So Cal Thoughts

This is a crime. If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment. This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.

“Donald Trump raping children” If I am not mistaken, this is the first time that a senior elected official has directly accused Trump. I would like to remind everyone that members of Congress have access to the Epstein files. It is very courageous of Ted Lieu to speak out in this way. He is choosing the victims and survivors over the criminals involved in this case. BRAVO @tedlieu

The Freedom of the Press Foundation files a disciplinary complaint against the federal prosecutor who signed the search warrant of WaPo reporter Hannah Natanson, arguing he failed to cite a federal law barring the application. Letter buff.ly/xDHJIy4

I don't want MY taxpayer dollars funding shit like this: ICE agent pistol whipping a 16-year old kid with his hands up. I don't want my tax money funding MURDERS of U.S. citizens either. Where are the arrests of all those ICE thugs?

My God.

@ArleneRabenbau1 @MilesTaylorUSA If the state prosecutor or County DA brings murder charges and secures a conviction, the President can not pardon. Separate sovereigns.

@MilesTaylorUSA Who would prosecute the ICE agent anyway? Even if he was found guilty of murder, Trump would just pardon him. We live in a world turned upside down by MAGA.

As someone who used to help oversee ICE, I agree with this message.

Southern California is officially drought-free. Massive storms over the past two weeks have wiped out drought across the region. Incredible turnaround.

@CernBasher @karpathy Because we need people to learn to reason and think logically. If AI does it for you, you don't develop that muscle. Analysis and rigor develop from reading and writing through difficult topics. Secondarily if the worst happens, we won't be generationally lost.

@karpathy Why do we care if students can exist without AI? Isn't that like existing without tools? Sure, it might occasionally be handy, but not necessary.

A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights: 1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI. 2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later. 3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators. 4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc. TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.

Wow. "It gives me no pleasure to say what I’m about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime .... There’s absolutely no legal basis for it.” - Newsmax's Judge Napolitano

Unlike Admiral Bradley, Navy Admiral Alvin Holsey resigned and refused to go along with Pete Hegseth's illegal orders. RETWEET to thank Admiral Holsey for standing up for the Constitution!

@TheMaineWonk @SenatorWicker Hegseth needs to be fired and arrested immediately. x.com/TheMaineWonk/s…

🤣🤣🤣 Absolute clown show.

🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Thousands have flooded the streets of D.C. for the “Remove the Regime” rally. Crowds are chanting “IMPEACH, CONVICT, REMOVE” and “LOCK HIM UP.”

BREAKING: The full grand jury NEVER reviewed the James Comey indictment. DOJ Prosecutors just admitted to a judge that instead of presenting a new indictment to the grand jury after it declined to approve one of the counts, Halligan simply brought an altered version to the magistrate’s courtroom for the grand jury’s foreperson to sign. God, these people are so corrupt.

This is Jennifer Jacobs, the reporter that Donald Trump barked “quiet, quiet, piggy” at for asking about the Epstein files. She was asking the right questions and didn’t deserve to be called out by Trump! I stand with Jennifer Jacobs! What about you? ✋🏾

BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court. Defense argued that’s a complete bar to prosecution

LI drug dealer freed by Trump now convicted of molesting his kids’ nanny and assaulting toddler trib.al/riuDIE8