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There's a general feeling that Judges shouldn't be able to make sentencing decisions that deviate from guidelines, except for the circumstances where it *would* be appropriate. How to identify those circumstances is the tricky part.
AI maybe?

Following a blockbuster IPO earlier this month,
Elon Musk’s SpaceX experienced a rude awakening.
The rocket company’s shares have now been sliding for four consecutive days,
wiping out nearly all the gains the public offering had initially made.
Now the broader stock market is experiencing a similar and intensifying sell-off.
S&P 500 futures slid 1.6 percent on Tuesday,
while Nasdaq 100 futures dropped 2.8 percent, on track to wipe out over $1 trillio…

Tech Stocks Are Abruptly Collapsing
The global stock market is experiencing an intensifying sell-off, intensifying fears of a bursting AI bubble.

Quebec hydropower is now flowing to New York City—1.25 GW of clean electricity displacing fossil generation.
Meanwhile, Twelve launched America's first commercial e-jet fuel plant, turning CO2 and renewable power into synthetic jet fuel.
And China brought online a massive solar-battery-hydrogen complex to power industry with renewables.
Real infrastructure. Real progress. Today.
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WELKER: You voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt earlier this year for failing to comply with subpoena.
Why shouldn't the same standard apply to the former AG Pam Bondi?
BYRON DONALDS: We'll see what happens when we get back to DC
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WELKER: You voted to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in criminal contempt earlier this year for failing to comply with subpoena. Why shouldn't the same standard apply to the former AG Pam Bondi? BYRON DONALDS: We'll see what happens when we get back to DC

I guess the solution is to… outsource and centralize even more? Like, make everything dependent on an “AI” company?
https://www.wired.com/story/canvas-hack-shinyhunters-ransomware-instructure/

I have basically mildly positive feelings about Gemini Nano being available in Chrome. I don't use Chrome, but lots of stuff should be done on-device, not off. That's a win.
If "software shouldn't have features i don't like" is the argument you're actually making, that's not really a good argument. Even when the feature is an LLM model.
"Chrome is getting big and bloated and we can do better” is absolutely a good argument you can make.
And then the real kicker: Google pushing the web platform around through dominance is just the real ick here. It's the same sort of thing monopoly power enables. Companies that own verticals in the economy or a product market can dictate rather than negotiate. This is, in general, bad. Google does this, not because the ideas its employees put forward are good, but because they work out to be in Google's interests. And those interests can run counter to the rest of the world.
That's what we have to push back on.

Still as cis as ever, but I thought I'd show my support by posting an interesting transition metal compound from my lab inventory.
Here's a solution of tantalum chloride in ethanol/methanol, intended for sol-gel deposition of tantalum pentoxide thin films. You spin coat it on a substrate then heat in air; the chlorine swaps with an oxygen in atmospheric water vapor and you get HCl gas evaporating and Ta2O5 on the surface.

Das Haus, das wir aktuell bewohnen, soll nächstes Jahr abgerissen werden.
Wir ziehen verfrüht aus, weil es uns umzubringen versucht, und wir was hübsches Neues gefunden haben.
Vermieter will nun, dass wir Nachmieter suchen, oder Mietzins bezahlen.
Wollte ein Inserat schalten für Nachmieter, aber meine Frau lehnt das ab.

A Secret Service officer has been arrested for allegedly following a woman at a hotel near the Miami airport, and then masturbating outside of her hotel room. 
Per WSVN’s Sheldon Fox, Officer John A. Spillman was found by Miami-Dade deputies masturbating in a hotel hallway. He had allegedly followed a woman and forced her to retreat into her room, fearing for her safety. 
The US Secret Service told WSVN that Spillman had been in the Miami-Dade area "as part of the security scr…