It’s incredible to see come to fruition, but we definitely had advanced prothetics speculated in the 1970s.

The Patch was hypothesized in 1988 and first documented in 1997, by a passing yacht racer. Research on the patch began in earnest in 2009.

Estimates on the size are still nebulous, as it continues to expand and shift. But I doubt anyone in the 1970s was predicting a patch of trash twice the size of Texas would appear in the Pacific Ocean over the next 50 years.

They had that in the 1970s

Nah

The committee warns MIT professors against replacing undergraduate research assistants with AI agents just because they’re cheaper, because a university exists to grow people, not output.

Undergrads are notoriously criminally underpaid. This is the academic equivalent of taking all the pennies out of the “Take a Penny Leave a Penny” tray to save money.

If both those premises hold

You’re just doing Pascal’s Wager For Computers.

Obviously it went down because of the holiday.

AIs need days off too

Francisco “Cisco” Aguilar, a Harry Reid protégé, runs the Secretary of State’s office.

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If a Republican secretary of state removed 315,000 registrations, then another 50,000 two months before a midterm, and the Democratic registration advantage collapsed with it, national media would call it a purge. Under Aguilar, the same work is described as routine maintenance.

What could have happened in Nevada that would make a Democrat with strong ties to the national party want to purge other Democrat voters en mass?

Sanders supporters took over the Nevada Democratic Party. It’s not going well.

So long as the checks clear

A lot of it simply isn’t worth debating in a media that’s suffocated with fascist rhetoric.

When you know the only coverage you’re going to get is “Politician defends Baby Eating Terrorist, flees confrontation with half-eaten baby when confronted” there’s no yield in engaging a Steven Crowder tier interviewer on the subject.

Staying on message on local issues plays better in the long run. And deflecting from “How do you feel about all the Dead Venezuelan Babies that socialism created?” to “I’m busy filling potholes on 47th and Main, where we’re also throwing a pizza party and handing out baby blankets to new moms and college scholarships to telegenic high schoolers. Why won’t you let me talk about that?” is just the standard - highly effective - retail politics that make someone like Zohran or AOC have sky high local approval numbers.

It sucks that we can’t have any kind of serious conversation about foreign policy. But I’m not going to blame that on the heart-of-gold socialist currently getting heckled by a news anchor with a swastika tattoo on his forehead.

Idk, man. As political prisoners go, he’s looking reasonably well taken care of.

Glad he’s in a Brooklynn jail than one in Texas or Florida. Dude would probably have been Epstein’d by now if he was kept in a Red State.

But even beyond that, it’s a Federal Prison. What do they think the city’s mayor is going to do? Ask Jessica Tisch to order the NYPD to bust in and release him?

So was “Gay Bowl Syndrome”.

That’s okay because I’m being told they’re all going to get replaced with AI agents anyway.

This article is just a recap of one Congressman’s life. It has virtually nothing to do with the headline.

Republicans had to explicitly grant an exemption to the industry back in 2005, in response to a wave of lawsuits successfully pinning manufacturers with responsibility for proliferation and criminal misuse.

Even despite this liability protection, Remington Arms’ four insurance companies paid a $73 million settlement with Sandy Hook plaintiffs in 2021 regarding its alleged violations of state law (specifically Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act). Although PLCAA protections had been raised by the manufacturer in Sandy Hook negotiations prior to the settlement, a similar but entirely separate case had been declined by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2019 (Remington Arms Co. v. Soto).

So there’s ample precedent.

You have to wonder if NVIDIA should suffer any kind of liability for its hardware being used in these strikes.

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