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A look at Trump’s war on the United States should give the doomsayers pause. It takes time to destroy a system. US universities or cities, the rule of law, US dominance of the Internet, and even its alliances, won’t collapse overnight. Of course I hope the destruction will stop, but it’s also a matter of observation that turning us into an impoverished mid-tier Hungary would itself take decades.

Similarly, Xi’s wrongheaded repression won’t suddenly destroy the CCP. Engineering and science don’t really depend on politics, and China will keep doing what it does best, which is build stuff. The one-child and zero-Covid policies eventurally collapsed. Xi Jinping is not a nice man and his need for absolute control is stifling. China’s best hope is a heart attack and someone who realizes that China does best under a wily Daoist like Deng, not another emperor.

The filing notes that the five missing cameras are specifically from detainee isolation cells, “despite those cells being a key part of Plaintiffs’ complaint. The produced feeds show egregious conditions but were insufficient to provide Plaintiffs the discovery necessary to fully investigate their claims.” These cells were designed to hold one person at a time, but were allegedly being used to hold multiple detainees at a time during a critical period that the lawsuit covers; “such cells are also where ICE holds detainees with acute medical or mental health conditions, including those who have suffered medical emergencies while in detention, and where it holds detainees who have been subjected to use of force by ICE officers while inside the facility,” they add.

For many years I was passionately obsessed with rock climbing. From 2020-2022 I was President of the North London Mountaineering Club. However, in the summer of 2023 I suffered a catastrophic accident whilst climbing in Scotland. After narrowly surviving, I was left tetraplegic (paralysed from roughly the collarbones down) with only residual function in my hands. Following eight months in hospital, in early 2024 I attempted to resume academic work whilst adjusting to life with severe disability.

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THE RIDES IN Steeplechase Park had people thrashing and flying all over the place. Major sexual abuse occurred at the park. Molestation was thought of as entertainment by several mean dwarfs who had the same sleazy sneers on their faces…

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This is a great write up - I'm currently trying to figure out how to navigate mandated AI usage at my job, and the way you've broken it down by use case is really…

Ireland rolled out a permanent basic income scheme for the arts on Tuesday, pledging to pay 2,000 creative workers 325 euros ($387) per week following a trial that participants said eased financial strain and allowed them to spend more time on projects.

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A report on the trial found it lowered the likelihood of artists experiencing enforced deprivation, and reduced their levels of anxiety and reliance on supplementary income.
It also recouped more than the trial's net cost of 72 million euros ($86 million) through increases in arts-related expenditure, productivity gains and reduced reliance on other social welfare payments, according to a government-commissioned cost-benefit analysis.

It is also true, as the reader's critical faculty recognizes, that the writer has "favorite" characters, which seem to embody more of or more important parts of his personality than the rest. These are, as it were, the saints and prophets of his art, who speak by inspiration. The creative act is here one of extreme delicacy, and in studying it we gain a kind of illumination upon the variety and inconclusiveness of the world about us. For if a character becomes merely a mouthpiece of the author, he ceases to be a character, and is no longer a living creation.

A joule is a common way to measure energy. A single joule is a relatively small unit of measurement—it’s about enough to power a tiny lightbulb for a second, or slightly heat a gram of water. But a zettajoule is one sextillion joules; numerically, the 23 zettajoules the oceans absorbed this year can be written out as 23,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.

John Abraham, a professor of thermal science at the University of St. Thomas and one of the authors on the paper, says that he sometimes has trouble putting this number into contexts that laypeople understand. Abraham offers up a couple options. His favorite is comparing the energy stored in the ocean to the energy of atomic bombs: The 2025 warming, he says, is the energetic equivalent to 12 Hiroshima bombs exploding in the ocean.

There are paradoxes here that the proponents of coding agents rarely address. Lawson, for example, suggests that junior developers will "code circles" around their seniors, if the latter don't adopt and adapt to the LLM craze. That may well be true, at least in some cases, but it leaves out the crucial detail of how juniors eventually become seniors.

Circumstance has a lot to do with it. We learn by making our own mistakes, not by letting someone else do them for us. We understand how systems work by examining them in great detail for extended amounts of time, not by having someone else build them for us. Complexity requires upkeep, upkeep requires skill, skill comes from grind, and grind takes time.

Another interesting paradox is that of invention. LLMs don't innovate - they replicate. We're at our current level of abstraction because a lot of people have, for a long time, thought hard about certain technical issues and how to solve them.