We can actually observe this empirically, as Obama’s increased use of drone strikes was hugely unpopular on the American left
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We can actually observe this empirically, as Obama’s increased use of drone strikes was hugely unpopular on the American left
BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%
I’m familiar with the idea that history repeats, but two wars against “IRA_” nations built on false pretenses spiraling out of control and ensnaring weak-willed British leadership within a quarter century of each other is uncanny
Tough one today I thought!
These playground exist everywhere, there are four within a ten minute drive of our house. This isn’t nostalgia, it’s reality if you live in a town that caters to young families!
It’s weird that people online treat politics like sports, yet never learn the part where you’re allowed to be mad at your own team for blowing it.
Very few tech folks have engaged meaningfully with east coast public policy shops and it shows
Friendly reminder that Lords is far from the useless body it’s made out to be and, even without formal power, can weigh in authoritatively on tough issues exactly like this one
Sent money via Venmo to a friend who was collecting to help with someone’s medical bills and I got a draftkings offer lol, BLEAK
God in heaven. Destroy this industry and salt the earth yesterday
“Claim your free lottery ticket! Get your first Powerball® or other lottery ticket today on Lotto.com™” Push message on completing a Venmo payment to a friend
Gambling slop invades Venmo. Who asked for this??
Yup. Specifically built on Madisonian “ambition checks ambition” checks and balances that just don’t work in an era of hyper partisanship either!
On one level, the American presidency is broken and can never be trusted again absent massive reforms.
On another, the only real solution is you just can’t elect people like this. No institution can be built that’s both useful and sufficiently restrained.
We obviously need Trump to be removed from power. Short of that we need the world to know that the majority of American citizens, and their representatives in the opposition party, can see that this is madness and are trying to stop it. www.offmessage.net/p/no-quarter
A presidency of, by, and for twelve year old boys
Never was a story of more “whoaaaa,” than this of Juliet and her Romeo
Thomas Jefferson knew
Now close to ticking every box on the “Republican misrule” checklist with three more years to go bsky.app/profile/just...
A few weeks ago some tech CEO wrote an essay that began with a story about how his law firm partner friend said AI could do his job for him, and was better at it.
First — I just don’t believe that.
Second — how many law firm partners are going to relinquish their pens, metaphorical and literal?
My refusal to hand over an irreducibly human endeavor to technologies that were foisted on society and became ubiquitous in like five years is a categorical one. When the machines learn to simulate a better me than me, they will still not be me. They can't be. So I'll do the writing, thanks.
Seems to me that whether AI is "good" at writing is not the most important question, at least for scholars and creatives. The real question, I think, is what endeavors are people willing to hand over? Maybe the AI will be a better writer than I am. I don't care. I'm not willing to let go of the pen.
Congress has effectively prorogued itself, with its only nominal defiance being a refusal to ratify illegal spending cuts that it also won’t try to prevent
This is the fourth story I’m aware of where a young Republican chat turned viciously racist. For those who’ve lost track, the last one involved New York Young Republicans. Vance defended them.
What’s maddening to me is it didn’t have to be this way. You could build an exciting, marketable image for AI if you wanted to. Tech elites just don’t think they have to — they’d rather steamroll critics for a quicker payout.
Raising my probability of a MAGA antipope to 10%
Wow sounds like complete chaos. If only federal courts had the tools to pause things that are highly likely to be illegal and avoid this type of mess. Ah well!
And I’m pretty sure her and Arthur were NOT buddies????
Reading the Magic Treehouse series with our five year old and I’m very concerned with how flagrantly Jack and Annie violate the temporal prime directive
This is before anything goes wrong.
Luckily war is very predictable and it’s rare for things not to go according to plan.
Very early in the term for it though