Three strikes of being adjudicated an asshole by a jury of people in your personal life and you’re barred from running for office.
Dave The Wave
@dave-the-wave.bsky.social
Dispatches from California territory.
They’re just testing the new privileged-access realtime White House trading API before Sunday market open.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 4d ago1. BREAKING President Trump says the United States is holding off on significant military action in Iran because the Islamic Republic and other Middle Eastern countries have asked for a pause so that a deal can get done.
finally, the Democratic party has a plan.
We need a roadtrip two-hander starring Jimothy and Moo Deng
most tech outlets spent the week burying the lede that this was a completely avoidable error (or intentional marketing decision) by a human being, and not a malevolent self aware cyber consciousness that slipped its leash
OpenAI’s Hacking Debacle Comes Down to Human Error
If the generative AI giant had followed well-known security best practices, it’s likely that its AI agent would never have escaped to the open internet and hacked multiple companies.
wired.com
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
The idea that AGI could end up a product you can download for free from Hugging Face versus a scarce resource metered out to you by Anthropic and OpenAI at an exorbitant price is breaking brains across Silicon Valley.
do not anthropomorphize software, episode 7,000
AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
karlbode.com
My caucus has drafted bold new legislation requiring all sitting Senators of the United States to release at least one proof of life jpeg every 12 months to assure the People their government remains hard at work on their behalf.
We all knew Douthat was destined for the big show. Dude oozes charisma. Knocked that Peter Thiel interview outa the freakin park. A star is born.
As a second-generation white American of European descent who very much believes in liberal democracy and other Western intellectual traditions, I feel comfortable pointing out to these “The West has fallen” racist dorks that until post-WWII,
I agree that it costs less to distill stuff, and I agree that’s a business problem for Anthropic. But that’s business, baby. Costs less to make a knock off iPhone after seeing it made in a local factory too. Get good at marketing, not regulatory capture. Win the consumer, not the oligarch. <fin>
"Tonk" is a Border Patrol slur that refers to the sound a metal flashlight makes when used to beat a migrant in the head. And that's the word that Border Patrol agents under the direct command of Greg Bovino were using when bragging about their arrests in Los Angeles last year.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · last wk.Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLU
Things like this need more attention...this new paper by David Autor, Anne B., David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson finds that not only have tariffs not only failed to raise employment, but people in tariff-exposed regions supported the tariffs because they're "confrontational" It's affect, not interests
ddorn.net
In the fullness of time, LLMs will eventually become commodities and their price will be a race to the bottom.
Tbh I kinda miss watching futbol, not sure I’ve ever felt that way before. But probably not enough to invest time in competition lower stakes than World Cup, and there’s only one of those every four years. Welp, American football is back soon, that’ll fix it.
In this family we believe winning is not an option.
Omar Navarro, who pleaded guilty to embezzling $250k from his congressional campaign, says he was told he could get a Trump pardon if he paid $2m-$3m to a law firm. He won't say who told him this, because the person "is pretty powerful in the government … so I’m very scared to even say anything.”
How Trump’s presidential pardons became booming business for law firms: ‘You have to pay $2 million, $3 million’
Pardon-seekers are paying lobbyists millions for “executive relief” under President Trump, but critics warn most are being scammed, and even $600,000 couldn’t get rapper Boosie Ba…
nypost.com
the thing about having actual principles is that when a politician I respect does some stupid shit I can just be like, “that sucks, knock it off” instead of inventing an imaginary world where I’m forced to defend stupid shit for procedural 4d chess reasons
DHS surveilled peaceful protesters and then yanked their Global Entry, federal lawsuit alleges
DHS surveilled peaceful protesters and then yanked their Global Entry, federal lawsuit alleges
Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed in California allege that the Department of Homeland Security revoked their Global Entry privileges in retaliation for exercising their constitutional rights.
latimes.com
CSPAN: What was your reaction to the President? Caller: He was a chode
Liberals say that our democracy is dying. They’re wrong— our republic is dying.