Louis Ingenthron

A tweet from Nicholas Grossman (@NGrossman81): You think "all politicians are corrupt" cynicism makes you wise, but it just makes you a mark. Your belief is false—some politicians are very corrupt, some modestly corrupt, some squeaky clean—and your false belief leads you to accept big corruption as normal when you shouldn't.

I think about this tweet like 3x a week nowadays.

In Florida, we spent over a billion dollars to make a direct train that's somehow slower and more expensive than driving the same distance, and the train line itself still loses money.

Obama's presidential center, a weird obelisk-like building with weird blocky brutalist stone exterior and giant words wrapping around one of the corners (with parts of words split between lines and faces).

Obama's presidential center, a weird obelisk-like building with weird blocky brutalist stone exterior and giant words wrapping around one of the corners (with parts of words split between lines and faces).

Obama's presidential center, a weird obelisk-like building with weird blocky brutalist stone exterior and giant words wrapping around one of the corners (with parts of words split between lines and faces).

This looks like shit.

Futurama pneumatic tubes for people

Unless you consider turning into undead to be a "rebirth", especially if they retain no knowledge or experience of their previous life.
In which case they'd be birthright citizens of wherever they were when they were turned.

I wonder if it's actually oil in the water or just soot from the fires co-mingling with rain clouds.

Where exactly is this cash payment option you mention?

Renee Good was also shot at point-blank range through her side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger

Alex Pretti wasn’t in a car, but he too was shot at point-blank range by an ICE agent who was in no danger

It seems every time ICE kills someone they lie to cover up shooting innocent people

Right, but the money is likely the very least of her worries.

These people will torment and try to hurt/kill not only her, but also her family, who will likewise be put through hell.

Sometimes, there just isn't enough money in the world to go through all that. Especially for a Not Guilty verdict.

There used to be a lot fewer options, so no.

Lots of people were comfortable reading drivel because it was that or the bible.

Now you have to hold people's attention better than hi def video games and Facebook algos and live sports, which is a whole other level.

A still from Team America World Police of stereotypical Islamic terrorist puppets carrying grenades and rifles in a city that looks like Tatooine.

This is legitimately what 90% of Americans are picturing when the media mentions Iran.

Yeah, 99% chance to utterly ruin her life and 1% chance for justice. Who's gonna take those odds?

If the world wars happened today, we'd call them World War 1.0 and World War 2.0.

I hate this trend.

No, humans told the DoD's targeting system to hit the school.

Those humans actively made a decision to outsource their intel-gathering to a machine and then not double-check it, which is a terrible idea with any machine's output, not just AI.

Do you want the government telling you how little agency they think you should have?

The fact that like 1% of problems actually do just solve themselves if you ignore them long enough has really fucked up a significant portion of the human brain.

What pisses me off more than I'd like to admit is that Hegseth is too stupid/drunk/both to realize just how pathetic and weak he sounds when he thinks he's being cool and badass. It's not fair. There should be like a drug we could give him to make him self-aware and cringe until he shits himself.

I feel like that would require a degree of planning, foresight, and subtlety that this administration has shown a decided lack of.

If so, why do them in March? You'd think if that were the plan, they'd wait to pull all the stunts in August/September.

I was wondering about that. If an uncredentialed idiot convinces a customer to fire their credentialed professional to use the idiot's unlicensed service instead, is it the idiot's fault or the customer's?

Seems to me if the idiot didn't lie about their credentials, it should be the customer's.

Yeah, they'll do all of that just as soon as they start charging $5 for a hot dog.

Right, and do you think there are no "human persons" working at AI companies? Why is it ludicrous to describe one company as being able to be punished but not the other?

If they claim they're banning AIs from mentioning the word "trans" to purportedly "prevent harm", is that just regulation?

In Florida, a law was passed that banned drag shows. Local restaurants and venues were then investigated and tried by the state for having drag queens on-site.

Is it your contention that it's unreasonable to say the government "punished" those businesses? What would you call it instead?

When the law is narrowly tailored to prevent specific harms, it's not corporate punishment.

When it's vague and overbroad, though, it basically is.

And how do we do attribute liability to harms caused by them? Who becomes liable when harm is caused?

Why not? Either you ban them all and the danger is that a company goes bankrupt, or you don't ban them and a person could harm themselves with the knives.

According to your original post, the "balance of equities" in that situation would call for the banning of knives, would it not?

You could use the same argument to ban all knives from kitchens.

The exact text appears underneath the prompt of basically every AI chatbot.

There's a lot of valid regulation we could apply to AI, but "punish the company with liability because its users trust its product too much" seems like a very dangerous angle to use.