.........are they trying to be "strategic" and "not divisive" or are they just the guys who we've been convinced are the least-MAGA candidates who can ever win in their districts but never actually help to push back meaningfully?
also possible they don't think it would work due to presidents ordering a lot of other bombings and not being impeached for it, in the past. I've seen people here on plurk saying that
the generous interpretation is they think it won't accomplish anything to impeach again. the less generous is that they believe going along with his madness will keep them and their cushy jobs safer. I suspect the former is probably true, but the latter is a likelier motivation, personally
Yeah, idk. There's something to be said for setting precedent and at least trying to do what your job is supposed to be, even if it's obstructed by other people who absolutely refuse to do theirs.
^ yeah I suspect the bigger issue is just that in bulk terms, Democrats are the actual conservative party, and a lot of them just aren't actually that bothered
it just makes it sound like "the majority are actually conservative" when from what I know, the majority is left-leaning and it's the older neo-liberals that have more pull making themselves known
...I also say it partly because I'm really tired of American political discourse using "conservative" to mean "extremely radical regressivist or outright fascist" instead of the meaning of "conservative" in practically any other context, but I'll own that I should clarify my meaning consistently.
i guess my point is more who is this "core"? because as far as i know the most vocal of the Dems are either crusty old ones like Schumer or progressive new faces like AOC
also i'm pretty sure one of the ones who doesn't want to impeach Trump is whats-his-name that guy who seemed cool but turns out he had dinner with Breitbart
...hm. IDK maybe that's a real shift I just haven't observed, that's very possible. My impression of "the core" at least is the combination of the Old Guard neoliberals and the "I'm just a politician here to do politician things" congresscritters who aren't very vocal because they don't want to stick their necks out.
i mean, it also depends on if you're talking House or Senate because there's different dynamics even depending on which side of Congress you're talking about
My impression at least is that there are a lot who don't want to engage with a constitutional crisis, because that's divisive, and having a strong, combative positions risks alienating constituents, and it's way easier to just go with the flow than it is to be a leader.
I've come to think Schumer is only interested in waving at parades, speaking at graduations, and collecting his paycheck, and I hope to get the chance to vote for basically literally anyone else to primary him
and from the stuff Gillebrand sends out, all she cares about is retiree benefits. She sounds like an early 90s Republican candidate. Any given email, 3 of her 5 points will be about elderly constituents and the rest are usually like. veterans
IDK exactly where the fault lines are these days, maybe they run through the center... it's felt at least like the Old Guard and Don't Rock The Boat contingents are kind of a congealed core with all the rest of the non-GOP political spectrum plastered on as a messy crust
"Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic's LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something different," Alsup said. Cool so the judge just doesn't understand what AI is or does.
It reads to me more like he declared that AI is transformative (which it is not), and that using the materials is fine but storing pirated copies isn't.
if it's all original, there isn't an issue, but if AI is being trained on copyrighted material it can't just use the copyrighted material straight out because that's infringement
...idk it really sounds to me like his only issue in this case was the use of pirated copies, and he just swallowed and reiterated uncritically the pro-AI assertion that it's transformative and creates totally new things just like human writers.
From the way it's described, it sounds as though the system is designed to carefully avoid explicitly replicating copyrightable material, so it won't copy Mickey Mouse, it'll make Rodney Rat, and do enough mixing-and-match and paraphrasing to pretend to be different.
If AI training is accepted as Fair Use, then once someone manages to pin down the legal realization that AI training is basically just copying, someone's going to figure out they can declare Fair Use to be copying.
I assumed this one's designed specifically to give it guardrails against clear copyright infringement, so it can steal authors' works but not pick unwinnable fights with big corporations, but I'm only going on the description from that article.
Jeff Bezos alters Venice wedding plans after threat of inflatable crocodiles Amazon founder reportedly forced to change venue for his wedding celebrations in Italian city
Re: the big Dem tent conversation Keep pushing for ranked voting y'all. I'll keep bringing it up until everyone knows about it. One of our best chances at getting away from the two party system.
big bad wolb
: i genuinely cannot find him commenting on it, other than minutes ago today when he said it needs to go through congress. wondering if maybe he deleted something. i scrolled back two weeks on his bluesky
Honestly, it was never going to go through. It was only ever gonna be one more Democratic attempt at a wrist-slap to fuel more crowing about how impotent they are and how everyone backs Trump.
yeah, of course it wasn't going to go through, but that's a pretty stupid reason for Democrats to jump the aisle and side against it like they're going to score some kind of points
It's Schumer doing his bullshit "Well, if we work across the aisle then, when we're sweating together on our stationary bikes and our inhibitions are lowered" shit that didn't fly a decade ago.
I understand arguing that strategically it's not a good idea to push it at this time or whatever, that's an argument that can be had, but to vote against it it a very, very different political statement
exactly, it doesn't say "this isn't okay but I disagree strategically with this political maneuver," it says "nah actually this is all just fine, and it's dumb to have any objections"
Intel Report on Iran Upends Victory Lap Trump Was Hoping for at NATO President Trump had been eager to celebrate the U.S. strikes on Iran, but a new report indicates the attack set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
“[Trump] will face an alliance that he has long disdained in a setting - an international summit - that he has shown little interest in...Mr. Rutte bent over backward to try and appease...Trump. Mr. Rutte shortened the programming, corralled the alliance to meet Mr. Trump’s spending demand and worked to keep the policy communiqué as short as 5 paragraphs.”
If they want him to get on board with NATO they should just add a preamble and epilogue stating that he's a very smart and respected leader etc etc and he probably won't care about the boring stuff in the middle.
Doge employee ‘Big Balls’ has resigned, says White House official One of Doge’s best-known workers Edward Coristine, 19, quits a month after his former boss Elon Musk’s departure
Iconic ‘Dragon Man’ Skull Offers First Glimpse of What a Denisovan’s Face Looked Like, New Genetic Studies Suggest The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins
Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit"Like any reader aspiring to be a writer, Anthropic's LLMs trained upon works not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something different," Alsup said.Cool so the judge just doesn't understand what AI is or does.
not to race ahead and replicate or supplant them — but to turn a hard corner and create something differentAmazon founder reportedly forced to change venue for his wedding celebrations in Italian city
Keep pushing for ranked voting y'all.
I'll keep bringing it up until everyone knows about it. One of our best chances at getting away from the two party system.
Dems join GOP to kill vote impeaching Trump over Iran strikesPresident Trump had been eager to celebrate the U.S. strikes on Iran, but a new report indicates the attack set back Iran’s nuclear program by only a few months.
One of Doge’s best-known workers Edward Coristine, 19, quits a month after his former boss Elon Musk’s departure
The mysterious ancient humans were only known from fossil fragments. Now, two papers argue a skull uncovered in China belongs to this group, after examining preserved DNA and proteins