Patrick May

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@esrtweet Ethical issues aside, one consideration is how much trust to give to LLMs. At bottom, they are simply stochastic parrots with some guardrails. They do not apply logic, they only predict the next plausible token.

Because they sound like humans, people give them too much trust.

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@esrtweet Growing up in the woods, the truck gun was for serendipitous hunting.

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@g_korland The new renaissance of Common Lisp!

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@TheStudyofWar

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@g_korland Java developers actually call it
https://t.co/VgGuvL70fm().getDayOfWeek().getDisplayName(TextStyle.FULL, Locale.getDefault());

which is why some of us like Python. ;-)

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@guynirpaz Hire their top developer?

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@JoshOorah @LissaKay @DataRepublican The problem does specify the distance and the time already used. Maintaining an average speed of 60 mph over a distance of 60 miles requires covering that distance in one hour. Since the driver has already taken one hour to travel half the distance, there is no time remaining.

[The Zeroth Tim @Timacious_D]

Everyone knows of Hercules and Achilles, but that Greek hero with a talent for always being right, Technicles, never gets his due.

[New Civil Liberties Alliance @NCLAlegal]

ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS
ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS
ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS
ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS
ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS
ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS
ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS
ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS
ONLY CONGRESS CAN SET TARIFFS

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

It is completely unlawful for ICE to turn away members of Congress like this. The law could not be more clear; no member of Congress may be denied access to a facility where ICE is detaining someone, and they cannot be required to schedule in advance. https://t.co/DugghaukqO

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@adamtoo__ @NCLAlegal Tariffs are taxes paid by Americans. That makes them anti-American.

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@Evolutionistrue They start with racist dogs.

[Sean Dempsey @realseand]

“A nation that forgets how to reason will soon forget how to prosper. And so it is that many among us now see the bounty of trade not as the fruit of freedom, but as the spoils of conquest. They imagine every dollar spent abroad as a cannonball fired at home, and every tariff imposed by our rivals as a mortal wound to our prosperity. But they fail to see — as only the poorly taught could fail to see — that tariffs are a poison most deadly to the one who swallows them. When China raises its tariffs, it does not strike us down; it wounds itself, burdening its own people with higher prices, limiting its own growth, and severing the very arteries of commerce that sustain it.

To believe otherwise is to believe the absurd — that a man may curse his neighbor by setting fire to his own house. And yet this absurdity flourishes in the minds of a citizenry betrayed by their own education. For our schools, having long abandoned the duty to teach the principles of free exchange, have instead nurtured a generation that sees in every foreign policy a contest of dominance, not a partnership of mutual benefit. They have taught envy over enterprise, grievance over gratitude, and fear over understanding.

Thus do we arrive at this wretched pass: a land of plenty, yet a land of panic; a nation enriched by trade, yet filled with fools who cannot see that trade enriches both buyer and seller alike. Tariffs punish the people who impose them — always and without exception — and only the ignorant or the willfully blind would mistake them for weapons of victory.”

- Thomas Jefferson, 1784

[Patrick May @PatrickMay]

@esrtweet *cough*LaTeX*cough*

[Jerry Coyne @Evolutionistrue]

Bret Stephens properly excoriates Trump and Vance for their horrible treatment of Zelensky.

https://t.co/jpnxyTC6WO

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

The Oval Office meeting today between Trump and Zelensky “reeked of a planned attack,” @radiofreetom writes.

“The Ukrainian leader did his best to stand up to the bullying, but Trump and Vance were playing to the cameras and the MAGA gallery at home.” https://t.co/i8URdOhRZ3

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

[Nicholas A. Christakis @NAChristakis]

Zelensky is an extraordinary leader. And the lies being told about him and about official American policy towards Ukraine are deeply shameful.

I cannot help but wonder if Trump’s policy is also driven by his own personal vendetta that Zelensky did not yield to his original extortion attempt years ago.

[Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon @alemzs]

Reposting this newspaper editorial that a Mississippi court ordered taken down, for the simple reason it was ordered taken down.

Don’t mess with the first amendment.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Rachel and Jon Goldberg-Polin have issued a new call to action, urging President Trump and his Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff to push for the release of all hostages held in Gaza "this week.”

"Our plea to you right now is, now that you've done the hard part of getting movement, getting a deal started, let's not think about phase one and phase two and phase three and many months," Jon Goldberg-Polin said. "Let's think bigger and faster."

"All 76 hostages out this week. End of war. Who benefits from dragging it out for so long? Not the people of this region. Let's get it done right now."