I’m confident leadership whipped the votes hard on this one, probably as a futile show of unity. That’s where the blame lies.

It would indeed be nice to see a few democrats resisting attacks on the constitution and such but in the house a small number of voices cannot block legislation like in the senate.

I would also like to hear an explanation from AOC just to understand the politics of not acting as the singular democratic “no” vote here. But I’m not going to hold her to task given the obvious failure of leadership.

I am not really in the know about Shapiro’s position on the ongoing genocide. Previously, I thought the campaign against him smelled off.

I’d like to take this article at face value, but given the publication’s track record of indirectly supporting genocide through false equivalence and whataboutism, I can’t. Unfortunately for Josh Shapiro such a defense will inevitably have the opposite effect, though I doubt he asked the Atlantic to run this piece.

They did after the great depression aside from a couple 2 year periods. Then Gingrich took out a Contract on America.

The KGB was very much around in 1987 when Trump visited Moscow and began pushing Russian interests in America and generally criticizing US alliances.

Imagine if they privatize the postal service and repeal section 230. We’ll be hard pressed to organize and communicate.

Yeah for sure. And regardless, I know some great security engineers who are ADHD.

Yup. Courting the Cheneys, supremely unpopular politicians, likely lost more votes than it gained.

It’s yet another systemic issue, reflective of wider systemic issues. It’s not helpful to place the blame or demands on individuals.

In 10 it was possible to turn it all off and leave it off. In 11 it’s almost impossible to do so.

This seems unfairly dismissive of someone who’s proved themselves time and again. The article might not be about what you wish it was about but it’s insightful about the topic it covers.

Doctorow has been on a roll recently. Not that he ever really stops

In that case, I suggest you stop throwing dirt at GN.

Yes, California does do controlled burns. This senator is being disingenuous as are any other talking heads claiming they don’t.

The state has increased the budget for and amount of controlled burns (as well as creation of firebreaks which both enable controlled burns and reduce spread of wildfires) in recent years, including after the federal government under trump reduced maintenance of federal lands. Voters have supported this through propositions as well including one last election.

Controlled burns also require a lot of care and resources or they can turn into wildfires, so there’s only so many the state can do at a time. The past few years have actually allowed for more than previously.

LA had unseasonably low precipitation and high winds that contributed to the rapid spread of the current fires.

Should California do more controlled burns? Probably, but the state is very much doing what it can.

But, it’s easier to point fingers at the very people taking preventative measures than help your countrymen in a time of need.

Activity Pub is a very popular way to decentralize.

With political uncertainty around centralized meteorological data infrastructure, it makes sense to continue the process of decentralization. The underlying APIs can be changed in the future if needed.

Forbes, for many years, has been mostly written by freelance bloggers. Some is very high quality (some is not) but it’s not like an editor in a newsroom is asking for these stories.

They have journalists on staff still but they write a minority of what Forbes publishes online.

Ford was never on the ticket, he was appointed after Agnew resigned. He’s the only president to never be elected to either the presidency or vice presidency.

They also have a book about human evolution. 😵

GPT 1 and 2 were both more open than later releases. However I’m not sure any are fully FOSS.

This is just a standard prompt hack. This will always exist with llms. They don’t have any real understanding of language so safety protocols can’t actually ban topics, only sets of words and phrases.

There was an extensive set of prompts working toward elder abuse before the result in question.

My guess is that the redditor who discovered it disguised it to look like homework and reproduced the hack, and added the “brother” to create more authentic rage bait.

Please don’t give this hateful grifter any benefit of the doubt. He’s been marginalizing the already disadvantaged while fighting against public health for money for decades.