Chad Levinson

Saying stupid things SHOULD cause reputational damage.

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time.”

No book is going to turn kids into someone else. But books will regularly show kids other people like them and show those kids they're not alone. And they'll show kids other types of people who also exist. There is a large proportion of the population who are terrified of this.

FWIW, Stephen Moore's highest terminal degree is an MA, but he does go to the cocktail parties.

People do not take your side when you bomb them, it turns out

Because fighting a single opponent in a cage with no weapons and tons of people watching is definitely the typical use case for an FBI agent's combat training

Yeah, the antisemitism is bad, but I can't get past "leftist politics" AND "Formula 1 aficionado" - F1 is the single most elitist, capitalist sport on the planet. Polo has a lower barrier to entry.

"Any of the strategies" --> these particular word choices that make me uncomfortable because I socialize with some of these people

* than his former colleague Sam Altman has committed

Aaron Schwartz was facing decades in prison, for milder theft than his former YCombinator colleague Sam Altman, when he took his own life.

I have 10+ years professional experience as a programmer, run a Linux server next to my desk at home, and categorically oppose AI for this and other reasons.

That makes it worse. You know that, right?

And given the source that's probably an exaggeration.

A grad school friend who grew up in a trailer park learned to do multiplication in her head at age 7 to calculate sales tax because she bought the family groceries when her disabled single parent couldn’t get to the store.

I'm this close to lifting my AI ban, but just for Claude, because most programmers deserve to be made obsolete. I say this as a former programmer who still has a few coders tucked away in his heart.

I was thinking you could go to the mfg’s website without google’s help but you go on being you

Don't you know, "Free Palestine" means "bomb Gaza?"

I will enjoy the thought of their bitterness, then.

This is especially galling considering the ongoing bombing of Lebanon by Israel, including (of course) the leveling of residential blocks. Is Israel liberating Beirut as well?

Everyone's best smile will be the result of a moment of human connection between photographer and subject. "AI" will likely make you look slightly like a nightmare.

You could also start the clock after the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. In any case, the whole covert prelude under Eisenhower and Kennedy doesn't apply because it's a question of public opinion. And there's no substantial drop in popular support for the first ~1.5.

This sounds like a problem with a much simpler solution than "AI."

March 2, 1965 is a good candidate. Beginning of Operation Rolling Thunder.

I thought that was out of date.

Slightly funny that the game character looks a lot like his dead cousin.

That answer wouldn’t exist without the Reddit links. Those links will disappear if people stop clicking on them. And then where will the answer come from?

Years of people saying the Hatch Act is unenforceable have emboldened an administration that already thinks very little of the law.

FWIW, I only get uncomfortable with religious language when it claims exclusive or original access to virtue (Andrew Sullivan once claimed Christ introduced love into the world)

He got the talking point wrong. It's 47 years (the 1979 revolution and, ya know, 47 because Trump)

It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do, but it's the final act of care. I'm so sorry.