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âŚâThe Philippines will pay a 19% Tariffâ
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From a Philippines perspective, though, it must be pretty nice to negotiate with a leader who doesnât understand who pays what. âSo can you agree to putting all the negatives on your own people?â âHeh heh, what a sucker, heâs letting us keep them all for ourselves.â
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Trumpâs executive order requires any AI company hoping to contract with the federal government to jump through two hoops to win funding. First, they must prove their AI systems are âtruth-seekingââwith outputs based on âhistorical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivityâ or else acknowledge when facts are uncertain. Second, they must train AI models to be âneutral,â which is vaguely defined as not favoring DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), âdogmas,â or otherwise being âintentionally encodedâ to produce âpartisan or ideological judgmentsâ in outputs âunless those judgments are prompted by or otherwise readily accessible to the end user.â
So, basically, he saw that Elno could make Grok check on his own positions before making statements and said, âThatâs what I want! Make them agree with me, your most stable genius, in all things or else!â Undoing this shitheadâs work will take generationsâŚ
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âTrumpâs orderâŚis unconsitutionalâ
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Federal grand jury panels are made up of randomly selected citizens. There is no voir dire and they only need a majority to vote in favor of an indictment. Itâs pretty easy to get an indictment from the panels with evidentiary proof.
That being said, Iâm so happy to hear that the Southern Californians on these panels refuse to indict their fellow human beings for doing what is their right under the Constitution of the United States. The feds canât make up lies and expect the grand jurors to rubber stamp an indictment without evidence.
Fuck you, Pam Bondi.
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Yeah, the bar in a grand jury is really low. The rules of evidence donât apply, so you can introduce hearsay and all kinds of shit that would be inadmissible in the actual trial. Also, the target of the indictment doesnât get to present a defense. It is literally, by design, a one-sided hearing. Generally speaking, grand juries tend to be rubber stamp affairs, issuing indictments when the prosecutor wants an indictment. When they refuse to return an indictment, it means one of two things: either the prosecutor doesnât actually want them to return an indictment and presents a really weak case on purpose, or there is just clearly no probable cause for the charges. Here, it seems pretty clear the prosecutor wanted an indictment, so that means the case was just super, super weak. There probably wasnât any evidence.
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The current President of the Philippines is Ferdinand Marcos. Heâs the son of the other one.
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I had read that his name was BongBong, but now I see that it is actually Ferdinand and BongBong is a nickname.
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âWe asked Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Meta whether any of their current models meet these requirements. None of them responded.â
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Targeted tax cuts and federal subsidies for billionaires aside, of course.
Basically, targeting anything that benefits anyone who is not in the âinâ group (a group which is much, much, much, MUCH smaller than the MAGA fanbase thinks it is).
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Do you think trump understands that?
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He typically goes by Bongbong rather than Ferdinand, so it tells me that Dump barely spoke with him. But who knows what his muddle brain thinks?
FWIW, the Philippines President Wiki page shows him as Bongbong:
Whereas his own Wiki page has it both ways:
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tRump does not understand to whom he is speaking with regard to Philippines leadership.
âBongBongâ is that guy who works at the FBI with that Patel guy with the first name he likes âKashâ. tRump likes âKashâ, even when you spell it like that.
of course the dipshit has no idea who this Ferdinand Marcos is, or even who his father was.
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No worries. Thanks.
Today at work by sheer coincidence, we were talking about whether we can still enjoy the many works of Neil Gaiman, given the recent news of his [alleged for the purposes of writing this here now] SA of wimmin. Ugh.
Conflicted barely the describes the quandary.
One of the staffers loved the Sandman series and apparently itâs now in its second season. I mentioned I am weirdly glad Sir Pterry is not here on earth with us to see all this awful news about Gaiman.
Yeah, Iâm conflicted.
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One âquaintâ feature about trumpâs âunderstandingâ of the cost of renovating the Federal Reserve Building is that trump had a piece of paper which he was using to declare that the cost was $3.1 billion and Powell took the sheet from him (amazing he could get it pulled away from him) and said [paraphrasing] ânahhh⌠those included costs already dispersed; what remains is ~$2 billionâ
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The video, where Trump is speaking and Powell is just shaking his head is funny:
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There is no easy answer.
Debussy was a terrible person in many ways, but I still enjoy his music.
Picasso was a terrible person too, but I was never a fan of his work so it doesnât matter.
I will, however, never hand one of Gacyâs clown paintings on my wall.
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