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I'm still getting emails on the removal of pages from the Constitution Annotated website at the Library of Congress. I believe the LC has a statement (although it oddly is not on the press website), but if you have questions, just reach out.

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This is the sort of thing you can politely bring to the attention of the staff before making a giant conspiracy theory about it.

Literally every Lyft ride. Not a lot of fun when you have to consider how strongly your driver thinks you deserve to burn forever.

Republican legislators kept up the veneer of "fiscal responsibility" as Trump signed into law the spikes in the national debt in his first term.

Then everybody saw- Trump didn't face a penalty from his base.

Now the veneer is mostly gone.

One of the hallmarks of Trump's first administration is the appropriations bills were largely passed with *Democratic* support, with Dems wanting to keep the government open and Republicans balking at the pandemic relief spending, etc.

The bipartisan pattern went completely unreported at the time.

I made a splurge purchase at an in-airport boutique clothing store because I had a few extra minutes before boarding.

I have changed.

D.C. Council approves ranked-choice voting, rejects rollback of tipped wage law (for now) There was plenty of action on two of D.C.'s ballot initiatives.

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This is bribery, and any Republican that plausibly switches from no to yes and then gets material support from Trump will open themselves up to prosecution whenever the Department of Justice returns to not dispensing with the law for MAGA.

Sure, Grok went full nazi today, but every other AI is totally and completely trustworthy and unable of being manipulated by their owners to their own nefarious political and financial ends, right?!?!

Dems should get behind any Republican amendment so it goes back to the Senate and can't go next to the President.

very good from Maxwell Frost

For all the handwringing among liberal circles about Zionism among Jewish people, I never got why progressives and pro-Palestine activists don't protest Christian Zionist orgs as much as they do AIPAC or DMFI. There are far more Christian Zionists in America than Jewish Zionists.

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Trump administration, drop the case against FL reporter who exposed Kanye's hate | Opinion For his efforts to expose this bigotry and a network’s efforts to hide it, Florida investigative report Tim Burke is facing prosecution.

“He didn’t falsify a report. He didn’t smear an innocent person. He exposed the ugly truth that was publicly accessible about a famous figure’s hateful views and the media machinery that tried to hide them. That’s not a crime. That’s journalism.”
www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinio...

We've seen this from anti-vaxxers and other conspiracy movements for years: Act like frothing-at-the-mouth psychos and then accuse scientists of conspiracy for behaving like they're being targeted by frothing-at-the-mouth psychos.

Each out one. At ~1 percent of the population there are sure to be far far more than that.

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If SBA financing is refocused on Red states, it'll show once again that Red states depend on extracting from Blue state economies to survive.

Haven't heard of it. (Which I guess means they just haven't been caught yet.)

When she closes with “accept Jesus” she is being very serious. Only people who accept Jesus get to live. If you don’t accept Jesus you don’t deserve Medicare or health care, you’re not a person, and your death is justified.

I guess it's the pardon power even if it's a commutation? I'm not sure. Well ok makes sense. Stockman as commutation seems right from Wikipedia because he was still subject to some obligations, versus a pardon which I think is always full.

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Musk out!

@amyewest.bsky.social Uh do we have all of these?

Hi Tripp, I'm a reporter with the Guardian US, based in New York. I hope this finds you well. I'm reaching out about your most recent article and its inclusion of the claim, "Young Chinese women have small fingers." What is the source of this information? The full sentence attributes the claim that such small fingers make them "nimble" and therefore "valuable" to iPhone manufacturing to unnamed "supply chain experts", but it's unclear whether those same experts are the source of the claim that young Chinese women have small fingers in the first place. Are they? How do they know? Is there a study you can cite? And are we talking length? Circumference? Is it question of muscle strength? Or bone density? What is the normative range for finger size, to what extent do young Chinese women fall outside of it, and how do you - or your sources - know this?

Incidentally, how are you defining "Chinese" in this sentence? As I'm sure you and your supply chain experts know, China is a large country with dozens of ethnic minorities. It is hard to imagine that hand size is a trait linked to national identity, but the lack of specificity leaves the question open. Did hand size among Han Chinese living in Taiwan vs the PRC diverge after the civil war? Could this be a function of political economy rather than a genetic trait? So many questions. Relatedly, how are you defining "young"? Do Chinese women's fingers grow as they age? Or is size not actually the meaningful characteristic? It's hard to tell from the information you provided! I ask all these questions because unless you have answers to them, I am afraid that you may have portrayed racist pseudoscience as if it were fact in an article for the New York Times. If that wasn't your intent, I hope you will reflect upon the long history of certain forces using race science claims to attribute suitability for certain types of labor to certain types of people, and amend your article. Best, Julia Wong

welp I sent an email

Sure, it may not work for all audiences. I think we can find other options anyway that don't misrepresent LLMs in the way that hallucination does.

"Confabulation" works well.