David Bonowitz

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A similar small group could also have avoided Johnson as speaker 2 years ago.
- On one hand, maybe it was hard for them to imagine things would be this bad.
- On the other, did Jeffries even try to engineer this? (Tbf, Jeffries has done a better job in front of cameras the last few weeks.)

DECADES before social media:
Me: Powerful people hurting powerless people is bad.
Also me: Embracing my atheism.

Kind of a chicken and egg thing, and it had nothing to do with having or not having a smart phone.

Yes. Reclaim cringe patriotism.

Liberty & Justice FOR ALL.

Say what you will about Frum (yeah, I know), but he's had his finger on the pulse of Trumpism for 10 years now.

Greene: Able to rally T's voters, but still too oblivious to actually work for him. A maga acolyte, but no JD Vance.

This is the meta-analysis I've been waiting for, an infuriating coda to Winners Take All.

"The business is laundering capital — money into prestige, prestige into fun, fun into intel, intel into money" ... with victims variously "evicted, gouged, foreclosed on, A.I.-obsolesced — or, yes, raped."

The "freeze" is now in Health & Safety Code Secs 18929.1 and 18930, both of which have an exception for provisions related to "Section 13108.5.2." which (in 2023) directed the State Fire Marshal to study single-stair design.

But the whole freeze thing is still new, and many questions remain open.

I believe there's a carve-out in the "freeze the code" bill specifically to allow single stair design to go forward if cities or state agencies want to.

But I defer to @stephenjacobsmith.com, who is the expert on this.

Sincere question: Does realpage use data from mandatory rent registries (which, afaik, are a relatively new thing) or does it have/generate its own data? Or some combo?

(I'm interested in how registry data is used by cities to guide housing policy.)

Maybe a net positive, but I'll keep beating this drum: If you install PV or battery on a weak, old building, or if you're lax on construction quality, then in an EQ or hurricane (PR gets both), you can lose both the building and the energy source you'll need for recovery.

AI is too broad and fuzzy to cleanly decompose into a proper hierarchy, but there are a few ways to impose a messy order on it. At the broadest level there’s maybe a distinction between Symbolic AI and Machine Learning (though there are things that you might call “AI” that really fit into neither category, like the Google PageRank algorithm or the algorithm that your GPS uses to determine point-to-point directions). Under ML, you might have some subcategories like Classifiers or Recommenders, and one of these subcategories might be Generative AI. One of the categories below this could be LLM-based generation systems, of which ChatGPT is one example. This isn’t the only way to organize all of this, or even necessarily the best way, but the point I am trying to make is that ChatGPT is just one little point in a vast universe of technologies, somewhat analogously to how a hammer is one example from the general class of tools, alongside screwdrivers, dishwashers, cars, telescopes, and matter replicators.

My reigning favorite discussion of this is here:

Generative AI is a hammer and no one knows what is and isn’t a nail
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Yes, I have only the lowest expectations of Meet(ly) the Press.

And yet he [Zohran] talked wisely, and in the street too.

YouTube video by Elvis Costello - Topic Shipbuilding

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omg, still?
Ms. Welker, this question was asked in July, Aug, Sept, and Oct, and it was answered 3 weeks ago. Asking it again adds nothing for your viewers.

But I shouldn't complain, as it's just a softball to Z at this point.

Interesting (but be sure to correct for inadvertent Elvis Costello news).

He never got a legit security clearance in T1 either, and the Dems and media just stopped asking. This is T pushing the envelope on lawlessness and self-dealing yet again.

ok NOW where are all the people who love enforcement cameras?

Re-upping my offer:
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T1 v T2
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Sincere question: How does the longevity of either compare with that of the first few generations of integrated circuits?

Thank you. Very helpful to know how the experts feel -- and I'm gonna steal that PowerPoint joke.

Also, "AI thus has a 'glossy' marketing association" closely parallels my experience with "resilience" in natural hazards work, engineering, and design generally (hence my tongue-in-cheek banner).

Rest, rest perturbed Spirit.

Meme image: Alice in Wonderland and Dorothy Gale (from Wizard of Oz), w/ Alice saying "I've seen some weird shit."

I mean, she and Boebert both have lots of cards to play, and I am here for it ...

As they say, she now has a chance to do the funniest thing ...

I appreciate the numbers in the article. The 5 judges' rate of granting asylum do appear to be outliers (~90% v. 41% nat; avg), but even that suggests bad faith:
- Is DOJ targeting judges from the top of a list based on % granted?
- How many judges w/ below-avg "grant" rates have been fired?
etc.

Wait a minute -- is this a 6 7 joke?

Seriously, there was a similar but shorter quiet period in the Bay Area between 1911 and 1979 (for 7+, between 1906 and 1989), often represented by the so-called "tombstone chart" (or sim), with which I assume you're familiar.

Probably because you're well-informed about how Netanyahu prosecuted the war, most Americans are not, and many Americans who are side with Israel reflexively (as T does).

As I've been saying since Oct 7, the quickest way to split the Democrat coalition is to start a war in Israel.

Someone tell Karoline Leavitt: THIS is what it means to have a frank and honest personality as a politician.

Kinda shocked this wasn't already an SNL skit or an Onion article. Too broad and obvious, I suppose.

He has made our country a parody of itself.