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Now, even before that budgeting process has begun, large numbers of Americans have been awakened to the fact that the administration is, in one way or another, threatening Medicaid. This is a foundation for the Left to build on. As their longer-term plans for the program become clearer, a “Hands Off Medicaid” campaign may be needed. The Tea Party was built on opposition to Barack Obama’s health care policy, and it gathered momentum through packing meetings with people ready to scream at their representative over what they thought were threats to their health care. The Left should adopt the same playbook to thwart Trump’s attempt to butcher the welfare state.

Maybe. There are 10 or 20 things to be outraged about every single week though. Can Medicaid really keep people’s interest?

I don’t think people really give a shit about policy.

Like, was the Tea Party really about the fiscal policy behind the ACA, or was it about having a black man in the oval office?

They argued that leniency would not prevent the activists "engaging in ever-more disruptive campaigns".

They also told the Court of Appeal that "deterrence is required in order to protect the public"

…from saving the planet they live on?

I gotta tell ya: Ever-more disruptive campaigns are coming.

If your message is “We’ll lock you up no matter what”, they might move past light vandalism sooner.

Beginning of a two-tiered media ecosystem, where the poors get AI slop while the rich get the artisanal stuff.

Oh there’s plenty of bums in office already.

blamed the Fed for inflation

urged rate cuts

🤔

It's a bit misleading to call it an open source project.

The code that supports defining the shape of the model and querying against it is open source. But the training framework, which processes the data and populates the model, is proprietary.

Another day, another speculative execution attack

I can’t recall a time when I downloaded an album, pretended I made it, and tried to sell access to it.

You’re welcome to scroll my comment history to about 6 months ago where I was using the phrase “informational equivalent of Kessler Syndrome”, or talking about accurate attribution and faithful replication as being useful effects of the current copyright regime even if the rest of it is garbage.

Artists demanding money: “YOU BETTER PAY ME FOR THIS STUFF OR ELSE I’M GONNA… gonna… Idk, keep making it for free I guess?”

I wouldn’t say it’s the biggest issue. Even if access was free, we’d still have to contend with the extreme energy use, and the epistemic chaos of being able to generate convincing bullshit much quicker than it can be detected and flagged.

I think it’s a harmful product in general. We’re polluting our infosphere the same way we polluted our ecosphere, and in both cases there’s still folks who think “unequal access to polluting industries” is the biggest problem.

Federal budget surplusses aren’t necessarily good.