Dan Weinand

Today I needed a bit of code, but instead of asking an LLM I tried writing it myself and wow, this could be a new paradigm

That’s also only true if they are already registered to vote, which would imply people pretending to be actual Minneapolis residents (something that doesn’t happen). If they were same-day registering, they have to provide supporting documentation proving residency.

It really is an extra punch in the stomach that we’re losing her voice in the senate.

She’s been pretty open in individual conversations about her other choices. I don’t think it’s a secret, but I don’t think knowing who is 3rd and 2nd on her ballot is as relevant as the fact that she’s supporting all three.

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Again, Democrats that can’t at least match Bill effing Kristol’s allyship with trans folks should be ashamed,

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Every conference should have a track dedicated to Gen AI applications. A whole track with all the Gen AI talks. Over there. Down the hall. Yep. Keep going. Just a bit farther. Okay, yeah now open the door. Uh-huh. Now close the door behind you.

YEP RIGHT THERE.

I hope this is the last time YouTube gets an NFL game. Mr Beast is making this unwatchable.

Appeals go to the state executive committee. Historically the executive committee doesn’t re-review the facts to substitute their own judgement, but rules on the conduct of the committee. I know some members of that group but hard to know if it will be any friendlier than the committee was.

Elections 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 12 The tl;dr here is to vote for Aurin Chowdhury; I door-knocked for her in 2023 and I have had no regrets about my support. On the ballot: Aurin ChowdhuryBecka ThompsonEdward Bear Stops Edward Bear S…

Elections 2025: Minneapolis City Council, Ward 12. Obviously you should vote for Aurin. Becka is my pick for Actual Worst Person Currently Holding Elective Office (In Minneapolis).

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A lot of ceos have developed a serious care of brain worms recently.

We're clear-eyed: Every AI company and investor has massive incentive to hype the most glorious AI case. So the technology might never live up to its promise. But this would require every CEO of America's seven biggest companies to be collectively delusional about where they're spending trillions in combined capital.

wow is it possible for seven people to all be wrong about something?

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It should never be easier to access a gun than a vaccine.

Mn gun owners caucus asking for donations to make it easier for school shooters to get guns mere hours after the latest school shooting. Kids are still in the hospital being treated.

These people are evil.

Can we not interview traumatized kids after a school shooting? What is wrong with mainstream media and their obsession with trauma porn?

Interviewing a 10 yr old, after their school was shot up, is ghoulish. They’ll pay themselves on the back for this, but it’s grotesque.

"We're going to lay off 10% of the company to eliminate redundancies."

Four months later...

"What do you mean we can't do this critical task because the only person who knows how to do it is on annual leave? How is it possible that no else in the company knows how to handle it?"

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In a bold change from senate norms, Chancellor Palpatine has declared himself "Galactic Emperor"

This is an important interpretation laying out a clear rationale for an appeal.

Contrary to the position of the Challenged Parties, there is no requirement in the CBRC Rules of Procedure for Challenges, or in the DFL Official Call, Challenges, page 30, that Challengers must establish that a proven allegation was of such significance that an outcome would have been materially different had such a proven violation not occurred.

The most importance sentence in the draft findings regarding the Minnesota DFL convention is the one stating that it was not necessary to show that the outcome would have been different, had DeWayne Davis appeared on the second ballot. That's important for two reasons — so buckle up for a thread.

Any ruling by constitution and bylaws can be appealed to the state executive committee. I used to sit on that body and heard an appeal.

From “quarter billion dollar comp packages” to “hiring freeze” in about as much time as it takes to microwave a burrito.

Friend: “Should I apply for this job at Meta?”

Me: “I dunno, do you really want to be colleagues with pedo-bear?”

Absolute perfection that you can’t tell if this is about segregation-era bathrooms or today’s anti-trans bathroom panic.

Transphobes are a public menace.

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Not sure what you’re getting at. I sat next to her at the convention and she was very engaged the whole day. She also said she planned to do an event for Omar, Jazz, and DeWayne in the fall.

AI Is A Money Trap In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default positi...

Newsletter: AI is a money trap, with AI companies' ridiculous valuations and unsustainable businesses making exits or IPOs impossible. Elsewhere, data center developers have no exit route either, and US economic growth has become shouldered entirely by big tech.

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