David Adams

Hegseth is a pathetic, weak, and evil person.

"This is what most of the online gambling addicts who have briefly glanced at the headlines are guessing will happen next" doesn't have the same kind of selling power, I guess.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Apparently Minnesota police officers are “afraid they might get arrested or something worse” if they intervene when ICE agents are doing crimes. Meanwhile they let thousands of unpaid, unarmed Minnesotans go ahead and intervene instead. Their cowardice is breathtaking

A screenshot of the Polymarket website showing a prediction market titled "Nuclear weapon detonation by...?" under the Geopolitics and Ukraine categories. The market displays three betting options with their current probabilities and "Buy Yes" or "Buy No" prices: "March 31" at 5%, "June 30" at 12%, and "Before 2027" at 22%. The total trading volume shown is over $843,000.

Polymarket has created a betting market on the use of nuclear weapons. Everyone involved in this should be put in prison for life.

“Only believe true things! Do not believe lies! Make no mistakes”

This is all so messed up. If the actual goal had been to secure some concession from Iran, then announcing a plan to evacuate Americans from the region ahead of time would have been an excellent incentivizer. But instead, our surprise attack surprised even ourselves, apparently.

If you have to resort to this, your security model is already broken.

Shame on you for continuing to act like this is normal. You shouldn’t be writing pieces like this. This is not news, and it utterly fails to honestly analyze what’s happening or inform anyone.

News to me that any politician is against any of these toxic industries.

My question is simply why haven't democrats been doing this right along?

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Scott Galloway is a bad person.

A screenshot of Anthropic’s Claude status page shows four lines of narrow colored bars labeled with “60 days ago — 99.xx% uptime — today”. The bars are variously colored green, yellow/orange, and red. I believe. But I can’t actually be sure because while I can make out that there are different colors, and I can guess what the colors are on the whole, I can’t distinguish the actual color of any particular narrow bar. So I apologize for the inaccurate alt text, but it’s the best I can do.

The Claude status page is a deuteranope’s nightmare, let me tell you.

I can tell that different colors are in use, and I can guess those colors are green, red, and yellow (or orange?) but could I tell you what any specific color bar is? I cannot. And the overall effect is just painful visual noise.

Swell (i.e. grim) time to read Kinzer's _All the Shah's Men_ if you ain't. Fuck you, Kermit Roosevelt, fuck you, BP.

Democrats stop making “conceding points” your opening gambit, part infinity

A computer can never be held accountable. Therefore, a computer must never make operational decisions for the United States military.

Pope Leo criticizes Iran attack and calls for an end to ‘spiral of violence’ Pope Leo XIV has blasted the US and Israel’s joint strikes on Iran, warning that peace is not achieved with weapons and suffering.

“Pope Leo XIV has blasted the US and Israel’s joint strikes on Iran, warning that peace is not achieved with weapons and suffering.” www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

In this house, we also strongly recommend Julia’s concombres au beurre from the same book to go with the boeuf bourguignon.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

What are you doing about it?

A tool that generates 25% wrong slop is worse than nothing. A conscientious expert will spend more time correcting for the errors. And a less conscientious expert, or a non-expert, will overlook some or all of the errors.

A friend just asked me why the G string of his guitar always sounds out of tune on his guitar, and this is a public service announcement for anyone else who's bothered by this: the guitar can't be in tune with itself.

I dunno, I prefer tools that do a better job than I can on my own.

There's a shitload of people out of work and a lot of important work to be done and it is madness-inducing how the overwhelming majority of our leaders don't care that those two problems can solve each other.

Specifically, the idea of source credibility just doesn't apply straightforwardly to LLM interactions. When I get info from another person I can ask: how does the content relate to their expertise? Their lived experience? Their interests and biases?

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Arrest them.

A lot of problems in this country could be solved simply by enforcing anti-monopoly laws

i'm gonna say it again that the claude code craze reminds me a hell of a lot like the gtd craze what 20 years ago? everybody spending all their time trying to create infrastructure to increase their productivity, which is ironically absorbing all their productivity

This is because knowing what to build (what problem is valuable to solve, and what solving it *means*) is 90% of the work. Once you have the answer, building it is easy.

But it was always easy. AI-generated code hasn't made a difference there: we could always ship shit quickly, or good work slowly.