Anthony Hess

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M4 Mac Mini AI Cluster Uses @exolabs with Thunderbolt 5 interconnect (80Gbps) to run LLMs distributed across 4 M4 Pro Mac Minis. The cluster is small (iPhone for reference). It’s running Nemotron 70B at 8 tok/sec and scales to Llama 405B (benchmarks soon).

@drskridlowphd @whstancil Rogan is not hard questions. Compared to Fox? She should have gone there. the messaging issue - real solutions are complex. I guess they could just make stuff up and pretend it got done? Or if not done it’s the oppos fault?

@whstancil That's nonsense. She opted for hyper-friendly media because she was pretending to be a centrist but any candid questioning would have shown she's not one. She could have gone on Rogan, but her campaign gambled that it would be better to keep her away from hard questions.

Harris spent over a billion dollars in a few months. The reason the opposition was able to define her as a candidate was because there are structural biases in the information environment that make it almost impossible for Dem messaging to break through to many voters.

@Habs_1 @Jed_Graham This is it. This was a worldwide issue yet nobody bothers to look at other countries!

@Jed_Graham If the Dems are responsible for the inflation coming out of Covid, why is it that the UK with a conservative govt had high inflation that was more persistent than the U.S? Perhaps because inflation was an international issue the result of pent up demand and broken supply chains?

In retrospect, it’s clear that Democrats’ basically doomed their reelection chances in March 2021 with the design of the American Recovery Act. It wasn’t just that spending $400+ billion on another round of stimulus checks helped stoke inflation./

@SayonaraShtbird @smrwhitetoyou @GregTSargent @supersinga @daveweigel Yes but that’s just people on social media right? Stuff like that gets eyeballs.

@adhess @smrwhitetoyou @GregTSargent @supersinga @daveweigel Another example:

This is sobering, but I have a sincere question about it: The Harris campaign/Ds ran over $200 million in ads about the economy. Much of this messaging *did* emphasize a specific program and *did* employ populist appeals. As @daveweigel reported, this stuff was *constantly* discussed on the stump and went largely unreported. The Q we need to ask is: *Why* didn't this break through w/working class voters? The claim that there was no effort to reach them elides this harder question.

@SayonaraShtbird @smrwhitetoyou @GregTSargent @supersinga @daveweigel It doesn’t help but it’s more of a shorthand than anything it’s not really how they operate in most cases. They look for popular and useful policies to implement but those are always harder to message. Activists and media personalities are not the party leadership.

@smrwhitetoyou @GregTSargent @supersinga @daveweigel This separating people into groups and thinking they're exactly alike because of racial and sex categories is what fucks y'all up and will continue to do so. It's the main reason why I left the party, we used to consider everyone as individuals.

@naima The Dems and Biden just weren’t forceful enough in communicating wins over the four years of them absolutely killing it.

Yeah, the person who said we should run Newsome bc he doesn't mind being a dark force AND his personal favorite thing in life is eviscerating republicans was on to something

@chickenstrip007 @climatepaige I think dating today often involves a lot shallower connections and higher volume, so you tend to find lots of people you aren’t that interested in. In terms of rates - lot less divorces now too! People aren’t being forced together in the same way as 50 yes who.

@climatepaige Maybe it does. We certainly seem to have much lower rates of marriage and childbirth than we used to. Anecdotally, a lot of women tell me the men they meet are low quality. Can such a subjective determination really be wrong? Even if it can, it can impact how people act

@KirkforDefiance @misthiOSX @dyobbocaj @GaryWinslett Either is common I can’t believe you’ve never heard they as a singular! It’s always been either. The difference is that people are using it to denote gender identity but I’m sorry grammatically it’s always been this way.

@adhess @misthiOSX @dyobbocaj @GaryWinslett Your sentences are referring to a group of people, not a single person. It's the very reason "they" exists. Otherwise, you would've written: "I don't know what he thinks", etc.

Some people want me to specify ways Democrats could move right culturally. There are many potential options here but let's start with an easy one: Democrats need to remove the phrase "toxic masculinity" from our vocabularies. It is *not helpful.* 1/2

@willpaddyg She only was running for three months. I’d say gov or primary run in 28. The former has a better shot.

I wonder what Harris does now - she's relatively young, but her career is surely over

@KirkforDefiance @misthiOSX @dyobbocaj @GaryWinslett “I dont know what they think” - “I don’t know what they are doing”. You never heard this referring to singular people?

@misthiOSX @dyobbocaj @GaryWinslett "No one"? That's complete gaslighting. EVERYONE simply used "his or her" when referring to a single person, until the 2010s. Then out of nowhere, came the pronoun craz, & we're all supposed to pretend the abnormal is normal.

@ViratBradman @Saul_Sadka I still like Walz but they muzzled him. He should have stayed with the Everyman persona and hit up all the podcasts etc. Shapiro would have been good too, but he comes across like a politician unlike Walz.

Trump's defeat of Harris was much closer than people realize, and than his ±3% popular vote victory implies. But therein lies the true horror for the Democrats: They knew the Blue Wall states—Michigan, Pennsylvania & Wisconsin—were critical & they would have won them, and thus the presidency (likely until 2033), with miniscule shifts: 0.5% swing in WI (18,000 votes) 0.7% swing in MI (38,000 votes) 1.2% swing in PA (78,000 votes) So any small shift away from their voter-repelling, wokey, postmodernism-derived ideological fringe elite positions (trans, Hamas, etc.) and/or choosing a better VP candidate (i.e., Shapiro) would have won them the White House. But they just couldn't—they stuck with the Hamas-fans and Imane Khelif diehards and sleepwalked to a generational electoral apocalypse.

@TractorLaw @JohnnyH5643 @whstancil @tyleroday They definitely did say that? I’m not a politician but the politicians were definitely talking that way.

@adhess @JohnnyH5643 @whstancil @tyleroday Then maybe the Democrats should have said something besides, "Ackshually you are doing much better you dumb fucking racist sexist rubes." Ya know?

Yes: economic dissatisfaction ultimately reflects the domination of the information environment by the right wing (and antisocial sentiment more generally), rather than real economic conditions, which are better than most voters have ever lived through.

@TractorLaw @JohnnyH5643 @whstancil @tyleroday And if Trump actually does what he says they will all have much worse facts and feelings which is why it’s so dangerous

@TractorLaw @JohnnyH5643 @whstancil @tyleroday That’s a completely different conversation and I didn’t hear a single GOP policy that would do something there. The fact is that the American economy leads the world and most people are a lot better off than they were in 2020 wages / prices - Im not discussing feelings

@TractorLaw @whstancil @tyleroday It’s a fact that wage growth has outgrown inflation it has nothing to do with how people are feeling about prices. The post truth world is super dangerous for the people living in it.

@adhess @whstancil @tyleroday Continue telling people who are hurting that they are wrong and in fact they are doing better. You haven't learned a fucking thing.

@JohnnyH5643 @TractorLaw @whstancil @tyleroday That isn’t true

@adhess @TractorLaw @whstancil @tyleroday The inflation metrics used to say insane shit like that don't include the price of food, housing, gas. Pretty much every single good that people *have* to consume daily.

@TractorLaw @whstancil @tyleroday Wages have outpaced inflation it can only be said so many times

@whstancil @tyleroday People Can't Afford Groceries People can't afford groceries and Democrats are telling them "Ackshually the economy is great." It's not "information environment." It's people on the ground who Cannot. Afford. Groceries. While Democrats are saying stocks are up, unemployment down