Kennedy Center updates:
—Rep. Joyce Beatty (ex officio member of the board of trustees) is suing again, this time to make sure Trump doesn't demolish the center.
—Grenell has, as threatened, sued Chuck Redd for canceling a concert.
—The exec. director of the National Symphony Orchestra has quit.
So we have yet another incident where a US citizen was shot and killed by ICE, and the official ICE account differs from bodycam footage.
This is the story that took nearly a year to break and now we have the bodycam footage.
So this past week I read the book "Code Name Hélène" by Ariel Lawhon, which is a WWII-era historical novel about an Australian woman who married a Frenchman, worked in the French Resistance, escaped France just ahead of arrest, and parachuted BACK in to work with the Maquis.
And, as noted in the thread, there is almost certainly some guidance/policy/memo on AUSA/US Attorney’s Office use of AI.
If you have any such document or information, please reach out/send it my way. I’m on Signal at crg.32
okay so this seems pretty clear. he knows what it is, he did it on purpose, he chose keeping it over his career with the Marines, if we know this then Susan Collins will also know it, it will 100% come up in the general, let's be done talking about this guy as a real candidate
Is it bad when you're an AUSA and include what appear to be AI hallucinated cites in a brief? Is it worse when the pro se plaintiff calls you out on it? (Though, in fairness, it appears the plaintiff is also an attorney.)
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This is going to be a HUGE issue for this year and next year. The tropical Pacific is the heat engine of the planet. This is the engine going into overdrive. You WILL notice this in your day to day lives.
the real tech revolution is happening in your cells
Last 14 months of Biden's term:
+1.74m jobs
First 14 months of Trump's term:
150,000 jobs
(total! for the whole 14 months!)
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Sort of anecdotal, but my time in the auto insurance industry has convinced me that a LOT of the dudes with the jacked up $80K Ford F150s are paycheck to paycheck, have staggering commutes, and get absolutely killed by quickly rising gas prices
Oil prices are up ~35% this week after Trump started his war on Iran.
This is the highest level since 2023.
Last week Trump bragged at the State of the Union about bringing oil prices down. They are now soaring.
On business leaders then and now COWEN: Sure. How were business leaders different back then from the current crop? Clearly, in many, many ways, but what stands out to you, as someone who knows a lot of top business leaders now and who has studied very intensively top business leaders back then? SORKIN: Oh goodness, I actually think they’re very similar. I actually think they’re shockingly similar. Here I am saying that John Raskob feels like Elon Musk. I think that so many of these individuals feel like modern-day characters. Charlie Mitchell, who ran National City, which becomes Citigroup. Charlie was the equivalent of a Jamie Dimon of his time, but maybe looks more akin to a Jensen Huang in terms of just his sunny disposition towards everything all the time. I think they’re still driven by the same things, which is, at some level, I’ve always thought that people are driven by an insecurity, a FOMO, a YOLO kind of a hole that they’re all trying to fill. Money is just one example of how they measure it all. I don’t think that they’re all that different, in fact. COWEN: Do you think they’re even more woke today? SORKIN: Are they even more woke today?
COWEN: Do you think they’re even more woke today? SORKIN: Are they even more woke today? COWEN: Or is that also the same, that there’s maybe the appearance of being more woke, but ultimately, attitudes on gender or race are more similar than one might think? Or not? SORKIN: Oh goodness. I’m struggling to relate the word wokeness to the 1920s. Interestingly, Carter Glass, who I think I told you before was sort of akin to an Elizabeth Warren — the truth is, he would have been a racist Elizabeth Warren because he was from Virginia. He was trying to bring segregation back to America, in fact. I’m not sure how woke these CEOs were at the time. The sort of upstairs-downstairs situation among the elites and the wealth in terms of where they lived and how they lived, and who worked for them and the various servants and others — I don’t think you’d think that they were that woke back then. COWEN: So that’s one difference. Did they do philanthropy better? You have the Morgan Library in New York, everything Carnegie did, which seems quite remarkable. Are today’s wealthy business leaders living up to that track record? Or somehow they’re failing to?
Once again, I'd have to argue that the "woke mind virus" seems to be a thing that only effects a certain class of people who seems oddly obsessed over whether or not other people are somehow "woke"
Insurance company sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT practices law without a license.
According to the complaint, the company has been dealing with a pro se litigant who's filed a bunch of frivolous CGPT-authored docs after CGPT told her to fire her lawyer & try to reopen a settlement.
Complaint here
That is insane: "Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties owed to victims or the government. In contrast, Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion." www.cato.org/blog/embarra...
Re: Proton Mail. "Foreign jurisdiction is not a replacement for opsec." – Kathryn Tewson
[scroll up her thread for the how's and why's]
I would like to be present when government lawyers tell a 78-year-old judge “we can’t follow your order because the computer won’t let us.” That’s always fun.
Purely coincidentally, many US drillers have been sitting idle while prices have been low, but these prices would be enough to put them back online.
Probably purely a coincidence.
The DoD is spending billions to build a shield to destroy missiles launched against the U.S. At least four of the companies awarded contracts so far are owned by a private equity firm founded by billionaire turned Deputy Secretary of Defense Steve Feinberg.
Mine is always overseeing me from my lap.
My friend has gotten me hooked on Bridgerton. This is a terrible development.
two astronauts scheduled to go up on the same shuttle mission in 1992 got married 9 months beforehand but kept it a secret from everyone bc NASA wouldn't have let them go up if they had known. do i have to draw you a diagram
EIA has a very nice In-brief Analysis showing just how remarkable the nearly 2 decades of flat electricity demand have been prior to the last few years.
www.eia.gov/todayinenerg...
Branch manager branching out
Read this thread ⤵️
Leaking these out bit by bit over time sure seems like a swell strategy
On a wooden cutting board we see soy sauce, rice vinegar, peanut butter, chili oil, sesame oil, three cloves of garlic, some chopped ginger, a small bowl of sugar and salt, and a package of shanxi style noodles.
Ready for a new episode of Cooking with Uncle Kevin? Today we’re making CHILI PEANUT BUTTER NOODLES using the goodies you see here, plus green onion, sesame seeds, and some crushed peanuts for garnish. Recipe is for one—multiply as needed!
First: Use the noodles you like, ok? LET’S GOOOOO
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This is bad on so many levels. But amongst the oldest of the old traditions of the sea is that you rescue survivors.
This is up there with guest right. You don’t mess with it.
The internet is borderless and free but your ass is parked in the jurisdiction of someone's courts.
The cyberlibertarianists have been trying to wish this away for like four decades without success.
