Travis Odom

Tank and Cruel Angel's Thesis have got to be the main contenders, yeah?

Though my actual ringtone is the Trigun theme ❤️

Holy shit

It might be really funny to watch courts give her the legal equivalent of the silent treatment.

"Weird, nobody signed this brief. Also I only heard a faint buzzing sound instead of an opening statement for some reason"

Stars Wars 50th Anniversary logo

"Part of Lucasfilm’s yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, a newly restored version of the classic Star Wars (1977) theatrical release — later renamed Star Wars: A New Hope — will play in theaters for a limited time." www.starwars.com/news/star-wa...

I AM SAT

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

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The void demands heat!

I'm going to keep saying this in my effort to speak it into reality: Supreme Court should have at least 100 Justices with rotating panels (and maybe an en banc option). No single Justice should have so much power and they shouldn't be names everyone knows.

If you can ever get rid of hallucinations you'd have a stronger case. No human would ever think just making up information was acceptable when asked for an analysis of facts.

LLMs do it all the time though, because they have no concept of what's going on and what that is wrong

Of course, that was not the purpose of moving the battle group, nor did anyone seriously think it was or even might be

Of course, you're saying this in context of a judge criticizing LLM output that *was actually bad*

Quite a claim with no evidence!

President Trump yelling at lawn mower boy meme.

"It's a very respected peace prize."

Bongino saying the quiet--and cynical--part out loud.

In other words: I was making money shoveling conspiracy bullshit without having any facts and conning my audience to make a buck. After I leave the FBI, I will get back to that.

What a confession.

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I mean yeah, there's no "other end" for "end-to-end" to go to in this scenario, at least aside from the company.

Both ends are supposed to be able to read messages, just not any intermediary. This design has no intermediary and the other end is just the company's database.

The Resonant Computing Manifesto Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that.

Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us.

resonantcomputing.org

I wonder if we'll ever know what they spent all that money on.

100 new headset prototypes a day? Running a giant AI to do all the work? Paying a private chef to follow each employee all day for gourmet snacks?

It's hard to get even joke ideas that would cost so much

Said a version of this before, but by now the federal judiciary as a whole needs to subject every administration claim and promise to proof or some kind of security, and when they inevitably lie/ break a promise or commitment, then hold a DOJ lawyer in jail for contempt until Main Justice is empty

Congress Is Rearranging Deck Chairs While Predators Walk Free – DC Journal - InsideSources After watching the House Energy & Commerce hearing on “protecting kids online,” I was reminded that Congress is debating the wrong crisis.

My friend Off Here, Maureen Flatley, has produced a very cogent analysis of why the "online safety" bills being discussed in Congress, actually aren't. Unpopularly for Bluesky she makes the correct observation that the real gap isn't platform operators, it's law enforcement funding.

Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption

“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...

Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.

I was diagnosed with ADHD in fourth grade and have never once taken extra time on a test. I could have - but tests were never my problem. I'm great at those.

Homework, on the other hand. Oh boy.

This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again

From the PandR community on Reddit: It Had the Cadence of a Joke Explore this post and more from the PandR community

Everything she writes is just the "that had the cadence of a joke" bit from Parks and Rec, but for metaphors

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Hawking radiation is real, but she is very confused about it

(And it was a very big deal when he discovered it)

Speaking of House GOP conference, when a group is in danger they pull together. But at a certain point the Titanic isn't "in danger"; it's sinking. And at that moment, one person looks at another and says, "I never liked you, BITCH!" and throws a punch. This seems like where we are in the House.

That's just how Italian 'zz' is pronounced, like "pizza"

This is fantastic work. Lots of city council seats and school boards. Great opportunities to make a real difference for people.

The biggest impediment to Democrats taking up anti-corruption as a main campaign theme is their own fecklessness.