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Some day in the future - some glorious day in the future - I hope that the maga government - from El Cheato through Miller, Noem, Vought, etc - will face tribunals.
They will, of course, demand our full panoply of due processes. And they will claim immunity as merely carrying out government business and powers.
Do they deserve those due processes or that we give credit to those claims of immunity?
The lawyer in me says "YES!!". The person in me says "Hold o…

Went to a staged reading of Orwell's 1984. They had a well selected set of pieces from the text. Overall it was doubleplus good.
I had forgotten how well Orwell predicted our present el cheato government, plus our self-created monitoring overloads - Facebook, smart phones that track everything, even Wikipedia which, due to editors promoting their view of the world, starts to resemble the Ministry of Truth.
Afterwords we all chatted - and to my mind too many of the responses…

Deel names ex-Credit Karma CEO Joe Kauffman as CFO ahead of a potential IPO, replacing Deel CEO Alex Bouaziz's father Philippe, who becomes executive chairman (Michael Roddan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/deel-hires-new-cfo-repla…

Deel Hires New CFO, Replacing CEO’s Dad
Global payroll startup Deel has hired a new chief financial officer, former Credit Karma boss Joe Kauffman, as the company continues to overhaul its leadership ahead of a potential IPO. Kauffman, who left Credit Karma after a recent restructuring by parent company Intuit, replaces Philippe Bouaziz, who held the role of Deel CFO and chairman since the company’s founding in 2019. Philippe, the

Abel Quentin dans le 'En Société' du 14/12:
Quel progrès apporté par l'I.A justifierait la destruction de l'intelligence et le désastre écologique qu'elle cause avec certitude?
Quel progrès justifie qu'on s'en prenne Š la liberté?
C'est terrible de disposer d'une telle arme de destruction et d'en jouer/jouir dans cette "apathie et indifférence" qui nous caractérise aujourd'hui.

A las 9 ha habido un accidente múltiple frente a las oficinas. Un Cayene ha reventado a un Rav4 y este ha rebotado contra otros cuatro coches. La M 503 sigue cortada. La prisa que llevaría el del Porsche para que los bomberos hayan tenido que rescatar a los del Toyota.

Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Batu El, James Zou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06105 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.…

Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly shaping how information is created and disseminated, from companies using them to craft persuasive advertisements, to election campaigns optimizing messaging to gain votes, to social media influencers boosting engagement. These settings are inherently competitive, with sellers, candidates, and influencers vying for audience approval, yet it remains poorly understood how competitive feedback loops influence LLM behavior. We show that optimizing LLMs …

Rachael Bade, who previously co-authored Politico Playbook, Sean Spicer, and Democratic strategist Dan Turrentine plan online political show The Huddle (Status)
https://www.status.news/p/sean-spicer-rachel-bade-dan-turrentine-show-youtube

The 'Huddle' in Washington
Rachael Bade is teaming up with Sean Spicer and Dan Turrentine on a new venture, Status has learned, braving the crowded independent media space with a new political show.

How stupid is the D-party?
This stupid:
"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Friday that Democrats would vote to end the government shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring ACA tax credits, "
Even if it were to be agreed upon by the House it would be vetoed by el-cheato and there is zero chance of a veto override.
In other words the D-party is willing to give up its one lever in exchange for a worthless promise.

Democrats name their price on ending government shutdown
Democrats could vote to end the shutdown in exchange for a one-year extension of expiring Obamacare tax credits.

You've all seen "that scene" in the "The Happytime Murders" muppet movie. Yes, I mean that scene.
Well we are now seeing El Cheeto re-enact that scene as he claims that he brought peace to the middle east.
He didn't.
He merely bailed out Netanyahu from being deposed and tossed out of the Israeli government.
So let's not give Cheeto credit for something he didn't do.
He stepped into round 12 of a boxing match, with both fighte…

I am happy that there is a potential calming of the Gaza/Israel war.
I am annoyed that El Cheeto is grabbing credit for a war that he did much to inflame and for which his government provided so many lucrative weapons.