The only way to get Israel to act like a normal country, to get it to snap out of the Prussian Disease, is going to be to give it a choice between immediate immense suffering and very likely long-term demise on the one hand, and the full protection of the free world on the other.
This is a guarantee that A LOT MORE of this horrific war criming is going to happen.
At some point Israel is going to have be *made* by the EU and a future sane US government to knuckle under and that process will necessitate threatening the long-term survival of the Israeli state via sanctions.
Slotkin: "If Russia is helping to kill US forces, we have crossed a rubicon. We have to take decisive action on that. Instead, we're giving them breaks on oil. They're making a ton of money."
Screenshot from Claude Artifacts. Labeled “Dream interpreter” A purple box with clouds. A text box with “Tell me about your dream…”
OK, maybe some LLM use is slop.
From the Star Trek episode Patterns of Force Spock knocks out an Ekosian Nazi and Captain Kirk responds... "Spock, you shouldn't have done that."" Why not Captain?" "Because Trek isn't political."
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I don’t know about oil, but SpaceX’s Starship can get the methane out.
I will say that if someone murdered my father, wife, and daughter and then I had the tools to destroy the global economy and by doing so hurt them, I'd probably do it.
Minesweeper: Strait of Hormuz edition
This has been the Gulf states’ plan all along.
I keep seeing people ask about the 25th Amendment.
Guys. His entire Cabinet is walking around in shoes that don’t fit because they’re scared to take them off.
The 25th is never happening.
This would be pretty funny, except I'd be kind of worried that he'd successfully talk Rogan into blaming everything on the Jews.
This greatly overstates the amount of alcohol being consumed. People drank water. Many alcoholic beverages had much lower ABV compared to today. On the other hand, Alexander the Great.
American officials already talking about regime change in Cuba while Israeli officials talk about confronting Turkey. I'm sorry but you have to finish the war you started before you get another war.
Now do the king.
we remain firmly on track for 'republican president leaves the country an omnishambles, next democratic president is punished for not cleaning it up fast enough'
People are thinking small. We simply put wheels on the ships.
Not just this, his kid who replaced him has the exact opposite view
The old man didn’t want nukes, Jr absolutely does (and now has a damn good argument for building them). Absolute idiocy
Really impressed with the results of Claude doing some historicalish research. Now to see if the assertions are true. At least it’s a list of artifacts that mostly are what I was looking for.
you should not attempt to destroy your mentees professional life because they tried to use a zero shot classifier.
I am gonna double down on this a little: the reaction of many senior academics to fairly banal LLM takes like ‘they’re useful tools’ is extremely unbecoming, & would, if I was your graduate student or junior colleague, actively make me feel like I had to either lie to you or de facto hobble myself
One of the reasons I think this is something it’s bad to dogmatic about as a faculty: If you got your doctorate prior to like ~2020 and you tell me you’re certain your graduate students aren’t using LLMs, lmao no. They are. They just aren’t telling you about it.
Almost feels like the Iranians are directly responding to US news and media and markets with this - as if they saw the conspicuous underreaction too and thought “no, we need to demonstrate how easy this is for us”
Under pressure from Trump, Gov Polis is considering pardoning an unrepentant MAGA election saboteur. @brianbeutler.bsky.social has some food for thought for advocates. www.offmessage.net/p/impeach-ja...
"Anti-racist" doing a lot of work here.
Worth noting that "AI reduces labor demand" and "AI increases labor demand" can both be pitched with negative valence.
The Iranian drone attack in Kuwait that killed U.S. service members was more severe than previously known. Dozens were injured with brain trauma, shrapnel wounds and burns, with over 30 still hospitalized, including about 25 at Landstuhl in Germany. -CBS News
can't afford golden showers anymore... the affordability crisis continues
It got me to pause my infinite scroll.
Did Jesus, the mythological figure, exist? Of course not.
Did Jesus, as described in non-supernatural parts of the Bible, exist? Of course not.
Did some guy, who became the basis for the Biblical character, exist? Sure. Why not?
I find it very uninteresting. And I don’t think people frame it the right way. What does it mean to be historical?
