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This is basically the Republican playbook under Trump 45 and 47. Commit fresh new atrocities every day so people constantly refocus on new things and effectively forget the old things. Its an effective strategy, but thankfully (fingers crossed) it seems like even that has its limits.
These tariffs are just added sales tax imposed on Americans to offset revenue that Republicans under Trump handed over to their billionaire backers. Clearly just stealing our healthcare and children's school lunches wasn't enough.
But he didn't say for who though. Arguably the BBB has done as promised for his rich billionaire backers. The unwashed MAGAS were just useful idiots whose utility was as vote bank (although they would have to be a special kind of stupid to have voted for him given all that was known about him).
I wouldn't even call him a wartime president, doing so elevates him to someone like Churchill, who, for all his faults, did well by the Brits in WW2. Waging war against people of your own country is a misuse of authority and does not make him a wartime president.
So Helsinki 2.0?
Mullin trying out for Trump's Secretary of Transportation?
Tariffs are just additional sales tax that increases revenue for the government. Poor and middle class folks generally spend more of their income each month, so they contribute larger portion of their earnings. Democrat plan of taxing the rich is fairer and hurts fewer people and hurts them less.
Looks like the Dunning-Kruger is strong with the stylish skunk :-)
So should we be hopeful that there is still much to surface and Robert Mueller was just one of the many initiatives that was effectively suppressed, or despair that the justice department is so overwhelmed by the volume of evidence of criminality that they are paralyzed into inaction?
As an immigrant myself, I am probably biased, but I think immigration (and the fact that so many people want(ed) to come here) is(was) America's superpower, getting fresh infusions of talent from school systems worldwide and keeping America the leader in so many areas.
My take. I think he is doing what he can and thank him for that. The reason he and other Dems cannot do more is because we the people did not give them the votes to do the work for us. We should remedy that for the upcoming midterms.
Almost seems like our leaders and policymakers are not working in the people's and country's best interests?
I recently reviewed Hands-on Artificial Intelligence for IoT, by Dr Amita Kapoor and published by PackT publishing -- sujitpal.blogspot.com/2025/06/book... , hope you find it useful!
And who knows, if you do the right thing by your country, you are doing the right thing by the people that elected you, and they will happily put you back in again, and you may not even need Elon Musk's money to win the primary. Just a thought!
TBF some Dem leaders are, although to your point quite a few have abdicated. But they are ineffective because their numbers are low. It needs to be bipartisan at least with current situation, they would be heroes, Dem and Repub leaders, if they decided to represent their constituents as they should.
I learned multiplication tables when I was a kid, don't use it anymore because calculators, but still have intuition about numbers as a result. Similarly I think we should learn skills w/o machines during formative years, to teach these skills better to them later, so they can help us even more
I recently reviewed Essential GraphRAG by Tomaz Bratanic and Oskar Hane and published by Manning Publications Co. Here is the link to my review -- sujitpal.blogspot.com/2025/06/book... , hope you find it useful.
And to think that this was all avoidable if enough of us had voted in line with our self-interest, or voted at all.
Even life in the US is in Imperial (non Metric) units!
It is amazing that we would willingly give up our global competitive advantage in STEM just to save a few bucks (or more realistically to save a few bucks for the super rich). Do these people not realize that their long term survival / well-being also depends on our STEM expertise?
I think this "buyers remorse" stuff is an act for the benefit of their constituents, hopefully they will see through it this time around, but given who they voted for in 2024, not very confident.
I guess he started out with honest intentions and was rebuffed by (the then politicized) academic community and now he has gone full MAGA where RFK Jr makes sense to him. Although TBF, the politicization was also likely a response to the 1st Trump admin. Anything less and Fauci would have been Birx.
We have a fairly ancient fiberglass cutting board. Fiberglass is technically plastic but it doesn't score like plastic boards and easier to clean than wood or plastic. Google says its still a risk for microplastics but much less than either plastic or wood.
He hopes
When I read this, my first thought was whether the Republican politicians that vote for the cut would voluntarily fall on their swords to appease their Dear Leader, but then I realized they probably won't, because the people they represent stand ready to fall on theirs.
Did he say what the good parts were?
What is Bezos getting out of this? He founded Amazon, which involves some pretty solid risk taking, so he is obviously not a coward. Why is he backing down and bending the knee? What is he afraid of losing, can't imagine its all just for a lower tax rate?
But Democrats are not the supermajority, Republicans are, in both House and Senate. Why blame them for not doing what it is impossible for them to do? Maybe we the people should focus on voting them (at least the ones that are doing what they can) back to power so they can work for us?
The government already knows when someone is born and when naturalized, so they should be able to mail a voter card to you when you are 18+. They already do it for boys (Selective Service) why not for girls as well. Alternatively, qualified folks should be able to request for free with verification
Not Indian, American with Indian and Caribbean ancestry. She is about as Indian as my kids who were born and grew up here. Sorry, but when you say Indian, I feel there are implicit expectations of favoritism towards Indian aspirations over American ones, which are neither true nor should be.
@erictopol.bsky.social I thought the graphic lacks clarity. Is the ratio of red to black indicative of the fracture risk in each disease group? And the clusters are indicative of the prevalence of each bone density condition? Ideally would like to see it in the caption.
most of the current cabinet picks I would think. All of them grossly unqualified for their positions, their only qualification is fealty to their master, just like the horse.
Maybe both? Caligula appointed his favorite horse to the Senate, and Nero fiddled while Rome burnt.
Emperor Nero vibes. Or Caligula.
unifier-in-chief
Unfortunately, this is an old post from 2017 when it still believed what they say about Democracy and it dying in Darkness. You can verify for yourself -- www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-...
Won't her passport have entry and / or exit stamps for countries visited? Not sure if they do it for diplomatic passports which presumably she now has hence curious.
another classification from Quora (qr.ae/pA82tP): the rich, the racists and the rubes
Thanks for the reference @nikkijane.bsky.social I think for most of us on this side of the pond the number of Scaramucci's may be more intuitive :-)
Even if we were to accept the premise that the US is a corporation, his track record of 6 bankruptcies, not to mention 34 felony convictions, doesn't exactly inspire confidence.
Where is she though? Even Obama spoke up, although indirectly, on Obamacare today. Is she completely out of politics?
Seems fake, no way his generous girth would allow him to squat like that. But very on brand for Elon Musk.
Yes an interesting side effect of this upside down situation today is that we may end up with more EV penetration with MAGAs scrambling to get Teslas to keep Musk afloat. And who knows next maybe Tesla Solar to power their EVs. Musk and Trump unwittingly helping avert the climate crisis.
And just like that, we all know who we are talking about :-)
No punishment for violating the Constitution? Just fix what you broke?
That would need Republican Congress-people and Senators with spine for that to even happen, much less succeed.
Very likely the Russian cabal in the WH has kompromat on him, same as Lady G. No other way to explain this level of about face.
Look at the bright side though, maybe this will finally get MAGA to ditch their gas guzzlers for EVs? And then maybe go Solar to power them? Maybe this is Trump's biggest baddest most beautiful solution to solve Global Warming masquerading as cover for Musk? /s
third actually, I can think of two who are bigger.
At least one of them did. And a few others did other things. It would sure be nice if more of our leaders did something like this as well.
Dem leaders could say at these town halls with Republican voters is outline their plans and say honestly that they can't do much ATM because they are in a minority in all 3 branches of government, and people can vote them back into power so they can work for them.
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
I don't think she is necessarily stupid. Rather she thinks the people she is representing are stupid enough to believe her obvious lies. And sadly she may be right.
I would add Sen. Elizabeth Warren to the list of AOC, Crockett and Buttigieg, she has been speaking up as well.
Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽
First step, learned some introductory but foundational stuff about Agents. Looking forward to next steps which I think are going to be more challenging going by the course description. CC @hf.co
PLEASE SHARE.
PSA the Agents course from HuggingFace has started! Hoping to learn how to transition from building RAG based pipelines to building Agent pipelines.
We know the answer to that question based on their actions during the previous Trump administration, don't we? McConnell, Colins, et al come to mind.
Bibi looks surprised as well
So naturally, you know what to do…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨
Thanks for the post, TIL a nice approach of using IDK predictions to increase precision. Some years back I did some related work, distilling 3rd party LLM judgments to an LTR model, that resulted in a PyData Global 2023 talk -- www.slideshare.net/slideshow/bu..., will revisit based on this learning.
This is exactly what we need. Story here: www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/m...
I recently applied software engineering best practices to my ML pipelines and wrote about it here. Let me know what you think, interested to hear your thoughts about how this can be improved -- sujitpal.blogspot.com/2024/12/pack...
It’s happening 🎉🎉🎉 aipoweredsearch.com
I attended @pydata.bsky.social 2024 last week and wrote up a trip report about the talks I attended there -- sujitpal.blogspot.com/2024/12/trip... hope you find it useful.