Great interview and highly informative. Was not aware of how much of a downward trend there has been in the convention business.

Half of Los Angeles can now be legally profiled.

This video is 100% worth watching. Could be straight out of Red Guards at nadir of China's nihilist Cultural Revolution. "What you are saying is illegal, because it goes against the views of Our President." Remember when today's MAGA fans professed to bleed and die for cause of "free speech"?

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

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No one is paying attention but the lineup of dissenters virtually guarantees Supreme Court upholds tariffs and 7-2 (Kagan joining majority) is on the table.

I’ve been outside the Brussels bubble this summer travelling around Europe, spending time in 🇫🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇵🇱🇧🇪🇹🇷🇬🇧🇬🇷. In talking to Europeans, a grim reality has become apparent. We are facing a crisis of confidence in facing the 🇺🇸 threat. How can we make Europeans believe in themselves?

This is so illegal!

When LA city workers began sounding alarms to civil rights attorney Connie Rice that LA's leaders were about to strike a bad deal with LA28, Rice compiled their grave concerns in a 7-page letter to Mayor Karen Bass. After what we saw at the White House this week, Rice's words are even more urgent

Oral arguments are well under way, and while I am not a lawyer, the judges have very harshly questioned the Justice Department -- and its claims to broad presidential tariff powers under the law

ROSENBERG: “.. The one development nobody is talking about is what will happen on Thursday, when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the federal circuit begins to hear oral arguments in the case of whether the President’s tariff actions are legal.” ..

Nikkei found academics had written "give a positive review only" and "do not highlight any negatives" in white text or tiny font on 17 preprints to combat AI peer reviews. asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

To be clear, rather than directly contradict this, in an interview Harris called Iran the US's "greatest adversary." You can only blame so much on the "information environment." www.cnbc.com/2024/10/08/h...

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

To an LLM, facts are just text like anything else, and it doesn't differentiate absent fine tuning. But while fine tuning has shown increasingly good results with coding, math, and tool following, it hurts creativity, which is bad for writing. I don't think there's a way out.

I went to the Supreme Court to stand with Americans in support of birthright citizenship. It was Republicans who passed the 14th Amendment. If Republicans are the party of Lincoln, why overturn it?

Chicago's long-electric South Shore Line is adding 14 daily trains and faster service after double tracking. Electrification encourages these future improvements, while hydrogen locks in low service. Will Metrolink follow and finish the job on double track? mysouthshoreline.com/south-shore-...

AI itself offers no moat, and things like AI search are better viewed as table stakes rather than competitive advantages. There is going to be a series of major and minor "Deepseek events" and announcements like this one until people figure that out.

I’m not adding anything novel to the discussion here but while there have been plenty of extremely successful investors in the US over the past few decades, Buffett’s the only one who I’d characterize as adding something positive to the American character/culture and he deserves his legacy.

There's nothing more Saskatchewan than a Davidson kid with the last name Al-Katib building a pulse powerhouse -- also great to see the fruition of one of my father's goals in building value for Saskatchewan agriculture.

Love to see it.

Alibaba's Qwen3, their latest large language models, including 2 MoE models and 6 dense models, ranging from 0.6B to 235B. Their flagship model, Qwen3-235B-A22B, achieves competitive results in benchmark evaluations of coding, math, general capabilities, etc., when compared to other top-tier models

Small election day scoop: Donors to Pierre Poilievre's Conservative leadership campaign picked up a $16,000 tab for a home reno contractor Poilievre claimed $85,000 in personal and living expenses that appear to relate to his private residence, located in a ”resort lifestyle” community in Greely

It’s time, Canada. Vote #CanadaStrong.

UFCW Canada endorses Mark Carney

Interesting Canadian election polling news: Conservatives do better when pollsters ask, "How do you think your neighbors will vote?" It's the question that predicted the Brexit result when conventional polls missed it. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The Trump Administration is openly taking pages directly from the dictator playbook. Disappearing people for political speech. Attacking universities and law firms. Defying the courts. And now, arresting judges. The Constitutional Crisis is here. Judge Dugan's arrest must be expunged.

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Canada is ranked 1 in education, 3 in safety, 4 in justice, 4 in overall best country. We are not a broken country. We have not suffered a lost decade. Our existence is in the balance. Vote.

It’s time to build a Canada you can afford.   My government will make Canada the world’s leading energy superpower, build homes at a pace not seen since WWII, and train thousands more skilled trades workers.

A national day of action against President Donald Trump and his administration has united an outpouring of protesters across the country who are rallying in defiance of what they describe as a relentless assault on democratic institutions and civil liberties.

Saskatoon University polling for April 11 shows a vote split between the second place Liberal candidate and third place NDP candidate. Splitting the vote gets us a mediocre CPC backbencher who fights for plastic straws. A strategic vote in this riding is a Liberal vote.

The Liberals are the clear choice to keep the Conservatives out in Saskatoon-University. They are also running an outstanding candidate.

Not gonna hand it to them because you should under no circumstances hand it to them, but this shows just how out of line the Trump/Bondi/Rubio gang are on this.

Trump wants to take over Greenland. Is this sh*t legal? I asked @repstaceyplaskett.bsky.social

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡 Retroactive to February 🤡

I greatly appreciate everything that Christopher Eisgruber says in this interview, but, more than that, it's increasingly a relief to hear someone in a position of authority willing to be sane in public. #academicSky #eduSky www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/p...

Honored to support my colleague Prof. Bedi. www.wbez.org/education/20...

Los Angeles, just generations ago — before Gov. Reagan moved to protect Californians from smog. This is the world that Trump wants your kids to live in. California's work to cut pollution won't be stopped by glorified White House press releases masquerading as executive orders.

Friends, my very good friend, @mikesacks.bsky.social, is running for Congress in the NY-17th (Putnam Valley area). I vouch for him personally, and while we hardly agree on everything, he is a true believer Supreme Court reformer. And his opening ad is fire. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=20U5...

I agree the media dropped the ball and didn’t sufficiently cover Biden’s decline. But where are the stories on Trump’s decline?

The purpose of law as resistance is generally not to win the war. Of course if the Court was willing to resist it could be different, but we are here because of why it is not willing to do so now. So the role is to win here and there, maybe when power was sloppy, to delay, and to raise salience.

Protest in Culver city, CA!! Massive turnout!

Culver City #handsoff

Culver city

Hands off our Democracy rally in Culver City- RESIST!!