But Sean, that plainly applies only to professionals, not the FAKE NEWS.

The AI bubble is like the dotcom bubble: It’s not that the Internet was some useless passing fad; it’s that a lot of money got poured into absolute horseshit before people started figuring out where the actual value was.

Is it dogshit or is it horseshit? This matters for the diversity.

Blackman's piece is somehow - shockingly but unsurprisingly - even worse.

Note that Donald Trump meets even this standard.

This has a real "but muh court!" flavor to it. The Supreme Court is totally corrupt, and while we can all see it, the evidence is still valuable. The solution to that isn't to try to hide the evidence better, it's to stop the Court from being corrupt.

THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026

* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
1/10

Too late.

Like so much else, it's a coin flip between ignorant or malicious.

Yes. Also, I love Balkanizing the power grid

This is such a stupid idea that it really should be parody, but I fear that it's not.

I think we need to get even more fundamental: is Kash Patel self-aware?

Does Kash Patel know about discovery? I mean, he went to law school and then practiced law, but since he's Kash Patel I don't think that tells us anything.

This is very much where I am as well. Citing to a trial or appellate record when writing a brief or proposed findings can be agonizing. "Go find when we talked about X in the context of Y" can be an unbelievable labor-saver.

a lot of the quote posts of this are in the "don't get your hopes up/don't be delusional" genre which, I think, miss the point.

the GOP is gonna be losing a lot more sleep at night if it's starting to look like they might have to fight to keep Mississippi.

we don't have to win there to fuck 'em up

"Israel has become what it rightly hates."

A truly worthwhile way to spend some money.

Is there rulemaking on this? Or are they just saying that on social media?

The FBI director filing even a hypothetically meritorious defamation suit while in office would still be so improper as to be a same-day firing offense.

Oh no, I spent an hour on my phone or laptop at the airport instead of an hour on my phone or laptop at home!

It is simply not tenable to have a government in which everyone has the right to government money as well as the right to ignore the conditions the government puts on the money, but that's rapidly where the Supreme Court is driving us.

I don't mean to rule out the possibility that one can use AI that way, but I don't think that's generally what is happening.

And D.C. has an anti-SLAPP law 😬

I think Patel calling himself a resident and citizen of Nevada is plausibly a frivolous assertion, but Patel is asserting it because otherwise he'd be in local court in D.C. and would be subject to D.C.'s anti-SLAPP law. That would be...bad for him.

(@david.noll.org caught this first.)

I, for one, would prefer that the director of the FBI live in or near Washington, D.C., where the director of the FBI works.

I don't think "this is bad, don't use it" is not the right approach. But like a lot of parenting, the right approach (say a nuanced conversation about AI's benefits, its risks, and how to balance them) is challenging.

Critical thinking is an absolutely core skill for kids, and anything that risks impairing that should be used with the greatest caution.

On the other hand, AI is here, it's not going anywhere, and learning to use it safely and effectively is going to be an important life skill.

I think this is complicated and difficult.

What I think we see in a lot of adults is that AI is a crutch - they outsource the work to the machine. And when you don't do the work of the research and thinking, the product is worse.

That kind of outsourcing seems very damaging for kids.

My hot take is that this too can be a labor-saver, but only in the hands of someone who both knows what they're doing and is cautious enough to catch and fix the errors.