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Govind Acharya πŸ‡²πŸ‡½ πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦
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Sacramento area. Hard core but very slow cyclist; loves transit, walking, cycling, & housing & wants more of all of that! Former public works commissioner. Ex-Board of Directors, Amnesty Intl USA; loves human rights & economist #startrek fanatic. (he/him)
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Chatbots β€” LLMs β€” do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re β€œright” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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lmao she deleted the video, but I hope this was the comment that got to her
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I continue to sincerely want the term β€œKavanaugh Stop” to be a badge of shame for the rest of Brett Kavanaugh’s days; the only bit of writing he’s known or remembered for; his sole contribution to the Law; for him to perceive, in little stabs of self-awareness, that this will be his rancid legacy.
What a sick world.
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The President isn’t describing an IQ test. He’s most likely describing a dementia screening and is describing it as β€œvery hard.”
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
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[looks around for jake tapper] hey man, do you, uh, want to write about this?
Trump: AOC is low IQ. If you give her an IQ test, have her pass like the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. Those are very hard…

The first couple of questions are easy. A tiger, an elephant, a giraffe..
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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Australia sues Microsoft for allegedly misleading ~2.7M Microsoft 365 users into accepting a price hike for Copilot plans while hiding cheaper non-AI options (Sneha Kumar/Reuters)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net
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as I keep saying: the wine moms (and grandmas) are out for blood
might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen
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This is how Josh Barro sounded ten years ago! His nonstop immersion in social environment where these sorts of views are treated as ridiculous has changed and radicalized him! (and many others)
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Gallego: "It's murder. It's very simple. If this president feels they are doing something illegally, then he should be using the Coast Guard. If this is an act of war, then you use our military and then you come and talk to us first. But this is murder ... it's disgusting."
If you want to come up to Davis, DM be and I'll share my phone number!
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We were sitting right behind you admiring the yellow shirt!
An after-party of a sort @thewaroncars.bsky.social, waiting on the BART at 24th St/Mission in SF. We were heading to our hotel in Downtown Oakland; others elsewhere.
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The energy we need is this suburban dad standing out in the street -- barefoot with Blackhawks pajama pants on -- screaming at the masked goons to get the fuck out of their neighborhood.
More from the scene
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He’s designing the ballroom with AI isn’t he www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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The β€œFree Speech Warriors” arresting a guy for owning a National Guard by playing the Imperial March.

Guys, it was just a joke! You snowflakes are so *sensitive.* Time to toughen up, buttercup.

(This is why we must mock them RELENTLESSLY.)
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Just for the record, in 2020:
- Wray was the FBI director Trump handpicked to replace Comey
- Jack Smith was in the Hague prosecuting Kosovo war crimes
- Garland was an appeals court judge
- Monaco was in private practice in LA

There was no Biden administration yet, crooked or otherwise.

He crazy.
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The claim that bike lanes slow down first responders is the biggest lie anti-bike people tell.
An ambulance glides through the midtown rush hour traffic thanks to the 6th Ave bike lane
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people chant "we stand with you!" as Letitia James tries to speak outside a courthouse in Virginia
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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ordinary americans are filming ice agents and trying to save their neighbors. for all the hemming and hawing during 2024 about how democracy was an elite concern, the elites gave up far more quickly than average people.