Exactly. The Google culture nowadays is a lot of climbers cynically trying to sell new ideas and then abandoning them once they get promo. It didn’t always used to be like that.
Between this stuff and the blatantly inflated Truth Social stock, I would be shocked if there weren’t fifty different types of campaign finance violations going on. If you want to launder a donation, this seems like a textbook setup.
Yes, that’s another good point. They played the odds.
I don’t know if they factored it as “1 in 18 chance we get delayed until election” or thought Cannon would maintain some semblance of objectivity even if they got her, but it probably helped reassure them to roll the dice in Florida.
But the Justice Department moved the investigation to a Miami grand jury in its final few weeks before charging Trump in South Florida’s federal court because much of Trump’s allegedly criminal actions took place at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Florida.
Prosecutors have publicly disclosed little about the choice to move the case to Florida, though it has become a topic of discussion in the fights with the defense teams over secrecy, especially at a recent hearing before Cannon. “I can say that the investigation that was ongoing before the DC grand jury had – had adequate nexus to continue in Washington. I’m not prepared to comment on the date on which a decision to charge in Florida was made or what the internal deliberations were on that subject,” special counsel’s office prosecutor David Harbach told Cannon at a hearing last week.
It was always a messy situation. Factors I’m sure Smith’s team considered in charging in FL:
They needed (under existing law) to charge Trump at the location that there was a nexus to the crime, but also needed personal jurisdiction or to extradite him for purposes of trial back to DC, which maybe they didn’t feel they could defend.
If Trump was charged in DC and Trump’s lawyers wanted to delay, initial motions to move the proceeding to Florida would have already caused delays.
Finally, because Smith certainly predicted Trump would claim the documents were declassified as part of official conduct, charging in the place where he lives now as a simple citizen (Florida) prevents Trump from exploiting the case location (DC) as evidence they are prosecuting conduct related to his presidency.
They probably also thought the case was cut-and-dry enough that the location truly wouldn’t matter. But even so, they were not nearly cynical enough about Aileen Cannon and how badly it could go when she’s basically Trump’s pro bono counsel. Everyone who had seen Cannon’s earlier rulings and confirmation proceedings knew she has zero integrity and was going to throw the case for Trump.
Like usual, it seems like nobody in official positions planned properly for what happens with an actual bad-faith actor in control.
The judge is no fan of Trump, but yes, he didn’t want to put Trump in jail during the trial for contempt. There was a good reason, because that may be misused by Trump’s team on appeal to suggest the judge biased the jury against Trump or that the judge was himself biased. I agree with prioritizing tactics to avoid any delay or unforced errors that Trump’s team will certainly try to exploit.
After a guilty verdict, I assume the judge will decide the sentencing, and I don’t see a reason to hold back. Of course, we’ve all been disappointed before.
Even the premise of a ceasefire is so insulting. It would be agreeing that the invasion-pushed borders are valid enough to accept for a day, and by that, Ukraine would take the first step to agreeing they could accept them for a hundred days, a thousand… Every additional day strengthening the appearance of legitimacy. Russia needs to be broken to understand, there’s no negotiation that would work.
Like all of Putin’s games, if you agree to play, you’ve already lost.
It’s whether the OS has hardware to make the platform “trusted.” Android does by default with Widevine, Windows does by default with TPM and Widevine, Linux does not by default.
“Trusted” here of course means, trusted by the company, not by the user. If it’s a trusted platform, it has a cryptographic key exchange space that the user does not have access to. This prevents a spoofed DRM certificate or other interception of the HD stream, which in theory prevents a stream from leaking.
“In theory” of course, because every piece of content is ripped and available DRM-free as soon as it’s released.
Yeah, I carefully read the description of its distinguishing features, studied the photo, and concluded I have no idea what I’m looking at and how to tell them apart.
He notes Tesla drivers are expected to be able to intervene at any time. Both companies rely on human intervention. But his argument is Tesla doesn’t have the infrastructure to learn from all its data with the accuracy necessary to account for edge cases, which are mortally important for safety.
Tesla, per the author, will need to go through exactly the staging Waymo is doing to move to driverless, but is years behind. That’s the argument.
I would have been receptive to the “there are larger issues” part but it might help to think of it like:
Instead of just an X-axis with “more/less important,” add a Y-axis with “more/less political,” a Z-axis with “more/less important to rich people,” an A-axis with “simple/complicated” and so on, with a narrow N-dimensional space in which something can happen. All of these values are changing constantly and independently for every issue. We can affect some of these values, but the entire picture is usually out of any one person’s control.
At this moment, fixing the concert monopoly is incredibly in the “maybe it can happen” zone. We just have to take it and run with it. Maybe, just maybe, ranked choice voting or taxing rich people or getting universal health care will make it to the “maybe it can happen” zone one day. It’s not that, but hey, at least something gets a little better now.
Nah, I’m here for this person’s post. Seems like someone who is frustrated with enlightened centrists and myopic leftists (i.e., not every leftist is myopic, but those that are).
Sometimes writing a lot is part of fully expressing an opinion.
I wish our national standards were not so low, because from a different perspective, it’s great that these people are self-identifying as power-corrupted fascists. Usually they hide it and we have to guess.
I really cannot understand how 40% of voters see a rejection of democratic elections as a qualification to run a democracy.