets, it might encourage the development of more smaller companies. A complex regulatory landscape gives an efficiency edge to players who focus product development in specific states.
Anything to keep this shitshow happening in a more democratic way is fine by me. Anthropic and that Altman fellow seem so desperately out of touch with humanity, I welcome any disadvantages we can give them.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
i honestly don't give af about states that like ai fuck them. ai should be abolished everywhere.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry, but that’s bullshit. This would have been the inverse of how a federal government is supposed to work. Rather than keeping individuals from being exploited at the state level, the exploiters are now at the federal level creating policy. They’ve had a plan in place since Trump’s first term, and they don’t want blue states interfering.
Governors of states are already looking to remove federal safety regulations to build small modular nuclear reactors in order to power these dumb fucking data centers they will likely be using to store very unethical surveillance data.
They are also planning to use AI to more efficiently build nuclear reactors. While removing federal oversight and safety regulations that have been in place for 50 years… What could possibly go wrong?
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Stop giving broadband funds globally, it’s just squandered, it needs to be manually voted on and approved per project.
Bluefruit@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Agreed. Make them do the work first ffs or something. Tired of these “providers” getting free money for shit they dont even do.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
It’s Biden’s fault.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Of course. Also, thanks Obama!
jimjam5@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
j0ester@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget to blame dei and Hillary’s emails!
Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
Probably doesn’t care, already made his paycheck after all
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 weeks ago
I only use AI to make shitty furry porn. It needs to be regulated.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Was Ted the 1 vote or was he in Cancun for the roll call?
Jhex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ah Ted Cruz… the infected pimple in the ass that is the GOP
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
"i like ted cruz more than most of my other colleagues like ted cruz and i hate ted cruz"
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This is not good news, because it was up to debate.
Yeldarb12@toast.ooo 3 weeks ago
Ha!
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
„Everyone hates Ted“
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks ago
―Lindsey Graham
felbane@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think this is my favorite GOP quote of all time.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
-Al Franken
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
"Here’s the thing you have to understand about Ted Cruz: I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz."
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Isn’t it funny how Dems chased out Al Franken for that shitty photo, but Republicans rally behind their own sex pests?
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 2 weeks ago
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-wckRIrz2w