One thing that brings me some relief is how JD Vance has the charisma of a sopping wet wad of toilet paper.

"In California, we think about something called 'terroir'. The only people I get down on my knees for are SILICON VALLEY billionaires."

I wonder what national emergency this is addressing.

Yeah, he wants the head room to do crazy stuff.

Some of our pro-democracy donors need to shift into documentation mode. We need a national nonprofit commission - Truth and Accountability - to take sworn depositions and documentation of these incidents. At a minimum, keep a running log. We need to be ready for prosecutions.

This. I continue believe the problem isn't the technology but the socio-economic system we've created. Our tech companies aren't selling devices - they're selling addiction and dependence. Put an open source LLM on your laptop and fuck 'em.

Ah, a Catch-22! Can't take his advice without violating it!

Yes. And if you fully weaponized ICE and used it to target key precincts in swing districts with an intense escalation of Kavanaugh stops, you could probably swing some close elections. But I continue to hope that the close elections will be in like R+12 districts that don't matter.

Martinelli himself did it in the box to Frimpong! It's absurd.

Just incredibly courageous after what happened this morning. Good on them.

What I like is that he's giving Congress a pretty clear playbook, too!

Never gonna happen.

True. Even more reason for someone - not you - to teach them how to use it.

Yes, I generally agree. It's a shame the technology has an unprincipled, addiction driven business model wrapped around it. If open source LLMs were built into local computers or hosted on university servers, I think people would have a very different reaction. Students deserve help.

Agreed on job responsibilities. You shouldn't teach them how to use a word processor either. Someone should, though.

Yes, totally agree. Unfortunately, I think solving it requires people who know better learning to use it properly.