Chris Boese

Opinion | Trump’s Trade Representative: Why We Remade the Global Order

If you had any doubts how insanely delusional this guest Trumper editorial is, just read the comments, which detail the historical and factual inaccuracies. The bigger question is why the Times would publish it and rely on readers to fact-check it.

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/o...

If the world does not step in now not a Palestinian will be left.

Common sense is out the window.

How Andrew Cuomo Made Homelessness Worse Cuomo claims that “housing is a top priority.” A dig into his track record says something very different.

"Andrew Cuomo devised, implemented, and nationalized policies that have not only proved to fail at keeping people housed but have also actively grown the ranks of the homeless."

The Ordinal Society Website for The Ordinal Society, a book by Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy out now from Harvard University Press

No apology necessary :)

Arthur C. Clarke's third law of prediction is, famously, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." The kind of technology Clarke had in mind was one that truly works, but in such a sophisticated way that it is entirely opaque to the ordinary people who use it. The optimistic reading is that Clarke pictured our descendants in the role of the makers of such technologies as people who actually understood it. But perhaps not. Magical technologies work... mostly. When they fail and you ask for an explanation, they present you with a blank face. When you try to intervene to fix them, they offer you no purchase on their surface of smooth glass. Instead of controlling technology as a wise wizard might wield a staff, you are forced to fall back on magic's traditional social function-namely, the ritual performance of specific but obscurely relevant steps meant to compel the gods to do the thing you want. Yet the gods care nothing for ordinary people; their ways are mostly unfathomable, and our means of control over them are obscure and unreliable. Instead of elevating us to a world of magic, the world of artificial intelligence and machine learning reduces us to it. A final wrinkle is that, as it advances, this process tends to shrink and ultimately undermine the caste of priests. In simpler technological worlds, the gods may communicate more directly to supplicants. They speak cryptically, but the initiated understand what is being said. Beyond a certain point, though, there is both less room for understanding and fewer means of intervention. With few exceptions, technology's priesthood may find itself degraded to the unhappy state of the laity. It, too, must confront what it means to live in an age where a sufficiently advanced technology really has become indistinguishable from magic.

The last and most important skill we must acquire is how to write begging letters to an opaque machine.

While certainly well-meant, I’m afraid I can’t say I am especially impressed by helpful suggestions that I do a little prompt engineering in order to get GPT5 to emit the right answer to the question “How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry”.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.

ICE GOONS in Burbank have been seen tearing down cameras, breaking doors, and shattering windows at a restaurant.

@mlauriat.bsky.social
@nancyskartveit.bsky.social
@moneill16.bsky.social

Holy fuuuck..

HE GOT OUT HIS SHARPIE!!

He's a very, very, sick delusional asshole

Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Full Military Takeover of Gaza

Israeli Security Cabinet Approves Full Military Takeover of Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/08/07/w...

More Than 2,300 WGA Members Blast Trump 'Authoritarian Assault' on Free Press in Open Letter More than 2,300 WGA members blasted what they called "escalating attacks on independent media by the Trump Administration"

"We don’t have a king, we have a president. And the president doesn’t get to pick what’s on television, in movie theaters, on stage, on our bookshelves, or in the news..."

full letter and list of signees here: www.wgaeast.org/get-involved...

www.thewrap.com/wga-members-...

New National UMass Amherst Poll Finds President Trump’s Job Approval Gap Slides 6 Points Since April | UMass Amherst The survey finds Trump’s net approval drops to -20 six months into his term, while his approval rating on immigration falls 9 points since April; additionally, 70% say he has not handled Epstein situa...

In April, Trump approval among men = 48%
Now = 39%

April, Trump approval among women = 39%
Now = 35%

April, Trump approval among independents = 31%
Now = 21%

"This is really bad news for Trump, and for Republicans who depend on independents in close elections...”

www.umass.edu/news/article...

those are 😳 numbers...

www.umass.edu/news/article...

I'm not sure 65-69% of Americans would agree the sun is hot and night is dark, but they apparently agree on this:

Americans who say Trump is "very" or "somewhat dishonest" =
69%

Americans who say Trump is "very" or "somewhat corrupt" = 65%

www.umass.edu/news/article...

Anchorage tells RFK to go home.
#USDemocracy #SaveOurHealthcare

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Key sections of the US Constitution deleted from government's website | TechCrunch Internet sleuths say the U.S. Constitution's website is now missing key sections from its website, including a key legal provision relating to habeas corpus, which protects citizens from unlawful dete...

techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/k...

Abbott just issued arrest warrants for the Dems who fled the state.

Rep Jasmine Crockett: unbothered.

“You have a lot of intelligent attorneys that serve in the Texas House, and so they know there’s nothing he can do outside of the Texas jurisdiction.”

The people are sick of being lied to. We can’t afford NOT to do it. #MedicareForAll

Nevermind that "continuing the weight loss over one year" is the whole frickin problem with "diets"

John Cornyn Urges Trump's FBI to Capture Runaway Democrats "Specifically, I am concerned that legislators who solicited or accepted funds to aid in their efforts to avoid their legislative duties may be guilty of bribery or other public corruption offenses."

Top Texas Republican Urges Trump’s FBI to Capture Runaway Democrats: They ‘May be Guilty of Bribery.’ Republicans are literally fabricating crimes to get the FBI to catch the "runaway" Democrats the same way their ancestors caught runaway slaves. www.mediaite.com/politics/top...

A black and white photo of a flower with many petals that have raindrops on them. The photo has been edited to appear that the flower is a cyan blue color. The sunlight is shining on the top petals. Photo and photo editing by me

Look at this pretty flower I found in the Cyan Forest! #cyanTue #ColorADay
#photography

"Efforts to ... weaponize [the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program] will threaten critical public service fields and harm our most vulnerable communities."

Fascism - rule by dictator
Oligarchy - gvt by wealthy few
Theocracy - ruled by religion
Kakistocracy - gvt by least qualified

America has produced a most unique system of government

A theofascoligkakracy

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