Sunday, May 24, 2026

Easy Sunday: Part Two. The U.S. Department of Education suggests trade schools, not college

The U.S. Department of Education really did this poster. 

Look closely:

Notice the copper pipe work connecting nothing to nothing. And is this a radiator or a sink?




Notice the wrench in the woman's hand that morphs into a pipe.  Try buying one like that.

Notice the size of the pipe wrench the man is holding. The guy is strong!


Notice the odd blue-handled tool in her tool belt.  What does this do?





The two-part message embedded in this Department of Education advertisement is different from the denoted message that people might enter the trades, not go to college.

     1. When you use AI for anything, check its work. 

     2. The Department of Education, or at least with the people in the department left after Trump and DOGE gutted it, is exactly as worthless at Trump claimed it was. 



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2 comments:

Mike said...

Looks like an ad for Trump Trade School, since he lost his "university."

Michael Trigoboff said...

AI is enormously useful already. I transitioned from Windows to the Mac in January, and Gemini gave me absolutely brilliant Tech Support. I am much more capable on the Mac now that I would have been without Gemini.

It does hallucinate sometimes, but that’s not much of a problem. If it tells me to click on a particular menu and that menu is not there, I just go back and tell it the menu wasn’t there and it apologizes and tells me something else to try. (it also tells me how brilliant I was to figure that out. 😀)

You are not limited to one question. You can keep talking to it and have what amounts to a long conversation.

Don’t be put off of AI by the fact that morons in a government bureaucracy generated an image, and either never looked at it or looked at it, and didn’t notice everything that was blatantly wrong with it.