I try to vote with the policy of "passion and ideology in the primaries, pragmatic harm reduction in the general" and I wish I could convince more people of this instead of purity testing their general election choices

And I recommend the book, fascinating history. Call you local independent bookstore or your local public library!

Awww yeah! Hybrid Cube-Root Wyoming Rule apportionment in the house, 3 Sens/State, 3 USSC Justices per Circuit w/ panels shy of full court for most cases, robust VRA including funding for states to follow/staff up for the rules, binding statehood res for all remaining territories + DC. IMO.

ah yes, what is worse? passing a law through congress to add more seats to the supreme court — as per congress’ explicitly stated constitutional authority — or a violent coup to overturn the constitutional order?

For Asheville folks who need food:

Our economy has: - stable prices & near maximum employment, - rising real wages, - rising productivity, - high profits & stonks, - huge # of small biz openings, - unprecedented manufacturing plant construction & clean energy installs, ICYMI: thread on jobs report. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

This is not “unconventional.” It’s voter suppression. It’s voter intimidation. It’s election interference. It’s anti-democratic, un-American, and it must be defeated. Are you registered to #vote?

Milo is really great for expressing all of our exasperation with nonsense.

It’s a scam, it’s always been a scam, and it is so absurdly transparent as a scam I’d be laughing my ass off if it weren’t DESTROYING EVERY INDUSTRY IN WHICH I WRITE.

DDwolvendamien.bsky.socialSep 28, 2024 1:08am

OpenAI— the literal *Industry Leader* in LLM/GPT-style "AI"— can't afford to keep its lights on w/o massive outside investments, & even the people who could wring a 7+ figure salary out of their coffers are jumping ship in light of the for-profit direction. Seems… Pretty bad, for "AI" as an industry

OpenAI Executives Exit as C.E.O. Works to Make the Company For-Profit

Mira Murati, the chief technology officer, and two others are leaving as leaders including Sam Altman work to transform the start-up.

I am constantly baffled how such DEEP notes come out of a creature so relatively small.