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For the first time in American history, a state-level office was decided by Approval Voting!
www.ksl.com/article/5141...
www.ksl.com/article/5141...
Emily Buss wins preference poll to replace state Sen. Daniel Thatcher of the Forward Party
Emily Buss won a preference poll on Thursday to replace state Sen. Daniel Thatcher, of the Utah Forward Party, in Senate District 11.
www.ksl.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM
For the first time in American history, a state-level office was decided by Approval Voting!
www.ksl.com/article/5141...
www.ksl.com/article/5141...
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I think the key word here is "and": So-called "AI" systems don't do what is advertised AND involve labor exploitation AND perpetuate biases AND are environmentally ruinous.
I don't think we should drop the environmental angle.
I don't think we should drop the environmental angle.
I think this highlights two things for folks who hate AI and want to stop massive data center expansion
First: when we're talking about AI, it's a mistake to lead with the environmental impact.
It's a bad frame, bc it implies that if the numbers were different, it would be ok. But it wouldn't.
First: when we're talking about AI, it's a mistake to lead with the environmental impact.
It's a bad frame, bc it implies that if the numbers were different, it would be ok. But it wouldn't.
new from me: are data centers going to wipe out water supplies? how much water does ChatGPT really use? and what's going on with that big correction in Empire of AI?
i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:
i went long on the conversation around AI and water, and how it's actually about what we want resources to be used for:
December 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I think the key word here is "and": So-called "AI" systems don't do what is advertised AND involve labor exploitation AND perpetuate biases AND are environmentally ruinous.
I don't think we should drop the environmental angle.
I don't think we should drop the environmental angle.
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Basically "is AI worthwhile" and "do I want a data center by my house" are different questions with the same answer ("no")
Arguing effectively against them requires thinking carefully about who your audience is and what argument you're making
Arguing effectively against them requires thinking carefully about who your audience is and what argument you're making
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Basically "is AI worthwhile" and "do I want a data center by my house" are different questions with the same answer ("no")
Arguing effectively against them requires thinking carefully about who your audience is and what argument you're making
Arguing effectively against them requires thinking carefully about who your audience is and what argument you're making
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The 78-year-old media mogul has been found guilty on charges of conspiring to commit sedition and foreign collusion, in the most closely watched trial since Beijing’s crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement six years ago on.ft.com/4rUb1nA
December 15, 2025 at 3:06 AM
The 78-year-old media mogul has been found guilty on charges of conspiring to commit sedition and foreign collusion, in the most closely watched trial since Beijing’s crackdown on the city’s pro-democracy movement six years ago on.ft.com/4rUb1nA
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Risk-loving Korean investors made to watch training video before trading on.ft.com/3YrV7U0
Risk-loving Korean investors made to watch training video before trading
South Korean regulators want to strengthen oversight of retail traders
on.ft.com
December 14, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Risk-loving Korean investors made to watch training video before trading on.ft.com/3YrV7U0
The cardinal rule of politics is that all observed effects and outcomes are endogenous to the most proximal person.
December 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The cardinal rule of politics is that all observed effects and outcomes are endogenous to the most proximal person.
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Democratic congressman Shri Thanedar has filed articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth over the murderous attacks on boats in the Caribbean.
https://bit.ly/44E1yqP
https://bit.ly/44E1yqP
The Push to Impeach Pete Hegseth Is On
Democratic Representative Shri Thanedar has filed articles of impeachment against the secretary of defense over the murderous attacks on boats in the Caribbean.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Democratic congressman Shri Thanedar has filed articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth over the murderous attacks on boats in the Caribbean.
https://bit.ly/44E1yqP
https://bit.ly/44E1yqP
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The reason to let Nvidia sell in China is to take the wind from the sails of the CCP’s state-sponsored semiconductor industry and to make a Taiwan invasion immediately more costly to them and progressively costlier each year.
No voter actually gives a shit about winning a “race” for AI and compute.
No voter actually gives a shit about winning a “race” for AI and compute.
Why is Schatz hitting this so hard in the last ..ah
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The reason to let Nvidia sell in China is to take the wind from the sails of the CCP’s state-sponsored semiconductor industry and to make a Taiwan invasion immediately more costly to them and progressively costlier each year.
No voter actually gives a shit about winning a “race” for AI and compute.
No voter actually gives a shit about winning a “race” for AI and compute.
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I think Miller is basically the one person in the administration who thinks that all elections are over forever and he's in charge, so it makes a certain amount of sense he's acting like this.
That Miller reportedly wants Noem gone because she's not being aggressive enough really shows how high on their own supply these guys are. What they're doing is already historically unpopular, and they want to do it even harder.
i am skeptical trump would actually go through with this, even if miller wants it, but i am even *more* skeptical of the idea that youngkin would take the job.
December 8, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I think Miller is basically the one person in the administration who thinks that all elections are over forever and he's in charge, so it makes a certain amount of sense he's acting like this.
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I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
December 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there
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maga wants to destroy america. it's what they live for. they hate this country with every drop of their blood
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 10:10 PM
maga wants to destroy america. it's what they live for. they hate this country with every drop of their blood
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we seem to have forgotten that liberal values clawed a consensus out of stubborn humanity because they solve real problems
religious tolerance is how you avoid a Thirty Years War
rule of law is how you avoid a bandit government taking all your rice
the list goes on
religious tolerance is how you avoid a Thirty Years War
rule of law is how you avoid a bandit government taking all your rice
the list goes on
December 5, 2025 at 7:30 PM
we seem to have forgotten that liberal values clawed a consensus out of stubborn humanity because they solve real problems
religious tolerance is how you avoid a Thirty Years War
rule of law is how you avoid a bandit government taking all your rice
the list goes on
religious tolerance is how you avoid a Thirty Years War
rule of law is how you avoid a bandit government taking all your rice
the list goes on
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Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.
December 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Birthright citizenship is probably not integral to liberal democracy, but it is integral to *American* liberal democracy. Our vision of what we are as a country, as a nation beyond an ethnicity, requires it.
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Of all the locations where they could have done something so obscene, this might be one of the most profane. These people hate America in every sense that matters.
“She showed up as scheduled, and when she arrived, officers were asking everyone what country they were from, and if they said a certain country, they were told to step out of line and that their oath ceremonies were canceled.”
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
www.wgbh.org/news/local/2... @gbhnews.bsky.social
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Of all the locations where they could have done something so obscene, this might be one of the most profane. These people hate America in every sense that matters.
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Reverse the Patriot Act which started the slow roll to the surveillance state in the U.S.
December 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reverse the Patriot Act which started the slow roll to the surveillance state in the U.S.
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this is why we can't fucking have nice things, these million goddamn petty tyrants and their endless veto points
December 6, 2025 at 12:30 AM
this is why we can't fucking have nice things, these million goddamn petty tyrants and their endless veto points
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It would take 2 hours and 20 minutes to travel between Boston and Washington, D.C. at this speed.
This country is so behind, it's laughable.
This country is so behind, it's laughable.
December 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
It would take 2 hours and 20 minutes to travel between Boston and Washington, D.C. at this speed.
This country is so behind, it's laughable.
This country is so behind, it's laughable.
Most of the quotes to this are extremely regulation brained. Just because the regulations are more lax does not mean that all of the products will be to a lower standard. If there were no seat belt laws, most people would still wear seat belts.
lol it's just "big truck big".
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
Trump to address White House at 2:00 pm ET Tuesday
December 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Most of the quotes to this are extremely regulation brained. Just because the regulations are more lax does not mean that all of the products will be to a lower standard. If there were no seat belt laws, most people would still wear seat belts.
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If this is CAFE might actually be good for people who like small cars. The current rules are why everything is a light truck now
lol it's just "big truck big".
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
*TRUMP TO ANNOUNCE PROPOSED ROLLBACK IN AUTO FUEL ECONOMY RULES
*TRUMP FUEL-ECONOMY ANNOUNCEMENT EXPECTED WED. AT WHITE HOUSE
*WHITE HOUSE MEETING TO INCLUDE EXECUTIVES FROM GM, FORD
Trump to address White House at 2:00 pm ET Tuesday
December 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
If this is CAFE might actually be good for people who like small cars. The current rules are why everything is a light truck now
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How it works is, The Onion writes it, a few years later America exceeds the satirical exaggeration as lived truth. Been this way since January 2001
theonion.com/bush-our-lon...
theonion.com/bush-our-lon...
Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'
WASHINGTON, DC–Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address Tuesday that "our lo...
theonion.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
How it works is, The Onion writes it, a few years later America exceeds the satirical exaggeration as lived truth. Been this way since January 2001
theonion.com/bush-our-lon...
theonion.com/bush-our-lon...
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Me: whatever THAT means {derisive snort}
Mechanic: the driver's side is the side where the driver sits sir
Mechanic: the driver's side is the side where the driver sits sir
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Me: whatever THAT means {derisive snort}
Mechanic: the driver's side is the side where the driver sits sir
Mechanic: the driver's side is the side where the driver sits sir
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Amazing ad orphea. For the next one you should kill even more insects, there's too many of those still left in the environment. Sterilize the forest.
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Amazing ad orphea. For the next one you should kill even more insects, there's too many of those still left in the environment. Sterilize the forest.
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Hegseth is freeing the warfighter from meddlesome rules & regulations against betraying your country to an enemy nation.
MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.
Breaking on MS NOW: The Signalgate report contradicts Pete Hegseth's claims he did nothing wrong. It shows he "violated policy by using a non-approved device," a source who read the report says.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
Hegseth failed to preserve records. The report says he put the operations and service people at risk.
December 3, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hegseth is freeing the warfighter from meddlesome rules & regulations against betraying your country to an enemy nation.
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Everyone in their own little epistemic bubble
Oxygen slowly running out
Oxygen slowly running out
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Everyone in their own little epistemic bubble
Oxygen slowly running out
Oxygen slowly running out
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Picture unrelated.
December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Picture unrelated.