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2024-09-08 13:00:14

NYT/Siena is the GOAT of skewed polls. They undersample GOP demos to ensure their sample is extra pro-MAGA, then overweigh that unrepresentative sample.
Here's their sample % versus likely voter % weighing:
Republican
29% 🔼 34%
Age 65+
23% 🔼 29%
Edu no college
16% 🔼 27%
White
62% 🔼 66%
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/09/08/us/politics/times-siena-poll-toplines.html

2024-09-06 20:30:27

Hey! Remember when Trump and Republicans spent a week pretending to care about tipped workers?
Big surprise, they don't really care, and here's a 5th Circuit case blowing up a Biden admin regulation that protected tipped workers.
https://www.notus.org/courts/biden-labor-legacy-jeopardy-supreme-court

2024-08-06 17:28:23

why would anyone do business with this nasty goofball? https://apnews.com/article/x-sues-advertisers-unilever-cvs-mars-orsted-673d1ae88e9fb0ca5b170d238739453e

2024-07-30 11:57:09

"We're not weirdos," say the members of a fascist pedophilia cult led by Jeffrey Epstein's best friend of 15 years who is running for President on a platform of having the government inspect teenage girls' genitals and monitor their periods.

2024-07-21 18:56:33

If you're feeling doom and gloom about Biden withdrawing, go look at the feeds of your horrible MAGA family members. They are despondent and have no idea what to do. What, talk about cognitive decline? Abortion? Windmill cancer? Electric sharks?

2024-07-03 14:06:49

It was buried by other news, but, as a reminder, at the debate Trump gave a complete bullshit answer about Ukraine, literally copying Nixon's fake "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-03/zelenskiy-challenges-trump-to-reveal-plans-for-quick-end-to-war?srnd=homepage-americas

2024-06-27 14:54:22

Pretty cool how we have a robust right to jury trial if you're some lawbreaking hedge fund or corporation trying to delay agency action, but if you try to sue one of them, there's an endless gantlet of federal statutes and procedural rules designed to throw your case out before you get to a jury.
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-regulatory-agencies-sec-36f16444b1d4fc52985fdb68896362bb

2024-06-26 14:23:31

The mayor of Portage, Indiana, steered over $1 million in city contracts to a truck dealership, which then wrote him a $13,000 check.
The conservatives on SCOTUS—with extensive experience in being lavished with gifts after favorable rulings—say this is very legal and very cool.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-108_8n5a.pdf

2024-06-25 11:32:18

You people aren't engineering geniuses and so might have silly thoughts in your brain like, "a four-foot windshield wiper will encounter a lot of friction, made worse by leverage."
On an unrelated note, every Cybertruck is recalled cuz the wiper ain't made right.
https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/rcl/2024/RCLRPT-24V456-3775.PDF

2024-06-24 19:55:05

This isn't an unexpected byproduct of abortion bans, it's one of the intended goals. The "pro-life" movement wants to force carrying non-viable pregnancies to term, and they want to make doctors and hospitals afraid to provide maternal care.
https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/24/texas-abortion-law-jama-pediatrics-study-increased-infant-deaths/

2024-06-15 13:15:04

LLM "AI" is notable as a technology that gets *less* efficient with each iteration. Silicon Valley can't figure out how to improve the math and is unwilling to pay for model training by experts, so they instead "innovate" by creating bigger piles of scraped content & internet detritus.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-big-ai-question-are-you-ready-to-pay-for-it-534d95e9

2024-06-14 12:42:45

US Income Tax Revenue: $2.2 trillion
US Imports: $3.8 trillion
This would be a $1 trillion annual handout to the top 1%, paid for by massive inflation in consumer goods, something like 55%-60%.
Breaking the economy to give the richest even more, that's the Republican way.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/06/13/trump-all-tariff-policy-to-replace-income-tax.html

2024-06-13 14:13:25

This will be held up as "SCOTUS isn't political," which overlooks how the case was outrageous and absurd in the first place. Kacsmaryk and the 5th Circuit brazenly violated basic principles of standing taught to every 1L. It shouldn't have made it this far.
https://mstdn.social/@chrisgeidner@journa.host/112609683638909241

2024-06-10 13:23:56

Conservatives constantly undermine families—criminalizing women's healthcare, defunding schools, slashing support like the child tax credit, flooding the country with guns—but the NYTimes says liberals & progressives who want better are the problem. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/10/opinion/natalism-liberalism-parenthood.html

2024-06-07 01:07:32

I love how the letter from the Chair of Tesla's board calculates Elon "created over $735 billion in value" by stopping their count at December 31, 2023.
The stock has fallen 28% since then, losing $225 billion in value.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/6/24173064/tesla-board-chair-warn-elon-musk-leave-pay-shareholders
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2024-06-02 21:48:51

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LOL, they changed it. You're welcome, WaPo, but if you really wanted to improve your paper, you'd take the column down and never publish anything by Kathleen Parker again.
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2024-06-02 15:47:43

Amusing how Kathleen Parker & WaPo wanted to sound fancy by not using "weaponizing," but she's just wrong.
"Weaponing" is to furnish with weapons, e.g., "the armorer was weaponing the soldiers."
The word she means is "weaponizing," i.e., "to adapt for use as a weapon."
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2024-05-20 15:48:05

Among the advice I've picked up as a plaintiff's lawyer: don't get into a helicopter unless you have to.
In the U.S., the 2020-2024 accident rate is 3.81 per 100K hours flown. Fatal accident rate is 0.65. Every three weeks or so, there's another fatal accident.
https://rotormedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/USHST-Safety-Report-5-2024-1.pdf

2024-05-19 16:24:06

Marco Rubio is, of course, a spineless toady and an AIPAC favorite. The only reason Netanyahu would prevent him from meeting the directors of Mossad & Shin Bet is if he felt what they had to say would compel even a spineless toady to action. https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-am-2cf638e6-57b9-4c86-8655-6123ca00ba58.html?chunk=1&utm_term=emshare#story1

2024-05-13 21:06:52

More clowning from the TechnoClownKing at Tesla as he inevitably rehires some of the Supercharger people he fired without any sort of plan to replace them. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-13/tesla-rehires-some-supercharger-workers-weeks-after-musk-s-culling?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNTYzNDMzMCwiZXhwIjoxNzE2MjM5MTMwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTREVRQjJUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI4NzU5NDI1Q0VFODg0NjVCOUVDOUY4Nzg4MkRCMDlFNSJ9.IggoaMVNlCIq-oFeNI2OPnea50DPwth_80Ewnu5uTt0

2024-05-13 11:47:11

I'm sorry, but if you call yourself a "moderate" or "conservative" while also advocating for "major changes" or to "tear down the system," then you're not any of those things, you're just an angry reactionary dimwit who doesn't even know what words mean.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html
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2024-05-12 22:02:11

Here's all you need to know about Mark Penn's column: it does not use the word "abortion."
There's no point listening to any electoral advice that doesn't suggest Dems lean into their best issue in 50 years, one proven in 2022 & 2023 to work nationwide.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/12/opinion/joe-biden-swing-voters.html

2024-05-04 15:01:37

So much of Musk's "visionary leadership" is classic mismanagement. He's not just nuking the one area in which he Tesla can lock-in market dominance (the EV chargers), he's doing it in the most chaotic manner possible, without any plan for going forward. https://electrek.co/2024/05/03/read-the-wild-email-tesla-is-sending-to-suppliers-amid-supercharger-chaos/

2024-05-02 13:02:04

In the House passage of the "Antisemitism Awareness Act," which adopts the IHRH definition of antisemitism,
5.9% of Representatives who voted Yea are Jewish.
6.6% of Representatives who voted Nay are Jewish.
If the goal is to protect Jewish students, perhaps we should listen to the Jewish voices telling us this is not the right path.
https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/

2024-05-01 22:14:01

Anyone who draws a comparison between Jan 6 and Columbia Univ reveals that they don't understand or don't care about the significance of Jan 6: Trump's mob stormed Congress to thwart the people's vote in the 2020 election. That's not a protest, it's a threat to democracy itself.

2024-04-30 18:14:36

The legal definition of "genocide" is quite strict, but describing the "annihilation" of a place to "blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven" would sure seem to meet "dolus specialis," the specific intent to destroy a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-30/ty-article/.premium/smotrich-calls-for-no-half-measures-in-the-total-annihilation-of-gaza/0000018f-2f4c-d9c3-abcf-7f7d25460000

2024-04-25 13:39:48

The Harvey Weinstein reversal isn't some regrettable technicality or scrupulous adherence to defendants' rights, it's just bullshit. Weinstein claimed consent, the prosecutors introduced evidence of him victimizing others the exact same way, thereby showing intent. Appalling. See Singas & Cannataro's dissents.
Thankfully, Weinstein also has a 16-year sentence in California, so hopefully he dies in prison anyway. 🙏
https://www.nycourts.gov/ctapps/Decisions/2024/Apr24/24opn24-Decision.pdf

2024-04-24 23:58:21

Netanyahu has all the time in the world to meddle in U.S. domestic politics and compare us to Nazis but no time for anything unimportant like Israeli hostages or Gazan humanitarian aid.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/24/us/netanyahu-israel-us-college-protests.html

2024-04-19 17:29:03

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These similarities apply just as much to GLP-1s. There's certainly more aggressive competition among drugmakers to produce and market GLP-1s, whereas the bulk of ADHD drugs are low-profit generics.
So are we going to arbitrarily limit them too, or just ADHD drugs?
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2024-04-19 17:20:02

It seems this deputy assistant administrator at the DEA believes that Adderall is basically street meth and, well, someone with that level of ignorance about pharmacology should simply not be employed by the DEA or any other drug-regulating agency.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-19/adderall-abuse-risks-becoming-another-opioid-crisis-dea-says?utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_content=business

2024-04-18 13:12:30

The Netanyahu government—filled with grifters, fanatics, and anyone who will help Bibi stay in power and out of jail—simply isn't competent to handle the situation they're in. The U.S. has no choice but to impose strict limitations on any assistance provided to them.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/17/world/middleeast/iran-israel-attack.html?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.lU0.MHrf.ywsHWymLNZVB&smid=url-share
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2024-04-15 23:52:05

Republicans on SCOTUS wrote 26 pages of preening about "major questions of national importance" (Kavanaugh, p. 5) to justify using an extraordinary procedure to reinstate an anti-trans law with no purpose except to prevent <1,000 minors in Idaho from receiving medical care. https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-lets-idaho-enforce-ban-transgender-care-minors-2024-04-15/

2024-04-06 13:52:11

If you work in education, please please please educate your colleagues that "AI detectors" like TurnItIn are all scams and none of them can reliably detect AI-generated content.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1bwojmm/comment/ky7o8m4/
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2024-04-04 02:45:38

One telling aspect of the targeted drone strike on World Central Kitchen is how, as Israel approaches its 200th kill of a humanitarian worker, neither Netanyahu nor the IDF even pretends there will be consequences for the soldiers or changes in policy.
Because it is the policy.
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2024-04-03 18:00:30

So the way the IDF chose targets was (1) an AI spat out tens of thousands of names of potential Hamas members; (2) those people's homes were made bombing targets; (3) no one bothered to review any of it or even see if the person was home; (4) the potential for civilian casualties didn't matter.
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

2024-04-02 13:04:57

Like the three unarmed hostages waving a white flag and countless other incidents, it's impossible to reconcile this with any reasonable rules of engagement. These were branded vehicles traveling in a deconflicted zone and they had coordinated their movements with the IDF.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/04/02/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news?ugrp=m&unlocked_article_code=1.hU0.3Lrc.NBkegEqR4dEK&smid=url-share

2024-04-01 19:09:52

He's right. "Originalism" is about stringing together a collection of words to support a predetermined outcome. There's no need for fidelity to facts, reliable description of source material, nor even logical consistency. It's one of the few tasks large language models could do.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/conservative-us-judge-says-ai-could-strengthen-originalist-movement-2024-04-01/

2024-03-27 13:59:09

Ah ha! It seems the SEC is capable of going after insider trading, so long as it's former minor league baseball players, not billionaires and banks and hedge funds.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/minor-league-baseball-players-insider-traded-del-taco-sec-says

2024-03-27 12:11:11

After wasting everyone's time and trying to start a secessionist crisis, the Fifth Circuit enjoined Texas's absurd border law. They spend 50 pages before saying the obvious: "we are not free to ignore the reasoning in Arizona [v. U.S., 567 U.S. 387 (2012)]."
https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-50149-CV2.pdf

2024-03-26 21:05:12

Gotta admit it's pretty funny to see someone plunk down >$15M for deep in-the-money call options on Trump's "DJT" stock at what they thought was a low point and then immediately lose at least a million as the stock dropped another 15%.
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2024-03-25 20:01:12

I don't object to the result per se, it's still a sizeable bond and his corporate finances are monitored, but it's bad for the rule of law that (a) they gave no explanation and (b) Trump's briefs scrupulously avoided saying he didn't have the collateral for the bond. So why did he get the reduction? https://www.axios.com/2024/03/25/trump-bond-new-york-civil-fraud-trial?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial

2024-03-21 23:33:22

According to this "no losses" theory, nothing with FTX, Theranos, Bernie Madoff, or Enron was a crime or even a civil violation until the entire thing came crashing down. It's perfectly fine to lie about millions of dollars unless it goes bad, then it's retroactively illegal. 🙄
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2024-03-21 21:07:27

Not like truth matters with Trump, but this is simply untrue, as explained by the NY AG's brief. Losing defendants have filed even bigger appeal bonds over $1 billion. Trump has not done so because either (a) he doesn't want to or (b) he lacks sufficient collateral for the bonds.
https://eddsa.blob.core.usgovcloudapi.net/public/2024_01134_PEOPLE_OF_THE_STATE_OF_v_PEOPLE_OF_THE_STATE_OF_EXHIBIT_S__14.pdf
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2024-03-19 14:37:58

"Thank you for contacting me about the tightness in your chest and sharp pain in your left arm. Pee is stored in the balls. Have you tried ivermectin?"
https://gizmodo.com/nvidia-wants-replace-nurses-with-ai-1851347917

2024-03-12 02:58:46

lol
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2024-03-12 00:11:39

Color me shocked that Hur, with a resume filled with GOP operative red flags*, turned out to be a GOP operative. Well done, Merrick Garland, take a bow.
* Kozinski & Rehnquist clerk, GWBush Assistant AG, King & Spalding partner, Trump US Attorney, Gibson Dunn partner.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/robert-hur-trump-special-counsel-b2510944.html

2024-03-08 18:44:06

We don't need a conspiracy theory for this to be problematic. On the face of it, a Presidential candidate will owe $91.6M to someone—maybe Chubb, maybe a bank that gave him a line of credit to give Chubb, etc—if he loses the appeal, as he likely will. That's a lot of leverage on a President.
https://www.axios.com/2024/03/08/trump-posts-nearly-92m-bond-to-appeal-e-jean-carroll-defamation-damages

2024-03-07 14:49:45

There should be more discussion in the US media about Trump's plan for Palestine, as explained by his Ambassador to Israel while sharing a stage with Trump two weeks ago:
Israel will annex the entire West Bank.
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-790622

2024-03-06 02:14:06

Hard to overstate how sleazy Duane Morris is for this, they soaked a public school district for $1.75m to do basic work defending outgoing Moms For Liberty school board members from discrimination complaints. Just disgraceful every way you look at it.
https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/local/2024/03/04/central-bucks-district-duane-morris-legal-bills-lgbtq-investigation-lucabaugh-hunter-diasio-finances/72748107007/

2024-03-03 23:43:48

It'd be one thing if SCOTUS said, "we don't think that was an insurrection," but odds are good they eschew being that clear—which would put political heat on them—and instead absolve Trump with some hideous monstrosity of confabulated interpretation that further erodes constitutional law itself.
https://electionlawblog.org/?p=141757

2024-03-03 14:28:38

I skimmed Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI but had to stop at "on information and belief, GPT-4 is an AGI algorithm..." LOL, no, it's not, it's not even "AI," it's spicy autocomplete, it's a word salad generator.
Maybe Musk has a claim about OpenAI's transition to a for-profit entity, but I can't be bothered to look. I hope they both lose.
https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/musk-v-altman-openai-complaint-sf.pdf

2024-03-02 14:42:58

Among the many oddities of such a small sample size, "who would you vote for" lists 119 Black and 154 Hispanic respondents...
... but the questions about self-identification list 92 Black and 121 Hispanic respondents.
So for >20% of these groups NYT/Siena just guessed?
🤔
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/03/02/us/elections/times-siena-poll-registered-voter-crosstabs.html

2024-02-29 23:08:01

Musk got really lucky in his "pedo guy" defamation case because the plaintiff had, unfortunately, chosen L. Lin Wood to represent him.
This plaintiff retained Mark Bankston, who previously gonged Alex Jones for $45m in a Sandy Hook case. 🍿
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-testify-lawsuit-jewish-man-neo-nazi-brawl_n_65de0913e4b005b85831d340?2i

2024-02-28 12:30:30

The State of Texas doesn't want to comply with a federal statute about providing pregnant employees with reasonable accommodations, so it asked a federal judge to declare Congress invalid. He agreed, finding the entire 2023 federal appropriations to be void, but limiting his relief to just the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act.
This is what counts as "law" in 2024.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.373284/gov.uscourts.txnd.373284.110.0.pdf

2024-02-27 15:46:22

Quite the indictment of our financial system that there's nearly $4 billion in capital tied up in a shell company that is going to merge with the money-losing social network run by the insurrectionist conman who keeps racking up hundreds of millions in court judgments against him.
(gift link)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/26/business/trump-media-digital-world-acquisition-cash.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Yk0.6qm7.k4vMS2dLR6_8&smid=url-share

2024-02-18 22:19:38

I haven't heard someone call me "Maxipad" since elementary school.
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2024-02-17 15:40:38

There are interesting machine learning developments, but it's remarkable how much hype goes to OpenAI, which produces nothing but toys. Their latest breakthrough is a way to replace graphic artists and video editors while producing lower quality results. Real big gain for humanity there.
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/lets-not-do-this-again-please

2024-02-13 15:02:12

There's a political party that wants to force your child to change their gender.
It's the Republican party.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mandating-conversion-therapy-is-mandating-abuse/

2024-02-10 04:45:41

"We have millions of monkeys at typewriters. Surely one of them will produce the collected works of Shakespeare."
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2024-02-06 17:33:27

Weird how all the "protect the kids" folks who are rabid about banning trans healthcare have absolutely nothing to say about routine brain damage to adolescents who play football. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2814507?utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_term=020124

2024-01-31 14:44:25

Fellow lawyers! Great opportunity here to represent a client who doesn't understand that when he loses a defamation case and then defames the plaintiff again that he will get sued again and lose again.
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2024-01-31 01:53:31

What's extra funny here is that, not only was Musk's compensation package 250x the norm and 33x his prior package, but he and Tesla's board made no attempt to avoid a challenge exactly like this. Literally no effort at a fair negotiation. They walked into this.
Delaware Chancery Court Opinion here: https://courts.delaware.gov/Opinions/Download.aspx?id=359340
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2024-01-30 18:55:27

Bret Stephens' entire argument is that a woman's testimony, under oath and subject to cross-examination, about what happened to her just isn't evidence. It's nothing, worthless, irrelevant. Women don't matter.
Thankfully, this is not how our legal system works.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/29/opinion/haley-trump-biden-carroll.html
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2024-01-30 14:05:24

One indication of the absence of any border "crisis" is how the people screaming the most about it have never done anything about it and have no interest in doing anything about it. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republicans-border-deal-donald-trump_n_65b80899e4b0102bd2d5c0d4

2024-01-26 15:44:19

FYI, if you're going to post a hot take on the International Court of Justice's ruling in South Africa v. Israel, start here first so you at least have the basics right.
https://www.justsecurity.org/91486/icj-judgment-israel-south-africa-genocide-convention/

2024-01-26 13:31:54

Congratulations to the Rehnquist and Roberts courts, who so thoroughly undermined SCOTUS's legitimacy with rank political decisions that even the beneficiaries of that partisanship don't respect its rulings.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/border-standoff-between-texas-feds-intensifies-as-governor-defies-supreme-court-ruling

2024-01-17 19:57:28

Congratulations to Paul Clement, who has honored the legal profession by taking $100k from a rural school district for a failed petition for certiorari because they wanted to prohibit a transgender kid who doesn't go there anymore from using the bathroom. 🫡💰
https://www.lawdork.com/p/supreme-court-indiana-trans-restroom-case

2024-01-12 15:07:32

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This lays out the War Powers Resolution problem. The strike on the Houthis isn't a one-off or emergency use of military force. It's part of a sustained deployment for strategic reasons. That kind of thing requires congressional approval. https://www.justsecurity.org/91069/regional-conflict-in-the-middle-east-and-the-limitations-of-the-war-powers-resolution/

2024-01-12 14:47:49

Gift link for the basics on "Who Are the Houthis and Why Is the U.S. Attacking Them?"
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/11/world/middleeast/houthi-yemen-red-sea-attacks.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NE0.W2gn.uzObgTviBmRt&smid=url-share

2024-01-11 18:00:55

So perhaps Boeing makes unsafe planes because of woke DEI or perhaps, just maybe, it's because the last time they killed a bunch of people just five years ago they got away with it and not a single manager or executive responsible was prosecuted? https://fortune.com/2024/01/09/boeing-deferred-prosecution-doj-criminal-charges-737-max-crashes-alaska-airlines/

2024-01-04 15:22:41

One cool thing is how, within 6 months of Trump becoming President, DC & Maryland sued because he was obviously breaching the Constitution and then the federal courts sandbagged the case for four years then dismissed it as moot when he left office.
House Oversight Dems just reported, based on *partial* records, Trump accepted at least $7.8 million in foreign government payments while President.
https://oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/democrats.oversight.house.gov/files/2024-01-04.COA%20DEMS%20-%20Mazars%20Report.pdf

2024-01-02 15:29:27

I was a teenager in the 90s. I did not realize I am a relic of an ancient, long-forgotten past.
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2023-12-29 03:33:16

Alexander Stephens wasn't "found guilty of the crime of insurrection" either but was denied his Senate seat in 1866 precisely because of his involvement in the insurrection. For an insurrectionist like Trump to be elected, something like the Amnesty Act of 1872 is required.

2023-12-27 12:14:38

This is like the Triple Lindy of faux-contrarian big brain, an incredibly shallow understanding of capitalism, evolution, and human nature all rolled into a single bad take.
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2023-12-21 17:58:12

A datapoint on the Claudine Gay "controversy." Charles Fried was Reagan's Solicitor General. He testified in favor of Alito's SCOTUS nomination.
Even he thinks this is bad-faith nonsense from untrustworthy sources.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/20/us/harvard-claudine-gay-plagiarism.html
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2023-12-21 15:17:08

"Courts should stay out of elections!"
That's nice, I'll relay your message to President Gore.

2023-12-20 13:01:13

This is why billionaires hate unions. "Tesla hikes wages 10% at Nevada factory as United Auto Workers push to unionize"
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/19/tesla-hikes-wages-at-nevada-gigafactory/

2023-12-18 23:58:55

According to LendingTree insurance quote data, "Tesla drivers have the highest accident rate."
"From Nov. 14, 2022, through Nov. 14, 2023, Tesla drivers had 23.54 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Ram (22.76) and Subaru (20.90) were the only other brands with more than 20.00 accidents per 1,000 drivers. Meanwhile, Pontiac (8.41), Mercury (8.96) and Saturn (9.13) were the only brands with fewer than 10.00 accidents per 1,000 drivers."
https://www.lendingtree.com/insurance/brand-incidents-study/

2023-12-11 23:55:09

Look at this garbage from the Texas Supreme Court's abortion order. Pure sophistry. Wholly meaningless drivel because they wanted to force a woman to carry a trisomy 18 pregnancy to term.
https://www.txcourts.gov/media/1457645/230994pc.pdf
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2023-12-08 22:05:50

It's a bit of a problem for 2024 that most of the Dem leadership—but not majority of the Dem base, nor a majority of independents—believes that the highest priority at the end of 2023 is providing political cover to Netanyahu's campaign to raze Gaza.

2023-11-29 16:54:26

Today in corporate hypocrisy: "There I Ruined It," which uses AI to make song parodies, is in private mode on YouTube thanks to UMG copyright claims.
Let's be clear: if that stuff isn't fair use, then absolutely none of the outputs from big AI models are fair use. Including Google's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZnj45cMnRg

2023-11-27 13:44:32

Conservative men have made themselves unfuckable with their abhorrent views, but somehow this is a problem liberal women should solve by lowering their standards.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/22/marriage-polarization-dating-trump/

2023-11-26 15:07:15

1) Saying "I won't vote for you if you _____" is one of the few tools voters have to influence incumbents. It's often not true anyway.
2) If you spent the 2020 Dem primary saying you'd never vote for Sanders or Warren, you don't get to lecture people about using this tactic.

2023-11-24 19:44:26

Find someone who loves you as much as conservatives love downplaying the Nazis.
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2023-11-23 16:58:40

I'm sorry, but either (1) this is yet more marketing hype for OpenAI under the guise of AI safety; or (2) it's a genuine threat and the whole company should be seized by the government. We've seen more than enough "this might kill us all j/k but maybe not" from AI companies.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/sam-altmans-ouster-openai-was-precipitated-by-letter-board-about-ai-breakthrough-2023-11-22/

2023-11-19 23:34:45

The Attorney General of Missouri (a Republican) is "looking into" Media Matters creating three X/Twitter accounts then accurately reporting when X showed ads to offensive content—an abuse of government power that genuinely threatens free speech.
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2023-11-15 18:24:48

Iran now has >20x as much enriched uranium than it did when Trump cancelled the JCPOA. This outcome is 100% Trump's fault, and the whole Republican party loudly cheered him along as he did it, too, and still believe he was right to help Iran expand its nuclear capabilities in exchange for nothing.
https://www.barrons.com/news/iran-s-enriched-uranium-stockpile-over-22-times-limit-of-2015-deal-iaea-3eda5caa

2023-11-13 16:55:54

luv 2 b the empirical science guy who follows the data objectively
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2023-11-06 12:49:51

Hey Americans, feeling politically powerless? You have an election tomorrow. Fascists are targeting those boring state and local positions and using them for everything from abortion restrictions to book bans to criminalizing trans healthcare. It's up to you to stop them.

2023-10-30 16:25:54

I'm no fan of Tom Friedman, but he's right about all of this, including the way the high civilian casualty count from Israeli's response is overshadowing Hamas's massacre, and the lack of any real plan from Netanyahu's admin for what happens after a ground invasion.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/29/opinion/israel-hamas-ceasefire.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6kw.qY5h.cyy-69Bl6vhq&smid=url-share

2023-10-27 11:38:57

I totally want to move my financial life over to the website that promotes Nazis and where every single post of mine gets instant auto-spam replies. https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23934216/x-twitter-bank-elon-musk-2024

2023-10-23 13:10:36

A big problem right now is how Netanyahu can't be PM without the support of the right-wing, and so, because Bibi's future is more important to him than Israel's, every important post has to go to an incompetent, corrupt, delusional, right-wing crank. https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-22/ty-article/.premium/netanyahus-hostage-envoy-endangers-the-lives-of-all-those-kidnapped-by-hamas/0000018b-538a-df6e-a5db-77eec70e0000

2023-10-20 13:04:46

Kids' high school PTO is having a fundraiser tomorrow and the email says, "grab a bite to eat at one of our food truck vendors—Uncle L's BBQ, Jamaican D's, Angie's Viet Cuisine, and more" and I can't stress enough the benefits of raising your kids in a multicultural district.

2023-10-19 15:08:43

SpaceX successfully buffaloed federal agencies to permit a launch which failed to use standard technology in place since before Apollo, resulting in giant chunks of concrete being thrown thousands of feet into wetlands.
Now the agencies are sort-of doing their jobs, so SpaceX is really mad and claiming there's a 'red tape' problem.
https://spaceflightnow.com/2023/10/18/spacex-battles-regulatory-process-that-could-hold-up-starship-test-flight-for-months/

2023-10-18 11:52:22

An open secret of big pharma is that the bulk of their "innovation" is trivial—they're mostly generating analogues to evade patents—and the real breakthroughs are always mostly/entirely government initiated and funded, then handed to private companies for rent-seeking.
https://prospect.org/health/2023-10-18-nih-how-to-become-billionaire-program/

2023-10-17 13:24:25

Just noting that "Stand With Israel" and "Free Palestine" have different meanings to different people and it is a good idea to figure out how someone interprets those phrases before getting mad at them for saying or not saying them.

2023-10-14 15:17:42

Happy to be corrected by an expert, but seems clear to me that every "AI detector" for text / image / video / audio is a complete scam and they should never be used in any context.
https://www.404media.co/ai-images-detectors-are-being-used-to-discredit-the-real-horrors-of-war/

2023-10-12 11:39:18

It is strange and disturbing to see so many posts on social media that deny it's a war crime to stage a surprise attack on civilians (including murders, kidnappings, and rapes) or to starve out a civilian population (by cutting off electricity, food, and water).
These are both obviously war crimes and should be discussed as such.
https://www.justsecurity.org/89403/the-siege-of-gaza-and-the-starvation-war-crime/

2023-10-10 23:06:44

One of the few promises Elon Musk made about Twitter that he actually fulfilled: he said he was going to ruin its ability to moderate content and he did.
"Many of the posts have been seeded by Hamas to terrorize civilians and take advantage of the lack of content moderation on some social media sites — particularly X and Telegram — according to a Hamas official and social media experts interviewed by The New York Times."
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/10/technology/hamas-violent-videos-online.html

2023-10-06 16:57:53

This article is a reminder that Tesla is no closer than any other company to automated driving (and indeed they might be farther behind), they're just far more aggressive in their marketing and deployment of unreliable beta tech.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2023/tesla-autopilot-crash-analysis/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001&utm_source=reddit.com