David in Spanish (Dahveed)
@davitivan.bsky.social
I like people and the things they do
Things I enjoy: baseball, football, physics
Things I enjoy: baseball, football, physics
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Trump’s Golden Age.
December 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Trump’s Golden Age.
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*US SEIZES OIL TANKER OFF THE COAST OF VENEZUELA
December 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
*US SEIZES OIL TANKER OFF THE COAST OF VENEZUELA
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What if Trump’s very boring and frequent cognitive tests in front of a lot of doctors and experts show he officially ain’t right? Then what?
December 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
What if Trump’s very boring and frequent cognitive tests in front of a lot of doctors and experts show he officially ain’t right? Then what?
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Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Eileen Higgins just became the first Democrat elected mayor of Miami in nearly 30 years.
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TIL Harris won Miami
Benchmark for tonight's Miami mayoral election:
Harris beat Trump a year ago in the city of Miami 50%-49%.
Harris beat Trump a year ago in the city of Miami 50%-49%.
December 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
TIL Harris won Miami
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This man probably lacks the legal capacity to enter into contracts, and asking him to sign things constitutes elder abuse.
POLITICO: You pardoned the former president of Honduras even though he was convicted in a massive intl drug trafficking scheme. How is that 0 tolerance on drug trafficking?
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
TRUMP: Well I don't know him and I know very little about him other than people said it was like an Obama-Biden type set up
December 9, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This man probably lacks the legal capacity to enter into contracts, and asking him to sign things constitutes elder abuse.
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He said this to a room of people who have raised kids without ChatGPT including the guy he's talking to
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 PM
He said this to a room of people who have raised kids without ChatGPT including the guy he's talking to
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The university bought Claude AI for students to use.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
December 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The university bought Claude AI for students to use.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
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This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.
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I read this future of war / we’re not ready piece with interest and it’s strikingly shallow.
Surveillance and targeting have advanced, yes. That’s in my 2018 book. Much of the rest reads like tech company hype marketing.
AI will make bio weapons that target one person! Well, it sure can’t now.
Surveillance and targeting have advanced, yes. That’s in my 2018 book. Much of the rest reads like tech company hype marketing.
AI will make bio weapons that target one person! Well, it sure can’t now.
Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up?
Innovations in A.I., synthetic biology and quantum computing are set to change war.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
I read this future of war / we’re not ready piece with interest and it’s strikingly shallow.
Surveillance and targeting have advanced, yes. That’s in my 2018 book. Much of the rest reads like tech company hype marketing.
AI will make bio weapons that target one person! Well, it sure can’t now.
Surveillance and targeting have advanced, yes. That’s in my 2018 book. Much of the rest reads like tech company hype marketing.
AI will make bio weapons that target one person! Well, it sure can’t now.
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Think of it this way (and I’m hardly the first to make this point): In a real U.S.-China war, most of the fanciest stuff that takes a long time to produce would get used up quickly. Then what?
That’s harder than saying “public-private partnerships,” “innovation,” “AI,” and “don’t get left behind.”
That’s harder than saying “public-private partnerships,” “innovation,” “AI,” and “don’t get left behind.”
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Think of it this way (and I’m hardly the first to make this point): In a real U.S.-China war, most of the fanciest stuff that takes a long time to produce would get used up quickly. Then what?
That’s harder than saying “public-private partnerships,” “innovation,” “AI,” and “don’t get left behind.”
That’s harder than saying “public-private partnerships,” “innovation,” “AI,” and “don’t get left behind.”
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I feel like there's something kind of interesting that some of the highest profile Silicon Valley firms (Tesla, OpenAI, Palantir, Anduril) have outrageous valuations given their current revenue that seem in no small part predicated in them taking control of the United States government
I read this future of war / we’re not ready piece with interest and it’s strikingly shallow.
Surveillance and targeting have advanced, yes. That’s in my 2018 book. Much of the rest reads like tech company hype marketing.
AI will make bio weapons that target one person! Well, it sure can’t now.
Surveillance and targeting have advanced, yes. That’s in my 2018 book. Much of the rest reads like tech company hype marketing.
AI will make bio weapons that target one person! Well, it sure can’t now.
Opinion | This Is the 21st-Century Arms Race. Can America Keep Up?
Innovations in A.I., synthetic biology and quantum computing are set to change war.
www.nytimes.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I feel like there's something kind of interesting that some of the highest profile Silicon Valley firms (Tesla, OpenAI, Palantir, Anduril) have outrageous valuations given their current revenue that seem in no small part predicated in them taking control of the United States government
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Folks, this is runaway dementia.
POLITICO: Can you rule out a ground invasion?
TRUMP: Why would I talk to you, an extremely unfriendly publication, Politico, that got $8 million from Obama to keep it afloat? Why would I do that?
TRUMP: Why would I talk to you, an extremely unfriendly publication, Politico, that got $8 million from Obama to keep it afloat? Why would I do that?
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Folks, this is runaway dementia.
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The running joke is that Nuzzi's book wasn't edited but I honestly don't know what an editor is supposed to do with this beyond using a red pen to X the whole thing out.
Only 17 pages in and I am winded.
This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
This passage, folks… Don’t ever write like this. Just don’t do it.
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The running joke is that Nuzzi's book wasn't edited but I honestly don't know what an editor is supposed to do with this beyond using a red pen to X the whole thing out.
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The conviction that a "unitary executive" guarantees "democratic accountability" is more like a civic religion or folkloric superstition than a constitutional theory. Federalist Society true-believers drill it into their acolytes and teach them never to question it, but it's fundamentally nonsense.
the unitarian notion of accountability is, in general, very strange as it holds that a single election — the president’s reelect — is more democratically accountable than the rolling process of democratic assent produced by legislative elections and congressional oversight.
December 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The conviction that a "unitary executive" guarantees "democratic accountability" is more like a civic religion or folkloric superstition than a constitutional theory. Federalist Society true-believers drill it into their acolytes and teach them never to question it, but it's fundamentally nonsense.
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In this case, dots are where the baseballs DIDN’T come back, so it’s where you SHOULD put the fielders.
Nick Kurtz's 36 home runs this year
(he bats left-handed 😮)
(he bats left-handed 😮)
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
In this case, dots are where the baseballs DIDN’T come back, so it’s where you SHOULD put the fielders.
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it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica
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it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
The Take Care Clause was a byproduct of the lessons learned from the Glorious Revolution that the executive should not be able to dispense with the law promulgated by the legislature. It was not a constitutional provision to empower the executive branch— but to constrain it!
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
it is actually kind of bananas how unitary executive theorists have taken a straightforward clause requiring the president to "faithfully execute the laws" and transformed it into a grant for the exercise of limitless unenumerated power.
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I don't give a goddamn about Nuzzi. I never have. But apart from our previously discussed personal interest which I think necessitates occasional comment, it's not about her. It's about all the slobbering bastards who keep giving her work. Rub it in their faces.
Please stop saying her name. Just pray she disappears. Which she will if everyone stops saying her damn name.
December 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I don't give a goddamn about Nuzzi. I never have. But apart from our previously discussed personal interest which I think necessitates occasional comment, it's not about her. It's about all the slobbering bastards who keep giving her work. Rub it in their faces.
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(2) seems to be an even more dubious point than (1). first because agencies are shaped by congress as well as executive appointments, and second because the agency rule-making process is more transparent and democratic than top-down decrees from political appointees
The theory of the unitary executive is that (1) the constitution requires it and (2) you get democratic accountability through presidential control through the power to remove agency heads. (1) is dubious (2) seems ridiculous at the present moment.
December 9, 2025 at 1:57 PM
(2) seems to be an even more dubious point than (1). first because agencies are shaped by congress as well as executive appointments, and second because the agency rule-making process is more transparent and democratic than top-down decrees from political appointees
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We accept a level of error from generative AI that would get any even semi-competent professional disqualified as such, and depending on the field, we would arrest and probably try a competent professional with such an error rate
It is so striking to see the disclaimer "AI can make mistakes. Check outputs before using" on every single piece of software. Imagine the equivalent warning label on the Ford Pinto. "The fuel tank ruptures and bursts into deadly flames when crashed. Do not crash the Ford Pinto while driving"
I will be teaching about Ford Pinto case in my sociology of law lecture tomorrow on the risk society & collective harms. It is clear that the development of (gen) #AI fits in same capitalist & risk logic but big difference is that this type of corporate behaviour has become normalised and accepted
December 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
We accept a level of error from generative AI that would get any even semi-competent professional disqualified as such, and depending on the field, we would arrest and probably try a competent professional with such an error rate
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I just think it’s funny they told this reality TV bimbo he was secretary of transportation and his little pea brain immediately thought he was supposed to come up with travel advice
it’s pretty funny that Duffy is simultaneously
1. scolding passengers for not wearing fancy clothes while flying
2. supporting airport gyms so passengers can be sweaty and gross while flying
both of these proposals are idiotic but the direct contradiction is next level
1. scolding passengers for not wearing fancy clothes while flying
2. supporting airport gyms so passengers can be sweaty and gross while flying
both of these proposals are idiotic but the direct contradiction is next level
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I just think it’s funny they told this reality TV bimbo he was secretary of transportation and his little pea brain immediately thought he was supposed to come up with travel advice
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We gotta put these boys in prison and break up the company. Entity charges, stripping licenses, the works.
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said..."
Behind Paramount’s Relentless Campaign to Woo Warner Discovery and President Trump
David Ellison has launched a hostile takeover bid for Warner Discovery, taking his case directly to shareholders after Netflix clinched a deal.
www.wsj.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
We gotta put these boys in prison and break up the company. Entity charges, stripping licenses, the works.
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Make him unpardonable.
Breaking News: Honduras has issued an international arrest warrant for its former president who was recently pardoned by President Trump.
Honduras Issues Warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández
The country’s attorney general said he had issued an international arrest warrant for Juan Orlando Hernández.
nyti.ms
December 9, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Make him unpardonable.