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You can't just frame everything in terms of "defeating him," with it's horse race smell. It's equally about readers appreciating how the constitution is being destroyed in real time, which The Times has a greater role in than in the ballot box. And I'm not someone who quibbles about NYT headlines.
To protect people taking abortion drugs, say.
Anyway, here’s Lucy
I know she is still much read in the US, don't know if it's equally true in the UK. She would absolutely inevitably be listed as one of the best SF writers of 20C, and many others who would be listed would not hold up as well.
Like Woodrow Wilson before him.
Well you are part of the problem, not the solution.
Will, you argue with accounts more than almost anyone. If you are prominent and do that, you face psychic trauma that of course makes this place seem like a hellhole. But if you block immediately without necessarily reading fully and thinking about the comment, you constantly reduce that thousand.
And the founder presume didn't give money to Newsom but to some pac. Also I don't know what the connection to Sesame Street is, the writer of the post seems to have lost the plot. But if Netflix will show Sesame Street it's because of whatever their deal is with HBO, not with Sesame Street.
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It detects it wrongly but very quickly, isn't that an improvement?
The piss Christ removed the scales from my eyes and revealed that Giuliani was not a good lawyer, did not remember the first amendment from law school.
Giuliani is getting an award for trying to shut down the piss Christ, in order to piss the libs off.
What a lovely character!
My theory has been and remains that he's had plastic surgery of some unremarkable kind. Some sort of facelift that temporarily changes how you talk and makes you look like someone punched you in the face. The man is vain and doesn't want people to see, hear, or know.
I take it that the Senate does not have to confirm.
I understand that they don't want the terrible right to run with "The Dems want to defund the police." But we cannot control what the terrible right does, and they know that, or they'd be shouting at the right. Just accept that you also can't control what the left that you disagree with you say.
Violent assaults and carjacking both went up in the pandemic, peaking in 2023. They have come down but not returned to pre-pandemic levels. But that's nationally not particular to these two cities.
They just didn't mention that the Princeton faculty is a madhouse.
Charles Manson had this whole thing about how a race war was coming, and he maybe wanted to start it. I am being for real.
You can still just log in as her and do it that way. They set up this shared account by invitation thing I never understood, but obviously spouses and families can have a single account.
Sliwa's prominence in NYC dates back to the 70s, it fell to a low level then, Sliwa was one of a number of white men who saw their shot then and took it. Controversial but not the worst. So he's not part of some new low for NYC. None of them are. Mamdani is the opposite, the only vaguely new face.
One other person that happened to was Charles Manson. He would have attracted many more followers online and killed more people. He had a Trump-level ability to nurse resentments.
Many a Thanksgiving turkey has been burned, sometimes exploded. Based on what we do to it, we do seem to hate it.
On this chart, Father's Day is slightly more real than Mother's Day, which is utter crap. But I'd be interested to see this if it measured how many countries celebrate it. Not many countries celebrate July 4th, lots celebrate Independence Day.
Burning the flag is not a crime, burning a tree without a permit to do so generally is and should be.
It's not under copyright so in that sense it's free, but first you need to get your hands on it. Then you can make as many copies as you want and hand them out to anyone you want.
react to waves of immigrants (badly) and refugees (even worse). But I also believe it's extremely hard to overestimate the effects of a pandemic.
My conspiracy theory since the Syrian refugee crisis is that it was manufactured by Putin to destroy Europe and was enormously successful. I don't completely believe it because it makes Putin an incredible mastermind, but I don't fully disbelieve it either. Putin understands how populations +
Sounds like they need an actual order to get the kids off of the planes.
This may work for red states, not for blue. This is decided by the states per Constitution.
Not quite spherical, but oh so cute. A baby booby.
"Nazis are fascists" like you are admitting something against your will.
And waiting for a tummy rub or waiting to attack you when you try to give a tummy rub.
You should have no one to trust except them, and if you trust your doctor that's a threat.
Dictators and fascists always want to bring the intellectuals down, no matter the cost.
And this story shows that law enforcement can be brought to account, 50 years after they die.
It's designed to run for more than a decade??? And someone has the hubris to say so?
The place that threw stuff fully made in the garbage?
And fuck Winston Churchill, he is not who we need.
And he went to Fordham, which didn't cost shit when he went there. If he had these jobs at all, he was in training to join the mafia.
Amazing surveillance video at the White House!!! Who would have guessed?!
He may be talking to unions there.
I do love those books.
Lecturer's Tale not a murder mystery, iirc, more horror?
There are a bunch of light hearted academic murder books, with a darker satiric undertone, but not so many straight up dark academic murder books. Sort of, isn't this all funny and you know what maybe I would be better off dead?
We're living in John Roberts's world, which he regrets a little bit, but why are we mad about it?
Blowback made sense, but not ruining someone's career. But that didn't actually happen. Not in his music nor in his main career of being a producer. And he has upcoming movies he's acting in. So I don't know what this is about.
And the people who will leave or never enter medical research because of this. You can't make up for that.
Perhaps, just perhaps, because he knew what was coming over the hill? If the people who killed themselves had privileged confidentiality with the fucking Gen AIs, we would not know how much the AI contributed to their death.
Then it was a communist plot. Is it still a communist plot?
I'm not sure the 1A analysis would go in court exactly as you claim, but I don't think you are saying that either.
I do get that the bad consequences are not just that the company knows what you are typing, but that they may send the cops to do a health check, and if we know anything about cops, we know the danger involved in their health checks. People should indeed recognize that.
With a friend in tech who is too busy to come by, but throws money at it occasionally.
Let me say this was not a high point of George C. Scott's career, nor Mike Nichols', nor even Buck Henry's. Nor an enjoyable thing for anyone involved in making it.
It's important that the bookstore/cafe/bakery be a going concern, and that when you run it, it doesn't have to make a profit. Otherwise, it ain't a fantasy, it's a horror novel.
Just a motley colored puppy, sitting on a chair on the porch in the hot sun.
But to the extent that they don't control it, what is Google speech? Everything they link to is someone else's speech.
Have Google search results (NOT google AI search results) ever been considered company speech? I think the answer is yes, bc Google has a lot of control over the results, they get a lot of money bc of that. And if Google search results point to a pro bulimia site, they know how to ban it.
But encouraging suicide? They obviously cannot control that, or they would be. It's terrible for the company, tho obviously not on the level that the family faces.
The thing about Gen AI even at this point, is no one in the company can know or intend what it will say. That's fundamentally different from other company speech. I am not sure what difference that makes, but it's true. They can make decisions to make it say things, some decisions to make it not say
You and I agree, and I really think the other side is such an inhumane and stupid position that only a bot could hold it. Like, let's shoot Dem kids in rural areas in the head to show MAGA what's what.
Who apparently want to be called crackers.
But only the male. His looks and his borbableness make him look so vain.
Inflatable borb, looking good!
A mandoline that isn't deadly is worthless. The little guillotines, I love them.
The accurate thing in this portrait is the length of his tie.
Of course bad law gets made in the settlement of hard cases. That's also inevitable. But no one fights for first amendment rights of inanimate objects on facts like these. And I think the companies are quite iffy on whether it's their speech, in general, depends on which way the wind is blowing.
For this argument to work, Ari, Open AI or Anthropic would have to claim the bot's encouraging someone to kill themselves, and going pretty far in that direction as their company's speech. Have they done that? I suspect they won't, and thus will inevitably settle out of court.
So their defense is going to be tricky as hell. But the mental health issue and Ari's aversion to it is tricking his mind into thinking it's easy.
I've got news for him. But that says nothing about the legal issue, which is difficult, and will be decided by people who don't understand the technology. Whose fucking speech is it? I don't believe Anthropic would call it Anthropic's speech, for PR reasons if nothing else.
What I got from Ari's post was that he thinks there's a firm line between mental illness and health, and that he's on the health side, always has, always will be, all his relatives are, and that he had to express this in a repulsive way and he doesn't have to care about people on the other side.
Not data security from Social Security I don't think. And they are actively making sure that social security stays solvent by killing us sooner. I feel nostalgic for dying of what my parents did.
What kind of a threat is "if you don't quit by the end of the day, you'll get fired!" She can explain her getting fired in job interviews. An attempt to intimidate with no difference in the end result should obviously be suspicious. Why doesn't he fire her first? Doesn't know if it'll stick.
Oh yeah, definitely. I think we need clear common sense feminisms, abstruse feminisms, hard to detangle, austere data driven structural feminisms, queer af fuck feminisms, and feminisms not built on the existence of gender.
And feminism only becomes politically verboten if we let it. There are many feminisms and feminist theories, you can't pry feminist theory out of my cold dead hands. Note: my hands are only cold and dead in the future, usually the winter, and I obviously don't mean to denigrate the OP.
Is actually trying to chat the big chickadee up.
In your mind think they are Nazis from WWII (and you are a brave resister). You don't speak their language, you snub them at every turn. This matters to them bc you are cool and they are not. And that really really matters to them. Or you just go and call them traitors.
Wasn't the knock on fantasy always always that it was women coded? While SF was hard and manly bc science! I think fantasy jumped feet first into queerness about when, ten years ago? Maybe later? And the line between SF and fantasy has not been a line but a way to sell books.
It may be someone who has been talking to sovcits but hasn't taken the plunge yet.
I've never heard of someone saying they can't get representation because they lack legal identity. Sounds like sovcit, but why would she try to get representation if sovcit? But trying to make sense of sovcit is designed to drive one mad.
But her counsel Mark Zaid says it didn't happen.
Run away!? I would never. It was simply an unscheduled unaccompanied adventure. -Merlin
Didn't the Khmer Rouge find an alternative? Or is the point that they created a new one whether they acknowledged it or not?
If the party line is everything is a distraction from prices I'm going to kill somebody. But I think that's limited to congess folks.
2016 was for tearing things up. 2020 was return to normalcy. 2024 was the international year of anti-incumbency.
They are going to run out of the jury pool in DC before sandwich guy gets indicted.
Bring them in smoking cigarettes and hacking.
To be fair, not for the Financial Times crowd. Unless it's expensively catered.
As a long time Peets customer, since the 80s and still, tho of course it was way better in the 80s, Keurig Dr Pepper Peets was not expected. I don't think I can patronize Keurig Dr Pepper Peets.
The Justice department seems not to understand the jury pool in DC.
And to Gregory Maguire writing anything. God knows he can afford one. No further need to torture folks. Is that too mean?
Also the answer to why the word 'genocide' was not one of the charges, was not even mentioned, at the Nuremberg Trials.
Yeah same.
SCOTUS is Dr. Frankenstein is all I am saying.
The first one is fine if you never need new customers. People under 60 only come in with their parents.
You've got to trust the process.
True. It's not because I don't like him, I do believe he belongs somewhere he can't do more harm. And I do believe there's a high chance he meets the current legal test for being put there without his consent. But it's not happening anyway, I am not able to diagnose him, etc., etc.
I know the first person who should go there. And apologies for writing such a cliche of a Bluesky reply.
Not our fault. You don't want to rescue children, Dem voters, etc, from avoidable deaths? That makes you a monster in my book.
Do you think only white Trump voters exist in rural places? I don't think you can be serious about this, but if you were, how many of our avoidable deaths would you mete out to get back at Trump voters?