James Gleick

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Chaos, Genius, The Information, Time Travel.

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2024-08-15 14:02:03

The American taxpayer has paid to enrich Elon Musk, an oligarch poisoning our political discourse—and we’re still subsidizing him. It’s time to stop.
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/time-to-stop-musk?r=g7z5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2024-08-10 02:45:30

If your lemonade stand has to spend $16 every time you collect 80 cents, you don’t have a real business. https://mas.to/@carnage4life/112935160004870869

2024-08-07 22:04:26

Accusing Elon Musk’s X of bias is like accusing J. P. Morgan of capitalism. https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/112922809028968929

2024-08-03 14:47:23

You see Yvonne Furneaux. I see a telephone.
#telephone
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/898/634/045/280/817/original/0c11460ac4c60635.png

2024-07-30 20:07:14

This laughing thing needs more attention. When Trump says “You can tell a lot by a laugh,” he’s not wrong. Harris’s laugh is charming and genuine. Now let’s talk about his:
Trump doesn’t laugh. Think about it. He smirks, he sneers, and he snickers, but he lacks whatever brain function is responsible for laughter.
Is it a neurological problem? Voters need to know
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/kamala-harris-laugh-criticism-trump-women-color-emotions-rcna164069

2024-05-31 03:34:06

The @npub12qk…8srs was ready for the verdict.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/533/598/690/154/744/original/a7cf4683cfea4f20.png

2024-05-13 16:29:11

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@npub17nv…96rn Yes, that’s correct.

2024-05-13 16:20:10

HENCHMAN: You never know what he’s —
CRIME BOSS: Maybe he gets hit by a truck.
HENCHMAN: Correct. So, I’m all over that.
[recording of Michael Cohen and Donald Trump played this morning in the case of The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump]

2024-04-16 15:05:08

Reminder that Clarence Thomas’s wife organized and financed these very crimes. So does he recuse himself? Nah.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/281/512/021/951/201/original/a65deb64c232314f.png

2024-04-15 16:54:42

Maggie Haberman reports in the NY Times that the stable genius fell asleep at his own criminal trial.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/276/280/564/621/352/original/130da8feff1748b7.png

2024-04-15 14:28:29

“Issue more common stock” = Soak the rubes one more time on the way to the inevitable bankruptcy.
The #SEC should not allow this.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/15/trump-media-shares-plunge-after-company-files-to-issue-additional-djt-stock.html
#TruthSocial

2024-04-14 14:19:37

What a sad and pathetic grift this is. You almost have to feel sorry for the Trump cultists who are going to lose everything.
The entire company has less revenue than a single Starbucks coffee shop. It will never, ever make a profit. It’s not even trying to; instead it’s shoveling investors’ cash as fast as it can into the pockets of Trump’s cronies.
https://wapo.st/4ayuwJl
#TruthSocial

2024-04-12 16:33:56

“Ethics crisis” is not wrong. But a clearer way to say what’s engulfing the Supreme Court is “bribery scandal.”
https://wapo.st/3TWDXLD

2024-04-11 18:17:42

Arno Penzias, RIP.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/science/space/arno-a-penzias-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jk0.p4C2.kvAc8OyalOhW&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2024-04-11 16:04:19

What is today? Today is yet another day when Trump’s pet judge will refuse to set a trial date in his espionage case—ten months after he was indicted.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/253/433/167/755/691/original/d683c5c4733c122b.png

2024-04-10 15:54:40

Crime boss lets yet another of his henchmen take the fall.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/nyregion/allen-weisselberg-sentenced-trump.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.jU0.9KeE.opJs7-OSMb3S&smid=url-share

2024-04-02 19:22:44

Terrorist Threat & Aggravated Harassment.
Another case of Trump’s mob paying the price while the mobster-in-chief remains free. https://mastodon.online/@ampersine/112203206581215123

2024-04-01 16:37:32

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Even worse: that tiny bit of revenue is trending DOWNWARD.
https://wapo.st/4cEmKyX

2024-04-01 16:32:08

Let’s do some arithmetic. A company takes in $4 million in total revenue. To accomplish this, it spends $62 million.
Net loss: $58 million.
How much would you pay to buy this company? https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112196716174826637

2024-03-30 21:29:04

Plus obviously he can’t keep being Senator. Right? I mean rules are rules. https://www.threads.net/@newsbreakinglive/post/C5JkLCaPUSn

2024-03-29 22:15:41

“A slanting bar of sunlight on the table and the jug of red wine.”
—Georges Simenon

2024-03-29 18:55:13

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@npub1qmc…v6gx (Maybe “problem” is an overstatement. Disappointment?)

2024-03-29 18:52:54

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@npub1qmc…v6gx This is a real problem. There was an author and publisher presence on the bad place that hasn’t come over.

2024-03-26 22:26:48

A Singapore-flagged cargo ship had a power failure for reasons still unknown and destroyed Baltimore’s bridge.
If you’re a Republican in 2024 America, your mission is clear: find a Black woman to blame.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2024/03/26/baltimore-bridge-collapse-caused/

2024-03-26 21:03:06

What do wine, fake hundred-dollar bills, gold sneakers, hats, rhinestone pins, dolls, prayer candles, steak, diplomas, and bibles have in common?
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/164/011/047/835/374/original/212ddb4d6137dc35.jpeg

2024-03-26 20:21:31

It’s always fun to read the court’s order, and it helps in seeing the big picture. For example:
"His statements were threatening, inflammatory, denigrating, and the targets of his statements ranged from local and federal officials, court and court staff, prosecutors assigned to the cases, and private individuals including grand jurors performing their civic duty.”
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24515030/trump-gag-order-merchan-ny.pdf

2024-03-26 20:14:18

Jesus wept.
https://wapo.st/3vv2mjm

2024-03-26 12:32:02

Who will hold Trump accountable?
“… outrageous that the former president would get this unexplained courtesy after years of willfully defrauding the public.… If there seems to be a different set of rules for Trump, under which there is always a reason to look the other way or give him a second chance, that’s because for all intents and purposes, there is."
Always read Jamelle Bouie [gift link] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/26/opinion/trump-trials-bond-invincibility.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.fk0.ZLI1.T53yHkvdm7Pb&smid=url-share

2024-03-24 19:27:08

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@npub1khc…frcn I had that same feeling.

2024-03-24 18:22:55

Sounds logical, but is it?
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/152/056/549/502/052/original/0a1de26a87d2c09d.png

2024-03-24 16:07:53

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@npub1jkg…npsp You’re living in a fantasy world (Fox News maybe?). In the real world:
The legislation Mike Johnson is blocking doesn’t do anything for Ukraine’s economy. The money doesn’t even go to Ukraine. It goes to American arms manufacturers. It would help OUR economy, not Ukraine’s.
“Illegals”* didn’t vote for Biden. They aren’t allowed to vote. Anyone who votes is not only here legally but is an actual citizen.
— (1/2)

2024-03-23 16:12:00

Somebody go back in time and explain to Ronald Reagan and John McCain that their grand old party is now deliberately trying to lose a war to Russia.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-leaves-two-week-break-addressing-ukraine-aid-rcna144446

2024-03-23 02:16:55

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@npub1lrf…rmqg It’s a gift link. Try again.

2024-03-22 21:37:52

In which @npub1f8u…j5mg reminds us why Letitia James isn’t going to seize Trump Tower.
Trump doesn’t own it.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/we-have-met-the-enemy-and-he-owns-the-valet-booth-at-trump-tower/sharetoken/3jTLuWi6kWgZ

2024-03-22 16:39:55

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“Becoming a public company burdened Mr. Trump with the responsibility of putting shareholders’ interests first. But Trump could generally meet that obligation by obtaining approval from his board of directors. The board’s three outside members were widely seen as bowing to his wishes.
"A week after the initial public offering, the new company began using some of the almost $300 million it had raised to clear Mr. Trump’s personal debts.”

2024-03-22 16:38:01

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“Early on, I took a lot of money out of the casinos with the financings and the things we do,” Trump said in a recent interview. “Atlantic City was a very good cash cow for me for a long time.”
Others were hurt.

2024-03-22 16:36:30

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“He put a number of local contractors and suppliers out of business when he didn’t pay them,” said Steven P. Perskie, who was New Jersey’s top casino regulator in the early 1990s. “So when he left Atlantic City, it wasn’t, ‘Sorry to see you go.’ It was, ‘How fast can you get the hell out of here?’”

2024-03-22 16:35:11

A new company is going to start trading shortly with the ticker symbol DJT. Here’s a reminder of what happened to anyone who invested in the last DJT company. (1/2)

2024-03-22 16:35:11

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“He was failing in Atlantic City long before Atlantic City itself was failing. But even as his companies did poorly, Trump did well. He put up little of his own money, shifted personal debts to the casinos and collected millions of dollars in salary, bonuses and other payments. The burden of his failures fell on investors and others who had bet on his business acumen.”
This superb reporting from the NYT in 2016 stirred barely a ripple. [Gift link]
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html?ugrp=c&unlocked_article_code=1.ek0.krkM.or8Ioj9_EpTm&smid=url-share (2/2)

2024-03-21 14:13:24

This is a story about the wannabe oligarch grifters at Truth Social scrambling to divvy up their phony money before the public catches on and it all evaporates.
Fittingly, “Trump Media” will use the ticket symbol DJT—last used when Trump suckered investors into his casino scheme on its way to bankruptcy.
https://wapo.st/3x6nNrr

2024-03-21 13:22:40

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@npub1ca3…r24y There aren’t any supersonic passenger jets that fly fast enough (>1,500 mph).

2024-03-19 22:26:39

The turn to fascism in America isn’t coming just (or even primarily) from crazed fanatics. It’s coming from well funded “think tanks” full of well dressed and well fed pseudoscholars who imagine themselves to be reasonable and mannerly. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112124274481988039

2024-03-19 20:09:42

Depraved. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/19/jared-kushner-gaza-waterfront-property-israel-negev

2024-03-18 15:47:21

Trump right now:
1. I don’t have enough money left to disgorge my ill-gotten gains, as ordered by the Court.
2. Have mercy on me.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/18/nyregion/trump-bond-civil-fraud-case.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk0.HQdz.WEY-5wb9mU_q&smid=url-share

2024-03-18 15:43:07

Calling a lie a lie ≠ censorship. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112117424589771542

2024-03-18 14:35:23

Imagine a president pardoning his own criminal co-conspirator. What a scandal that would be!
https://wapo.st/3IGNjWD

2024-03-16 13:52:59

Imagine if a former US president was running for re-election and HIS OWN VICE PRESIDENT said he was unfit for office.
That would be really something, wouldn’t it?

2024-03-15 19:24:49

‘Gee, Senator, considering that I am wearing my pilot’s uniform and that I just told you I am a pilot, is there something about me that makes you think I’m a flight attendant?’
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minnesota-senator-calls-delta-pilot-a-stewardess-during-senate-labor-committee/

2024-03-15 19:09:43

Free expression for me but not for thee.
—#SCOTUS https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112100969737403617

2024-03-15 16:12:33

This is clearly a big swerve in US policy toward Israel, coordinated between Biden and the Democrats’ most reliable advocate of Israel and—until this moment—Netanyahu. Of course Republicans are shouting. Stay tuned. https://journa.host/@w7voa/112100434482347121

2024-03-12 22:02:27

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Reporters should be asking every Republican official tonight: Do you support Trump’s plan to free the thousand violent criminals who have been convicted in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol?

2024-03-12 21:59:10

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Nearly a thousand violent criminals have been convicted by judges and juries of their peers of rioting, assaulting law-enforcement officers, attacking federal buildings with firearms, and other felonies in connection with the January 6 insurrection.
The Republican candidate for president says that they are “hostages” and that one of his first acts will be to set them all free.
To me this seems like important news.

2024-03-12 21:48:42

This story should be leading the New York Times right now, and every other US newspaper. It’s not, because they think, well, Trump’s crazy, that’s not news.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/12/trump-january-6-pardons

2024-03-11 21:20:31

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@npub13sm…068f You are commenting without reading the article, I see. Musk’s private foundation gives virtually nothing to actual “charity” but regular spends its money to benefit Musk’s own interests.

2024-03-11 17:23:38

Musk avoided capital gains tax on the value of his shares. Plus (due to this loophole) he deducted the FULL value against other income. Plus (due to being a cheat) he then used the tax-free money for his personal benefit.
So once again taxpayers subsidize him to the tune of billions. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112077717376261001

2024-03-10 15:40:36

Debtors Prison for superrich deadbeats: an idea whose time has come. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112070923274019917

2024-03-07 13:50:41

First-rate analysis of what the Supreme Court just did:
“A five-man majority has effectively nullified a critical provision of the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution. The ‘oathbreaking insurrectionist’ Trump—a designation unchallenged by the Supreme Court majority or even his attorneys—will never be disqualified from the presidency.”
“The Court severely weakened an essential barrier to violent despotism that had been erected in the aftermath of the Civil War.”
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2024/03/06/the-constitution-turned-upside-down/

2024-03-06 19:31:58

This is what Mike Johnson is giving us. Let your Representative know. https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/112050275694398039

2024-03-06 14:20:31

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@npub12kp…xmmh On the contrary. Right now, when swinging a few hundred votes in one state can change the election, there’s far more incentive to cheat.

2024-03-06 14:18:29

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@npub1ntu…60a2 This is not “one cool legal trick.” This is years of hard work in behalf of electoral fairness. Neither of us knows what the Supreme Court would say. It’s clearly constitutional, though.

2024-03-05 23:16:19

This is my nominee for least-covered, least-understood story of the decade. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is the righteous and plausible path to ending the Electoral College. No constitutional amendment required.
That seems too good to be true. Also, to wrap your head around it requires a bit of effort. It’s almost like (content warning!) math.
But take a minute or two, and the light will dawn. This could happen. And it should.
https://www.nationalpopularvote.com/written-explanation https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112045131762041444

2024-03-04 23:24:22

What would the people who wrote, and ratified, the Fourteenth Amendment have thought about this Supreme Court decision?
Would they have thought, oops, our bad. We didn’t write that clearly enough.
They didn’t want anyone who had participated in an insurrection ever to hold public office, much less be allowed to run for President. They said that as clearly as they could.
They didn’t specify an enforcement mechanism—they trusted us future people to work out the details.
We’ve let them down.

2024-03-03 19:55:27

Every writer has days like this. https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/112031993850794874

2024-03-01 22:53:25

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@npub17cu…y38u What a saintly visionary is “Mr. Musk.” Others use technology “as a source of profit and power”! Others put their technology “in the hands of a closed, for-profit company.”
Yes, it’s good reading.

2024-03-01 17:31:45

Eric Swalwell had some good questions for Hunter Biden. No wonder Republicans insisted on conducting this interview behind closed doors.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/021/622/221/199/682/original/3ef8f4b7c280f73a.png

2024-03-01 16:57:50

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. https://mastodon.social/@Some_Emo_Chick/112016009084364649

2024-03-01 03:04:37

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@npub1mqq…8v7l You mean when Democrats try to raise the minimum wage and Republicans manage to block them, you still find a way to blame Democrats?
That puts a smile on McConnell’s face.

2024-02-29 22:15:15

Mitch McConnell did so much to destroy our democracy that it’s hard to pick just one thing. But Josh Marshall says this is the worst:
"These days you often hear reporters and commentators saying matter of factly that legislation requires 60 votes in the Senate. This is truly McConnell’s greatest accomplishment. People say this like it’s in the Constitution, like the two-thirds requirement for conviction at impeachment or to approve a treaty. (1/2)

2024-02-28 18:20:24

Trump can’t come up with the money he owes; begs the court for mercy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/28/trump-appeal-bond-fraud-case?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

2024-02-28 17:44:39

I sometimes feel that the people responsible for the interfaces between their computers and their customers don’t care enough about their customers.
Can anything be done to improve their attitude?
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/010/348/234/616/987/original/bcaaf5174b4c513e.png
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/010/348/330/414/727/original/a48e8f6fd45afeb3.png

2024-02-28 17:39:42

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@npub1g9x…wl03 Because they were valuable and he wanted to be able to sell them to foreign governments or use them as leverage.

2024-02-27 22:50:18

I feel I’m fairly well informed, but there’s a thing I don’t understand, and it keeps me awake at night: Many of my fellow citizens want this man to be president again.
[photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP]
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/112/005/887/868/301/637/original/2ff67fba3f796e49.png

2024-02-27 22:40:32

“There has never been a case in American history in which a former official has engaged in conduct remotely similar to Trump’s. He intentionally took possession of a vast trove of some of the nation’s most sensitive documents—documents so sensitive that they were presented to the President—and stored them in unsecured locations at his heavily trafficked
social club. (1/2)

2024-02-22 22:13:38

Dear New York Times et al,
“We now see that almost all of 2023 was dominated by a legal/political story that was not only bogus but — according to prosecutors’ filings and the discredited source’s own admission to federal authorities — was a plant by the Russian intelligence services. That’s real. That requires an explanation as to how that was ever allowed to happen. It requires some effort to prevent it from happening again.”
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/can-dc-reporters-overcome-their-trumper-shock-training/sharetoken/R1iJBpGI5cVE

2024-02-21 18:21:53

What does Trump have in store for us? A militarized authoritarian regime; “an agenda of inhumanity on a scale we haven’t seen for generations”; deliberate disregard for the Constitution; dehumanization and cruelty toward the most vulnerable.
Full credit to the Washington Post.
https://wapo.st/48tFoGy

2024-02-21 03:25:50

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@npub1zdp…vqv8 ✅

2024-02-18 03:15:16

Failed grifter, on the way out, tries hawking “gold sneakers.”
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/donald-trump-sneakercon-philadelphia-sneaker-culture-20240217.html

2024-02-17 14:31:33

Every time someone says Trump’s frauds were crimes without a victim, an angel dies. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111943462743495362

2024-02-16 21:59:46

Delicious detail from Judge Engoron’s decision:
Allen Weisselberg has to disgorge the $1 million he has so far received from his severance agreement because it’s hush money: “ill-gotten gains.”
“It would be inequitable to allow him to profit from his actions covering up [Trump’s] misdeeds.”

2024-02-16 13:57:16

Today would be a good day to ask Mike Johnson why he is still kowtowing to Putin by refusing to allow a House vote on aid to Ukraine.
#Navalny #Putin #Ukraine

2024-02-15 17:48:02

Correct headline. https://journa.host/@lolgop/111936285505198680

2024-02-15 17:30:52

“I do not recall any front-page story saying that Donald Trump’s shocking threat last week to sell out NATO allies was a ‘political disaster.’
“I did not see any front page headline saying that in so doing Trump had ‘Put Subservience to Putin Back at Center of 2024.’”
I wish every political editor would take the day off and consider what James Fallows has to say here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/fallows/p/election-countdown-264-days-to-go?r=g7z5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

2024-02-10 17:49:22

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@npub13l3…myt4 An island of sanity in a flood of madness.

2024-02-09 14:45:06

The New York Times leads the paper today with a slip of the tongue by Biden. Meanwhile, Trump declared that Jan. 6 was an insurrection organized by Nancy Pelosi, but apparently that isn’t worth reporting.

2024-02-06 22:12:38

Trump’s lawyers make a point of always referring to their client as “President Trump.” It seems the judges of the DC Circuit find this conceit every bit as annoying as I do.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/111/886/831/237/837/007/original/1751456d1a99424e.png

2024-02-06 15:31:00

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“It would be a striking paradox if the President, who alone is vested with the constitutional duty to ‘take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,’ were the sole officer capable of defying those laws with impunity.”

2024-02-06 15:27:49

It’s unanimous:
“Former President Trump lacked any lawful discretionary authority to defy federal criminal law and he is answerable in court for his conduct.” https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111885154121254359

2024-02-05 22:46:33

This is Ireland. Same question should be asked here. https://mastodonapp.uk/@MattMastodon/111881011892686229

2024-02-05 21:33:35

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@npub1lrv…tth9 On the contrary, I’d say well played. What would you have suggested instead?

2024-02-05 18:13:27

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@npub1520…cw07 Nice essay. The word “lies” still has power, though. Is there a reason not to use it?

2024-02-03 18:07:39

TIL someone called January Jones thinks my first name is weird.
https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/111/868/881/022/040/534/original/fb0068c6da180279.png

2024-02-03 15:28:53

Imagine if we discovered that between 0.6 and 2.3 percent of all U.S. electricity is being diverted into a giant waste bin. Wouldn’t we fix that, pronto?
#crypto
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61364

2024-01-31 14:54:15

Shorter Donald Trump: “Every lawyer I’ve asked tells me I have no grounds for appeal. Help!” https://mstdn.social/@maxkennerly/111851095061566184

2024-01-28 15:46:24

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@npub16kv…r053 I’d explain it a bit differently. Biden and Obama are assumed to be competent and law-abiding, as a baseline. So for them, this kind of egregious lawlessness a few feet from the Oval Office would play as a scandal.
Trump’s lawlessness and fecklessness is taken for granted by political reporters. So this barely registers as news.

2024-01-28 14:58:16

Imagine if this runaway drug dispensary had been in the Biden White House, or the Obama White House. What would Fox News be like at this moment? Or, for that matter, the New York Times. https://toot.community/@thezenlady/111830517569520148

2024-01-27 15:43:33

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@npub1w6d…ytvx @npub1j5a…p848 Ha, fair point about “like” being underspecified. We’re in 400-character territory here. But I think you know what I mean.
Probably you’ve already seen this collection of questions designed to be difficult for LLMs: https://huggingface.co/datasets/gaia-benchmark/GAIA. I mention it only as a matter of interest, not as proving anything.
I read your stochastic parrot paper this morning and like it very much.

2024-01-27 14:56:59

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@npub1w6d…ytvx @npub1j5a…p848 My brief statement was admittedly a kind of shorthand, oversimplified. Of course they can answer questions that haven’t been asked before, as long as the questions are LIKE familiar questions and as long as “answer” means “produce plausible answers that often happen to be correct.”
We know computers can be programmed to reason in various ways. The LLMs’ special skill is generating text probabilistically based on pre-existing text.

2024-01-26 17:34:27

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2024-01-26 16:57:37

Fiery and powerful closing statement from Roberta Kaplan on behalf of E. Jean Carroll.
Trump has fled the courtroom. (In a rage? In a panic? A normal person would have fled in shame.)
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2024-01-25 21:35:53

Republican Party in a mad rush to adopt all the trappings of dictatorship. (Voters? Who needs voters?) https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111818586005204544