It is especially insulting because the government isn't even spending our taxes in a legal manner. And we have to pay them. It's like if your local mob boss added a processing fee on top of whatever money he extorted from you. And that processing fee went to his friends.
(1) We don't know that this was a jury nullification situation.
(2) It could as easily be the jurors simply decided that the prosecution failed to demonstrate the crime occurred as charged.
And that's fine. It's what juries are for.
Obviously she won't win, but you can safely predict that Stefanik's antisemitic conspiracy theories about "Soros" and "globalists" and aides/staffers of hers being in the youth GOP "I love Hitler"/"Throw them in the gas chambers" chat will get nowhere near the scrutiny Mamdani did.
I just had Claude Code make me a one page app that I think I will find useful: Drop a markdown file into it and it rendered it.
Here it is:
[_inchoatemiscellany.nekoweb.org/projects/…](inchoatemiscellany.nekoweb.org/projects/dndmdviewer/
I put my VISAWUS talk about suffragette violence up on my blog -- in an attempt to answer the question "Why was the British women's suffrage movement more violent than the American one?" eleanorcourtemanche.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/w...
I’m not even arguing here, I’m actually in awe of how durable the resistance is proving to be, and how little it is daunted by what appears (from the outside) an extremely daunting track record of repeated wrongness
We need more leaders, Dems and (come ON!) even Republicans to speak up this way.
wildthing A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations What is the best city to live in America Champaign, Illinois. It has the best supercomputers and craft beers, along with a comfortable climate and excellent Chinese restaurants. Why do you ask? Are you planning to move to the US? Yeah I might move That's a brilliant idea, and well expressed too. Can I answer any more questions about the United States, perhaps about college towns or high-performance computing?
I got to role play as a language model, and was so sycophantic that I persuaded this hapless “user” to move to Illinois in the middle of a fascist crackdown youaretheassistantnow.com
I am old enough to remember when this company used images of MLK, Gandhi, and Muhammad Ali in their ads, after having previously made one of the most famous ads in history by invoking "1984."
😕
Here’s the video again: www.instagram.com/reel/DPi9m_2...
This isn't exactly a surprise, but here's a note that Claude 4.5 Sonnet in Claude Code can write a full working Datasette plugin from a single prompt now simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/c...
"Information shapes perceptions, drives alliances, corrodes trust, and determines the resilience and power found in democracies." Putin understands and exploits this better than we do. www.thebulwark.com/p/putins-bot...
"How to Confront and Defeat an Authoritarian"
As the Trump Administration marches towards authoritarian control, historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social turns to American history after the Civil War for strategies on how the masses can rise up & rally.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
This is some of the best messaging I’ve seen so far from the Democratic Party. Please forward far and wide.
@indivisible.org
@indivisiblenoco.com
@indivisible-co.bsky.social
NOCO
#copolitics
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
Hold the line -
@hickenlooper.senate.gov
@bennet.senate.gov
Trump sent 20 billion to Argentina for a bailout.
China brokered a deal to quit buying American soybeans and buy beans from Argentina.
Trump bailed out the country that swept the knees of American farmers.
The Art of the Deal…
BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.
Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.
I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.
In four minutes I can forget just about anything
Alayna Treene @alaynatreene Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops to help with local law enforcement (without buy-in from the state’s governor) could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN Now he’s going to Memphis W/ @HBRabinowitz https://cnn.com/2025/09/12/politics/chicago-memphis-trump-national-guard
It absolutely matters here that Pritzker was effective at sounding the alarm and plainly stating this would be unconstitutional in a profoundly radical and fundamental way, and showing he could rally practical popular opposition, which then gets spun as backing out over "legal headaches."
This is wild, the Reuters reporting implies all the claims are completely fabricated.
From now on we are required by law to call them fair use machines
Text Shot: There is a straightforward fix. Penalize confident errors more than you penalize uncertainty, and give partial credit for appropriate expressions of uncertainty. This idea is not new. Some standardized tests have long used versions of negative marking for wrong answers or partial credit for leaving questions blank to discourage blind guessing. Several research groups have also explored evaluations that account for uncertainty and calibration. Our point is different. It is not enough to add a few new uncertainty-aware tests on the side. The widely used, accuracy-based evals need to be updated so that their scoring discourages guessing. If the main scoreboards keep rewarding lucky guesses, models will keep learning to guess. Fixing scoreboards can broaden adoption of hallucination-reduction techniques, both newly developed and those from prior research.
Why language models hallucinate - OpenAI openai.com/index/why-language-model... (new paper) #AI #hallucination
Reporters from across newsrooms in Chicago are collaborating to collect visual evidence of federal agents detaining people & using force in Chicago. Send videos to tinyurl.com/chicagojournalists, or get in touch via email chicagojournalists@protonmail.com.
code sits at the very end of a very long chain of decisions
code is the most* expensive place to make those decisions
this is a thing i call the specificity gradient:
youtu.be/dDE_y7Qri9w
(* unless you're doing hardware, then that is the most expensive)
