You mean Windows 10 is the perfect product? MS can't improve on it so it must be perfect... Right? All others are just seeking perfection they can never achieve.
Wait... Yells out the door "Someone go get me a Jesuit Priest!"
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I take it you didn't read the article? I would agree that MAGA diehards do not know what's happening nor want to know, the title of this article is a bit disingenuous.
With the 2026 midterms fast approaching, those divides have fueled speculation that MAGA voters might defect en masse from the GOP in November. But that’s not the primary threat facing the Trump coalition: Recent polling suggests that self-identified “MAGA Republicans” are standing firmly with Trump on the war and a host of other divisive issues, underscoring the stubborn reality that — as Trump has pithily put it — “MAGA is me.”
Yet as several conservative commentators have recently pointed out, Trump didn’t win reelection in 2024 merely on the strength of MAGA voters. His winning coalition paired his core MAGA constituency with a broader constellation of other non-traditional Republican constituencies — disillusioned Democrats and “MAHA moms” and “manosphere” podcast bros among them.
It is that broader Trumpian coalition — rather than the core base of MAGA supporters — that some Trump backers fear has been endangered by Trump’s policy choices. As the conservative activist Mike Cernovich put it this week, “A generational coalition, squandered.” ...
The ongoing military operations in Iran are prompting pushback from many of the usual suspects on the anti-interventionist right, led by figures like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. But the war has prompted some more eyebrow-raising defections as well: On Monday, Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia whose conviction for his role in the Jan. 6 riots was commuted by Trump, announced that he is “no longer MAGA,” citing his opposition to the war. Meanwhile, Joe Rogan, the leading voice of the Trump-friendly faction within the bro-podcast sphere, has said that Trump supporters feel “betrayed” over Iran.
Some signs of intra-GOP dissent are starting to show up in the polling as well. Though over 90 percent of self-identified “MAGA Republicans” continue to back the war, close to 25 percent of “Republicans” and nearly 40 percent of “non-MAGA Republicans” disapprove of it. The war polls even worse with independents, who disapprove by an average margin of 70 percent to 30 percent. Those voters are also more likely to cite “affordability” as a primary concern, creating a political pitfall for the administration as the war drives up gas prices and threatens to stoke inflation.
So although there are some MAGA big names that are dissenting, the real concern for them isn't the ground MAGA voters but the coalition of voters next to MAGA who support it and are more likely to pay attention to one or more of the 7 issues discussed in the article. (Iran, Israel, Immigration, Epstein, Anti-Vax, and AI)
Full System Overview (5 minutes) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDO2EvXyncE&t=54s
Full Development Media and Documentation https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17zpks6_R59H0iXJaGkTrtp1SzIFFAQtY?usp=sharing
This project is a proof-of-concept prototype of a low-cost rocket launcher and guided rocket system built using consumer electronics and 3D-printed components. The rocket uses folding fins and canard stabilization controlled by an onboard ESP32 flight computer and MPU6050 inertial measurement unit, while the launcher integrates sensors such as GPS, compass, and barometric modules for orientation and telemetry. The system was designed in Fusion 360, simulated using OpenRocket, and developed through iterative mechanical, electronics, and launch testing. The total hardware cost of the prototype is approximately $96.
Not the full implementation, but if they can combine this with some open drone system or something else that Ukraine already has, off the shelf, it has some interesting potential.
“The passage where you talk about killing a dog that was 14 months old — I train dogs. All right? And you are a farmer; you should know better. You should know that if you’re going out to a hunting lodge and you’re putting pheasants out and you’re putting dogs out, you don’t take a puppy out there. A 14-month-old dog is basically a teenager in dog years,” Tillis told Noem.
“You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training. And then you have the audacity to go into a book and say it’s a leadership lesson about tough choices?
“But my point is, those are bad decisions made in the heat of the moment — not unlike what happened up in Minneapolis,” he continued. “We’re an exceptional nation, and one of the reasons we’re exceptional is we expect exceptional leadership, and you’ve demonstrated anything but that.”
The ending is classic Scalzi
If you’re a scammer who uses “AI” to try to defraud actual humans, please die in a fucking fire, thanks. For everyone else, sorry a flood of spam has ruined book clubs. It’s awful for every one of us.
— JS
The environment is complicated and being reductive isn't useful. While I'm not saying they haven't slipped their leash a bit, I think it's a bit more complicated than just dropping their ethics.
Your link and the time article about RSP is only slightly related to the Defense department decision. Both have lasting impacts, and both are ethics driven, but in entirely different directions. One relates to allowing for decision to be made about killing, Responsible Scaling Policy is about how fast and what safety they train their AI's with.
I sort of get the usecase, but is anyone weirded out by an sqlite database that needs multiuser concurrent transaction? There is a point here it seems like you should just use a more robust non-single file database.
State house seat, mind you. Still good.
YouTube cofounder Steve Chen said at a talk at the Stanford Graduate School of Business last year that he wouldn’t want his kids consuming only short-form content, noting that it might be better to limit kids to videos longer than 15 minutes.
I hope this is introduced at the LA trial in some form that demonstrates the why.
I should not be amazed, but I still am, at the entire lack of morality that tech entrepreneurs have post dotcom bursting.
As someone who isn't familiar with the UK advertising laws, is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising_Standards_Authority_(United_Kingdom) what you mean?
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I think this point is getting buried, but the regulatory change that needs to happen to start with is not the algorithm alone, but Monetization realignment!!
- Shift ad models to reward completion (e.g., pay creators per finished video) rather than scroll depth
- Offer paid tiers where users pay $2-5/month to disable all addictive features (no A/B testing on these users)
- User-controlled ad preferences with revenue sharing
- Behavioral cost transparency
Or others. Basically disincentivize addictive apps. I would also suggest penalizing harshly those that do, as many of these companies make so much off of this that only the harsher enforced penalties will force change (if they don't avoid it through regulatory capture).
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Chronology is only one part of this, although I think it is the right foot forward.We also need:
- Mandatory session limits with friction
- Notification redesign replacing real-time alerts with scheduled digest batches
- Engagement friction mechanisms
- Especially need algorithmic transparency & control to make the user aware and in not manipulated
- Behavioral feedback systems
- An most importantly Monetization Realignment
The parents point is true, but more generally I think it needs to be that "people" need to be held responsible and accountable for their actions both as adults and children, and to enable this they need to be taught critical thinking skills as well as given the tools to make this happen. Common sense isn't common, it's instilled.
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There are https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof which can do exactly what you just proposed. I'm not sure it's a foolproof answer, but it is designed to exactly deal with that identity conundrum as well as others.
In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof (also known as a ZK proof or ZKP) is a protocol in which one party (the prover) can convince another party (the verifier) that some given statement is true, without conveying to the verifier any information beyond the mere fact of that statement's truth.
By young, they mean not geriatric. Some of the candidate running in open or challenge seats. And we need more.
Nikki Foster (D) Age: 38 | Race: U.S. Senate (OH) | Background: Labor organizer and 2022 Senate candidate; running against incumbent J.D. Vance in an open-seat scenario.
Adam Gray (D) Age: 42 | Race: U.S. House (CA-13) | Background: State Assemblymember challenging Republican incumbent John Duarte in a Central Valley swing district.
Mia Janecka (D) Age: 38 | Race: U.S. House (TX-23) | Background: El Paso County prosecutor; running against Republican Tony Gonzales in a border district with shifting demographics.
Syler Roberts (D) Age: 34 | Race: U.S. House (OR-06) | Background: Climate policy advisor and Gen Z activist challenging Republican Andrea Salinas in a Portland suburbs district.
I'm sure they'd love this.
I am hoping for a blue wave here top, but worth noting that so far another 20 or so other House member are not seeking reelection. A total of 57 are bowing out.
Worth noting that being a politician is a much harder job now than it used to be and the security of it is a big challenge. They are now basically in a state of "psychology terror" due to the political violence that is going on against both sides. https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/political-violence-distorting-american-lawmaking