I did not realize they were going to take down the monument in Arlington National Cemetery confiscated lands of the traitor Robert E. Lee so quickly. Better to get it over with, I guess.
Author: Cheryl Rofer
Unsplash Still missing from what has been recovered of Donald Trump’s document grab when he left the presidency is a binder of classified documents. I would not assemble a group.
When I turned on the computer this morning, I could read text easily for the first time since the summer. I have macular degeneration in my left eye. The macula.
On a Farley thread a few days back, one of our commenters asked for an analysis of what the Republican refusal to fund money for Ukraine is likely to do. Heather Cox Richardson today has as good an analysis as I could do. It's important,...
I made a comment on Paul’s earlier post that drew a doomer comment. There’s a good discussion going on over there about the ACA and Medicare. If the link doesn’t.
I’ve been wondering if there were favorable pieces written upon the death of Henry Kissinger, but didn’t really want to know. So I didn’t ask on social media. Tonight I learned about one, by Graham Allison. Which reminded me of an interaction I had with...
Recently, we’ve had a couple of posts on Richard Feynman. I thought about responding at the time, but I’ve been choosing my battles carefully lately. Last night a conversation on.
From the Washington Post article Robert Kagan proceeds exhaustively through the reasons that we should be concerned that Donald Trump could once again be president (gift link). This time, Trump.
In a conversation on Bluesky, I commented that I have never found an explanation of the neural net part of the LLMs like ChatGPT that makes sense. “It works like your brain” is clearly not an explanation, since we know so little about how our...
It’s as if the 1990s browser wars were being waged by rival factions of Dianetics striving to control the future – Henry Farrell The golden age of science fiction is.
Kelsey Atherton has the go-to reference on why Congress should investigate the contracts to SpaceX for Elon Musk's danger to national security. Atherton is the chief editor for the Center.