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Given that Republicans have been saying for over a decade that they believe “politics is downstream from culture,” we should probably assume that the fascist cultural products the administration is putting out are authentic expressions of their politics.

Again, if this is a legitimate reason to kill someone (it isn’t), then there was nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And we know that can’t be right, because the USMCJ cites the killing of shipwrecked people **as its prototypical example** of an unlawful order.

I received an "F" on my dental school paper for writing "the tooth fairy takes 'em while you sleep" and now I'm suing the school for religious discrimination

I remember sitting shotgun in my dad’s car in early 2007 while the radio said “the housing market just keeps going up, up, up—will the bubble ever pop?”

Democrats can retaliate against these GOP gerrymanders with new maps in Illinois, Maryland, Oregon, & Virginia.

They could flip 7 GOP seats to make up for this & new GOP maps in Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, & possibly soon Indiana.

Imposing costs is the only way to deter the GOP from doing this

The Supreme Court majority has decided that they are the fact-finders, and the facts are what they want them to be, and quite frankly if District Courts disagree, they can pound sand because they're not the ones in charge.

They're right about the last part. But the damage they're doing is longterm.

They're not even trying to appear nonpartisan anymore.

the economic success of the U.S. is significantly built on the land grant universities and in particular their excellent agricultural science tradition.

the cooperative extension service is an absolute jewel of the land grant university system, and the destruction of the research that feeds into that system will make food insecurity markedly worse for literally everyone on earth

kind of obsessed with this custom binding for Moby dick by Susan and Chaim Ebanks at Exeter Bookbinders

There are good technical accounts of why the basic architecture of what we call an LLM cannot do this.

doi.org/10.1007/s106...

doi.org/10.1007/978-...

Well it turns out you can’t use an LLM like a lawyer. That’s why these lawyers are in court being sanctioned.

I love that movie

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Ahem

Generating something plausible looking is not “being aware” of that plausible-looking-ness. LLMs are not aware.

What happens when ChatGPT cites to a real case but misstates what the case stands for? That doesn't fly for Judge Behm in Michigan. The court says that while a litigant could make the same error based on faulty reasoning, LLMs can't, because they can't reason.

And while a litigant might get away with similar overstatements because they could, perhaps, reason their way to showing how a case's stated holding might extend to novel situations, an LLM does not reason in the way a litigant must. To put it in a slightly different way, LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11. When an LLM overstates a holding of a case, it is just piecing together a plausible-looking sentence

h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content

bust the trusts.

We Asked Interior Designers To Explain Trump's 'Garish' White House Redesign — And They Had THOUGHTS Experts weigh in on the president's gold-soaked makeover of the Oval Office and more.

The original White House--like the Capitol--was deliberately NOT garish.They were supposed to reflect republican governance: not monarchies, not aristocracies.They were supposed to show a commitment to We the People.

The current decorations are the precise opposite.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Just today, Jeffries has praised Trump on his signature issue, and excused a pardon Trump handed to a corrupt Democrat.

He couldn’t be less up to the moment if he tried.

Kavanaugh Stop.

Every time I think about @dril.bsky.social, I think of this quote by Ludwig Wittgenstein: “A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”

So yeah, if you're represented by a Republican in a district that was carried by less than 20 points, tomorrow would be a good day to call and demand that the ACA subsidies continue.

10 points to the left and the hospitals haven’t closed yet.

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Yes! So much yes. 1000x yes.

Just shaving a few percent off the Putin-esque margins in the rurals is enough to sink a *wide* array of R candidates

Sometimes I think of title of that interesting book by famed English poet and republican John Milton,

I'm so tired of measles.

I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.

Show what measles looks like.