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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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In conclusion:
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Staunch liberal, hopeful Georgist, moderate intuitionist. Hoping to one day pass on an even better world than the one I inherited. Retweet =/= Endorsement
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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In conclusion:
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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I'm starting to suspect this is why Dems appear to be doing unreasonably well in Congressional races and unreasonably poorly in the Presidential race. Median voter brain is wanting 2019 back and thinking you can somehow get it by electing Trump and a Dem Congress.
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//medium.com/@bruces
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*So, who is it that reads LLM-generated text and then edits the system to control its "temperature" problems? You want it to have some flush and color, but you don't want it to degenerate into feverish ravings:
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Part of me is starting to wonder if the median voter super nostalgic about 2019 is actually attempting to engineer a Republican presidency and a Dem Congress. This would be a clever idea very much in line with how median voters imagine government to work.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Is that roughly accurate?
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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I take it this means that it varies too much to make a good estimate. I guess it could take as little as half an hour if the question was, say, "Did you in fact fake your kid's murder at Sandy Hook?" and potentially dozens of hours in a genuinely complex case.
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Celeste Pewter
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There are many things that infuriate me about the pundit class right now, but probably one of the top on my list: Project 2025 has posted their plans for every single federal department on their website. They have a training academy for prospective appointees. Where are the hard hitting op-eds?
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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A decent amount of that time would have to be interrogating the client, presumably. How many hours of that would you do--in a case you eventually take?
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The New York Times
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Breaking News: The reformist Masoud Pezeshkian won Iran’s presidential runoff election, reflecting discontent with hard-line policies. The special election was held after former President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in May.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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SCOTUS doesn't seem to realize the danger of making one person utterly inviolable in every way--in that it will encourage that person to abuse their powers, make everyone afraid of that person, and create only one way to deal with or deter the threat. RETVRNING to terrible age-old tradition here.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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The scariest thing about the Trump v. United States SCOTUS ruling is the incentives it creates for political violence--both by the president and against the president--and by and against prospective presidents who are one election or one or two gunshots away from power. There's no law, only force.
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Sen. Gogurt taking notes on a criminal conspiracy
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AND he can pardon them proactively! He can give blanket pardons for categories of officers before he leaves office that the next President can't revoke.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Kansas, it should be noted, has a Democratic governor. Even there, there's a limit to the level of extremism they'll tolerate.
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The New York Times
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The Kansas Supreme Court reaffirmed abortion protections in the state’s Constitution on Friday. It struck down Republican-backed laws that banned a common second-trimester abortion procedure and that created new licensing requirements for abortion clinics.
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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis
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"The fact that we're going to hold Joe Biden to one standard and Donald Trump to another, which is really no standard at all." - @JoeNBC on The New York Times et al.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Yeah, he's definitely going to be fully realized Kanye-tier crazy by the end of the year.
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Matt Novak
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I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.
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Brendel
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If they’re going to let trump get away with claiming that he finds parts of Project 2025 awful and disgusting, some member of the media should at least ask him “what part?”
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Don Zeko
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Both from a standpoint of informing the public, reporting the truth, and simple self-preservation, their refusal to adequately cover Trump's radicalism and the immunity decision is inexcusable
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Don Zeko
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Say what you will about the various Democratic party actors in the fight over whether Biden stays on the ticket, but I can understand all of their behavior much better than I can the journalists who are trying to write their way into the camps
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Popehat
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New York Times, July 5, 2025: “Biden’s Stumbles And Gaffes During His Criticism of President Trump’s Internment Camps Vindicate Age Concerns”
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Jim Zub
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This photo is pure 2024.
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Popehat
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I wish someone kept a list of all the imbeciles who said Elon Musk is a free speech hero so I could waggle a middle finger in their insipid faces until it fell off
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Don Zeko
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Let me try to put my cards on the table and lay out where I'm at re: Biden bowing out and the race in general. #1: I am bewildered by how many different factions are hostile to Biden and how bad the polls have been. In my view, he's a pretty good president (certainly better than I expected).
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Micah
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frankly we may all need some of that “I have 1000 followers and will now kill god (dril)” energy to survive the world to come
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Greg Lipper
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Well this is quite a thing I just had to file in response to a motion filed by the pro se plaintiff suing my clients for defamation.
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Pwnallthethings
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Totally. The media is mean to Biden, and they are going to be mean to Harris. That's life. It sucks. Politics is dirty. But idk, part of campaigning is being able to help drive the news and get your message out to voters, not just be completely blindsided repeatedly by it.
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Pwnallthethings
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Like, yes, ok, the media owns some of this. But also ... if you have a campaign, literally any of those are gigaquake events to change the tide and frame what you're going to do and take that message to the voters, and how exactly is it the campaign can't capitalize on it? That's the issue
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Pwnallthethings
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This week SCOTUS killed Chevron deference, gave Trump total immunity, and Trump was credibly tied to Epstein, and it seems to me if your campaign somehow seriously can't find a way to then change the topic of conversation in the newspapers or stop your party panicking, what are we doing here exactly
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Taniel
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I’ve been critical of Attal and his rhetoric over the last 3.5 weeks: but if the RN loses on Sunday, he should be remembered as the one in the Macronist bloc who maneuvered to avoid the president’s bonkers gamble result in a far-right government.
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Taniel
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Explosive reporting in Le Monde confirms what was apparent all week: Macron resisted the emergence of anti-far-right front after round 1. His PM, Attal, forced it as a fait accompli, & pressured for drop outs to block RN. Even then, Macron made some phone calls to undercut it.
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Blake E. Reid
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The distinction is critical because administrations (and even Congress) can't get around this by working harder or doing a better job. They are on the wrong side of a post-rule-of-law Calvinball game that they will keep losing until someone leads a successful political effort to reform the Court.
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Blake E. Reid
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Post-SCOTUS overturning Chevron, the long-term death by a thousand cuts of policy initiatives big and small has begun. It's critical for political leaders and the press to remind the public that these cuts are a result of an imperial judiciary (h/t @marklemley.bsky.social), not inept bureaucrats.
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Brendan Nyhan
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I don't understand this point. Trump can just pardon them.
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Quinta Jurecic
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you know what looks really bad in retrospect? SDNY's decision not to move forward with a prosecution of trump on FECA charges
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Convolver
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The Biden stuff is worrying no matter which side of the topic you’re on, but you should be terrified by Trump successfully presenting himself to the media as a reasonable centrist figure set against the violent radicalism of (checks notes) the people who are explicitly defining his governing agenda.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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This is a guy who would totally do a pogrom if he thought he could get away with it (and relatedly, might very well think that in the event Trump wins the presidency).
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Don Zeko
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I hope that this bloodthirsty maniac's nomination will let us break the state GOP's gerrymander, but it is also possible the bloodthirsty maniac becomes governor and my family is forced to flee the state.
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Don Zeko
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Zeke, why do you think accelerationism is bad? Well it's funny you should ask
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George
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this is england's game over screen
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Some of the so-called "Skelet" machines had very interesting properties.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Again, not very many, but we now have a neat trick to solve any problem that can be decomposed into questions about the halting or nonhalting of 5-state (one-zeroed-out-tape, 2-symbol) Turing machines.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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There are definitely some meaningful problems that can be expressed in terms of 5-state Turing machines, because they managed to find a few in the vast zoo of those machines.
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David Kaye
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i'm struck that josh marshall thinks it's *when not if* kamala replaces joe. he's long been in the skeptical camp on his withdrawal. this here makes a lot of sense to me. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/coupl...
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Frankly I think he'll, if elected, get periodically dragged in when his appointees viciously undermine and fight each other b/c they're acculturated to a form of politics inimical to proper cooperation.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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I imagine that's not very many but sometimes something will surprise you.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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Now that we have the 5th Busy Beaver number, one thing mathematicians should keep in the back of their heads is whether any problems (or subproblems) they encounter are just simple enough to decompose into questions about certain 5-state 2-symbol 1-tape Turing Machines halting.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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FWIW a bit more of this *on the margin* would be good in a lot of organizations that chronically overwork their members (like the US military). Sleep-deprived and hungry decision-makers are more likely to make bad decisions.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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We're still in for a nightmare if he gets reelected, but his ability to consolidate power depends heavily on his ability to build an effective machine of state repression.
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
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This is actually a good sign in the event of another Trump presidency. It ups the amount of infighting to expect, and suggests that internal staff conflicts might, at least for a time, tie up some of Trump's nastiest policies.
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