💯 Like, at least do the stuff that you had plenty of political cover for because it would merely have returned US policy to the positions of George W. Bush. 🤦♂️
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💯 Like, at least do the stuff that you had plenty of political cover for because it would merely have returned US policy to the positions of George W. Bush. 🤦♂️
I mean, he could have lined up every Russia hawk in the deep state to support him on this.
In a way this is the thing I'm most angry at Biden about, because it was such low hanging fruit. Literally the least he could do. Like, to anyone who might try to argue "don't call him Genocide Joe, he was trying to manage the situation"... I'd ask them about this. No he wasn't.
The difference between real people introducing real information from the real world, and so called AI regurgitating information that's already digitized ... is all the difference that matters.
At most an incremental move from where they were before, imo.
Yet another illegality that a functioning government would prosecute.
Personally I hate having to have the sound on so I appreciate it.
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
Respectfully disagree, I'm incredibly grateful to my dad for reading me those books, so that I was less confused when I re-read them at the stage you describe. But, I might have been an odd kid.
Hey it works just fine until all the tomato fields have data centers built over them.
So much of contemporary fascism feels like some guy watched a movie and identified with the villians.
![Heartbreaking: the worst person you know made a great point. [Meme pic]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wj24qdaknjiv4rozlzxu4rst/bafkreiadnzr2bcdgeuwwhgoovjopxcekc3ke5oh5xrbgvr3ghzi57tmoie@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Solar panels do not need rare earths. Fusion may never come, there's been no proof of concept, whereas we have gigawatts of solar and wind right now.
I think that's the cost of the train itself, not the line. Japan is spending billions on the line, too. (But costs per mile are still higher in the US.)
Really the foundation of democracy isn't voting, or checks and balances and stuff... Democracy is marginalizing liars.
This is impeachable.
Is that the canine type of Pomeranian, or the 1930s-40s human type?
💯 Black people have been in America as long as white people. Chinese have been in California as long as Anglo-Americans. Mexicans were in a quarter of the country when those parts became part of the country. Natives were here before them all. America as a white nation is a lie.
This “new strategy he could employ” is literally just called “lying”.
Gee, whose interests did that serve?
Schmitt not Schmidt. But yeah I did the same double-take.
I know, I know, but: The president of the US saying, literally, "we're going in" in reference to sending the military to an American city for no reason beyond terrorizing the local population should be the most immediately impeachable shit imaginable
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
Political theater.
I'm with Schopenhauer; Kant had one good central insight but everything he built around that was bs.
My recollection from before leaving is that it did not show *all* the posts, either.
Boosts them, even.
Lol let's replace touch grass with look at a blue sky.
Crazy to say this, but it would somehow have less.
The diversion of investment from renewable energy to 'AI' isn't helping either.
Once "adults thought young kids should use iPads because it would give them a competitive advantage in a screen-based workplace. So embarrassing. We shit the bed and kids are paying the price. It feels like we’re on the verge of doing it again. What if we didn’t?" ht: @hypervisible.blacksky.app
It's funny because of all the colonizers the French are still most officially dedicated to forcing their language and culture on the colonized.
I would join these people to storm the data centers.
Those are useful skills for managing within a functioning legislature but not for winning elections or resisting a fascist takeover of the state.
The slippery slope fallacy is a claim that we can't make a meaningful distinction when we can in fact make such a distinction. The question then: What is the meaningful distinction between ironic bigotry and bigotry? I think the answer says more about bigotry than the slippery slope fallacy.
a state that cannot enforce consequences for a coup attempt is a state that is going to fail, & so it turned out to be
to take only the most recent case, the main failing of biden's term was garland taking two years to start looking at trump criminally the base - or many of them - are furious about this, but I wouldn't characterise that is unthinking 'vengeance' it's about *enforcing the law*
AI is a jobs taker. It already took a massive number of wind and solar jobs by capturing the fancy of the greedy investor class and reallocating where investment was heading. Plus it's built on the premise of making human work unnecessary and development of human skill disincentivized.
Like, there are probably more people who didn't vote for Kamala because she didn't win a proper primary.
The number of people who would turn out for a true good vibes candidate is way bigger than the # who'd swing from Stein to the Dem nominee over anything, or the # of terfs who'd vote for Newsom but not a pro-trans Dem, combined.
Compare Newsom to say, Obama, or Mamdani, or Walz, to see why Newsom doesn't have it.
Thing is, some people would hold their noses and others would never vote for Newsom. Both are true. And it's not the 'left' we're talking about in that second category, btw. It's 'swing' and 'median' voters and other voters who vote on vibes or random not-really-ideoligical pet issues.
How about 'principal'?
Also 'principal' isn't 'primary.'
Also it's perfectly legal to have multiple principal residences. It's not even an allegation of wrongdoing.
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual. Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying. "I wrote this." "I created this."
Missing explanatory element is that Trump is a vindictive idiot, a cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face kind of guy. But ok, I guess people know that by now.
This is a great time to remind everyone that EOs aren’t laws, the federal government doesn’t manage voting in this way, and it’s all a scare tactic and any reporting that doesn’t provide that context is enabling potentially lawless activity.
My students, who attend a working-class rust-belt college, openly talk abt how much they hate AI & are afraid of its consequences. I wonder how much of the oft-reported student enthusiasm for the tech is the merely result of the NYT’s Ivy League bias
REPORTER: did you talk to Republican colleagues about your anti-secret police bill package that they absolutely will not sign onto? ME: 👎👎👎
The MAGA purge of the government has reached new heights. This time, it's Surface Transportation Board member Robert Primus, a Democrat who Trump himself first appointed to the railroad regulator board in 2020. Primus is at least the fourth top official fired this week. trib.al/rvMfCo5
makes me feel slightly less insane to read this by @ahjohnson.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/new-...
A man for the people who claim they want leaders who will get things done.
The Trump administration doesn't act like a country is what most people unconsciously think of it as, which is a community of people who would look out for each other's survival. It actually goes beyond the white supremacy, which is another evil thing, but different.
Unironically.
Will the Calvinball SCOTUS agree?
The difference is those are not federal.
Let's see, 200 days times ~10 times a day... Yeah that's a hundred bucks.
I see what you did there.
Or possibly they did and FB took it down?
I tend to think that that Wired article is a lot of fearmongering about a pretty minimalist left attempt to do what conservatives have honed to a fucking precision science and invested billions to support and amplify (something I’ve spent the last half decade actively researching)
Seriously a single parent's complaint should not require any action. It should require parents of at least two students if not more. Not hard to write into law.
I really do not think swing voters had any analysis of Biden's policies, or even knew what they were. It was all negative vibes egged on by a media in the tank for Trump.
"...it's still kind of giving them that taste". Weakest argument ever, even if it were true, which it's not.
I told my reps about ChatGPT encouraging a kid to commit suicide. This is the same OpenAI tech that @rweingarten.bsky.social is pushing on schools. I told them they have a moral responsibility to keep this OUT of schools. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
'inaugural'. G-d damn.
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It's another example of the ubiquitous but ridiculous "philosphical skepticism justifies believing that we can't know anything". (We can.)
imo it’s also the case that very few, maybe no, interpretive frameworks are so rock solid that to negate them is denialism. It’s the facts that you mustn’t negate.
"Political epistemology", that's what I'm here for. Also the Krugman piece is good.
"Opposing political views" is a concept that many people still regard as meaning "thoughts about taxation structures" but actually covers "we should put millions of people in concentration camps" and "lots of Americans should be stripped of their rights and treated as property."
🚨Border Patrol arrested two firefighters who were actively fighting a wildfire at the time. When the other members of the crew asked for a chance to say goodbye, a Border Patrol agent told the crew member “you need to get the f*ck out of here. I’m going to make you leave.”
Ok but why didn't that result in a humungous loss for them?
Which is to say, just to be clear, that Trump should be impeached and removed from office and the person who did this and everyone who facilitated it should be facing +25 years in federal prison.
So much of what Trump is doing now is for show. It’s meant to intimidate and escalate and justify the erosion of civil liberties and democracy. But all Americans need to do is go outside to see that his claims about crime (reinforced by sensationalist right-wing media) are bullshit. Touch grass.
Yeah it actually does matter that you're chill and wholesome. But you might as well shoot for the moon on *policy*.
Jevon's Paradox
Maybe he used ChatGPT to write. Or maybe ... hear me out ... Ezra Klein wrote that himself because Ezra Klein doesn't actually know how anything works, at all.
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Co-signed times a thousand. “Other people have no interiority” is, fundamentally, a deeply evil belief to hold which will lead you exclusively to terrible places
Don't they want a minimum of large spinning machines? For frequency stability or something? Synchronous condensers if not turbines? Not disagreeing, just wanting to understand better. Batteries are clearly the most dispatchable.
Well, I just recorded a pod and I am extremely geeked about grid-forming inverters. As with so many aspects of the move away from fossil fuels, there are going to be some bumps & frictions in transitioning, but the result will be a *better* energy system-- more reliable, more precise, more abundant.
It's still so baffling to me that the manager class is so supportive of technology intended to put managers out of jobs, but generally not supportive of creating a society that doesn't throw the jobless out on the street to die.
Man it sucks to be someone who absolutely knew this was going to happen as of Nov 6 2024. That was the moment people.
"An entire nation full of middle managers who just a few short years ago were speaking like Harriet Tubman have had their masks yanked off, Scooby Doo-style, to reveal the pathetic little bureaucrats inside." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...
Just remember, the most important lesson here isn't about Kamala, it's about The Hill.
Epistemology is the most important class nobody ever takes.
Chris Rufo has made it explicit a couple times, but I still think it can be difficult to fully grasp how dishonesty and insincerity are the standard modes of communication for the right wing. They communicate by media manipulation, engage in that manipulation, and accept that they are manipulated
They gaslit you all throughout the election.
How does a 'percentile' ranking result in their top recommended message having a ranking of 52% instead of 99%? Their explanation of what they're showing makes no sense in plain English.
2. stress, repeatedly, that these information sources are *lying to them* to make them exploitable - show evidence of this as needed as basic as it sounds, most people do not flag a daily wire video as RW propaganda when it comes up in their feed. you need to train them to do that
Don't give 'em ideas. 😄
As someone who grew up reading stupid bullshit online, you develop an immunity to it. Learning recently that many people with immense power never developed that immunity and have cooked their brains as a result has been both illuminating and terrifying.
The NYT editors are meeting every day, workshopping a passive voice phrase for Martial Law
This is the kind of choice that leads to a military that tells you you’ll take Kyiv the first day
How the f is this the opposite conclusion?
...willingly.
Yes, we do.
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