Robert Olinger
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@McCormickProf Look. If you voted for Trump you voted for this. He has behaved this way since well forever. So to say conservatives ‘rightly chastised’ was always a one sided conversation since this guy has been your moral center for a decade.
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When Charlie Kirk was murdered, those of us on the conservative side rightly chastised those of our political adversaries who cheered and celebrated his death. We accused them--again rightly--of shameful callousness and of polluting public discourse and coarsening social life. What President Trump does here merits the same chastisement, for the same reasons.
Mary Margaret Olohan@MaryMargOlohan
President Trump says Robert Mueller has died. “Good, I’m glad he’s dead,” says POTUS. “He can no longer hurt innocent people.”
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This is something that always bothered me about Trump. I had voted for him and was therefore part of the faction he was trying to appease, but I found it pretty shocking & off putting that he literally only cared about the people who voted for him.
No one really talks about this, but this is not normal and shouldn't be acceptable. He openly despises half the country he leads.
Gregg Nunziata@greggnunziata
Again, Trump's greatest failing is his inability to understand he leads a country, not just a faction
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@RepNancyMace The problem is the man you serve has no interest in such justice
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@tomfgoodwin because like humans, each only has so much capacity.
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I’m surely being stupid. But if AI is rather unconstrained by expertise or capacity or to some extent speed
Why do we need to divide tasks or departments to 9 agents ( the marketing agent, the optimization agent etc ) to each do one thing. And then another agent to manage the swarm. Cant one agent just be doing it all you know.
It seems very skeuomorphic. Will we have HR agents to make sure the agent agents are being looked after ? A office canteen manager agent to feed the agents ?
Seems daft
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@nexta_tv This seems like an idea Putin is giving Trump...
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The U.S. is ready to draw closer to Russia to weaken China — Politico
The Trump administration is considering reshaping its relationship with Russia to reduce China's influence.
The White House believes that encouraging Russia to end the war in Ukraine and reintegrating it into economic cooperation with the West could shift the global balance of power in favor of the U.S.
Economic incentives and investments are being discussed as ways to bring Moscow closer to Washington.
However, in Ukraine and among experts, this strategy is met with skepticism, with reminders that similar attempts in the past have been unsuccessful, and the Russia-China alliance remains strong.
Experts believe that at best, limited cooperation can be expected, but not a rupture between Moscow and Beijing.

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@SenRickScott You know who aregues that though. your handler.
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Putin is evil and wants to destroy America.
Anyone that argues otherwise is either a fool or a liar.
wsj.com/world/russia-i…
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@PressSec 100% of pro Trump supporters actually support Trump.
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The respectable case for restraint in American support for Ukraine is that we want to shift the burden to Russia and reduce European free-riding.
But Trump & Vance relentlessly promote pro-Russian parties in Europe who are the leading opponents of sharing more burden!
Hümeyra Pamuk@humeyra_pamuk
SCOOP: Vice President JD Vance is planning to visit Hungary in the coming days in a show of support for the country's long-time nationalist prime minister Viktor Orban, who is facing a difficult election next month, sources familiar with the planning tell me & @JonathanLanday
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@claudeai unauthroized my login, now when I try to log back in, the email never comes. Is this a known bug today?
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If the SAVE Act doesn’t pass there’s no real point in conservatives even bothering to vote in the midterms imo
Mike Lee@BasedMikeLee
Republicans will lose power—likely for a long time—if we don’t get SAVE America passed This shouldn’t be hard It is, but failure cannot be an option
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@aakashgupta May be true today, but if a new tool is only 2x worse than established norms, think about where it will be in a few years.
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41% of all code shipped in 2025 was AI-generated or AI-assisted. The defect rate on that code is 1.7x higher than human-written code. And a randomized controlled trial found that experienced developers using AI tools were actually 19% slower than developers working without them.
Devs have always written slop. The entire software industry is built on infrastructure designed to catch slop before it ships. Code review, linting, type checking, CI/CD pipelines, staging environments. All of it assumes one thing: the person who wrote the code can walk you through what it does when the reviewer asks.
That assumption held for 50 years. It broke in about 18 months.
When 41% of your codebase was generated by a machine and approved by a human who skimmed it because the tests passed, the review process becomes theater. The reviewer is checking code neither of them wrote. The linter catches syntax, not intent. The tests verify behavior, not understanding.
The old slop had an owner. Someone could explain why temp_fix_v3_FINAL existed, what edge case it handled, and what would break if you removed it. The new slop has an approver. Different relationship entirely.
Arvid’s right that devs wrote bad code before AI. The part he’s missing: the entire quality infrastructure of software engineering was designed around a world where the author and the debugger were the same person. That world ended last year and nothing has replaced it yet.
Arvid Kahl@arvidkahl
Devs are acting like they didn’t write slop code before AI.
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