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I'm watching Accused: Guilty or Innocent? 8x06 "Love Rival Killer or Defensive Mom?" https://trakt.tv/shows/accused-guilty-or-innocent/seasons/8/episodes/6

Love Rival Killer or Defensive Mom?
A pregnant mother gets into an altercation with her boyfriend's ex; when the mother is maced, she grabs her gun and shoots, fatally wounding the…

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files:
Donald J. Trump (President)
Melania Trump (1st Lady)
Howard Lutnick (Sec. Commerce)
John Phelan (Sec. Navy)
Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center)
RFK Jr. (Sec. HHS)
Kevin Warsh (Fed Nominee)
Mehmet Oz (Admin. for CMS)
Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE Appointee)
Steve Bannon (Fmr Senior Advisor)
Alex Acosta (Fmr Sec. Labor)
Bill Barr (Fmr AG)
Brett Ratner (Film Director "Melania")

Honestly, I really like writing code. As I'm writing, I think about ways to put things together, ways things could change. I run across awkwardness that reveals internal design problems. Just sitting and writing code puts my mind in a really calm and creative place.
An LLM just slams out code. A lot of the time it's garbage, but it's never creative. It's never making something beautiful or challenging. And if you're using an LLM to generate code you're missing that.
Now, there's plenty of boiler-plate code that can be automated effectively. But even automating that that is suppressing a signal.
Code doesn't exist to make computers go. It exists to communicate what the computer is doing. If you just want to make a computer go, you write assembly (or perl, I guess). But if you want to communicate ideas then you use a language that facilitates that.
Programming is a creative process, and statistics aren't creative.
I've been on medical leave for a while and I'm finally getting back to getting my feet under me (which is also why I haven't written human language stuff in a while). Last week I spent a bunch of time coding and I didn't realize how much I missed it, or how much I got out of it.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on July 1 his intent to designate certain Muslim and anti-fascist groups
—including U.S. groups
—as “terrorist organizations.”
Using authorities granted to him in a new Florida law, which took effect earlier that day,
DeSantis declared that he would seek designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR),
the Muslim Brotherhood, and “Antifa,” among others.
Within hours, the ACLU and Southern Poverty Law …

The Dangers of Florida’s New “Terrorist” Designations
Analysis of First Amendment implications of Florida's HB 1471, part of a growing trend of state-level terrorism designation laws.

Documents: Trump EPA Encouraged Dicamba-Maker Bayer to Recommend How Its Controversial, Drift-Prone Pesticide Should Be Regulated https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news

Documents: Trump EPA Encouraged Dicamba-Maker Bayer to Recommend How Its Controversial, Drift-Prone Pesticide Should Be Regulated
The Trump Environmental Protection Agency presented pesticide giant Bayer with multiple options on how to proceed with a dicamba approval months before the agency proposed to allow the dangerous, drift-prone pesticide to be sprayed on genetically engineered cotton and soybeans, according to government documents made public today by two conservation groups. The company’s input was solicited on the level of restrictions needed to effectively mitigate dicamba volatility and runoff, ranging from …

Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country (John Paul Rathbone/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0a6249a2-e28b-4e58-ab2d-2b8615b832dc…

Rights groups warn Turkey's new cybersecurity law, which took effect in July, gives the presidency sweeping powers over online services operating in the country (John Paul Rathbone/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/0a6249a2-e28b-4e58-ab2d-2b8615b832dc…

Die #Kernfusionskollektoranlage hat heute 0,949 kWh Energie eingefangen.
Gesamtleistung: 480 Wp
Ausrichtung: West
Anstellwinkel: 58 Grad
Diese #Balkonsolaranlage wurde durch das Berliner SolarPLUS-Programm gefördert.
Einspeiseverlust: 5.6 %

"New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model"
#NewZealand #Environment

New Zealand opens marine reserves with groundbreaking Māori co-management model
DUNEDIN, Aotearoa New Zealand — At a U.N. meeting in 2015, Aotearoa New Zealand’s then Prime Minister John Key made a major announcement that drew praise from international conservation groups: His administration would turn a swath of waters far larger than the country’s land mass into a marine protected area (MPA). The Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary, […]

Eviction notices have been sent to farmers in northern Vietnam to make way for a US$1.5 billion (S$1.94 billion) Trump Organization-branded luxury golf resort projectthat is already behind schedule.
If the farmers refuse to comply with orders to surrender their land, they will be subject to enforcement due to start on the morning of June 26, according to the written instruction from local officials in Hung Yen province seen by Bloomberg News.
The clearance operation marks a cruci…

Trump-backed golf resort advances as Vietnam seizes farmland
The area contains ancestral graves and orchards that have provided for generations of the same families. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.