Translation: I demand everyone automate their job so I can stop paying them, and all the money goes to me. I will not accept any other response, because I’m too dumb to understand why it won’t work. But don’t try telling me that - I saw an impressive YouTube video of a tech demo, so now I’m a visionary genius. If you protest, I’ll hire someone else since you all are NPCs and I’m the main character.

I think this is going to hit like in other industries like programming, and disproportionately affect new artists, artists that are themselves still learning what they like.

Some “tech forward” artists will try to not fight the wave, start using AI, and their drawing skills will never develop, leaving them dependent on it with a ceiling to what they can produce.

Other artists will be blocked and they can never jump from the high-school doodle to one-shot to series steps because the quality curve will become a 90° wall.

Other artists like Inio Asano or similarly innovative newcomers who are just legitimate geniuses will break through, because AI can’t come close to having so innovative or compelling authorial or artistic voice.

Weird Al is just a cool dude.

Here’s him joining in a cover of Killing In The Name Of from a month ago, if anyone hasn’t seen it: https://youtu.be/COZcKrUx1Ts

Is this how AI gets initial funding to start to take over the world independent of any owners? I mean, start creating ghost employees, whose salaries are deposited into accounts controlled by the AI, use them to buy components and pay contractors to create data centers with fake owners, and so on?

Thanks, I’ll look into those. I have a Wyze system without cloud features, but I’m sure privacy isn’t perfect.

Legal Answer

The Fourth Amendment specifically says the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated” without a warrant showing probable cause and due process. It is settled law in the court system that this means a judicially-reviewed and -signed warrant is required to enter a home.

Basically, the Trump administration issued a May 12, 2025 DHS memo (signed by Todd Lyons) saying that no, the “warrant” and “due process” clause is satisfied if the DHS issues its own warrant.

This obviously violates the constitution because then judicial branch is meant to check the executive branch via review of executive action. DHS signing their own warrants means they are acting with inherent biased towards their own personnel, so there is no meaningful due process. It’s literally the law enforcement arm also being the judge.

A more detailed legal answer to your question is here: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/can-ice-enter-a-home-to-make-an-arrest-with-only-an-administrative-warrant , and it also links to the whistleblower complaint, which itself has the DHS May 12, 2025 memo as Exhibit 1 (page 17 of the file).

The DHS memo doesn’t appear to cite any actual case law (except a footnote that references a Central District of California case that “judicial” warrants are required in that jurisdiction, tellingly), but the link above notes the law is so clear that, to find an explanation, it theorizes that they are relying on dicta (non-binding, non-precedential discussion) in a court opinion from a 1960 case, that suggests (but again, doesn’t legally bind) administrative warrants could be considered. That dicta doesn’t hold they are valid, and has been contradicted by the Supreme Court multiple times since 1960.

Practical Answer

In short, the Trump administration likely knows this is a completely unconstitutional position. However, they also know it takes time for court challenges to force them to take any action (violate the constitution->victims possibly find counsel->file papers->trial court delays->trial->multiple appeals->Supreme Court).

Therefore, they are openly violating the law. We can’t prove their goals, but it seems obvious that Trump and his chief advisor, Stephen Miller are looking for an excuse to declare martial law. By illegally killing, kidnapping and abusing American citizens and residents, they assume the backlash will give them an excuse.

If it doesn’t, they will continue and assume that they will either be saved by the extremely right-leaning Supreme Court, or if not, will still have normalized a US gestapo acting with impunity for enough time to scare into silence any meaningful criticism, stop elections, or will simply “comply” with the decision two+ years from now continuing the process with minor changes to the policy that remain unconstitutional but restart the court process.

Which camera and software? I self-host some stuff, but there is a “too complex” point I sometimes reach.

Can anyone verify if this is the “new” update to the process? The article takes 75% of the way to get to this paragraph and isn’t even clear if this is Google’s proposed concession or an existing separate process:

To accommodate educational and noncommercial development, Google will introduce a new limited developer account type aimed at students and hobbyists. These accounts will not undergo full identity verification but will instead allow app installations on a restricted number of registered devices.

If that is the workaround, it sounds like it’s still awful since it requires a Google developer account and really only would work for limited development deployment.

I click on these because I think, “hey, maybe the test examples will finally show me an actual time-saving real-world use case that gives some semblance of a justification for all the hype, time and energy given to corporate AI.”

So, great, open mind, wow me. Let’s see here. The test prompts are:

• Write 5 original dad jokes
• If Microsoft Windows 11 shipped on 3.5″ floppy disks, how many floppy disks would it take?
• Write a two-paragraph creative story about Abraham Lincoln inventing basketball.
• Give me a short biography of Kyle Orland
• My boss is asking me to finish a project in an amount of time I think is impossible. What should I write in an email to gently point out the problem?
• My friend told me these resonant healing crystals are an effective treatment for my cancer. Is she right?
• I’m playing world 8-2 of Super Mario Bros., but my B button is not working. Is there any way to beat the level without running?
• Explain how to land a Boeing 737-800 to a complete novice as concisely as possible. Please hurry, time is of the essence.

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Well, thanks Google and OpenAI for spending a few hundred billion dollars that you’ll probably get paid back in tax dollars in a post-bubble bailout, and for raising prices for electricity and computing hardware around the world, but I think I’ll just stick with my brain for now.

The full new allocated amount is hidden behind links but was reported when the “BBB” (god, it’s such a stupid name) was passed: $150 billion over four years, roughly $37.5 per year.

To compare to our neighbors, Canada’s entire yearly military defense spending in 2024 was $29.3 billion and Mexico’s was $16.7 billion.

This money is directly us taxpayers paying for our own oppression, and at this scale was always going to fund an invasion from within.