2024: The Year A I became mainstream

 Lots of dots being recognized in the matrix….

Google has cut over 12,000 roles since the start of January 2023, and in their latest layoff, they’ve cut 1000 Google employees from multiple divisions. 

🔑 Key Points:

• The divisions affected include the voice-activated Google Assistant and Devices and Services PA (DSPA) team, the Pixel team, the Nest team, and Fitbit hardware (which they recently acquired). 

• Google confirms the layoffs but describes them as part of ‘organizational changes’ for efficiency and alignment with product priorities—much to the dismay of the Alphabet Worker’s Union.

• Furthermore, they’ve also scaled down their AR hardware team and consolidated their engineering teams and the Google Assistant team with a focus on integrating AI-powered features.

  
  

  Bank of America is getting rid of people too.  1) I called the 800 number to report a charge I didn’t recognize…. The customer service rep assisted me, and then told me I could help myself by going to their web site.  So, 10 days after the old card was canceled, I received my new one.  It cannot be activated by phone.  You must go to the web site and open a B of A online account, and then activate the card there.

  
  

  I signed up for Verizon’s internet service in December.  In order to get the advertised monthly price, I am required to pay my bill by auto-pay.  Here’s the catch: I must give them my bank account info, or I must sign up for and use Verizon’s VISIA card.  The Verizon chat bot could not explain why I was unable to get the advertised  price…. The question, at my insistence, had to be moved up to the human interface.  Or was it just a senior chat bot?

Invaders - How it Was: January 2024

10,000 a day are crossing the southern border and are arrested and released. 5,000 cross the northern border and are processed.  These are the ones we “catch”.  14,409 Chinese crossed in the south during October-November 2023, and were detected.  We don’t know how many were not sent through processing centers.  We project 4 million will be arrested and released this year.  Up to 10 million are not caught in that year.

Several of the major U.S. cities count non-citizens in their census.  The census is used to determine population for the purpose of calculating the number of electoral votes assigned to that state.  The recent invasion is now worth 18 electoral votes. The census is also used to determine how many U.S. Representatives a state is allowed to send to the U.S. Congress.

Chicago is confiscating busses that arrive with immigrants. Bus drivers are now stopping in small towns outside the city, 30 or 40 miles from the city border.  They discharge their passengers into the small town and return to the border for another load.

New York City has moved public school students to ZOOM.  Indefinitely.  The school buildings are needed to house children who have recently crossed the border.  These children live in the school buildings now.  They sleep in the gym.

Border patrol has been called back from the border all along the Arizona border. Quarterly weapons training has been canceled.  These border agents are needed in processing centers to quickly process and release the new arrivals.  Tomorrow, a new swarm of young men will be waiting for their turn in the processing center.

Prior to Biden’s reign, ZERO invading immigrants were released.  They were caught, processed and either held or deported.