Not unique in its structure but unique in fact. The same thing happens with anti Christian and anti Asian bigotries (although not at the same time) the problem is just not nearly as large or endemic.

US GOP comes from Umbrella Corp/Weyland-Yutani school of hazard management

Tesla has total assets of 122 billion. It has total revenue of 97 billion. It has operating income of 7.1 billion. It has "market value" of one trillion based on, a lot of excitable and not accurate estimates about how the company will perform. It's in the process of losing the EV battle.

As @theophite.bsky.social is often pointing out, a tell that AI doesn't use *that* much water is that its water usage is usually listed in gallons. Agricultural use, even at the level of individual farms is measured in acre-feet, each of which is over 325k gallons

The system of off label prescriptions in the US system is fascinating and bewildering and yet makes a certain amount of sense.

I've said for years I don't take anything for my ADHD and it turns out I might be? My antidepressant is apparently prescribed off label for it

The political problem insofar as there is one, is that Border Patrol's mission is probably popular while there's an outside chance we can actually kill ICE's mission entirely.

Everyone knows the strategy of just recruiting an Obama level talent every election doesn't work. But what if we could?

"Camera footage indicates it was a Jewish person who sprayed those Swastikas" I have some follow up questions.

These people are evil and also very stupid.

His former teacher “said that, because of his affection for Mr. Drew, he didn’t campaign aggressively.” Can an election story be…adorable?

Lin Manuel-Miranda showing off in 96,000 it's really not fair for one guy to have that much talent.

All this for leverage in the shutdown that... they may not actually get? Like they keep screaming they're trying really hard to starve people?

Whiskerwood is already quite good and I haven't even gotten to the automation layer yet

So one of the better arguments against political correctness / wokeness / whatever is that universities are special. That they play an outsized role in preserving liberty and have an outsized need for freewheeling speech norms. So it's pretty devastating, or at least should be, to see them bend.

this is Sam the Eagle from the Muppet Show today

I would not call Sabrina Carpenter my type, and even so if I ever found myself within 300 yards of her presence, my eyes would bug out like two clown balloons and I’d bark at the moon like a street dog.

One interesting thing about Woke Bill Kristol is that he hasn't, to my knowledge, gone on an apology tour. People accept him as the ally of the moment he is, because we believe he is sincere in hating these people will every fiber of his being.

Sometimes I meet parents who have made decisions that I am skeptical of and you know what I say to them? Absolutely nothing.

I'm not a furry but damn do I love stories about mice.

I just thought of something very bad that AI could do, and I think it's likely someone else has already thought of that and undergone countermeasures, but it seems like finding out would put me on a list and also if it turns out it isn't defended against, do not want to put that into the world.

Current mood

In a world of Jasons Stanley be an Evelyn Normielib

Felony Footlong: fried bologna, a pungent cheese of your choice, mustard and onions, lettuce, tomato, pickles. Served on a hoagie with olives on toothpicks.

Great Bastard Theory of history holding strong.

Endless Legend 2 feels pretty cool but I am not ready to invest in a game that complex still in early access.

We need radical dreamers to have these crazy ideas and just throw money at them. So we (humanity as a whole) might get something interesting and useful out of it. Unfortunately, the crazy arrogance prerequisite also tends to come with a side of murder these days.

Something similar is happening for Musk, Tesla, and the restrictions of corporate law.

One of the tangential benefits of Trump behaving in a manner genuinely reminiscent of a king is getting to watch in real-time as we learn exactly why so many of our systems are the way they are

Jefferson is the most American framer, imo, in that he simultaneously articulated and instantiated some of the noblest ideals ever articulated — which are part of the very foundation of this country, and its best hope — while behaving with a level of decadent hypocrisy that bordered on nihilism.

What a queen

Trump has gotten huge numbers of infrequent voters to the polls, twice. He's deeply unpopular but has mobilized a large, unprecedented coalition of Americans motivated by some combination of ignorance, avarice, and cruelty. It is hard to describe what he has as something other than charisma

Well I think a new fetish was just unleashed into the world.

Before we had LLMs we had pretty dumb chat filters that would detect it you were talking about killing yourself and direct you to get help. And these filters were dumb and overly sensitive but they worked. There's no technical reason I can think of that they couldn't watchdog an LLMs output.

I have never wanted hell to be real before

When this regime falls, we're going to need an army of pitiless, ruthless forensic accountants skilled as skilled in the use of flaying knives as financial records.

I'd be curious to see how votes for non citizens polls versus all residents can become citizens because uhhhh that's pretty much the whole thing.

Correct. $100 a year. Plus mileage (lol). When you consider the time off I have to take to go to committee hearings and voting sessions really, I'm paying to be one.

Jefferson wrote these famous lines: "What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is it’s natural manure." Note he was talking about someone else's blood.

I've been using (vibe-coding) Office Scripts a bit which is what if VBA was TypeScript and I regret to inform you it seems to actually work fine especially in combination with Power Automate. Microsoft's product stack is actually good.

For those just tuning in, I have some resources on understanding the US health insurance. It will not solve all of your problems. But it will help you understand them better. First: how to pick an insurance plan bsky.app/profile/tznk...

musk decided to personally murder the efficient market hypothesis, bless him

Wife: So I've been listening to Barack Obama's memoir Me: Yes I recognize his voice

RE: advocating for nullification

You first

Not a litigator so let me ask, is it more embarrassing to be first chair on the sandwich case and lose or to be second chair on the sandwich case at all?

“SO HAPPY!” the defense attorney exclaims upon exiting the courtroom. “I hope you are happy too,” she says to the media liaison for the court, who replies, “Well, I’m the media liaison for the court.”

Super Fantasy Kingdom should be up my ally but it really feels fun in bashing your head against a wall way instead of the fun way

I think Will Stancil is fundamentally correct about Twitter still being a site of opinion formation worth contesting, so I am proposing a Ukraine-style arrangement where we send Stancil the weapons & munitions he needs to fight them over there so we don’t have fight them over here