UncleMeat

If you want to claim that the guy who shot the cop should be charged with attempted murder or something, fine. But the entire crew of them (including somebody who wasn't there) were charged with a completely different crime and given outrageous sentences because the judge (Kacsmaryk) hates the left.

This is what they already do in the bulk of states.

I think you'll find that lots of Googlers are upset about leadership's acquiescence to authoritarians. The flagging here just follows a trend of stories about tech companies and tech leaders supporting rising fascism getting flagged.

Suppose I am setting off some fireworks in my street to celebrate the 4th. Do you believe that my neighbors should fear for their lives? This was a noise protest. They weren't shooting roman candles at people.

Not just people involved, but the judge. Kacsmaryk is basically a psycho and his statements during the sentencing are outrageous.

Exactly one of them had a gun on them.

"Explosives" in this case are "ordinary fireworks you can buy at a stand on the side of the road meant to be loud and annoying."

Sure. If a wealth tax was set at 99% it'd be dumb. But this is not itself an argument against all taxes.

We already have income tax. Why start a business in this sort of environment? Work hard, so that the government can redistribute your success?

Amazingly, people still start businesses.

Yes if you tax people's wealth they will own less stuff. I see no reason why #2 isn't ideal.

https://electionlawblog.org/2026/must-read-adam-bonica-hook-... is Adam Bonica's work on the topic.

> If you don't like a practice a business is doing, just don't do business with them.

That is what is happening here. TFA is upset that AI-generated content is making a thing they love less enjoyable.

In comparison, transphobes are banning things that do not affect them at all (trans healthcare for minors, drag shows) and are enacting policies in public spaces like schools, universities, and libraries.

This is true for all art. I don't feel much emotion from an early renaissance marian icon but I do feel a lot of emotion when experiencing an Agnes Martin painting. The point is that abstract art is not emotionless.

> Inside of the head of the anti-trans activist and the anti-AI activist, it's the same gears churning producing the same pattern for the same reasons

Only in the most abstract sense where virtually all criticism would fit. What you describe is not some unique similarity.

And the example here is how AI use harms the experience of a customer. This is distinct from "just trying to live their lives." If somebody is using AI at home to do whatever, fine. If somebody is using AI to produce low quality children's books to read to my child at day care, that matters to me.

Anti-trans sentiment targets a population for who they are rather than what they do. It has also led to things like banning medical care for minors, banning trans people from accessing facilities safely, banning expressive entertainment like drag shows, banning trans people from joining the military, ending grants for studying gender identity, and banning discussion of gender identity even through undergraduate programs.

I am very sorry but these are not related at all.

I am sure that there is some abstract art that is intended not to produce any emotion whatsoever, but this is absolutely not the norm. Rothko paintings, rather famously for example, produce complex emotions like dread and unease.

There has been some good investigative reporting on this.

The answer is yes, they do make a lot of money off of this. But the details are awful. Only like 12% of the revenue actually makes its way to productive campaigning. Donors are older on average than the average voter. And they hit whales. There are elderly people who donate many times a day. These are basically the same kinds of texts that scammers send and they catch people in almost exactly the same way.

Donations to democratic candidates by young people are down compared to prior elections while donations by the elderly are way up. Politicians are making these spam companies rich while they bleed their elderly voters dry and aggravate their future electorate. Idiocy.

This is already a good norm. A substantial portion of the new language features really aren't meant for business logic but instead help library developers anyway.

> I do not think that controlling homework does improve pedagogy at scale.

You are welcome to believe this. You are also wrong.

I am curious if you have ever taught at a university.

We observe that intervention leads to more students learning. I don't believe that "well they are adults they can fail if they want" is an excuse for a university refusing to take steps that they know would improve pedagogy.

I do agree that AI has made this basically useless. Rather than skipping homeworks or doing a bad job the students just cheat and there is no opportunity to notice and intervene. They get all the way to the screen-free final and fail.

Ultimately the goal of education shouldn't just be a filter but it should ensure that as many people as possible learn the material. Homework allows for early intervention by faculty to get people back on track. There really are students who end up succeeding after this intervention.

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Frankly, a static analyzer that can't detect interprocedural bugs is useless and is something you definitely shouldn't be reaching for an unusual compilation toolchain to access.

No generalities. Stick to specifics. In this case they are saying that Indians are just lazy and foolish workers who don’t care about quality. That’s a trash opinion and deserves downvotes.

But there literally is an opt-out. Users can disable this system if they want.

Why is it an issue? Is it really so socially mandatory that founders get to maintain absolute control over public companies? The super-shares approach that Sergey took was clearly abusive anyway.

Hundreds of millions in grants to states to help conduct elections after being disrupted by covid and hundreds of millions to pay for ads saying that Talerico will take your kid away and forcibly transition them are two different things.

Bold, yes. Important? Also yes.

The state has no problem taking the property of poor people with the intent of delivering public utility. When the richest man in the world can unilaterally intervene in wars and buy up media megacorps to control information transfer, eminent domain starts seeming important.

“Too political” only seems to apply in one direction. Trump winning in 2024 wasn’t flagged.

You are free to tell me in detail what threat to "German culture" exists because of immigration.

I dunno, maybe democratic input into deciding these values? If these machines are going to be as revolutionary as anthropic says such that they risk killing all of us then I think it is rather important that we don't have a CEO-king deciding this for us.