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i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content etc etc

I recently gave a talk at Yale Law School about writing AI constitutions. Video below and on YouTube, link to transcript and slides in thread.

Guy who campaigned saying "I'm not going to start wars," is now saying he's looking forward to the military's "next Conquest."

Iran accepts payments for Strait of Hormuz passage in USD1 stablecoins issued by World Liberty Financial, which is run by Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff’s adult children

@KarthikForTexas @CantEverDie I think the perceived incongruity is because “It’s giving” comes from the “1980s/90s NYC Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ ballroom scene” (quoted from google), whereas this woman seems far from that. It percolated through TikTok I guess into parts of the mainstream

@CantEverDie It’s only insane if you think we in the South or people with Southern accents don’t care about human rights.

“it’s giving war crime” with the super southern accent is insane lol

The left has not always covered itself in glory on free speech, but Brendan Carr’s repeated explicit efforts to use the FCC to censor television news is so far beyond anything else that’s happened in recent American life.

@aboutJoy @alz_zyd_ The most prominent advances in reasoning models, from 2024 until now, were accomplished using reinforcement learning, largely on synthetically generated datasets of math and coding. Starting with OpenAI's o1-preview model.

@alz_zyd_ What would you say LLMs learn from now?

remember the guys who were like "if people stop contributing to stack overflow LLMs will have nothing to learn from and will stop getting better" lol dumbest take ever

@DancinEngineer @JHWeissmann In san francisco they deal with this by pursuing with an aerial drone, and police grab the people they are targeting once they pull over. It has been very effective.

@JHWeissmann Basically, how do you propose catching them? I find them a nuisance but recognize it’s not simple to catch a large group. Beyond extremely punitive punishment for those you manage to catch in hopes it dissuades others, seems like part of the solution is riders abandoning the idea

Just jaw-dropping learned helplessness here. We don't actually have to tolerate flagrant lawbreaking.

@volcrano @mattyglesias pursue with an aerial drone, and then arrest them when they pull over, without human chase pursuit, like they do in SF

@mattyglesias I know something about this. Trying to pull them over is dangerous - there was a fatal crash a few years ago as a result, and other non-fatal crashes. MPD can't follow them because they leave the District. And MPD can't get Maryland to help them. They can try...

I don't actually think this is that unsolvable of a problem. What you need to do is identify the people who are driving ATVs and dirt bikes, arrest them, and punish them.

@maustermuhle Why not track them with aerial camera drones and then arrest them a few minutes later when they pull over, like they do in San Francisco?

There's often calls for D.C. to crack down on ATVs and dirt bikes, but what that would look like isn't usually defined and probably wouldn't be practical anyhow. Having police officers chase after ATVs and dirt bikes, for example, would create lots of new risks.

For years there have been complaints and concerns around ATVs and dirt bikes on D.C. streets, and the city has tried lots of things: impounding them ahead of time, sharing images of their users in hopes of finding them, etc. Yet the issue persists, and now this.

Opposing the obliteration of millennia-old civilisations is conservative, actually

San Francisco is now a model for how to fight crime. A few years ago it averaged 86 car break-ins per day. Today: 15. SF did two things: 1. Got a DA that prosecutes criminals: Following the successful recall of Chesa Boudin, DA Brooke Jenkins started prosecuting prolific offenders and said so loudly. Crime dropped every year since she took office. 2. Put tech to use: In 2024, SF activated 400 license plate readers and deployed 80 drones citywide. This tech feeds officers live intelligence on suspects in motion. Drones alone have assisted in 1,000+ arrests since then. The technology lets authorities solve crimes as they happen rather than depend on much more intensive, legally perilous post hoc investigations (which ironically are often more intrusive than using tech). The results: - Car break-ins down 85% - Robbery down 30% - Burglary down 33%. - Homicides hit their lowest level since 1954. Plate readers, drones, a prosecutor who prosecutes. That's the whole formula! Austin has the opposite approach. License plate cameras are effectively banned. Jail bookings are down despite repeat offenders victimizing innocent people regularly. Bond violations went from 37 in 2020 to 250 last year. SF proved crime is a choice. Austin, so far, keeps making a different one.

lmao

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims. Mar 3: "We won the war." Mar 7: "We defeated Iran." Mar 9: "We must attack Iran." Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully." Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet." Mar 13: "We won the war." Mar 14: "Please help us." Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it." Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all." Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me." Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad." Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help." Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO." Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz." Mar 20: "NATO are cowards." Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it." Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait" Mar 22: "Iran is Dead" Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran." Mar 24: "We’re making progress." Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away." Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO." Mar 28: No major quote Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences." Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing" Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon." Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen." Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences. Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah." 😂

President Trump, from the South Portico of the White House, with the Easter Bunny, addresses Iran:

@JacobALinker @cremieuxrecueil @AzPetrich Looks like Banania should grow a beard and long hair. Suits him, and it's a reasonable style for an influencer

@cremieuxrecueil @AzPetrich Behold! The Christ!

Just a reminder for Christian's celebrating Easter this week. Jesus looked like the guy in the first picture - not the second.

Wow

@JoyceCarolOates Presumably to “own the libs” in the SF Bay Area

Why?

Trump 2016: The people opposing us are the same people who've wasted $6 trillion on wars in the Middle East. We could have rebuilt our country twice that have produced only more terrorism, more death, more suffering. Imagine if that money had been spent right here in our home. We've totally destabilized the Middle East. And if you think about it, $6 trillion and it was far better 15 years ago.