One wonders what the escalation process looks like. Walz just mobilized the MN Nat'l Guard. Will Trump try to override that? Will the Guard obey, or split over it? And will he then try to invoke the insurrection act?
Fucking bonkers that we can even have this conversation with a straight face 🤦♂️
I’m donating as much as I can afford. We should all do what we can to support the good people of the Twin Cities, who didn’t ask to be made the front lines of a federal assault. They’re standing up all the same, and should be doing so with all of our help.
Not in the MSP area? Feeling powerless? We have a way to help our friends there fight back in the most effective way — by supporting one another so they can withstand this assault by our federal gov’t: www.standwithminnesota.com
Please read @donmoyn.bsky.social's article, and share far and wide. I knew things were getting bad in the Twin Cities, but this seems much worse than anything we’ve seen in LA or elsewhere.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Protest sign: "They were right about everything" (With pictures of Hilary Clinton and Kamala Harris
Big protest crowd on Roswell Rd in Atlanta.
Frog Prince holding a sign with Pete Hegseth saying "A sphincter says what?"
Protest sign in trans flag colors: "When they finish with us, they'll come for you."
Brought to you by the moderately conservative Northern suburbs of Atlanta.
#NoKings
Seriously? This banner is at the top of cms.gov (and I assume other federal sites right now).
Unless I'm missing something, this is a pretty obvious violation of the Hatch act, no?
"RIP H1B" scrawled across the bottom of the American Recipients of the Nobel Prize monument at the Museum of Natural History in NYC.
These six characters do a remarkably effective job of summarizing the massive self-inflicted wound our nation is engaging in.
Graphic with white background, text is black. Reads Hands of NYC. Image of the statue of liberty
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📢 HANDS OFF NYC
📍 Trump Tower, 725 5th Ave, NYC
📆 Sat. Sept. 13
⏰ 12-1 pm
Trump has threatened to send military troops into New York City!
Join us at Trump Tower and tell Trump:
🪧HANDS OFF NYC!
🪧 NO TROOPS!
🪧NYC WILL NOT BE OCCUPIED!
This is a nonviolent Rise and Resist action.
#HandsOffNYC
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Need yet more reasons to reduce the number of cars stuffed into our cities? Turns out the dark ones parked everywhere can easily increase the temperature in their vicinity by 3.8ºC!
Cities must increasingly take heat into account in their design and rules, as they've always done historically.
"I had nostrils on all six planes of my skull"
Let's assume this interviewer doesn't have the disproof of this bald faced lie immediately at hand.
Then where's the follow-up where they do the legwork to validate or disprove her assertions, and air it in a prominent timeslot?
Otherwise it's not journalism, just a mouthpiece for the regime.
Last I checked, we had a perfectly good agency that was doing great work on this front, before some idiot fired everyone, hollowed it out, and renamed it "US Doge Service" 🤦
Can anyone give me the not-horrifically-alarming take on this? Please?!
Fair point. We don't need more articles breathlessly hailing our glorious AI future; nor decrying all such systems as irredeemable, colossal boondoggles. Both sides' lack of nuance poisons the discourse.
Tech bros predicting mass unemployment, and AGI burning TWs of energy, aren't helping either 🤦
Is it really so difficult for us to hold two concepts in our minds simultaneously?
Yes, the SV hype machine has gone off the rails with AI and ethics.
And yes, ML/AI techniques can be incredibly useful in solving difficult problems. DeepMind's protein folding solution is a huge win for biology.
100% this.
Isolation, division, fear, and anger have played no small role in getting us to this point.
They won't be the tools that get us back on track. Except maybe a little anger, pointed in the right direction!
"Intel said the United States would invest $8.9 billion in its stock, on top of $2.2 billion [...]"
Can someone please help me understand how this is Intel "giving the government $10B"?
Funny what a difference a little financial support makes, especially without onerous means testing.
@scottsantens.com in case you're not already aware of this study.
"The new curriculum was drafted by a review committee that includes Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation."
Oh good. Now they're skipping the "put crazy people on school boards" step and just letting Heritage write out curricula.
What could possibly go wrong?
And for completeness, I do realize that we have to take the amortized energy cost of training into consideration to get a full accounting.
I'd love to get a transparent breakdown of this aspect as well, and where it's trending. E.g., are we spending more or less as we train newer/larger models?
Absolutely. There's so much borderline-religious zeal on both sides of the debate, losing science and engineering in the shuffle.
We need a lot fewer inflated claims derived from motivated reasoning, and a lot more data. This is why I applaud Google's openness here, even as I hope for more.
That doesn't seem crazy. I don't know where the state of the art in TPU power efficiency stands over most GPUs, but ~30% seems reasonable.
Yeah, it's kind of a shit show over there. I'm at the point where I only login to FB or Instagram because my family sends me something. Otherwise, it's just not worth wading through.
My kiddo goes absolutely nuts for these shrimp chips!
I have to admit, they _are_ pretty damn good.
📣 QUACK! 🦆
This is also why I hate it when Altman and Co go around telling everyone we're going to need terawatts of cheap power. We want model providers competing over efficiency, not just trying to scale up as though energy were free.
Very glad Google's releasing this data: a median Gemini query burns 0.24 Wh and 0.26 ml of water.
That's about 1s of microwave use, and 5 drops of water.
Yes, they should release more data, and queries can vary. But it's good to have some transparency.
www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/21/1...
