Charles T. Betz

This too…

This one hits hard.

‘Streets of Minneapolis’: 32 protest songs inspired by the city's ICE resistance MinnPost contributor Jim Walsh compiles a playlist by songwriters who are tapping into their talent, anger, artistry and empathy to support Minnesota.

Oh I've been looking for this. 32 songs about what's happening in Minnesota. From @minnpost.bsky.social. Get beyond The Boss.

www.minnpost.com/arts-culture...

I go to many conferences and wind up throwing out the lanyards. Never felt good about the waste.

I was heading out with a whistle in my pocket, as one does, and I realized - I now know what to do with those!

Save your lanyards and pass them along to folks who can use them.

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

A screenshot of a guide detailing items you should bring to a protest, including: cell phone (possible a burner) cash protest stole cell phone power bank sharpie (to write important info on your body) snacks water (for hydration and first aid) plastic bags for wet/sticky objects extra t-shirt backpack to carry everything first aid kit

The Episcopal Church has put together a very impressive toolkit for protesting, including tips for clergy in particular. Truly inspiring. This is how Christians ought to be engaging the moment.
www.episcopalchurch.org/protesting-f...

we are in this for the duration — figure out a sustainable channel and cadence for your own contributions — not everyone needs to be on the front lines — but engagement has got to be a way of life if we are to prevail.

Protests happen, but most of what is happening in Minneapolis isn’t protesting.

More accurate terms:
- observers
- witnesses
- volunteers
- neighbors
- residents
- people

This is so beautiful. It’s so cold outside today and it’s such a huge crowd.

MINNESOTA VERSION OF COME OUT YE BLACK AND TANS

yes, exactly. source code is a good example of medium variability.

cotton kills

Glad to hear they’re still in business. Haven’t been there for years. Need to get back.

more on this at www.charlestbetz.com/post/river-s...

River Song YouTube video by Charles T. Betz Music

My second choral premiere "River Song" happened Thursday night. Here is a studio demo with video imagery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9oH...

Accounts of resistance are invaluable

AI Wakes The Sleeping Giant: Continuous Improvement Will Finally Fulfill… | Charles Betz AI wakes the sleeping giant.... We’ve spent decades trying to build systems for continuous learning and improvement. Most became stale rituals. The spark was…

This may be the most important thing I've done as an analyst. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Useful thread for all frequent travelers to the US or elsewhere

An LLM does not make coding *easy*. It accelerates you (dramatically), but the cognitive load (in my experience so far) is just as intense as it ever was.

Charles Betz on LinkedIn: The Graphic Future Of IT Management Been thinking about - and playing with - graphs and LLMs. The combination is powerful. I've been a little reticent about LLM-only plays & conversations, even…

LLMs, graph databases, and IT management

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How’s the story?

Kris Kristofferson as that evil sheriff in Lone Star

Elon Musk’s Stunning $250 Million Favor to Trump Should Wake Up Dems Musk and others helped the GOP run rings around Democrats in the info wars. I asked three leading contenders for party chair how they’d fix this.

I’ve seen a couple stories along these lines and they have the ring of truth to me. I am disinterested in supporting the Democrats until they fix this. newrepublic.com/article/1891...

The much needed response to the unitary executive theory.

The subject of stare decisis has occupied considerable scholarly attention over the years, so much so that one could fill a small log cabin with its pages. Yet one massively understudied aspect of stare decisis is its "vertical" application in a judicial hierarchy. Nearly everyone assumes or believes that the Constitution requires inferior federal courts to obey Supreme Court precedents no matter what. This is what a constitutional rule of "vertical stare decisis" entails. The Supreme Court certainly thinks so. But is that right? This Article challenges the conventional view and upends it. Based on a careful review of the Constitution's text, structure, and history, it concludes that the Constitution does not prescribe a rule of vertical stare decisis for inferior federal courts and never has. Inferior federal courts must therefore avoid blind obedience to Supreme Court precedents; they are not the agents of the Supreme Court, as the President's subordinates are the agents of the President. Inferior federal courts have not merely the power, but the general duty, to disobey Supreme Court precedents that are demonstrably erroneous and conflict with positive law, especially the Constitution which is the nation's supreme, paramount, and fundamental law. That said, Congress retains considerable power to fashion some rules of vertical stare decisis for statutory cases.

Hoo boy. New article says lower courts are obliged not to follow SCOTUS precedents that are “demonstrably erroneous and conflict with positive law, especially the Constitution which is the nation's supreme, paramount, and fundamental law.” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is a seriously freaking deep cut in retrospect. I suspect I have stumped 99% of you. And yes, my first album I paid for with my own money.

An older, wifi-only smart phone with nothing but an e-reader and a music player would be the way to go.

This AM I got up and the first thing I did was doomscroll. Regardless of the merits of staying informed, this can't be good and I am going to stop. It starts with removing the smart phone from the sleeping area.