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This is terrible news!!! They have the best billboards in San Antonio!

Wow. Thanks! Does the fermentation moderate the spiciness of the haberneros? I love spicy food — I grew up eating South Texas hot sauce, put Thai peppers in my scrambled eggs and crushed red pepper on just about everything. But I generally find haberneros and the like (ghost peppers, etc.) too much.

Along those lines, I went into an appliance store yesterday to see what our options were for induction ranges and cooktops. I was stunned that nearly every range and cooktop in the front of the store was gas-powered. The electric and induction stoves were relegated to the back of the house.

Do you have a recipe you can share?

This is heartrending and horrifying — and oh, so human.

Texas Legislature approves $338 billion two-year spending plan with a focus on property tax relief A boost in public school spending, school vouchers, and money for water systems are other highlights of the state budget, which was bolstered by a $24 billion surplus.

Texas lawmakers also just passed a budget that devoted $51 billion to property tax cuts. www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/t...

Studies: AI ‘reasoning’ models might not be Artificial intelligence struggles with more complex, novel problems.

Far from achieving some kind of super intelligence, even the most advanced generative AI systems — the so-called “reasoning” or “thinking” models — struggle to reason beyond a certain level of complexity.

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

A political movement driven by reasonable concerns about sports and medicine would have no problem admitting that trans people face discrimination. The fact that "gender criticals" constantly deny basic realities is sign 1,087 that they are in fact driven by bigotry.

I'm not a big fan of Branham, but I do think his career has suffered by him being miscast as a point guard. He's terrible at that, and the Spurs should stop putting him in that role.

I could see Minix and even Branham getting minutes in the designated outside shooter role. In both Austin and in the few minutes he got in SA, Minix's shooting was outstanding. Branham's been super inconsistent, but he (again) showed his shooting potential at the season's end.

Why ChatGPT is unlikely to solve climate change Critics say boosters conflating different types of AI.

I wrote recently about something similar to the issues raised by these commenters, only about the assertion by folks like Sam Altman that "AI" will fix climate change. The tl;dr: some AI technologies may be helpful, but generativeAI likely isn't going to solve the climate crisis.

There was nothing about the widespread post-war racial terrorism in the South. And absolutely nothing about how former slaves were key to winning the war (by undermining the Southern economy by abandoning plantations in droves and by enlisting and alleviating a manpower shortage in the Union Army).

Growing up in San Antonio, this was my experience also. The textbooks and history classes left out a lot. There was no discussion about what slavery was actually like. Reconstruction was limited to one short section of a textbook, in which carpetbaggers was a big part.

The NYT's coverage of trans issues and its fomenting of anti-trans hysteria is nothing short of shameful. In terms of promoting falsities that have harmful real-world policy consequences, it's right up there with Judy Miller's pre-war stories about supposed WMDs in Iraq.

We'll certainly see in the weeks and months ahead if the administration continues to press for such breakups or just uses them — as you suggest — as leverage. But so far, its approach is very different from what W. Bush's DOJ ended up doing with the Microsoft case it inherited from Clinton.

Also, the whole point of the Meta case is breaking up the company — that the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp were illegal at the time and the company should be forced to unwind those deals. The Trump FTC is continuing that case.

You can certainly question or speculate about the Trump folks' motivations. But Trump himself has made his ire at Big Tech pretty clear since his first term. All four of the Big Tech cases were started then.

Specifically in the Google case, they're continuing to seek the breakup of the company that the Biden DOJ recommended.

Antitrust Enforcers Will Take a Friendlier Approach to Mergers but Retain Biden-Era Guidelines and HSR Rules | Insights | Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP The Trump merger enforcers may be more open to mergers and remedies, but they have left the Biden-era Merger Guidelines and HSR filing rules in place, and they are likely to closely scrutinize Big Tec...

RE, merger policy, more here on the continuity between administrations: www.skadden.com/insights/pub...

The Trump DOJ is sticking with Biden's call to breakup Google. It's continuing both the Apple and Amazon cases. There's an open question about whether the Trump administration going to be more accommodating to mergers than Biden's.

Not going to defend the FTC policy here, but one of the few areas of continuity in corporate law enforcement between the two administrations *is* in antitrust. The Biden FTC teed up the case, but it's the Trump FTC that's actually trying Meta.

AI boom boosting electrician demand — outside SF In AI’s ground zero, electrical work hard to find.

The rapid development and adoption of AI technologies has resulted in huge demand for electricians. I spoke with union leaders and members in different parts of the country about what they're seeing — and how electricians in ground zero of the AI boom aren't benefiting from it.

Bob Costas Condemns Mainstream Press for Doing ‘MAGA Media’: ‘There Really Isn’t Two Sides’ Legendary sportscaster Bob Costas blasted the media over its handling of President Donald Trump's second term during an awards ceremony on Monday night.

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That was a good line.

Hey @expressnews.com : Why is no one there apparently asking or answering in your articles this question? Contrary to what SAPD is saying, you know and have reported that there is evidence (in the form of Joss’ husband’s statement) that a hate crime was committed.

Is ChatGPT BS-ing you? AI systems have no regard for truth, researchers say.

I've reported on an academic paper that labeled ChatGPT's output as bullshit (www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...)

But this post illustrates that in a much better way than I or the academic paper did.

NY AI safety bill picks up from Wiener’s Bill author tries to apply lessons from SB 1047 fight.

The debate over AI safety didn't end with California Gov. Gavin Newsom's veto of last year's controversial Senate Bill 1047 from state Sen. Scott Wiener. A new bill that's essentially a derivative of SB 1047 is progressing through New York's legislature.

Why ChatGPT is unlikely to solve climate change Critics say boosters conflating different types of AI.

AI boosters argue we shouldn't worry about it boosting carbon emissions, because future AI will be "fixing the climate," as Sam Altman put it. But critics say boosters are blurring the lines between what they're developing and what might really help in the climate fight.

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students