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Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team
www.theregister.com

... Backslash Security, a four-year-old Tel Aviv-based AI security biz, recently gave out its first Agent of the Month award to an AI agent called Newman, named after a character from the 1990s TV show Seinfeld. Newman received the award after being nominated by Jerry, another Seinfeld-inspired AI agent.

Jerry's nomination message said, "Newman shipped 146 research findings in 60 days, but volume isn't why he wins. Every other agent depends on him. Kramer's best posts started as Newman findings. Elaine's PRDs [product requirements documents] reference his landscape scans. Strip any other agent and the team degrades. Strip Newman and the team goes blind. He's not just the most productive agent, he's the raw material the entire pipeline runs on," according to Backslash Security co-founder and CEO Shahar Man.

And when Newman's acceptance message was read aloud at an all-hands meeting, "The whole room lost it," Man explained in a social media post.

"We treat our agents as team members," Man wrote. "They have names, roles, a reporting structure, and now apparently, career ambitions. When your AI agents start nominating each other for awards and writing in-character acceptance speeches ... something has genuinely shifted."

What has shifted at Backslash is both the technology of work and the relationship people have to that technology. Naming agents and giving them backgrounds based on TV characters doesn't mean much functionally. But it signals organizational focus and encourages a collaborative rather than antagonistic relationship between staff and AI models. ...


Also, why do you assume that all illegal votes end up being discovered especially on states where those in power don't want illegal votes to be discovered?
#10 | Posted by BellRinger

Where do you think the votes are coming from? Voter history rolls are public record. They have a history of every vote that was cast in the election.

Every ballot cast has to have a corresponding person on the voter rolls that now shows as having voted. Otherwise the number of cast ballots would be more than the number of people shown as having voted. If that were the case, it would be pretty easy for you to show evidence of it. So show me the evidence.

There are other possibilities as well. Ineligible voters being on the rolls... and THEN CASTING A VOTE. But that is also easy to prove. Find a person on the rolls who was ineligible, and then show that they voted from their history.

The last I can think of is an ineligible person impersonating someone who did not vote. But you should be able to find people on the rolls who show as having voted, but did not actually vote. Again, that should be pretty easy to find. And you would likely have a bunch of people who got flagged for trying to vote twice, because how would the fraudsters know who to impersonate?

So please share your evidence of fraud or your theories (based upon how voting, voter rolls, and public information work) of how the fraud could be committed without it being pretty easily uncovered by citizen journalists, much less the political party that has a vested interest in uncovering fraud.

What a list of losers (from the article):

We now have, as a result of Trump's choices and the endorsement of every or virtually every Republican in the US Senate:

" An alcoholic B-list weekend TV star in charge of our military,
" A formerly heroin- and sex-addicted brainworm-infected lawyer in charge of our public health,
" A wrestling promoter in charge of our Education Department,
" The president's personal criminal defense lawyer in charge of the Justice Department,
" A C-list reality TV star in charge of our air traffic control system,
" A plumber in charge of Homeland Security,
" A "miracle weight-loss pill" TV hawker in charge of Medicare and Medicaid,
" A social media hustler and children's book author in charge of the FBI,
" A predatory hedge fund guy in charge of the Treasury,
" A fracking CEO who denies the climate crisis in charge of the Energy Department,
" Jeffrey Epstein's former next-door neighbor and Epstein Island visitor in charge of the Commerce Department,
" A politician who built his career on a phony story about his parents fleeing Castro in charge of telling America's story to the world,
" The mentee of an anti-democracy billionaire as our VP,
" A Project 2025 architect who was excited to put federal workers "in trauma" in charge of America's federal budget,
" A racist whose own uncle publicly denounced him as an immigration hypocrite, and whose leaked emails pushed white nationalist material to Breitbart, in charge of immigration policy,
" A former NFL player in charge of public housing,
" A real estate developer and golf buddy with no diplomatic experience whatsoever negotiating with and sucking up to Vladimir Putin,
" The world's richest man firing people investigating him and his companies while gutting the federal government and killing millions by "feeding USAID into the wood chipper,"
" And a self-described "proud Islamophobe" with no government job vetting the National Security Council staff.

"A return to sanity

In the 1930s through the 1960s, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower and JFK/LBJ put America back together after the First Republican Great Depression and built the largest and wealthiest middle class in the history of the world at the time.

Today, 45 years of Ayn Rand's ideas being put into practice by libertarian Republicans from Reagan to Bush to Trump have gutted the middle class, made a handful of oligarchs wealthier than any kings or Pharaohs in the history of the world, and brought a whole new generation of predators, hustlers, and grifters into the GOP.

And then there's Trump's war against Iran, his theft of Venezuela's oil and gold, his attacks on NATO and threats against Greenland, his cutting off weapons to Ukraine, his cashing in on the presidency in ways that clearly violate the Constitution, and his and the GOP's multiple efforts to rig our elections.

There's a popular meme going around the internet these days that says:

"If a monkey hoarded more bananas than it could eat while most of the other monkeys starved, scientists would study that monkey to find out what the heck was wrong with it. When humans do it, we put them on the cover of Forbes."

If America is to survive as a functioning democratic republic, we must repudiate the "greed is good" ideology of Ayn Rand and libertarianism, get billionaires and their money out of politics, stop Trump and his lickspittles, and rebuild our civil institutions.

That starts with waking Americans up to the incredible damage that 45 years of Rand's writings and libertarian "Reagan Republicans" have done to this country and giving Congress to Democrats who'll actually investigate and prosecute these crimes against both democracy and our nation itself.

And that starts with checking your voter registration at vote.org and making a plan today to be sure your vote is both cast and counted.

Tag, we're it!"

"The model here is straightforward: government is something to be exploited for personal gain not public service, because government is essentially an evil thing.

So, load it up with incompetents, suck up as much money as you can, and leave the mess to the Democrats:

" Three Republican presidents borrowed over $35 trillion, put it all on the national credit card, just to hand all that money to the billionaires who fund their campaigns and sustain their lavish lifestyles.

" Republicans in Congress have thrown millions off of food stamps (SNAP) and Medicaid and refuse to fix Social Security or Medicare.

" Trump just discarded many of our pollution rules, a move that will lead to more cancers and asthma among our children.

" Bob Kennedy saluted putting cancer-causing chemicals on our food supply.

" Anything Putin wants from Trump he gets.

" They're selling off public lands and destroying our park system like there's no tomorrow, while rewriting America's history into a white supremacist fantasy.

" Miller's ICE goons are murdering Americans and getting away with it while imprisoning brown-skinned people without due process.

" Trump has made billions since becoming president through crypto scams and bets on his own war proclamations.

And that's just the beginning. Which is causing millions of Americans, scratching their heads in wonder, to ask:

"Where did this anti-American-government insanity come from, and how did it come to seize control of the entire Republican Party?"

It all started with the Libertarians:" MORE at the link

More: All politics are identity politics. Republicans have long mocked this notion, treating the very concept of "identity politics" as a left-wing fixation. In reality, the GOP's success is entirely due to the cheapest form of identity politics: For decades, but especially now, they have worked to distract voters from the party's ruinous policies with appeals to their identity as white, provincial and, most importantly, Christian. This campaign has been enormously successful. White evangelicals have been the backbone of the GOP for decades not because they love tax cuts for the rich and environmental degradation, but because they have been told, repeatedly, that Democrats are demonic and there is no such thing as a liberal Christian.

This is why there's a growing panic in the Republican ranks over the campaign of James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, and it's not just fear that he could beat Ken Paxton, the state's Republican attorney general. Win or lose, Talarico " a seminary student-turned-politician " embodies an existential threat to the right's long-standing myth that to be Christian must necessarily mean voting Republican.

"As a young evangelical we were taught repeatedly and clearly: It is not possible to be a Christian and a Democrat," Brad Onishi, a research associate at the University of California, Berkeley and co-host of the "Straight White American Jesus" podcast, told me. "But candidates like Talarico are changing that. His theological acumen and keen ability to use the language of the New Testament to disarm bad-faith religious attacks is showing a new way forward."

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