LLMs Are Databases - So Query Them YouTube video by Chris Hay

AI is the naked emperor. Beware the lying viziers. Am I wrong?

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Wow!!!!

Right!!!!

Infrastructure
&
Resilience

Lather
Rinse
Repeat

AMOC is way more urgent than the Strait of Hormuz YouTube video by Sim's Books

It is occurring to me that it would benefit mankind if we created a “Team Society” mindset. Building and maintaining systems that let life continue as we know it is not trivial. This is intriguing:

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A girl can dream.

So renewable energies really should be more and more attractive. For reasons (gestures widely).

The DOJ Is Normalizing Vigilantism Officials at the DOJ delivered a politically convenient one-two punch to the work of their predecessors this week.

Here is a gift link to my op ed in @opinion.bloomberg.com about DOJ’s false narrative of prosecutions of FACE Act and seditious conspiracy. Trump admin is rewriting history and normalizing vigilante violence.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

It scales far too easily. I hear you, O.
Loud and clear.

I can’t unsee “If you’re a celebrity, they let you do it.”

WTAF

Chinese government issues travel warning for SEA Airport after CBP denied entry to students with visas In a post, the Chinese Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said 20 Chinese students with valid visas were denied entry by Customs and Border Protection.

Chinese government issues travel warning for SEA Airport after CBP denied entry to students with visas www.king5.com/article/news... www.king5.com/article/news...

Participation trophies for all?

My shallow take is that Vance, et al are in an arc of self fulfilling prophecy where the whole world ends up wanting to kick their collective asses.

Eyes wide open.

“Sensitivity analysis revealed that vaccinated individuals consistently had a lower risk of death, regardless of the cause. Mortality was 29% lower within 6 months following COVID-19 vaccination (relative incidence, 0.71 [95% CI, 0.69-0.73]).”

Team Moderna here, for the record.

A few of these branches should be relevant to Cabinet member participation in an Amendment 25 action, right?

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HSGAC Hearing -- 04-15-2026 -- Vladeck Testimony.pdf | Powered by Box

Tomorrow at 10 ET, the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee is holding a hearing on ... the Second Amendment:

www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the...

I'll be the minority witness. And my written testimony has some ... thoughts ... about what we ought to be talking about instead:

Well, that is one way to reduce oil dependence.

1) He thinks it's exactly the sort of predictable thing that makes it important to see what's wrong with enumerationism.

2) He also thinks the case is wrongly decided. The prohibition is NP to collecting the tax, bc it makes evasion more difficult.

@patsobkowski.com

I’m old enough to remember this. www.businessinsider.com/how-kamala-h...

After Criticizing Pope, Trump Posts Image of Himself as a Jesus-Like Figure

The man is not well. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

Celebratory dance in Hungary

Mussolini delusions have entered the chat. Someone should probably tell djt it didn't end well from Mussolini. www.khanacademy.org/humanities/a...

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I want to hear more about how Hungary can upgrade their national constitution. USA can do better than a patchwork constitution with fragile amendments appended to the structure.

Ada Palmer just got on my radar. Looks like my spring recreational listening agenda is locked down!

This man is all of us!!!!

The street party vibe is brilliant. “Champions” indeed!

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Former US Ambassador to Hungary: