This article gets to the heart of the matter. Proficient use of language does not equate to understanding. AI must have a diversity of input types that describe the real world so it can predict more than just the next word in a sentence.

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Renee Good is a George Floyd moment that didn’t happen.

The delay in the impact of tariffs can be attributed to uncertainty. We’re not into settled territory yet. Immigration policy makes the uncertainty worse and further delays business investment decisions. Read in depth here:

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Hawaii took advantage of this to implement a very strict gun control law. They have multiple precedents in early law on their side. A perfect use of Bruen to fashion an anti gun stance. When this gets overturned, the lie of originalism will be further exposed.

Gun laws have been originalismed by the decision in Bruen. Lower courts now have license to decide any gun law case on any basis by citing a few ancient laws that seem favorable. Bruen did not create clarity by constraining lower courts. It did the opposite.

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The data is being collected and the November gap is starting to fade. It still takes a couple more months to see things clearly again. Nominally, inflation has held fairly steady. Now, can we trust these numbers anymore? I haven’t seen that discussed yet.

Here is a very long article laying out all the things tRump has done to undermine the midterms.

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This article advances the theory of neo-royalism. King tRump wants booty for his court followers so he can maintain power.

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Here is a lawyer’s take on it. It was NOT an arrest. US military forces were used. The law requires congressional approval.

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tRump isn’t going to run Venezuela. He’s going to threaten whoever takes control into doing what he says. If they don’t comply then it’ll be boots on the ground. There will be plenty of Americans to protect as they extract all the oil. Maybe the drugs will be slowed down too.

This is another area that needs to be clarified by law if we ever get back to doing stuff like that.

Is the abduction of a foreign head of state really an arrest? Is it an act of war? This doesn’t seem clear. Is it relevant that people were injured or killed in the action? Likely not. There probably isn’t a legal framework to prosecute this as a crime unless it’s not really an arrest.

That seems to create some gray area when arresting the head of another government. They are never going to agree to their own extradition. Maybe that makes the treaties moot. Then it comes to international law. In that case, charges must be brought in an international court and then enforced.