AGAIN.

Okay, I admit it. I don’t have friends.

I think of a tiny robot arm and sensor array that lets a human surgeon see and work on smaller parts of a patient than they could otherwise manage safely.

I guess that would be a cyborg surgeon.

The Pitt is covering this, and in an early episode from this season they had one of the doctors point out that the LLM transcription incorrectly labeled a medication.

Medicine has a very low tolerance for errors. If I ask ChatGPT what episode of Downton Abbey shows lord whatshisface vomiting blood and it tells me that episode was the Red Wedding, worst case scenario is I look dumb. If Claude tells a doctor “this patient doesn’t have any existing medications that are contraindicated for propofol,” and it’s wrong, that patient may die on the table.

So he’s an advocate for limiting prison sentences the world over, right?

Right?

If we had a functioning regulatory framework in this country there would have been a law passed somewhere around 2010 restricting the kinds of data collected and how long it could be stored. Instead we have data brokers selling data to cops outside fourth amendment protection and it’s totally fine because people “agreed” to have their data collected and sold on the open market.

I am not a mycologist or mushroom farmer, but my understanding is that there are either known aspects of the growing environment that cannot be replicated, or more often there is some unknown factor that is missing.

Keep in mind that while some mushrooms or other fungi (think truffles) command high prices per piece, that value is typically due to rarity. The cost of researching and experimenting to find a way to cultivate them would be difficult to recoup when price crashes due to increased supply.

There are some species of culinary mushrooms that simply cannot be cultivated artificially. My understanding is that like any specialized knowledge, distinctions between safe and not safe are much easier once you’ve been doing it for a while.

So they’re shitty at investigations, but we already knew that.

Fair, I was more replying to the idea a guillotine is “too clean” which implies that some sort of torturous death is preferred. I agree that in the process of any revolution a guillotine (or a bullet) may be necessary.

You know, I have bloody-minded thoughts about these scumbags too, the kind of things that might earn me a visit from law enforcement if I spelled them out, but then I think about the negative impact actually doing those things would have on anyone’s psyche. Instead, we should take their money and sentence them to work on an organic farm for the rest of their lives.

And yet the stock is still falling ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Oh man, what would I ever do if I met someone who I enjoyed spending time with so much that 25 years in I still wanted them living in the same house I do and going to special events with me? I might fuck around and find out I’ve become happy.

So, he’s a politician who tries to do good things for the citizenry and uphold the law?

So, SOP for Chicago?

In all seriousness, I remember Adam Davidson saying that he was looking into the Trump real estate shenanigans with the Russian oligarchs. When he talked to a prosecutor about why the obvious corruption wasn’t being pursued the response was that basically all major construction in every American city was at least partially a vehicle for money laundering. I would be truly stunned if that criminality didn’t flow into the landlord business.

And maybe that would lead future presidents to consider very carefully the kinds of actions they take.

Purple Man should be labeled “billionaire elites.”

I was going to say, image macros recontextualize the original image but usually not to the point of reversing the original meaning.

Yeah, the guy had a real fetish for surrounding himself with smart people, especially considering he was (based on the evidence in the files that have been released so far) a remarkably dumb person.

“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.”

Orwell understood that power and authoritarianism were the issue, not so much the supposed ideology underpinning the powerful.