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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 13h

Yeah that's fair enough.

Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 15h

That's a good point, you're right. And there were at least some PA troops there.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 16h

Without forming an opinion on whether you're right or not I am confident she doesn't think so and you can't be surprised to get blocked for saying it!

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 16h

There's a great series of Walter Jon Williams stories about this -- in one Nietzsche becomes a gunfighter in the old west.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19h

I say all of this as one of Newsom's biggest critics. I've written multiple articles on how horrible he has been in rhetoric and action towards transgender people.

This is not the five alarm fire I'm watching for with him.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 19h

Newsom is likely going to let the other bills go into effect quietly, and the education bill is only a couple lines of text where gender is not mentioned.

I'm going to be watching much more closely on what he does with the bills that are explicitly about LGBTQ+ topics.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 21h

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 21h

Literally impossible to know. 😆

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23h

Bureaucracy is the one that gets me. Writing this post I first spelled it so wrong that spell check didn't have it as a suggestion.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23h

I don't think there's a single person who has no issues with AI as a technology but opposes it only bc of its environmental impact.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23h

Bizarre how many people on both sides get mad at this.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23h

I mean, the .com bubble is a decent model. Did some harm but it was no 2008.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23h

Yikes! I guess that's right?? Imagine if there are two cases that address that situation and say different things.

Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23h

For sure. Figuring out how to still show that when there isn't an explicit on-point authority is why they pay me the medium bucks.

Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23h

The thing about X is that its usually true but that doesn't mean there's a case explicitly saying it.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 23h

And "find a way to support the claim that the senior partner said there must be a case for but for which there is no explicit authority."

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

It's one company that's currently 7.3% of the S&P 500. That's a lot, but the S&P 500 dropped by 20 percent earlier this year and it was fine. Stock market is not the economy. Certainly could be a recession. But this flowchart doesn't show that will happen was my original point.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

I don't even see the Pelosi statement as about bipartisanship per se. More, "we need the other party to be functional so that when they inevitably eventually gain power shit doesn't completely fall apart." Which seems... true.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

I mean he's just hyping up his senate campaign. If this was a serious effort he wouldn't be, you know, announcing his undercover operation by press release lol.

Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

See also "headline accurately describes someone being mad about a bad thing without saying they are correct to be mad" like that NYT one about Oregon yesterday.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

"Headline accurately describes a bad thing without explicitly saying it's bad" is such a common yet baffling criticism on here.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

Kendall Roy-ass speech.

Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

She's doing her own thing to an extent, which I think is what any post-Trump leader would need to do to approach Trump-like control of the party. It's q-anon more than tea party I think.

Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

Well it isn't going poof--its value could decline a lot sure, but that in and of itself isn't a huge deal. The stock market is not the economy. And my point wasn't that no AI companies will go down, but that the original chart isn't showing what OP says.

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Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

Wasn't one of CA's arguments that the statute they used for the deployment there did require the governor to agree? Not sure what authority is being used here. But I don't think your point about him being irrelevant is quite right.

Res ipsa locutus of borg @masbackward.bsky.social · 1d

If Trump's influence has faded (or he's not around) I think there will be a market for a mildly non-trumpy but still MAGA-coded candidate (I don't see a moderate turn coming). Who else is there? DeSantis? He's spent I think. Who else has excited the base?

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