Megan
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We are seeing in real time why DC needs the full power and protection of statehood.
Deploying the National Guard to a state without a request from state leaders is unlawful.
The fact that he could do it in the capital city is a massive vulnerability to our entire national democracy.
Deploying the National Guard to a state without a request from state leaders is unlawful.
The fact that he could do it in the capital city is a massive vulnerability to our entire national democracy.
DC statehood shows Dem weakness goes back a while.
Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
Occasional lip service, but barely even that, and effectively took the stance that hundreds of thousands of US citizens should be disenfranchised because it’s unfair that they’d elect Dem Senators, which would make the Senate less disproportionate.
August 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
We are seeing in real time why DC needs the full power and protection of statehood.
Deploying the National Guard to a state without a request from state leaders is unlawful.
The fact that he could do it in the capital city is a massive vulnerability to our entire national democracy.
Deploying the National Guard to a state without a request from state leaders is unlawful.
The fact that he could do it in the capital city is a massive vulnerability to our entire national democracy.
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This Skrmetti thread (and then some) is now in article form btw bc I had more to say about the Supreme Court's bullshit
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...
bsky.app/profile/audr...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...
bsky.app/profile/audr...
June 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
This Skrmetti thread (and then some) is now in article form btw bc I had more to say about the Supreme Court's bullshit
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...
bsky.app/profile/audr...
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/skrme...
bsky.app/profile/audr...
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ProPublica obtained records showing how a DOGE software engineer with no health care or government experience created an AI model to identify contracts to kill at the VA.
@bxroberts.org takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️
@bxroberts.org takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️
June 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
ProPublica obtained records showing how a DOGE software engineer with no health care or government experience created an AI model to identify contracts to kill at the VA.
@bxroberts.org takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️
@bxroberts.org takes us through what we learned when we asked experts to review the model’s underlying instructions and code ⤵️
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June 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
April 19, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?
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We've been supposed to wait until AI gets good while it destroys everything in the meantime? What happened to testing your product to make sure it's good before you roll it out. In this case a product no one needs or wants.
wait, so we are all supposed to sit back and accept the anti-humanity, banality and anti-labor nature of how AI is accepted in the hopes that
a) it MIGHT get better and stop making things up and making monstrous "art" built on large scale theft,
b) that the costs MIGHT go down?
a) it MIGHT get better and stop making things up and making monstrous "art" built on large scale theft,
b) that the costs MIGHT go down?
It's strange to look at the early applications of a technology in the midst of a exponential breakout in utility and to say, definitively, this is all it will be and all it can do. And this is what it will cost forever.
March 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We've been supposed to wait until AI gets good while it destroys everything in the meantime? What happened to testing your product to make sure it's good before you roll it out. In this case a product no one needs or wants.
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
This is a perfect argument against generative AI
AI Slop Isn't Just Wrong, It's Deathly Boring open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
AI Slop Isn't Just Wrong, It's Deathly Boring open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
AI Slop Isn't Just Wrong, It's Deathly Boring
I’m working on a project and as part of it I came across this picture.
open.substack.com
March 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
This is a perfect argument against generative AI
AI Slop Isn't Just Wrong, It's Deathly Boring open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
AI Slop Isn't Just Wrong, It's Deathly Boring open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
So I am not managing the “per day” part but I will get to 20 eventually Book 2/20 (everyone needs to read this)
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
So I am not managing the “per day” part but I will get to 20 eventually Book 2/20 (everyone needs to read this)
February 2, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
So I am not managing the “per day” part but I will get to 20 eventually Book 2/20 (everyone needs to read this)
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
So I am not managing the “per day” part but I will get to 20 eventually Book 2/20 (everyone needs to read this)
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Book 1/20
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Book 1/20
January 25, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Book 1/20
#Books 📖
#BookSky 💙📚
#BookChallenge
Book 1/20