Kent

I make $65k a year and I second this.

people have got to realize that we are not getting Medicare for All without taxing the middle class. we are not getting free child care without taxing the middle class. we are not getting better schools and free college without taxing the middle class.

I make $95,000 a year. raise my taxes, please.

No. Absolutely not. You cannot fund a government with a budget in the trillions this way.

And certainly not if we want to rebuild the scientific, technological, and medical capacities Trump destroyed

If you've missed what Carr has been up to lately, he's been weaponizing the FCC's "equal time" rule to basically harass any program that has a Dem candidate (weirdly this has all focused on the TX primary).

Oh course, Ellison's CBS is eager to roll over with gusto at the slightest hint.

Just passed a church where their decoration is a crucified Jesus is coming down off the cross under his own power. okay.

America out here inventing entirely new heresies every day

King George, 1782:

This is just a lie. Only Vance was booed.

The Winter Olympics are a lot more about almost dying than the summer ones, tbh

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

This is why you should memorize your talks

i think trump should be mortally afraid that protests are turning out 2-3% of the coldest cities in america in the dead of winter when under federal occupation

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All my homies hate Noam Chomsky

Reviewer for a social psych paper: Have you considered whether question order inflated people's disgust toward vomit?

Meanwhile guy in charge of ballot design in Palm Beach Florida: 👍

once again the real divide in the Dem party is fight/don’t fight and it is extremely encouraging to see one of the more centrist standard bearers firmly on Team Fight

this one is especially encouraging because too few Dems have even been willing to acknowledge the all out Republican assault on higher education; going this hard on reversing the attacks on UVA immediately is extremely nice to see

And of course no, it would not be fine if ICE was only terrorizing undocumented immigrants. We shouldn't be terrorizing anyone.

But politically, culturally, it *matters* that they're terrorizing everyone, including citizens, including legal residents in a bigoted effort to stir up a racist pogrom.

One of the things that comes out clearly here but isn't stressed enough in the national media is the degree to which the DHS goons in Minneapolis are terrorizing citizen, legal resident and undocumented folks alike.

It is a campaign of racist terror, more than an immigration enforcement operation.

Rand Paul up to his usual dipshittery. "The NSF spent $8 billion to study whether Japanese qual are more sexually promiscuous while on cocaine"

The total NSF budget was 9 billion. I doubt they spend 89% of it on quail.

Me putting a sweater on: This one's for you Jimmy

I really think at its heart philosophy is one giant battle, taking place over many eras and nations, between people who are basically pleasant bureaucrats and people who are sexy murder poets, and it’s both super important and super boring that the pleasant bureaucrats must win.

NORAD Santa tracker is Woke

Sending goons with my emails to send ungentle reminders

This is a good thread, and in particular demonstrates that “can an LLM do X” is very different from “will a short naive prompt get me there?”

FWIW I think ChatGPT and friends bring this on themselves, as the chatbot interface *encourages* short, naive prompts.

I want to read this article. Two (meant constructively) things:

1) "demonstrating that LLMs are worthless for indexing" should, like most of these things, have qualifiers like "in our hands and with our LLM"
2) when people talk like this about accuracy, I suspect the workflow as much as the model.

Relatedly: I'm older than full women's voting rights in Switzerland by about 3 months

Boston Logan should have two Dunkin's per gate in every terminal