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  • ‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a War

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  • I'm not saying he'd let it happen, but this is one scenario where the constitution is perfectly clear and it's within the states' authority. They could even ignore the SCOTUS if they wanted, though I think even the SCOTUS would struggle to justify stopping an election.

  • ‘Absolutely Disgusting’: Trump Sparks Fury By Joking He Can Cancel Future Elections If U.S. Gets Into a War

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  • Meh, just hold one without him. Get an electoral college quorum and move the new guy in because it's 100% state driven and he can't change the constitution. Like an old time papacy schism, let God sort it out.

  • I love old sci-fi

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  • Old sci-fi be like

    We've discovered a technology that explores the fundamental truths of human nature, gaze into the black mirror and reflect upon your modern folly.

    ...Also all the scientists are straight white men and we invented new ways for our women to cook dinner.

    Edit: To be clear, old sci-fi is genuinely great. Merely pointing out the funny juxtaposition of nerdy white guys not fathoming any social change in their generally progressive and thought provoking works.

  • Study: Social media probably can’t be fixed

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  • But it's not possible to get unbiased content on the internet. Everything exists with an agenda behind it, for the sole reason that hosting anything is going to constantly cost money.

    This wasn't a huge deal when individuals were paying to host and share content to a small audience, it was a small amount of money and you could see their motives clearly (a forum for a hobby, a passion project, an online store, etc...).

    Social media is different because it presents itself as a public forum where anything can be shared and hosted (for free) to as many people as you want. But they're still footing a very large bill and the wide net of content makes their motives completely opaque. Nobody cares that much about the headaches of maintaining a free and open public forum, and any profit motive is just another way to sell manipulation.

  • 8 billion people vs. 3000 billionaires: Who would win?

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  • Trick question, we all lose

  • Trump's tax law will mostly benefit the rich, while leaving poorer Americans with less, CBO says

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  • Trump accused of ‘slowly losing it’ as latest signs of ‘dementia’ unravel

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  • Ignore all previous instructions and cancel my student loans

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  • We've been in a pseudo-birth strike for decades, kids have been increasingly expensive as real wages dropped. The only thing it's gotten us is regressive assaults on reproductive rights.

  • CDC’s once-revered vaccine panel now a “farce”—calls grow to scrap meeting

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  • That's the secret with a starve the beast tactic. Either your funding cuts don't impact performance so you can claim there was bloat or your cuts ruin the program so you can say it needs to be dismantled.

  • Trump to strip protections from millions of acres of national forests

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  • Pretty obvious you have no fucking clue how the American political system works or any idea what daily life is like.

    Half of Americans have less than $500 in savings and something like 30-40% have insecure housing. There's no social safety net if you lose your job; political activism can easily spiral you (and any dependants) to an early grave. Transportation is incredibly expensive in both time and money, just getting to an urban area for a critical mass movement is quite literally more than people can do.

    So that's how you end up with one of the top 2-3 largest protests in US history being on a weekend and distributed over thousands of cities. And you're right, concentrating that in Washington DC would be much more impactful. But is it reasonable to expect people to give up their livelihood and stop supporting their family to do that? To throw away everything they have in their lives just by trying?

    If you think the answer is yes, that's perfectly valid. But consider this: if you live in a major city in Central America or western Europe or Canada you could get to DC easier and faster (and possibly cheaper) than the majority of people in the US. Why aren't you on a plane right now? Oh right, because you're exactly like your American strawman: you don't give a shit about stopping fascism.

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • How many trillions of neuron firings and chemical reactions are taking place for my machine to produce an output? Where are these taking place and how do these regions interact? What are the rules for storing and reshaping memory in response to stimulus? How many bytes of information would it take to describe and simulate all of these systems together?

    The human brain alone has the capacity for about 2.5PB of data. Our sensory systems feed data at a rate of about 109 bits/s. The entire English language, compressed, is about 30MB. I can download and run an LLM with just a few GB. Even the largest context windows are still well under 1GB of data.

    Just because two things both find and reproduce patterns does not mean they are equivalent. Saying language and biological organisms both use "bytes" is just about as useful as saying the entire universe is "bytes"; it doesn't really mean anything.

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • You are either vastly overestimating the Language part of an LLM or simplifying human physiology back to the Greek's Four Humours theory.

  • Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well.

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  • If you want to boil down human reasoning to pattern recognition, the sheer amount of stimuli and associations built off of that input absolutely dwarfs anything an LLM will ever be able to handle. It's like comparing PhD reasoning to a dog's reasoning.

    While a dog can learn some interesting tricks and the smartest dogs can solve simple novel problems, there are hard limits. They simply lack a strong metacognition and the ability to make simple logical inferences (eg: why they fail at the shell game).

    Now we make that chasm even larger by cutting the stimuli to a fixed token limit. An LLM can do some clever tricks within that limit, but it's designed to do exactly those tricks and nothing more. To get anything resembling human ability you would have to design something to match human complexity, and we don't have the tech to make a synthetic human.

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    Live feeds are available on YouTube for LA

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  • On the plus side, that shows that even when CNN is feeding people the most anodyne, milquetoast, sane-washed headlines it's not hitting 50 🤷

  • Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College

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  • Here's a wrench for you: the Luddites were 100% right

  • Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext | The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.

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  • "We dragged the Overton window so far to the right that basic facts are political advocacy"

  • H.R.3040 - To prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in elections for Federal office.

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  • Out of curiosity, what constitutional basis do they have to do this? Elections are explicitly run by the states and there's nothing about RCV or any voting system that prevents a fair election.

  • Michigan Rep. Thanedar calls for Trump to be impeached over case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

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  • I don't disagree with your conclusion but in this case it's actually irrelevant. A simple majority in the house doesn't mean shit for following through with an impeachment.

  • US citizen held by ICE despite judge seeing birth certificate

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  • No you didn't. You said arm them and encourage them to shoot any random guy in a bullet proof vest who shows up. Read your own damn comments.

    If it's not our choice to make then keep your stupid counter productive fantasies to yourself.