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I hope every Zohran winter is as snowy as this one has been

As far as I’m concerned, all of these guys are named Markwayne. It’s the Markwayne caucus.

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

Trump is the anti-war candidate in the medium run because he has exhausted our capacity to wage war

everyone betrays them every time, but they don’t have much choice do they

raising the freak flag over Iwo Jima

Guy who isn’t allowed to attend his children’s sporting events has thoughts on the Geneva conventions

Rockwell’s Freedom of Speech

I think someone who is making $38,461 in AGI every two weeks can afford chipping in an extra $769 every two weeks as well as an investment in their hometown. And that is the very poorest person who would be affected by Mamdani’s proposal

Claude AI Helped Bomb Iran. But How Exactly? The same artificial-intelligence model that can help you draft a marketing email or a quick dinner recipe has also been used to attack Iran. US Central Command used Anthropic’s Claude AI for “intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios” during the strikes on the country, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.

The Anthropic-Pentagon feud is missing the bigger question about how AI is already being used in the war on Iran

How did he not have a serious challenger this time?

North Carolina not looking good for Yglesianism or consultant brain

What would happen if the Democratic justices stopped referring these sorts of applications to the Court and simply decided them as circuit justices? The Republicans would obviously do the same, but the Republicans would win on those, anyway.

@stevevladeck.bsky.social?

The War on Terror Paved the Way for Trump's Rise—Now He's Making It His Own Only the total abolition of the DHS can restore freedom.

NEW @thenation.com: The tools of the War on Terror must be destroyed before Trump uses them to finish building his world order, at home and abroad. What we did at home yesterday is what we do in Iran today is what we will do at home tomorrow. The way we break the cycle is straightforward: abolition.

If you can substitute "hungry ghost trapped in a jar" for "AI" in a sentence it's probably a valid use case for LLMs. Take "I have a bunch of hungry ghosts in jars, they mainly write SQL queries for me". Sure. Reasonable use case.

"My girlfriend is a hungry ghost I trapped in a jar"? No. Deranged.

You can hold both without contradiction: anthropomorphizing is epistemically sloppy (it invites category errors, abdicated responsibility) but anthropomorphic interfaces are instrumentally effective (they hijack the human pro-social stack and make the operator behave better, which changes outputs).

False solutions: How do fossil fuel companies reproduce their power through the energy transition In response to mounting political and social pressure to transform their business models, the fossil fuel industry is attempting to portray itself as …

This paper is excellent and shows how the fossil fuel industry deploys false solutions- CCS, hydrogen, and CDR- in order to further entrench and protect fossil fuel hygemony

The people of Asbury Park recognize only the Tillieverse and reject all pretenders

In 2010, I landed in Kathmandu, unaware of and unprepared for it being Holi.

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this is feeding poison to an already sick society

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Brooklyn Public Library ends passport services after State Department order • Brooklyn Paper Last fall, the U.S. Department of State sent cease-and-desist letters to hundreds of nonprofit libraries across the country, telling them they were no longer

Banning books wasn’t enough for Trump. Now he’s coming for public libraries.

For decades, public libraries in communities all across the country – like our own beloved Brooklyn Public Library – have been providing passport application services.

sure things are crazy now but, when I was as a kid, a meat sued Oprah

Say No to Means Testing

Costco Connection magazine just published a full article about why and how to stop your car

I have taken every age-reversing peptide I can find on Temu and yet I keep making simple errors

The newly established Journal of Regrettable Takes is accepting previously unpublished submissions written prior to the age of 25.

The rash is the result of a skin treatment to prevent skin cream rashes, no further questions