jameshart.bsky.social
Professional stunt programmer
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The president sending tanks rolling towards the legislative branch’s seat of power is a bit too bad of an image to project even for this administration.
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(Yes, this is an endorsement of THE STUDIO on AppleTV - another show Tim Cook had made and forgot to tell anyone about.)
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Apparently his performance in the Motel Sequence of Alphabet City was incredible but the studio made Ron Howard cut it.
www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...
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I want to see an Ohio class submarine in the reflecting pool
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And a visa is just permission to approach a port of entry and *apply* to enter in a particular status. A visa holder can still be denied entry at that point, or permitted to enter in a different status.
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Naming the election guy who has two voter registrations ‘Wahl’, which is just German for ‘election’ or ‘vote’, is just a sign of how lazy the writers are getting.
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I just realized those aren’t rapid fluctuations in all the plots at the end of the line - they’re arrowheads.
Arrowheads!
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The fact there is virtually no visual difference between 🥤which rose by 6.5% and 🍞 which rose by 1.3% suggests the reason they didn’t show the Y axis is because they’re embarrassed by it.
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This is GRRM ‘what was Aragorn’s tax policy?’ thinking. The noble hero who won the war isn’t necessarily the right person to lead the peace - that’s where the idea for Robert Baratheon comes from.
Could Star Wars have done that? Maybe. Probably not while making a sequel trilogy for kids.
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Umm it’s called ‘Prime Minister’s Question Time’
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Pre-unification West Germany had this. Bonn was nothing but federal government buildings, embassies, and the house Beethoven was born in. A minor town even compared to Köln up the road, let alone Frankfurt, Hamburg or Munich… Not sure what has happened to it after the government returned to Berlin.
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My worry is Congress can make it 100% legal.
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And how will the presidential library foundation be able to afford to preserve this historic artifact representing American-Qatari friendship? Surely it would belong in the Smithsonian once it eventually leaves service after serving successive presidents…
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Obviously there is precedent for this sort of thing: Queen Victoria gifted Rutherford Hayes the Resolute Desk, after all, and we see that as a great symbol of friendship.
But she didn’t predicate the gift on Rutherford getting to take it home after he left office.
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Appreciate the feedback. It’s maybe a quirk of my writing style.
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Sorry, but I think scare quotes are appropriate - ascertaining is just not a thing an LLM can do. It also can’t understand, know or learn. My point is that I get why asking how an LLM ascertains something seems reasonable but it just doesn’t work like that.
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This is a reasonable question, but it’s hard to answer because computer folk do not have the vocabulary to explain to laymen what LLMs actually do. An LLM cannot ‘ascertain’ anything. Pure LLMs can only produce unvalidated citation-like text. Agent/tool integrations using LLMs can do more.
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Right, you can argue that in a particular case the amount of process due is ‘essentially none’. That’s honestly a more defensible position than ‘you don’t get due process’, which amounts to saying ‘we agree there is a process due to you that we should follow here, but we don’t want to’.
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Nothing in the constitution says the president can’t declare himself an antipope
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But remember what England’s parliament had to do to a king for his “wicked practices… carried on for the advancement and upholding of a personal interest of will… against the public interest, common right, liberty, justice, and peace of the people of this nation” to bring about a ceremonial monarchy
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We have to read Hobbes to understand what kind of nonsense people like Locke and Rousseau were up against.
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Are you saying Germans can’t be fancy? And while the wife of a marquess is a marchioness, the wife of a margrave is a margravine, which might be the best title of nobility of them all.
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Gives a whole new meaning to ‘radical judges ruling from the bench’.
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Took me a moment to remember the ‘good old fashioned’ AI acronym and at first my brain guessed you were talking about ‘gain-of-function’ AI research.
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So if they’ve given up custody, they must have some argument why the enumerated powers of the US government include ‘handing people over to incarceration at the whim of a foreign dictator’ then?
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(In seriousness, apparently Space Force inherited streamers from its parent Air Force commands. This Reddit post has the details: www.reddit.com/r/SpaceForce...)
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Those flags are for the different military branches. The ribbons are called streamers and supposed to represent campaign or battle honors.
Which raises the question, what do all those space force streamers represent? Did we defeat the goa’uld?
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Recapitulating Lysenkoism
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It’s a willfully naive kind of pseudointellectualism that says “I don’t get why people seem so squeamish about the idea of implementing a political philosophy centered on glorifying the Will to Power. I don’t believe it’s ever been tried, so why do people assume it would turn out badly?”
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“I think we will find the vocabulary for.. why these people are rational” (for forming relationships with AI bots)
‘Rationalize’. That’s what he is saying. He thinks he can persuade society to rationalize creating bots to replace human relationships.
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I expect a renowned symbologist would be able to determine what the hidden significance is behind the placement of the gaps. It likely encodes a secret message that would shatter the very foundations of the church.
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Trump looking at satellite imagery of Yemen, agreeing with the analysis that it is a Houthi compound because he can see in the photo they have ‘HOUTHI COMPOUND’ written in big letters across the ground in the compound.
This makes sense to Trump. He writes TRUMP in big letters on his golf courses.
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Trump looking at satellite imagery of Yemen, agreeing with the analysis that it is a Houthi compound because he can see in the photo they have ‘HOUTHI COMPOUND’ written in big letters across the ground in the compound.
This makes sense to Trump. He writes TRUMP in big letters on his golf courses.
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It wasn’t photoshopped, it was just *labeled*. There were text annotations added to the picture, with no intent to make them look like they were part of the tattoo.
Saying it was photoshopped is buying into Trump’s delusion that it’s reasonable to believe the letters were there.
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Hobbes’ Leviathan is the original unitary executive.
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Among the runners: Journalism, Sovereignty, American Promise, Publisher, and Render Judgement.
The recording of the call during the race is going to be some all time foreshadowing I can just feel it.
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They’re police services actually
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Shifting the civil rights division from promoting civil rights to promoting division.
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Lucas gets burned for the awkward naive dialogue Padme and Anakin have about democracy in Attack of the Clones; but really that kind of not-thought-through ‘someone should just make people agree what’s best’ seems like pretty a realistic interaction between a politically engaged person and a normie.
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A lot of people who become politically engaged substitute ‘trying to do ingroup signaling right’ for ‘actually believing stuff’
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Apparently I should not have been joking about truckers speaking Latin.
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Jesse Armstrong is now about to release Mountainhead
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxsy...
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- failure to impeach sets the precedent that this is not impeachable behavior