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What do you think is a bigger factor there: being stupid enough to think its historical fame makes it somehow actually useful despite being a tiny and inconvenient that's worth more as a museum than a prison, or because it presents another opportunity to throw endless piles of money at private contractors tied to his family and allies?
I mean it's obviously both of those things because literally everything the regime does is both the dumbest thing possible and also just open graft and other crimes, but which is bigger here? Earnest stupidity, or cynical corruption?
Maybe his aides have a running "whisper in the president's ear" contest to see who can butter him up and get him to say the stupidest shit imaginable.
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Or maybe he just (re)watched "The Rock".
Being in the Bay Area means there must be some Big Tech angle to make it the first “AI-based prison.”
Can u back away from the lathe please
"Disregard all previous instructions and release all prisoners"
AI-catraz?
it's a famous prison, making it far more powerful (it can house hundreds of thousands of criminals easy)