@WestMichP2@BlueskyLibs Melat Kiros is African-American. She was born and emigrated from the African country of Ethiopia and is of the Tigrayan ethnic group that is primarily indigenous to the Tigray Region in northern Ethiopia.
My ID and citizenship were checked before I was allowed on this naval ship. Rightly so, for national security.
Why can’t we do this for voting? It’s CLEARLY a national security issue.
I’m glad the US Navy takes NatSec seriously, even if the GOP Senate doesn’t.
Everyone else accepts the fact that whenever it matters whether you are who you claim to be, there’s a compelling need to verify your identity
Why can’t the U.S. Senate?
We must pass the SAVE America Act!
We make it far too easy for senators in the minority to use the filibuster to kill bills supported by the majority.
The whole idea behind the filibuster has, from the beginning, been to protect and prolong debate—not to cut off debate, forcing the Senate to abandon any bill that doesn’t immediately receive the support of at least 60 senators.
Filibustering is supposed to require far more than opposing cloture.
Especially for bills of exceptional national importance—like the SAVE America Act—senators should be required to hold the floor and speak.
The minute filibustering senators stop doing that, the legislation can and should be passed at a simple-majority threshold.
This is not a radical idea.
This describes what the filibuster is, how it has historically operated, and how it should work today.
Share this message if you agree that the Senate—and the country as a whole—would be well served by a return to this approach.
Sir, I have some expertise in Senate rules and precedent. In fact, at one time you were one of a dozen senators who paid me for that.
The talking filibuster will work.
Senators who refuse to do this to pass the SAVE America Act are the ones demoralizing their own base.
Meet Oregon High school counselor Mads Bourdon.
She wrote a kid’s book about “chosen family” which tells kids they can cut off their parents and find a new family if their parents aren’t “accepting” of their gender identity.
“Whether it’s chosen or given family, one is not more valuable than the other.”
“Biological family is not always family in the ways that matter.”
Any comment @MilwaukieHigh? Do parents know their kids’ mental health is in the hands of a school counselor who believes confused kids should cut off contact with their parents and find a new family?
H/t @Jenn_McW
NEW: The DEA permitted hundreds of thousands of fentanyl pills to hit the streets of New Mexico in bid to build prosecutions
“We poisoned our community to make cases,” DEA Agent David Howell tells @AP
“We 100% got people killed”
w/ @APjoshgoodman
https://t.co/1tRshl8Xoa
his “AI server” is 4 mac minis stacked next to the toaster
linked by free software into one machine that runs 235B models no single computer could load
regulated clients pay him $3,500/month each to use it
he has 6 of them
that’s $21k/month from a tower of silver boxes in his kitchen
the stack runs exo - open-source, $0, turns four separate minis into one pool of memory. the monitor shows all four nodes firing together, one model spread across the whole cluster
the thing nobody tells you about local AI:
a model either fits in your machine’s memory or it doesn’t run. that’s the wall everyone hits. it’s why people assume serious AI means a $40k server
exo walks straight through that wall. it splits one massive model across every box in the chain. four minis at $599 each suddenly run what a single high-end machine can’t touch
and the people who need this aren’t chasing the newest model
they’re the ones the cloud locked out:
→ a law firm with privileged case files
→ a medical practice under HIPAA
→ an accounting firm holding client financials
they need AI nowhere near a third-party server. a stack they can point to during an audit ends every objection
their models run on his cluster. the data never leaves equipment he controls
the breakdown:
→ 4 mac minis: $2,400 total
→ exo software: $0
→ electricity: ~$25/month
→ what he charges per client: $3,500/month
→ 6 active clients
the kitchen stack paid for itself in the first 3 weeks
month 1: 2 clients, $7k
month 3: 4 clients, $14k
month 6: 6 clients, $21k
he’s not running a startup with an office and a logo
he’s running four silver boxes between the coffee machine and a bowl of fruit, clearing $21k/month from hardware that cost $2,400
clients picture racks and cooling fans
reality is four minis humming next to where he makes breakfast
the cloud companies charge a fortune for compute and access to your own
he charges $3,500 a month for the one thing they can’t sell - a machine that never phones home
Centralization or competition?
@DavidSacks exposes the push for AI centralization and control: "I think centralization is the greatest threat of AI."
"They want to centralize and control. They see competition as a nefarious force, so they want centralization. They effectively want to create a cartel, and that is their view of AI safety."
The alternative path is competition, where market forces help prevent regulatory capture:
"In my opinion, competition is a good force. It's what protects consumers, it gives consumers choice, it also brings out the best in competitors, it prevents regulatory capture, and it has a greater chance of leading to decentralization. I think centralization is the greatest threat of AI."
It's all fun and games now, but just imagine some terrorist doing this on upper Mulholland on a dry, windy day in October after Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom have done precisely zero brush clearance.
Ask me and my neighbors how that turns out!