Hello. My name is Frank Austad. I am the man behind the levers of the Franken Honest Substack, the Franken Honest Blog, and the Frank, No Mustard TikTok identity. Until recently I also had a YouTube channel called, Frank – No Mustard. For several years I steadily grew this channel, using AI tools such as InVideo ( www.invideo.io ) while also occasionally shooting videos on my phone or a handy GoPro camera. It was a lot of fun watching my channel grow. My channel dealt with issues such as Climate Change, Voting Rights, Anti-Vax myths, and our national trend toward authoritarianism. Eventually I grew from only a handful of subscribers – about 13 or so, to nearly 40 subscribers – a larger handful. I became interested in the Donald Trump/Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell scandal, and produced a couple of videos about it. While I was on vacation recently, I found that YouTube had deleted my channel. They claimed that my channel violated their community standards for fraud and sp...
Artificial intelligence has gone mainstream. As U.S. tech companies have raced to release shockingly powerful large language models, public reaction ran the gamut from rapture to horror. Policymakers from Washington to Beijing realized quickly that generative AI, and successive AI breakthroughs, would crown new market leaders, hand more decisions to machines, put cyberattacks on steroids and fundamentally alter people’s trust in what they see, read or hear. Biden has taken a keen interest in understanding the inner workings of large language models and how the U.S. could turn AI into a lasting economic advantage. Biden’s White House issued a highly technical but far-reaching AI executive order last year that surprised even close observers with its ambition. The order mobilizes a wide range of government powers to tackle the potential risks of AI, in areas from discrimination to national security. It also sets new guidelines for safety, including standards for new models and mar...
Successive presidents tried for so many years to pass infrastructure legislation that it became a running joke in Washington. Maybe that’s one reason that Biden finally broke that logjam and did it with support from lawmakers of both political parties. It was the kind of historic investment, following years of deferred needs, that previous presidents had tried and failed to achieve. In his first year as president, Biden clinched an infrastructure deal that opened the spigot for $1.2 trillion of investment into the nation’s roads, waterlines, broadband networks, airports, and much more. Two years later, projects that had been languishing for years, like replacing a 110-year-old Amtrak tunnel that’s become a chokepoint into New York City or an outdated and congested bridge between Kentucky and Ohio, are finally moving forward. In the annals of American history, infrastructure development has always been a pivotal determinant of national progress. From the construction of the tr...
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