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Following politics, protecting democracy in Ukraine, US, and elsewhere, and environmental issues, particularly climate change and natural resource protection. Other Brian Schmidts (we are legion): happy to trade links so people find the right one.
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Protestors will defeat Republicans in November 2026, arsonists will elect them.
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In Trump's defense, he did dump some water unnecessarily into Central Valley during the fires, where it could theoretically evaporate, blow south, condense, and rain somehow. The eggheads didn't even think of this option.
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Exactly. If Pritzker made that point in a Facebook post that posting something on Facebook could get people arrested, this guy would say it's hyperbole and then call on Pritzker to be arrested for the Facebook post.
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Idiots who destroy during protests are parasites sucking the energy away from the protesters attempting to get real change.
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I'd rather understand the problem.
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Trump supporters assume all politicians are equally terrible, and at the same time assume Trump is like a normal person, so being transparent means he's clean.
Neither assumption is true. And they somewhat contradict each other.
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Trump tries to demonstrate what he thinks is empathy, proves he doesn't understand the concept.
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To add some more:
Jewish space lasers aren't starting wildfires in California.
American satellites weren't documenting militia members violating human rights in Rwanda.
Summary: it isn't satellites. They're not magic.
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No.
And Italian weather satellites didn't steal the 2020 election from Trump.
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In what sense does Musk resemble the middle, anyway.?AFAICT he's Thiel-style right-wing libertarian (except supporting big-government on space and some carefully-limited aspects of energy transition.)
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Allistic person here - there are some people who I think are on the spectrum who do "too much" eye contact, from a typical allistic perspective. Calibrating must be tough....my realizing that people do eye contact differently is helpful.
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Great article.
The movie about Milk is as good as they say. Catch it if you haven't yet.
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Rs said that in 2020 about Biden winning the swingiest states, and by very narrow margins (not forgetting that he won the popular vote by a comfortable margin).
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Original article: nationalsecurityjournal.org/putin-could-...
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....his ability to retain power becomes threatened due to poor military outcomes.
Somewhat ironically/tragically, that's actually less of an issue now. The Ru people have put up with terrible outcomes so far, bought off by oil money reserves that was stolen from them.
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I wonder if he even realizes he's imitating TOS Spock.
He probably thinks he's imitating a wrestler.
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Maybe call it Project 2025 Bill?
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For the "US wants a weak Europe" read Trump and MAGA, not the rest of us.
The US under Obama and Biden opposed Brexit and worked to keep Northern Ireland peace accords from falling apart.
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If Ukraine were to booby-trap a few of these trucks for the security services doing the inspections, then I'd expect the inspections would slow down even more as they became much more careful/used remote vehicles to inspect.
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I agree it's not AGI now, which makes the self-preservation even a little more scary.
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I half-disagree. Sociopaths will often double down on their lies. The LLM is acting like a normal person when caught lying - admit it and ask for forgiveness.
The sociopath part is that it then goes back to lying immediately, which a normal person would hesitate to do.
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It's blaming the questioner, which is even more scary.
One of the ways that AGI goes bad is through self-preservation. This dialog resembles that.
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Meanwhile, I sure hope every expensive combat aircraft not in a hangar has 24-hour guards with EW and shotguns.
Terrorists these days aren't what they used to be, but even modern ones could probably go from zero to a small attack within a few weeks.
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Artyom is - if he ever left.
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Okay, and blocked by 25k users via lists that block Jesse followers.
All I can say is they must not post that much in places that interest me.
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Thanks. Didn't know about that. Says I'm blocked by 107 users, for whatever reason.
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I follow Jesse and haven't encountered a block yet, fwiw.
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MSM journalism had a brief pushback against confidential sources a few years ago, before reverting to form.
It would've been better if they just told us more about the source, like in this case is the source affiliated with the Trump admin or with universities.
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The # for California seems off - I've always heard that ag consumes about 80% of consumed water, and muni 20%.
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Someone with AI video access needs to attach her head to the Bond villain who says "I expect you to die."
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Yes that's a plus, although I expect the cover for much of the methodology was blown when the operation launched.
I'd be surprised if SBU released any info that Russian could not have figured out. Maybe released some disinfo, though.
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Those law firms put self-interest ahead of ethics, giving a good sense of how'd they prioritize self-interest versus responsibility to clients.
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My pet theory is Putin has partial kompromat on Trump - not enough to fully control him, but enough to push sometimes.
No proof for this but it fits Trump's behavior.
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Support Ezra Klein, apparently.
(My take fwiw: he's right but being obnoxious.)
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Columbia has a chance to make up for its shame and meet Harvard's standard for resistance to government takeover. Next move is Columbia's.