Don't tell us you didn't vote for this. You did. Trump is a liar and a cheat and an autocrat, and if you voted for him you voted for all of it. You just thought you would benefit—or more likely that he would hurt the people you don't like.
By 2024, no one can claim ignorance.
So let me get this straight.
Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.
Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.
Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.
Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.
And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”
Please.
@gmdickinson If I had to guess I'd say Roberts strongly encouraged him to do so to spare the federal courts further embarrassment. Even as it was, it basically forced Roberts to appoint the working group to study working conditions and harassment in the judiciary.
@gmdickinson public interest to identify.
Kozinski's retirement had 2 effects 1) to stop any further investigation and 2) keep his judicial pension.
Keep in mind that his conduct had been known about for almost 2 decades by the time he 'voluntarily' stepped down.
From someone who accepted millions in improper gifts, dodged his reporting requirements, won’t allow proper fact-finding, and may have failed to pay taxes, his “law-abiding” schtick is a bit ripe.
https://t.co/WNPyVO3RtS
@gmdickinson That said, a specific level of detail isn't required, and in contrast to Kozinski / Kindred, this complaint did not publicly identify the judge. So it strikes me as curious that a judge who is familiar with the process, as Pryor is, would allow such detail to be included here.
@gmdickinson I'm not aware of any official standard on what detail to include in a special committee writeup (the Rules are vague). It's not uncommon for such memorandums and orders to contain embarrassing detail (e.g. Alex Kozinski and Joshua Kindred).
@davidsirota@penelopesayz David, I've done none of those, and I see enough to be concerned here. Ignoring the red flags will not work out well for progressives in the long run. Don't lose sight of the big picture.
No, and not sorry to say it. He's running for public office now. We're entitled to use whatever information we learn about to evaluate their fitness for the office.
It’s no one’s fucking business what happened in Graham & Amy’s marriage before he was ever a candidate for office.
There should be no place in our politics for incompetent, opportunistic operatives who violate privacy, betray trust, and prioritize vengeance over decency.
@OldTom_Morris@wuelodie07@MrAndyNgo The discipline was handed down by a Dubya-appointed FedSoc stalwart, and upheld by another within the national judicial conference.
In 2020, two men managed to turn Earth into a giant “sandwich” by placing slices of bread on exact opposite points of the planet.
In January 2020, two men successfully turned Earth into a giant “sandwich” by placing slices of bread on exact opposite sides of the planet at the same time. The project was organized by New Zealand student Etienne Naude, who used online mapping tools to locate his geographic antipode in Málaga, Spain. He then teamed up with Spanish chef Ángel Sierra through Reddit, and with the help of GPS coordinates and laser pointers, they aligned their positions to sandwich roughly 12,724 kilometers of Earth between two pieces of bread.
Although internet creator Ze Frank first carried out the idea in 2006, the 2020 recreation drew worldwide attention because of its remarkable geographic precision. Since most land on Earth is opposite open ocean, finding a true land-to-land antipode is extremely rare. The playful experiment quickly went viral across major news outlets and became a memorable symbol of global connection just before pandemic lockdowns began around the world.
Yes, but missing something key: not selling our own intelligence back to us. Holding our intelligence *hostage* and selling us *their* version of it, complete with edits that reflect *their* worldviews and preferences.
Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.
Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.
Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."
Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."
Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.
They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.
One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."
Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.
That's the metered intelligence business model.
And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.
@NoJabsDotNet@thehealthb0t No, he a tech billionaire. Are you really out here telling us with unsourced graphics that he's making his money selling chickens to poor Africans?
(While also trying to distract from the misleading quote)
@undertbleacherz@whooith@Asmongold@MayorFrey He's got 140x the number of followers. Getting only 29x the number of likes is not the brag you think it is. (Also @whooith is correct - though I assume you also think it's ok to execute a Black person in the street for having a record, comrade.)