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The Vindication of Bidenomics Are we finally ready to acknowledge its successes?

"America at the end of the Biden years was still a hugely unequal society, but less so than it had been for a generation." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-vindic...

InfoWars Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing…

Some timeline stuff:
— We expect to get InfoWars.com after the judge clears it in a couple of weeks.
— We'll build a world of characters on the site and across social media. Tim Heidecker is in charge, and we have grand designs.
— Visit theonion.info, buy a subscription, help us dominate the world.

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

A couple points on this manifesto, apart from the racial superiority subtext others noted.

Palantir is a company built on public contracts, they bill the state billions to surveil and target the state's population. The manifesto exists to justify their demand for even more.
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I mean, of course that’s what happening. It’s been clear the whole time

This is incredible.

Also. Fuck RFK Jr.

"She’s been a court interpreter for over 20 years, the only one licensed in Texas for Hindi, Punjabi, or Urdu. Her language skills are requested nationwide..."

"One of her children recently enlisted in the military...

www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

We all have days like this

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Live Nation Illegally Monopolized Concerts and Ticketing, Jury Finds The verdict paves the way for more than 30 states to seek measures curbing the company’s power, including a possible breakup.

Live Nation illegally monopolized the ticketing market for major concerts in the U.S., a federal jury found on.wsj.com/4vEIFQn

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I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

Ok I'm bored and want to procrastinate work so let's do a thread instead. Wanna hear a story?

Alright then, story it is. So gather around, children, because now we're going to talk about the most important science book you've probably never heard of.

Ready? Off we go, then.

The New York Times Got Played By A Telehealth Scam And Called It The Future Of AI

Since the New York Times published its semi-viral big profile of Medvi last week — the "AI-powered" telehealth startup that it breathlessly described as a "$1.8 billion company" supposedly run by just two brothers —…

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit:

A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

Again, there’s a reason democracies — and in particular this one — were specially designed to avoid putting all power in one person’s hands. Weird that we did away with those limits because of some people’s vague sense of grievance.

Ed Baldwin eating spaghetti with a lot of cheese

for every 20 likes, I will give Ed Baldwin more cheese on his spaghetti

Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism' Humans, however flawed, are

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.

Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA)

A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning.

@exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

That is, space stuff is expensive and hard to do, with likely little material return, but it demonstrates might, wealth, and technical capacity. I believe this.

And yet for all that, if one must do costly signalling politics, sending inspiring people to the money is pretty solid.

"Guy Incognito" from the Simpsons

#LegalEthics Tidbit: Can a patent lawyer disguise himself as a customer and order an infringing product to establish personal jurisdiction over an infringer?

A WI patent lawyer representing a plaintiff purchased defendant’s product and then submitted a ... (cont.)

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#law #lawsky

If you're a baseball player who can catch, slide, and run, but you can't hit the ball, you can:
a) Practice on your own (teammates, ball machine)
b) Hire a good coach
c) Switch sports

Notice how there is no
d) Put your jersey on a robot every time it's your turn at bat (then lie about it)

Drama-casting: He knows he’s going to lose. So he shows up, makes a scene, gets kicked out, press conference, then when the opinion comes down he can say, “Look at these petty people, ruled against me because they don’t like me, so I’m just gonna do the thing anyway because they’re illegitimate.”

He knows they’re not televised, right? He’s a TV guy. He wants his face on TV mean mugging the justices. That’s it. He won’t show once he realizes there won’t be a photo op.

So the goal is to travel back in time and prevent Trump from tearing up the JCPOA that Obama worked out that already delivered all these things?

Super. Good luck with that, Petey.

“Because we’re regulated. Otherwise we totally would.”

A thing that litigants simply do not understand is that ChatGPT logs are not privileged and are fully discoverable, and until litigants actually realize that LLMs will be a bigger danger to litigants than to attorneys.

On the flip side, the lore is my dad once had a judgment against a gas station owner who wouldn’t pay. So dad learned the gas delivery day, rented a tanker, brought the constable and writ of attachment, and told the delivery driver to hook it up to the rented tanker. Owner miraculously found the $$$