A week of good food

A week of good food

257. The Commission recommends that all Member States: (a) Employ all means reasonably available to them to prevent the commission of genocide in the Gaza Strip; (b) Cease the transfer of arms and other equipment or items, including jet fuel, to the State of Israel or third States where there is reason to suspect their use in military operations that have involved or could involve the commission of genocide; (c) Ensure individuals and corporations in their territories and within their jurisdiction are not involved in the commission of genocide, aiding and assisting the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide and investigate and prosecute those who may be implicated in these crimes under international law; (d) Facilitate the investigations and domestic proceedings and take action (including imposing sanctions) against the State of Israel and against individuals or corporations that are involved in or facilitating the commission of genocide or incitement to commit genocide; (e) Cooperate with the investigation of the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. 258. The Commission recommends that the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court: (a) Examine, within its continuing investigation in the Situation in the State of Palestine, the crime of genocide for amendment to existing arrest warrants and addition to future application for arrest warrants; (b) Examine the involvement of officials mentioned in this report for inclusion as those most responsible for international crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide.

As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire.

End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Sometimes I’ll replay a game and think “I’ll do an evil playthrough, that’ll be new and fun” and then I’ll do one evil thing and be like no…it’s wrong to do that to these pixels.

Some patriotic reflections on Independence Day Look at me. I’m the originalist, now.

hey, you ever re-read the Declaration of Independence? some fascinating stuff in there www.theverge.com/policy/69730...

Yeah because this totally worked for the Cultural Revolution

People raised the issue repeatedly since 2019 but up until midway through last year the official line, echoed by a billion libs, was that 1. it's ageist and ableist to mention it and 2. he's actually perfectly fine and you're just imagining things. It was a very stupid time.

America voluntarily turned into a near fascist state within a decade. That's how quickly it happened. The pain will last for years.

It sounds like maggot

It’s strikes me that AGI is no longer a useful metric. We’ve seemingly achieved Artificial General Knowledge, but not Artificial General Capability. We should start specifying which of these a model has achieved, since without the second I’m wagering these models may have limited macro impact.

i think rage at congestion pricing is a good example of how no one believes that the world can be positive sum anymore. like, people pay a small fee to get access to a faster commute — saving them valuable time — and the money improves public transit, saving other people valuable time. it's win-win!

Some of the scariest bugs alive.

Andor is well worth it.

AGI is going to prove a limited standard to think about because we will have Jagged AGI - superhuman at some tasks, weaker at others. Just because o3 is as good as the 175th best competitive coder on Earth (out of 600,000) doesn’t mean that it is as good as them at every task they do (for now)

Winnie missed me and slept on my clothes while I was at the gym

Oh no…

Two degrees from the UHC shooter

It’s strikes me that AGI is no longer a useful metric. We’ve seemingly achieved Artificial General Knowledge, but not Artificial General Capability. We should start specifying which of these a model has achieved, since without the second I’m wagering these models may have limited macro impact.

I remember it used to have a screen over the bottle top so that cigarette ash didn’t fall in and cause an explosion.

The age of milk is over. The time of the Nog has come.

As my old professor Steven Hahn used to say, the South lost the war, but won the peace.

Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.

so much of the pronoun bullshit is just people being angry at being asked to treat others with a basic level of respect

you don't have to understand gender dysphoria or being nonbinary or neopronouns to just... respect people's wishes about how they want to be addressed

One of the really annoying things about AI discourse is that it all revolves around an advanced, sci-fi conception of it that doesn’t currently and may never exist. It’d be like if we were all debating the ethics of transmogrification and we just had the cardboard box from Calvin and Hobbes.

The cowardice of Jonathan Greenblatt On the ADL's influential CEO, and the intentional confusion regarding who really has power.

Imagine your neighbor yelled, “Jews will not replace us!” and your mailman replied, “You have said the actual truth!” You would think to yourself, “My mailman is an antisemite.” Why are we holding the richest man in the world to a lower standard than your mailman?

I am begging you (and Will) to see beyond formal academic notions, however enlightened, to appreciate that poor people's lives are not improving appreciably, and they suffer in ways that are dismissed or unimportant to policy, and it's not crazy to talk about that.

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

When we warn the real threat of AI is how it’s used against people in the present, not the fantasies that some day computers might think for themselves, this is exactly the kind of thing we’re talking about: health insurers using AI to deny care.

arstechnica.com/health/2023/...

In the last four weeks no one has made me (an American Jew) feel unsafe, no one has talked about wanting me dead, no one has tried to dehumanize me, no one has sent me violent messages, no one has tried to threaten my livelihood and my family — except for American pro-Israel Jews

Opinion | Why Aren’t More People Getting Married? Ask Women What Dating Is Like. Harping on people to get married from up in the ivory tower fails to engage with reality of life in the dating trenches.

FINALLY A DISPATCH FROM REALITY

"harping on people to get married from high up in the ivory tower fails to engage with the reality on the ground that heterosexual women from many walks of life confront: that is, the state of men today."
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/o...