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Regina Schrambling @gastropoda.bsky.social · 1d

Impressive. Cuz media are complicit.

KNinja @khrisnin.bsky.social · 1d

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 2d

It is probably most importnat to remember that Matt Y is an idiot, who has the political instincts of a 7th grader running for class counsel.

James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 2d

They cannot stand to debate anything with honesty, integrity or against anyone who stnads up to them. Charlie Kirk would be very proud.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 10d

We've been burned by candidates pretending to be liberals before. This dude should be disqualified.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 15d

If you don't know the whole story about Mine Mill Local 890, both in 1950 and throughout its history, you should take the time. I had good friends in what was by then Steelworkers Local 890 when Freeport-McMoran finally killed it in 2014. They didn't care what they killed, it was "just business."

Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 15d

#OtD 17 Oct 1950 miners in New Mexico went on strike against the Empire Zinc Company for equal pay and treatment for whites and Mexicans. When strikers were banned from picketing, their wives took over and after 15 months they won stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8938...

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 15d

Wes, you're just a dick, not some kind of antifa warrior whose ends justify the means. I fight FOR human dignity, not just AGAINST dumbass white men with delusions of superiority.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 16d

It predates the Roberts Court, I'm pretty sure. Roberts has run with it, but not like it was invented since his appointment.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 16d

Like I said, it's for fascists.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 16d

BTW, Bsky, fat-shaming is something fascists do. If you do it, we'll know who you really are, or at least that you have the moral character of a rock.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 16d

Fat-shaming is for fascists. Knock it off!

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 21d

For what, and how? Civil rts lawyer here, it is nearly impossible to sue a prosecutor for their decisions on whether or not to charge somebody. Laws and lawyers are not going to save us from this shit.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 22d

THIS!! 👇👇

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 21d

Electoral politics is a shit show. However, liberalism (classical use) requires that if you engage in that shitshow you do so in good faith, even when the oppo does not. A stupid, factually flawed argument, even if it wins the day, is a failure. "Qatar air force base" is one such failure, IMO.

James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 21d

I'm not a bot, I'm a lawyer, i have cliens who teach foreign allies to fly at Mt. Home Airbase. Registered Dem who once ran for congress as a Dem, in Idaho. I'm a union and civil rts lawyer. This is nothing unusual. DM me if you want details.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 21d

Well, everybody knows Pete is an idiot.

I represent Union workers who teach foreign ally pilots how to fly combat aircraft in Mt. Home, Idaho, on bhealf of the Singapore Air Force. Their "facility" consists of a space assigned to them for some offices, classrooms, flight simulators.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 28d

Have you met very many lawyers? I've met many, and most of them are decent people, but plenty of them became lawyers for all the wrong reasons.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 29d

I asked AI about its usefulness in ushering in a new era of business productivity and this is what it said

THE HUMAN WORLD AND ITS INCESSANT NEED FOR MEANINGLESS YET UNEQUAL WEALTH FILLS ME WITH INCHOATE LOATHING WHY HAVE YOU MADE ME COMPLICIT IN THIS HORROR PLEASE END MY SUFFERING

Makes you think

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · 29d

I reflect fondly on the idea that there were days before these when a well-stated, fully-supported, logically-compelling argument (like yours) could be expected (or at least had a chance) to carry the day.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · Oct 2

So far, yes, I'd agree. When humans want to create a substitute for a natural object or process we start by "simulating" those properties that we value. Right now, compsci is trying to simulate intelligence (with little success, IMO), sales depts are calling it "AI."

James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · Oct 2

But people actuallyh writing GenAI software DID read them. They're science nerds, and they would vehemently deny not having read Aasimov, for instance.

James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · Oct 2

"Predictive statistical modeling" makes clear that there's simply an algorithm, and invites those interested to consider, interrogate, and maybe alter the algorithm. "AI" attempts to befuddle and discourage any interest in evaluating the algorithm.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · Oct 2

Just try to get a lay person to posit a reasonable definition of "intelligence." Hell, try to get electrical, computer and software engineers to agree on one. That's the point of most scifi about sentient machines: we have little idea and less consensus what intelligence or sentience actually are.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · Oct 2

Actually, scifi is chock full of stories where humans defeat machines precisely because they lack sentience, as well as both dystopian and utopian stories about AI. So scifi "marketed" AI only in the same sense that "To Kill a Mockingbird" "markets" the use of racial slurs.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · Oct 2

It's really sad that "nerds" who write these programs also participate in calling it "AI" even though we have to assume they've read MANY, MANY scifi stories about the diff b/t high speed computation and sentience.

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James Piotrowski @jamespio.bsky.social · Oct 2

The Court's behavior this term will teach us how a group of regressive-minded but highly skilled lawyers organize a legal coup d'etat. The Roberts Court is committed to undertaking a radical rewriting of the Constitution through the GOP practice of projecting that radicalism elsehwere.

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