jpanzer

originalspin, 1 month ago to random

Elon Musk got his structural and materials engineering degree from Minecraft

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

MyPillow evicted from their MN warehouse.

Excellent.

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Huh. Was Clark acrually acting AG for a day, and, does it matter if he was or wasn’t?

(The fact that things were so chaotic that this is confusing should be a clue that Trump should never have any power again, or course.)
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/03/29/trump-appoint-jeffrey-clark-doj-00149751

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Wow.
https://mastodon.social/@flexghost/112174485479321557

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Are you fucking kidding me.
https://www.ajc.com/politics/georgia-judge-rules-that-republican-brian-k-pritchard-voted-illegally/M4A27QQNQJDW7MTI66MRF5B4EQ/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

South Carolina to use congressional map deemed unconstitutional

This is an indictment of the Supreme Court. It is not fit for purpose. It needs to be overhauled and reformed. It’s letting an unconstitutional map continue by using its superpower of delay.

We can all see what is happening here.
https://wapo.st/4cxSINs

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Eastman is suspended, headed for disbarment.

Fucking FINALLY.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24521265-sbc-23-o-30029-decision-trial

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Marilyn Lands, Democrat who ran on reproductive rights, flips Alabama House seat - Alabama Reflector

It’s interesting they don’t point out the big shift in this district since 2020 — if this election is about a national issue as@the headline implies, isn’t the +20 point shift in R to D votes in ALABAMA newsworthy?
https://apple.news/A3s_EU5p6QS6bbH7PyCKEdA

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

“Whether a president should have criminal immunity in some specific circumstances is an abstract question for another day, because efforts to stay in office and use the levers of the presidency are certainly not those specific circumstances. The appeals have delayed matters long enough at the expense of the right of the American people to a fair and speedy trial.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/03/dc-trump-trial-speed/677862/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

GREAT thread.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112157100368648937

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Wait WHAT
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112157120340525710

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

🔥 ‘One swing-state Democratic election official involved with these efforts refers to it as a “superstructure” of various legal teams and liberal operatives who “are going to fight [Team Trump and election deniers] on all fronts and let them have it from all sides, if MAGA wants to tear down our democracy.”’

Plans are nothing; planning is everything. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/biden-trump-stop-steal-election-2024-1234993149/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Didn’t watch MTP today. Can I safely assume that a leopard did not, in fact, change its spots?

(Ronna Romney McDaniel is the leopard here.)

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

“Jason Wei, a computer scientist now at OpenAI who has compiled a list of emergent abilities and was an author on the BIG-bench paper, have argued that the earlier reports of emergence were sound because for abilities like arithmetic, the right answer really is all that matters.”

But that’s not right. The ability to determine directional (is a result positive or negative) is valuable; magnitude is valuable; exact answer is a marginal improvement is many situations.
https://www.wired.com/story/how-quickly-do-large-language-models-learn-unexpected-skills/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

This is a very cool hack. I mean, yeah, it’s an obvious idea, the hard part is making it commercially viable and demonstrating success that’ll attract capital investment. https://newatlas.com/environment/wings-cargo-ship-efficiency/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Democrats meddling in GOP primaries isn’t hypocritical. It’s necessary.

(And is it meddling when you just post ads that are true and attributed to Democrats? Far right wingers are free to analyze these ads and decide to vote against the far right primary candidate!)
https://wapo.st/3PAMhiZ

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

To be fair it was never trained on dead salmon, so 😂
https://hachyderm.io/@dfeldman/112149278408570324

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Huh. It does seem like chaos.
https://davidlat.substack.com/p/clerking-for-judge-aileen-cannon-why-clerks-quit

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Why is a the NYT taking sources telling them Garland was doing the job the whole time, and doing their darndest to spin this into an anti-Garland story?
https://x.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1771321241405931763?s=20

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

If your opponent has to resort to attacking you over a residual stutter… you’re winning.

They’re conceding they don’t have anything substantive to say.
https://progressivecafe.social/@ClintBarton/112133529374845392

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

Calvinball!

‘On March 21, after WIRED published this story, X updated its privacy policy to specifically prohibit posting the ”the identity of an anonymous user, such as their name or media depicting them.”’
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112134279123825133

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

“this is just embarrassing”

Yes. Yes, it should be. Is the FBI actually this easy to fool? If so, what is Wray doing about it? Seems like a huge issue!
https://mastodon.social/@emptywheel/112134269191591187

emptywheel, 1 month ago to random

Judge Mark Scarsi Orders Briefing on Whether David Weiss Is David Weiss

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/20/judge-mark-scarsi-orders-briefing-on-whether-david-weiss-is-david-weiss/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

How is Weiss still not replaced? He. Is. A. Witness.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/03/19/david-weiss-does-not-contest-he-reneged-on-hunter-bidens-plea-agreement-to-chase-russian-lies/

jpanzer, 1 month ago to random

This is some bullshit.
https://www.sfgate.com/giants/article/dave-tobener-renel-brooks-moon-giants-departure-19206161.php