A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!! Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!

I'm old enough to remember in 1998-1999 when COBOL programmers were suddenly needed to fix up a lot of Y2K bugs in old software. And they did, because smart people are smart! I'm scared of the "we fucked up and we need some real programmers to fix the code we asked some AI to write" era.

That's what software engineering is! You learn a concept, you construct a digital model of it in your head, you write the code to express that model, you test it, you refine it, you ship it. If you're asking an AI to skip those steps, you're not learning anything! You're not contributing anything!

DHS, LAW ENFORCEMENT? DOES NOT. PEPPER SPRAY CHILDREN!!

all polls are measurements of the possibly honest current sentiments of pseudo random participants who may or may not turn out to vote and may or may not change their minds if there was, say, an election campaign where parties tried to change people's minds

It's interesting that the traditional view of the US system was that there were *too many* checks and balances, leading to gridlock etc. Didn't seem conceivable, three centuries or three years ago, that all the buttons who be there but nobody would push them.

I hadn't considered how much of "they were asked if they wanted to make a complaint and they said no" might actually be this kind of "they were asked 'do you really want to make a complaint, hmmm' and they said '...no'"

Holy shit finally an Op-Ed that Gets It

Mark Mitchell on RNZ Morning Report saying "just a few bad apples, rest of the Police are all goods". But the IPCA doesn't really seem to agree with this assessment?

That specific kind of walk that Certain Men do where they try to look tough like a gunslinger, who in turn walk like that because their bottoms are very sore from too much riding

Llandudno Remembrance Parade 2025 witnessed an act so audacious that Bond would have been impressed. This individual waltzed in, mingled with the Chain Gang et al and laid a wreath. The catcher? No one knows who the feck he is. Whoever he is he Walted big and hard. I'm not even angry, I'm impressed.

When the Conservative Party in Korea declared martial law, the Korean Democrats knew if they didn’t send them to hell there would be no opposition afterwards. And look at them. They’re taking the ex conservative president and ensuring he never breathes free ever again.

My pet peeve is that "Third World" means neither part of the US or the USSR bloc, not "third rate". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_W...

Trump is on prime time football being actively booed and y’all want to cave? Football fans are…not the most liberal READ THE ROOM

If you'd told me that a speaker at the Free Speech Union conference would call for banning non-Christian public expressions of faith to an applauding crowd, I would have said yes, obviously that is going to happen newsroom.co.nz/2025/11/10/t...

If you write a whole book about how you were just inches ahead of your competition, you are estopped from claiming any grand historical impact from being first.

We are looking for #rstats community feedback on 3 new dplyr functions! We're aiming to expand the `filter()` family: - `filter()` to keep rows - `filter_out()` to drop rows - `when_any()` and `when_all()` as modifiers Read more and leave feedback here: github.com/tidyverse/ti...

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

there are only two genders in the bible: baby-butch lesbians and moderately dishevelled gays in this essay i will

"The dependence on automotive infrastructure is robbing all of us, at every stage of our lives, of the normal developmental milestones and pleasures, and the things we need to be healthy."

one of the early warning signs that Heritage was going full Nazi was that all their sane foreign policy hawks quit years ago when they started defending Putin

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Having done his duty, Curtis Sliwa doffs his beret and, flanked by his entourage of feline friends, descends back into the familiar darkness of the subway tunnels until the next time his beloved City requires a crackpot

Andrew Cuomo to join Harvard’s Institute of Politics

I accept the basic premise that building a coalition requires bringing in people whose values don't align with mine, which means swallowing some dead rats; but still, would be a bit more convinced if the people making that argument were good at, ya know, winning.

“Fuck man, we’re about to win. There must be something we can do to stop this.”

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The defense team presses Lairmore on whether the sandwich really 'exploded.' They return to the photo of the sandwich and wrapper on the ground. "That sandwich hasn't exploded at all, has it?" defense asks. "It looks like a little bit is coming out towards the bottom," Lairmore replies.

Defense tells judge they want to question Lairmore about 'gag gifts' he received from fellow officers after the alleged assault, including a Subway sandwich plush toy and a patch that (unless I misheard) said 'Felony Footlong.' Prosecutors object. Defense argues they reflect CBP 'state of mind.'

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

It feels like two sides of the same "collapse of political norms". Just as Trumpists can be shameless with violence, corruption and racism, someone like Mamdani can lean right into racist insinuation about his Arabness, against conventional political wisdom about needing to pander to whiteness.

Zohran is stone cold man. Putting out an ad in Arabic after all the Islamophobic shit that’s been thrown his way? Pure swag. Dems don’t need to copy his politics or even necessarily his campaign strategy, they need to learn how to grow a fucking spine.

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious. Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

Congratulations, Andrew Cuomo! I know how hard you worked for this.

I'm often very critical of Christopher Luxon as PM, so I try to make it a point to say when I think he's doing something well. And while it seems like a low bar, his being this assertive and direct here is something he could easily have avoided.

The "find out" stage of getting involved with Sunny Kaushal. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

I find it immensely heartening that so many normal people are seeing and defying the obscenity of what ICE/CBP is trying to do in Chicago, but stories like this also make clear how much more disciplined those people are than the state violence worker guys. www.reuters.com/world/us/wer...

Or this classic of what can kind of be argued as a polycule

Wait wait wait I assumed O'Brien was the Communist Himbo?!?

to steal a great tweet: “Star Trek is woke now” the main characters of Deep Space Nine include Black Jesus, Bisexual Terrorist, Trans Worm, Doctor Twink with his boyfriend Fashion Lizard, Traumatized Goo, Communist Himbo, and Pro-Union Irishman