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This in today from Brian Beutler:The New RadicalsDemocrats need to be the uncompromising ones now.Brian BeutlerSep 30 Over the past year and a half I’ve warned promiscuously about the dangers of “funding Donald Trump’s government.” I’ve taken to referring to bipartisan spending bills, which have passed with Democrats casting decisive votes, as “enabling” legislation. This … Read more
by liberal japonicus We’ve got some folks who have some knowledge of water issues, so this Texas Monthly piece, entitled War for the Rio Grande, (via LGM) may be of interest. Why do I think this will all hit the fan as Texas turns blue? The piece talks about “Day Zero”, which is when a … Read more
by liberal japonicus Another day, another post about AI and another thing with Ezra Klein. Huang is on a tour, I see him talking with all sorts of people, hitting on the same points, which is there is nothing to worry about and nothing to see here. Huang is a pretty interesting character, his lifestory … Read more
by liberal japonicus Perhaps I’m being overly grumpy, but with Ezra Klein forgoing the guest and giving an earnest solo performance suggests to me he is slipping into Brooks’ role. And I should add, Klein is missing something that almost everyone else does as well, which is the whole AI narrative is that these problems … Read more
by liberal japonicus A decent discussion of the approaches to AI in China versus the US is found here, but to me, because it starts from a misguided assumption, is China and the US are playing the same game with regards to AI, they can’t see the forest for the trees. The US and China … Read more
by liberal japonicus Another post, but this is more about energy, oil, Iran, China, yada yada. This Foreign Affairs podcast discusses the Iran Shock, and I’ve consumed so much discussion of all of this so it’s all a jumble, but I have a take that I haven’t really seen put forward, so I wanted to … Read more
by liberal japonicus A thread to invite Hartmut and any others to weigh in on the AfD’s electoral victory in Saxony-Anhalt. This was the Rest is Politics duo talk to German journalist Paul Ronzheimerx and I wonder what other points people might raise. The title is just to note that English speakers might be more … Read more
by liberal japonicus The NYTimes Headlines reports that an OpenAI has just solved one of the Millenium problems, the Navier-Stokes equations. Yay, us! Err, just a second. Quanta has this at the end of their article. OpenAI admits that their work on the Navier-Stokes equation was inspired by rumors that Alpöge and Buckmaster had solved … Read more
by liberal japonicus This popped up in my feeds, a youtube video about what happened with Ha Young, a Korean actress. This is a shorter version, but I wonder if both of them miss out on something. If you don’t want sit through, basically the Korean actress, who was in a top-ranked drama, and she … Read more
by liberal japonicus I thought it was Aristotle who came up with ‘suspension of disbelief’, but apparently, it was Samuel Coleridge. Aristotle argued that a convincing impossibility in a story is preferable to an unconvincing possibility, but Coleridge came up with the phrase. This is prompted by seeing clips for the TV series Lanterns along … Read more