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(my guess — only a guess! — is that client apps typically run the HTML through sanitizers, and what will succeed in being displayed is a function of divergent and unspecified choices clients make in choosing or configuring those sanitizers.)

these writers…

the EU was not built to be a night watchman state exactly, but definitely for technocracy rather than popular legitimacy. a very big mistake, as contemporary geopolitics are making clear. i hope both the EU and the US find their way to government of the people, by the people, for the people.

you need the kind of state you are willing to trust to be more than a night watchman. of the people, by the people, for the people.

technocracy alone, however sophisticated and data-suffused, is not adequate to the task of governing a human society. www.interfluidity.com/v2/9484.html (an old post, but seems relevant to some conversations here.)

shouldn’t it really be spelled “ewwwbermensch”?

look. it’s a computer algorithm. it can’t be biased.

“the broader political project of AI chatbots and LLMs: They are top-down systems controlled by the richest people and richest companies on Earth, and their outputs can be changed to push the preferred narratives aligned with the interests of those people and companies.” @jasonkoebler.bsky.social

(the CPI basket is biased towards the spending of the wealthy, so the measure will understate the effect of price changes on the basket of goods and services more typical of the less wealthy, if there is a meaningful difference in price experience.)

might they argue that it cannot be illegal to follow and order that (because immunity) was lawfully given?

who knew “don’t break the law just because someone tells you to” would be such a controversial message.

To mistake problems of integration for problems of immigration is to render oneself pathetic.

“what our politicians are doing is falling over themselves trying to launch one hare-brained anti-immigrant scheme after another in a mad race to get ahead in the cruelty-stakes. It is as crazy as it is pathetic; today’s politics has become all about who can be biggest asshole and very little else.”

if he just ordered their execution (by some agency of the military or by federal law enforcement), would that be an official act to which presumptive if not absolute immunity attaches?

this makes me sad.

it’s awesome. now the rest of us can write, “according to the new york times, fish are building space lasers.”

(i’d think the basic transcription would be automated by now? though of course i’d guess they still have a human editor go over it before publishing.)

i love that they’re there if i want to cite and quote something i’ve listened to. but i sure don’t want to just read a transcript. letting them replace opinion essays feels lazy.

half the time i think i’m clicking a link to a new york times opinion column, i’m really clicking a link to a podcast transcript.