The Crowhill Journal

One of my medieval history courses told of a time when the college of cardinals was being slow to elect a new pope, and some king or other got sick of it and locked them all up until they got the job done.

It seems weird now, but in those days, having a pope was essential for political stability.

Our elected losers continue to play political games with the budget and the debt ceiling. This is not an idle thing. The world’s economy is affected by this.

The states need to step in and amend the constitution to impose order on these idiots.

There should be a deadline three or four months before the budget becomes effective, or before the debt ceiling limit is likely to be broken. If they haven’t passed anything by that time, they should …

1. Be locked in the Capitol and fed the same meals prisoners get.
2. Have no access to cameras. No photo ops. No press.
3. For every week that goes by, they lose one meal. After that they just get day-old bread and water.

This may sound harsh to our delicate, modern ears, but their actions literally affect the livelihoods of billions of people.

Have you noticed that the extraordinarily useful feature that most websites used to have — right next to the “social share” buttons — is now gone?

I want it back! I don’t always want to read pixels on a screen.

I suspect it was killed by some sort of knee-jerk “save the planet” attitude.

Durham’s final report blasts FBI’s handling of Trump-Russia probe but doesn’t recommend new charges

His “scathing report” does not recommend new criminal charges, but clearly exonerates Trump and also serves to put flowers on the grave of the credibility of the liberal media.

What I haven’t heard in the coverage so far is whether some political operative orchestrated this, or whether it’s a case of systemic leftward bias at the FBI. I’ll have to catch Shapiro’s show this evening and hear what he has to say about it.

AI is going to become your gateway to information. AI is controlled by Big Tech. Big Tech is overwhelmingly liberal.

Nobody controls the way content is created right now. People can post anything they want — with certain limited exceptions. If you post something that Big Tech really hates, they’ll shut down your site.

However, tech platforms can control how much visibility certain content gets. They can “demonetize” a content creator on YouTube. (Funny how that starts with “demon.”) They can push content they don’t like lower in search results. They can “shadow ban.”

But that’s child’s play next to what’s coming.

The era of the search engine is on its way out.

Right now, if you want to find something, you go to a search engine, type your query, and get a list of allegedly relevant resources. (Web pages, videos, etc.)

Not very long from now, that will seem primitive. You’ll ask an AI-driven agent your question, and it won’t send you to independent resources, it will simply give you the answer. It might or might not show its sources, or other things to consider.

It will certainly give an answer with an ideological bias. That’s true with ChatGPT right now, and there’s no reason to believe that will change.

Even if people will retain the power to publish their own points of view, the chatbots will control most access to information.

It’s possible that there will be lots of different chatbots that have different filters and biases, so you might be able to select the one you want. But that’s unlikely. A few services — or a few back-end AI routines — will dominate the landscape, and control your access to content. And they will almost certainly have a liberal bias.

It’s probably a good idea.

Vivek Ramaswamy wants to raise the voting age. Even his staff doesn’t like the idea.