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Crazy, true story: Minnesota offered an expert declaration on AI and “misinformation” to oppose our motion to enjoin their unconstitutional law.
His declaration included fake citations hallucinated by AI!
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His declaration included fake citations hallucinated by AI!
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Love the call overturn from BYU fumble to recovery to BYU unsportsmanlike conduct, so easy FG. Rough for zoobies.
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I assume Utah loses to Houston, but then somehow upsets an undefeated BYU, because the conference would hate that result most, and Utah football seems to do that sort of thing.
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Looks like UCF may nix this.
So maximum disappointment is Utah remains undefeated before losing to BYU?
So maximum disappointment is Utah remains undefeated before losing to BYU?
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Dunno why CFB trash talk is going in this direction, but the zoobie is right. James Buchanan folded like a lawn chair, not Brigham Young. Troops sent to Utah were mostly pissed off Mormons got a general amnesty.
But: Brigham Young founded the University of Utah, not BYU.
But: Brigham Young founded the University of Utah, not BYU.
Brigham Young is my sixth-great-grandfather.
Those 2,500 soldiers sent to Utah in 1857 were delayed by Mormon militias under his direction. Supply trains were burned, cattle scattered, and the army was forced to spend a brutal winter near Fort Bridger.
When the army finally entered Utah, it didn't destroy the fledgling society my ancestors had built. Instead, the soldiers' need for food, supplies, and services brought a massive influx of cash into an isolated, struggling economy with limited outside trade.
And when the army was recalled at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, roughly $4 million worth of military supplies were auctioned off for pennies on the dollar.
The force sent to subdue the Mormons ended up helping finance the very settlements it had come to control.
Brigham Young didn't fold like a chair. He protected his people, negotiated a peaceful resolution, and saw his community benefit economically from the army's presence.
History is an important area of study.
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The best sports takes are tautological.
This #WorldSeries feels like it’s going to go the distance unless one squad grabs a road game.
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Good thread on odd assumption by some some on the left that abusive families are very common—so common they're a voting bloc.
And the flip side of this is it turns into a valorization of the views of teenagers. You see this in youth transition debates, for instance-- Lefties want us to take everything teenagers say at face value and as brilliant decisions, and reject the notion of parental guidance.
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Trump lost a delegate to Kasich in the 2016 primary because the delegate's name was on the ballot and was Nabi Fakrodden (vs. Brady of Kasich), and he probably lost two delegates to Cruz this way, especially Raja Sadiq.
I would be interested to know whether there's an electoral penalty for an obviously "foreign" name that can be empirically validated.
We have a few cases where this plausibly occurred, but it's hard to determine causation, and we need a larger sample. Ilhan Omar underruns basically every other Dem. In this year's MI-08 GOP primary, Trump-endorsed Amir Hassan lost to Thomas Smith, despite Smith not really having a campaign. Ghazala Hashmi in VA underran Spanberger by 4pts for no obvious reason I can discern.
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Frank Bednarz 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Given that several of these ethnicities are high income and highly educated I think it’s worth asking more “how did we manage to alienate these people” instead of “how can we even be more a white ethnic party.”
every single non-European ethnicity votes Democrat
these are the top 10
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Land in Hawaii and it's like “Ohana means nobody gets left behind” in your face. Like, chill Hawaii.
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Not only do they seem to be really into sweet bread, but the percentage of people wearing Hawaiian shirts is very high. I'm just baffled. This helps explain the behavior of every Hawaiian I've ever met. x.com/Jen_Ken/status…
@FrankBednarz Hawaiian rolls?
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I don't like beaches or oceans, so with those caveats, from my perspective: most over-rated state. Poor and expensive. Seems fundamentally broken.
Best parts: grocery store poke and superior 7-Elevens.
Best parts: grocery store poke and superior 7-Elevens.
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Accusations of penumbral bigotry cary too much weight on the left.
One of my least favorite traits in liberals is the tendency to assign to bigotry claims made against members of minority populations that, when made against non-minorities, would be obviously in-bounds.
This has happened twice to me recently, re: Abdul el-Sayed and Ilhan Omar. h mother was a Muslim Brotherhood activist. His half-sister posted publicly about being ardent supporter. He denied the existence of family ties rather than addressing them when asked. He signed a petition in support of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The question of his support for the Muslim Brotherhood is not because he is Muslim; the story has legs because he has close family ties and lied about them.
Ilhan Omar married one man in a religious ceremony, then married another civilly, claimed to separate after two years, then divorced after and remarried her first husband civilly. During her marriage to her second husband, she filed taxes jointly with her first. The circumstances of her second marriage are very obviously suspicious. People have investigated whether he was her brother and whether the marriage was for immigration reasons. The core of the allegation is not incest, but immigration fraud, and it has legs specifically because the circumstances look very very weird.
I absolutely and categorically refuse to turn my brain off when I see things I would flag as weird in any other context simply because the context is that Republicans are using those things in partisan ways against Democratic politicians from minority backgrounds. That leads to a toxic dynamic, a sort of incuriosity-of-low-expectations, where the only anomalies people are "allowed" to take seriously are ones that do not possibly implicate identity traits.
No. It is reasonable to ask Abdul el-Sayed about the Muslim Brotherhood; it is reasonable to scrutinize Ilhan Omar's second marriage. I will hold this line and I will not apologize for it or hedge when people choose to selectively see scrutiny as bigotry.
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Frank Bednarz 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Half a million views, tons of right wing posters like this one going "when we talk about cultural compatibility it's not some hypothetical issue", and no one asked "is that letter entirely AI generated" (yes) and "is it in fact almost the exact letter you get if you say 'generate ng me to stop smoking brisket' (yes), "would a first class letter dated Saturday October 17 arrive in time to complain about it bright and early Monday morning" (no), "is the letter consistent with Arizona laws around notice periods" (no), "how many HOAs in Arizona have a nuisance provision 8.4" (5, according to ChatGPT), and "do any of them employ a Marjorie" (no).
Now, of course, this isn't dispositive. It could be that the HOA used ChatGPT to make the letter, and wrote FIRST CLASS MAIL on it (which is what ChatGPT does by default when prompted to generate an HOA letter about smoking brisket) but then delivered it the normal way you would do so in an HOA, by hand. It could be that the HOA works on Saturdays. It could be that they just don't list their staff.
But my present perspective is that, for all the excitement that Dr. Josh Simmons's letter has caused on X, cultural compatibility might still be a hypothetical issue.
chatgpt.com/c/6ad8277b-987…
Now, of course, this isn't dispositive. It could be that the HOA used ChatGPT to make the letter, and wrote FIRST CLASS MAIL on it (which is what ChatGPT does by default when prompted to generate an HOA letter about smoking brisket) but then delivered it the normal way you would do so in an HOA, by hand. It could be that the HOA works on Saturdays. It could be that they just don't list their staff.
But my present perspective is that, for all the excitement that Dr. Josh Simmons's letter has caused on X, cultural compatibility might still be a hypothetical issue.
chatgpt.com/c/6ad8277b-987…
When we talk about cultural compatibility it’s not some hypothetical issue. What we can and cannot do in public, or even in private, is informed by our cultural upbringings. If you’re raised in a culture that views killing and eating cows as a sin, an evil, then having smoke from its cooking waft into your house is not only annoying and unpleasant, but deeply offensive. That culture is incompatible with one that enjoys grilling. There isn’t really a compromise here. One side will get what they want and the other won’t. It is a win-lose situation.
The more you import different culture, the more of this conflict you create.
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Frank Bednarz 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
No it's actually fine to just spit on parties that hate you
Political parties have the entire onus of reaching voters, not the other way around.
Political parties have the entire onus of reaching voters, not the other way around.
I say this with genuine sympathy for the excesses Indian Americans face today:
Indian Americans have to find a way to respond that is still affirmative to right-wing America, or they prove their critics right
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Frank Bednarz 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
I usually don't retweet stuff from @mattyglesias, but I reposted this because:
a) it's funny;
b) it's spot-on; and
c) I am just so sick of the anti-Indian cr*p from members of my party. And I say that as a guy who's been CALLED a racist by liberals for 30 years for standing up for the LEGITIMATE concerns of white (and other) working-class Americans about social disfunction.
But let me put this bluntly: if you're upset because members of a minority group are LITERALLY whipping your kids' asses and taking their lunch money, I'm on your side, and I don't care how many liberals call us "racist" for it. But if you're upset because members of a minority group are whipping your kids' asses on the SAT, you ARE a racist--and probably a dumb one too, since, as the "racial realists" tell us, intelligence is hereditary.
a) it's funny;
b) it's spot-on; and
c) I am just so sick of the anti-Indian cr*p from members of my party. And I say that as a guy who's been CALLED a racist by liberals for 30 years for standing up for the LEGITIMATE concerns of white (and other) working-class Americans about social disfunction.
But let me put this bluntly: if you're upset because members of a minority group are LITERALLY whipping your kids' asses and taking their lunch money, I'm on your side, and I don't care how many liberals call us "racist" for it. But if you're upset because members of a minority group are whipping your kids' asses on the SAT, you ARE a racist--and probably a dumb one too, since, as the "racial realists" tell us, intelligence is hereditary.
Republicans: We hate Indian-Americans
Indian-Americans: We’re not going to vote for you then
Republicans: See! See!
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Frank Bednarz 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
ok, but look, this is my point
Trump knows "stick a finger in the eye of Putin when you're trying to negotiate with him" would be unhelpful even as an adversary
and he sticks fingers in the eyes of non-adversaries, constantly, for no justifiable reason
x.com/planefag/statu…
Trump knows "stick a finger in the eye of Putin when you're trying to negotiate with him" would be unhelpful even as an adversary
and he sticks fingers in the eyes of non-adversaries, constantly, for no justifiable reason
x.com/planefag/statu…
@tracewoodgrainsd out that Trump declines to say "death to Russia" when he's trying to negotiate with Russia, so they make a game out of demanding he denounce Russia and claim he's TurboHitler if he doesn't.
As for Ukraine, the antagonism goes both ways. Zelenskyy picked that fight in the Oval Office when all he had to do was show up, smile, and take the damn victory lap in what was *supposed* to be an event showing there was no daylight between Kyiv and Washington. That revealed something about Zelenskyy's mindset that can't be ignored.
It's just getting very tiresome to see the constant accusations of Trump "coddling dictators" when he imprisoned one and wasted another in the span of two months this very year - and he's got his sights set on a third in Cuba, no less, and is shipping weapons that are decimating the army of a fourth. This wordcel mysticism, where reality exists only in press releases, should be studied in a fucking lab
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