rst.bsky.social
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It's the classic Kahanist line on the Holocaust: "Never again, not to us -- to hell with everyone else and the Palestinians in particular".
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Students already don't see education as a project of improving themselves by gaining knowledge and skills, but just as a process of obtaining grades that they can exchange for job credentials down the line. And they drive teachers nuts trying to use LLMs to get the grades while learning nothing.
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Frequently not acknowledged as such, to avoid arguments with skeptics -- but if you'd like examples, the 'aider' LLM coding agent framework (which skeptics, of course, won't use) is open source, and most of the code of aider itself in recent releases was written with LLM assist. aider.chat
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Clearly a bug in that it's failing to properly support your unusual hardware configuration.
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Many prominent Israelis, like former PM Ehud Olmert, have at this point publicly said that the IDF is committing war crimes in Gaza. The "blood libel" line puts them (and the former Israeli diplomat on the ICC!) in the same bag as the Spanish Inquisition...
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Well, he is now. While he was still on the inside of an administration that was promoting fossil fuels, he was awfully quiet about it.
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He's blowing off constituents for crypto shindigs. A bit early to put him in the Sinema tier, but auguries are not good.
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So, uhhhh... The mascot had facial hair at a time when actual players on the team had it disallowed by management?
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I don't know whether the Democratic party is for sale. But some Democrats (Ro Khanna, Ruben Gallego, ...) have made it pretty plain that they are as individuals.
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Purely as rhetoric, "DOGE done right" is a strange and counterproductive tack.
If you think government efficiency is worth pursuing, why associate your pursuit of it with Musk's fraudulent and incompetent looting spree? The number of people who liked DOGE but will like your thing better is zero.
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Yup. Elon dislikes the Big Beautiful Bill... because it doesn't shred the *entire* social safety net.
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MAGA has been in deep denial about it. Not clear how many of them will stay that way, but the Twitter online subgroup there isn't necessarily the biggest.
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But the problem here is that they're complaining about each other, and everyone is right...
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Covertly supporting the nuttiest Palestinians as an excuse to act against the rest of them is a pattern with this guy. Whenever you hear Israelis complaining that anyone else is a Hamas supporter, ask what they've done about the one they had at home:
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Oh, dear. You're starting to effectively market this experience...
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A lot of low-info voters see Cuomo as "an asshole, but our asshole", with the idea that he'll stand up to Trump. Joke's on them...
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Wasn't just Cuomo on the Israel trip, though; others had the same answer, probably pandering to the likes of these goons:
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One tricky thing about this is that to successfully use AI on the job, you have to understand the task well enough to find its mistakes. And a student who just tells the LLM "write me an essay" and hands in the result develops neither that understanding *nor* the skill of checking the AI's work.
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It's not like there's any shortage of material, or that it's hard to show errors in the preconceptions of naive voters...
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Or, more briefly, this:
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She got promoted.
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"Blood libel" according to the ADL, who are apparently ranking a former Israeli Prime Minister with the likes of the Spanish Inquisition...
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They watched the election in which Trump continually ran ads criticizing Harris for things she'd said about trans issues years before, and Harris was so focused on not offending anyone that a response was completely out of bounds (as was saying anything else that might've been memorable at all).
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But there's the antisemitism executive order! Order 14188 on page 8847 of the federal register -- numbers which have positively no significance whatsoever!
Next, you'll be saying their new Pentagon Press Secretary has a twitter feed that oozes neo-Nazi talking points...
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Sadly, you can't believe everything you read on a map. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom...
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Unless you think the focus of your "combat" is against, well... decency at home, and fighting foreigners is some kind of distraction.
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For those looking: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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... under imminent threat of impeachment. In recent interviews, he's said he regrets resigning -- which is a sly way of trying to bamboozle people who weren't paying attention into thinking he had a choice.
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Israel's existence hasn't been meaningfully threatened since the 1970s. As a distraction from the far more salient question of whether it has the right to, say, collective punishment in Gaza, this line is infuriating.
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Careful there. If Democrats could reliably beat absolute lunatics, we wouldn't have Trump.
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? For that to be the case, the average New York City resident would have to own a car...
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Press coverage so far has made it sound more like an unacknowledged revival of Obama's Iran deal than anything else. Of all the things happening now -- gutting of public health and research, shuttering parks, abandonment of Ukraine, futile strikes on Yemen -- Schumer whines about *that*?!
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Per documentation, it's a fine-tune of LLama 405B -- tweaked for local standards and needs. But it's not the fully independent development that we're seeing from Chinese labs, so less "sovereign" in at least that sense.
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A more readical perspective on this might be to say that our 101-year experiment with imposing immigration quotas and putting restrictions on "lawful" residency at all (Immigration Act of 1924) seems to be going badly, and should perhaps be reconsidered...
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You voted for Trump's budget CR... and now you're opposing what looks like an unacknowledged revival of *Obama's* Iran deal?
WTF?
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You've got to treat current AIs as well-read and extremely fast interns -- whose work can't be trusted at all and needs a careful audit. Give 'em good directions, check their work, and they'll often save you lots of time. But if you don't check... maintenance headaches are the best-case scenario.
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Particularly one who's getting support from a lot of voters who think he'll stand up to Trump, but who, in their private conversations, calls Trump "boss".
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I'm pretty sure the Federalist Society is not directly in charge of judiciary operations. But I can imagine it being John Roberts, or some of his staff... which is why I was asking.
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Well, it's certainly rare, but I think the Black Death likely qualifies. Maybe even the Little Ice Age...
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Between this and Trump's major Florida cases being repeatedly steered to Aileen Cannon, I'm starting to get suspicious of these "random" assignments.
Who exactly is supposed to be rolling the dice?