
Satya
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Satya
@LordofLLMs
Exploring AI. Countering Liberalism.




NEWS: Judge Amit Mehta rules Trump is NOT immune for key Jan. 6 conduct—including his Ellipse rally speech, outreach to officials, and related actions—finding they can be treated as campaign activity, not presidential duties. That means civil lawsuits can move forward. The court also rejected Trump’s First Amendment defense and blocked a DOJ effort that could have shielded him from liability.



During the last Gilded Age, the robber barons saw a cultural value to founding universities, museums, concert halls, foundations. Many enduring institutions were founded by the ultra-rich of the 1890 who felt a sense of noblesse oblige that was also socially rewarded. Not anymore. These people see little social value to founding anything that doesn’t make a profit.


I know Cambridge is much more fortunate than other universities in receiving vast endowments like this, but even at Cambridge the money never seems to find its way to the traditional Humanities and is always focussed on STEM, Business, and in this case Government and Politics 😒


Trump's second term really is the American Brexit. A catastrophic failure to understand the world fuelled by vanity, lies and nationalist delusion




Uh, yeah, which is why the Founders detested Caesar. They viewed the fall of the Roman republic as a civilizational tragedy.

Uh, yeah, which is why the Founders detested Caesar. They viewed the fall of the Roman republic as a civilizational tragedy.

Uh, yeah, which is why the Founders detested Caesar. They viewed the fall of the Roman republic as a civilizational tragedy.

Uh, yeah, which is why the Founders detested Caesar. They viewed the fall of the Roman republic as a civilizational tragedy.


NPR CEO: "I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done."

Uh, yeah, which is why the Founders detested Caesar. They viewed the fall of the Roman republic as a civilizational tragedy.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. cnn.it/4rZSiG5

In @nytopinion "One does not have to be a criminologist to predict that people who commit a violent act and are absolved of any punishment might become repeat offenders," the editorial board writes. nyti.ms/41FbZIs

I read this during the Christmas break. I hear a lot of poly sci-type critics saying why post-liberalism is bad, but I haven't yet heard a serious critique of the book's central argument, that we in fact live in a post-liberal world by concrete empirical standards. Maybe there is one, but I haven't found it. I also found that P's analysis of the 'metaphysics' of liberalism has considerable explainatory power. By his analysis the progressive left is hyper-liberal while the reality-based community is post-liberal. The alternatives for realists are to embrace post-liberalism or try to return somehow to the high liberal balance of the post-war period.


JUST IN - Trump says he is strongly considering leaving NATO, highlighting U.S. support when it came to Ukraine war: "Ukraine wasn’t our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us." — Telegraph


"My argument at this point is that Congress more or less doesn’t exist, except as a social media operation. The institution has abandoned itself. The executive branch runs the country, with the judicial branch throwing down random speed bumps, because the legislative branch has no role it wishes to perform." chrisbray.substack.com/p/the-end-of-p…



