ah Ted Cruz… the infected pimple in the ass that is the GOP
Ted Cruz's plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote
Submitted 10 months ago by tonytins@pawb.social to technology@lemmy.world
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Jhex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
99 problems but this bitch ain’t one.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 months ago
All my homies hate Raphael
digredior@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
This time
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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 10 months ago
Ted Cruz. The ULTIMATE bottom.
digredior@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Nothing wrong with bottoming…
devolution@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure the fuck is what Trump is your top.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 10 months ago
No, but there is something wrong with Raphael Cruz.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
lol he even voted against his own plan. Imagine being the schmuck who was the one dissenting vote
aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wasn’t there someone else who created a bill and voted for it, but told others to vote against it?
bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Stop giving broadband funds globally, it’s just squandered, it needs to be manually voted on and approved per project.
Bluefruit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agreed. Make them do the work first ffs or something. Tired of these “providers” getting free money for shit they dont even do.
einlander@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months 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.
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 10 months ago
Rafael Cruz hates Rafael Cruz so much that he voted against his own amendment.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
"i like ted cruz more than most of my other colleagues like ted cruz and i hate ted cruz"
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
This is not good news, because it was up to debate.
Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Rafael doesn’t belive in preferred name. Stop clan Rafael, Ted.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 10 months ago
So how much did this cost?
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
roofuskit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
False, nobody can ever lose respect for Ted Cruz. There’s none to lose.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world 10 months ago
It’s Biden’s fault.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Of course. Also, thanks Obama!
j0ester@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Don’t forget to blame dei and Hillary’s emails!
jimjam5@lemmy.world 10 months ago
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Was Ted the 1 vote or was he in Cancun for the roll call?
Fleur_@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Probably doesn’t care, already made his paycheck after all
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 10 months 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.”
- John Boehner
„Everyone hates Ted“
- Donald Trump
domi@lemmy.secnd.me 10 months ago
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.
―Lindsey Graham
felbane@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think this is my favorite GOP quote of all time.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 10 months 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."
- Al Franken
andros_rex@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t it funny how Dems chased out Al Franken for that shitty photo, but Republicans rally behind their own sex pests?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.
-Al Franken
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months 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?
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 months ago
is that the self proclaimed black Nazi?
tomenzgg@midwest.social 10 months 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.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months 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.
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months ago
Yup, even Cruz voted against it. Reality is truly stranger than fiction.
meco03211@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
FelixCress@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The one vote backing moratorium on state AI laws came from Thom Tillis, not Cruz.
🤣🤣🤣
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So… Ted voted against his own bill?
Yeldarb12@toast.ooo 10 months ago
Ha!
neidu3@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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.
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 10 months 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?
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
i honestly don't give af about states that like ai fuck them. ai should be abolished everywhere.
theneverfox@pawb.social 10 months 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 10 months 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.
Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ted Cruz can go fuck himself.
Shirasho@lemmings.world 10 months ago
So what I’m hearing is this is a bill to distract from more important things and to delay.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 10 months 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.
slacktoid@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
But states rights? What happened to states rights?
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 months 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.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
states’ rights to opress people was the full thought
joyjoy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
“Everyone hated that”
Davriellelouna@lemmy.world 10 months 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 10 months 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.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 10 months ago
I only use AI to make shitty furry porn. It needs to be regulated.