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Honestly this seems like it would be a sick party trick. Combine with some strudel.cc and it could be pretty cool little setup.

> where the government doesn't just force harms on the public whenever it will make them more money and voter's concerns about health and environmental impacts are listened to. Thi…

They already have a balanced budget, why would they need to cave to these corporations?

Isn't this a non-sequitur though? Artemis presumably doesn't have to actually load up humans on the rockets to flight test them.

Yup, absolutely I do. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-s...

It’s not a “maybe”. This administration was collecting lists of people who spoke negatively about ICE from social media like a week ago. you really think they’re going to send them…

Disagree. I have seen people pay more for less. Especially in the case of something like a PR where their job performance could be tied to the result.

We already have agentic payment workflows, this won’t stop it either as people are already willing (and able) to give their agent AIs a small budget to work with.

It’s going to lead to balkanization, and it seems at this point to be basically intentional.

There is little reason to believe that low hiring will be improved in any significant amount by removal of the H1B pool.

I’m familiar with those applications of exploitation, too, but they also wouldn’t apply here. This wasn’t demeaning work and wasn’t predicated on necessity, past their disability. …

Exploiting? I’m lefty, but this dude volunteered for the procedure and was fully reimbursed. I’m having a really hard time seeing “exploited” on this one.

Climate migration from South and Central America to North America has already started. If the US think they have an immigration problem right now, I can’t imagine how vicious immig…

This is the natural end result of giving the president qualified immunity for acts in office. There is now no reason for them to follow the law.

Unrelated; but I am absolutely in love with this blog theme and color scheme.

Two heads of the same coin I guess! I agree though, we sorely need a counterweight to this administration. I keep asking my friends that support Trump if they’ll have the same stau…

You’re being downvoted but you’re right. The number of people who act like a web cam reproduces the in person experience perfectly, for good and bad, is hilarious to me.

Trump has already joined those ranks, he just failed at it. January 6th was a legitimate attempt at overturning the election results. He was impeached over it. Mike Pence was the o…

Most numbers I can find say that about 65% of Americans are registered to vote. Let’s say 100% of them voted in 2024. Of that, let’s call it a flat 51% voted for Trump. That means …

Republicans used to limit themselves out of of fear of a Democrat being able to do it the next time they won. Now it seems like the republicans are trying to speed-run to a point w…

Which makes this situation all the more remarkable, since Trump called in the national guard without Newsom’s approval.

Not without it being received in earnest. You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.

Because the Chinese Room is a much better analogy for what LLMs are doing inside than the Turing test is.

The president is currently ignoring a Supreme Court order, not explaining why they’re ignoring it, and even if they tried to charge him, last year the Supreme Court ruled that he h…

A shocking amount, and it’s well spent, because it literally underpins everything else. The stability it provides (or rather, provided in the past) is what made America so appealin…