wemptronics
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wemptronics
4d ago
You and I both know Rep. Massie is furiously typing speeches as we speak.
Oil is mentioned a lot, but if I had to piece together a take it doesn't appear likely the US is currently "running" Venezuela and is not planning to run Venezuela. Not much mentioned is about politics at all, and if you're interested in building out industry you'd be interested in politics. "Democracy" didn't get a mention which might be a record for POTUS press conferences on foreign policy.
Trump directly answered one reporter who asked if he was working with opposition leader Machado. He called Machado a nice lady, but said he had not spoken to her and that she doesn't have the respect of the country to run it. That could be a calculated distance for coming political battles, but we don't do 4D chess, do we? Apparently he has spoken with now President Rodriguez.
Right now it looks the extent of running the country is getting the former and also current ruling party to say they'll be nicer. I wouldn't be surprised if in a couple years whatever US Oil project -- if there is actual follow through -- falls by the wayside. Based on what was said here I expect Venezuela to continue to be Chavistas-without-Maduro who maybe are more friendly to the US and probably still have a dilapidated oil industry. Opposition in Venezuela may take advantage of or otherwise earn more US interest and public support in coming weeks. Good luck to them.
There’s a burgeoning scene of AI NPC chat in Skyrim: speech to text or free-entry type your dialogue, it goes to an LLM with some prompt engineering to answer as the NPCs, then a text to speech model have them respond back.
Ah-ha! I rambled on about something like this in a recent thread. In hindsight it was foolish of me to not consider the Skyrim modding scene was doing something, because of course they were. Thank you kind former lurker.
Link for me for later SkyrimNet does it all with an in-process DLL. Impressive.
Yeah, I watched the conference. Arrest head of state, speak with his immediate successor, and stage a press conference to talk about the possibility of revitalizing its oil industry. This may be the extent of Trump running Venezuela. We'll see.
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