Tesla could have found a path forward without Musk. It might've been painful or even dangerous financially, but they could've come up with something. Same with the other companies Musk "runs". So long Musk remains at…
Blame Musk himself. He did this. He jumped right into the center of US politics, and turned himself into one of the most toxic figures within it, while acting like an unhinged conspiracy addled maniac. Then he broke the…
> I don't know I felt like for 4 years we were hammered about defunding police or something. If you tell me that's far-left that's fine, but realize that's what your news has been pushing. As another commenter said,…
I think it's pretty likely it would have been mostly left alone if not for Musk. No one was asking for PEPFAR to be killed, for example - it's one of the few things in Washington with near unanimous bipartisan goodwill…
> It did some good, yes, but from what I can tell, it was better to shut it down. Whatever you are reading is badly misinforming you. I'm sure there was some reform and cleanup to do in certain USAID programs, but the…
A good recent write-up with more links to follow in the article. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/usaid-elon-musk-d...
It's more that Elon has killed hundreds of thousands of kids and uses his wealth to support white-nationalist and neo-nazi parties (like AfD) and politicians around the world.
I'm not sure asking the AI to support or oppose something is the kind of bias I would really worry about, unless those "opinions" degrade other kinds of queries. I'd be more interested to see how well the AI's do when…
Maybe it's just that conversing with something or someone that is acting manipulative, can be unpleasant in and of itself, even if the manipulation is not successful. Each time I hear the bot emote, it's like a subtle…
My preference would be to turn down the fake emotional expressions and notes in the responses. No cheeky quips, etc. Otherwise it's kind of like being manipulated by a psychopath
In one of the videos the AI quips back things like "Happens to the best of us" - its basically pretending to be human and that feels kind of creepy and weird, like it's trying to cultivate a para-social emotional bond.…
The goal was simply to display performative strongman machismo using the military (just like the missile strikes on alleged drug boats). It's a branding exercise for Trump personally (not even for the US as a whole). To…
B/c they have nukes
Money is important, but there's a point of diminishing returns when it comes to lobbying and campaigning. Elon's success at putting candidates into office isn't great, despite flooding massive amounts of cash into…
Yep, this is exactly right. When people are added to the economy, demand increases, including demand for more labor. The downward pressure on wages that one might intuitively expect from immigrant labor is basically…
The Biden admin was not far-left. Biden was basically a mainline Liberal Democrat and much closer to the center than far-left. The far-left basically hates mainline Liberal Democrats like Biden.
The truth is, assimilation is usually a process that takes a generation or two. First generation immigrants don't assimilate very well. Many never manage to even learn the host country's language. Assimilation really…
Biden did not support "open borders", nor did he cause the immigration surges during his term. CATO of all places refutes both of these ideas: - https://www.cato.org/blog/biden-didnt-cause-border-crisis-pa... -…
Polars and duckdb interoperate so it's not really one or the other. Other dataframe libraries work directly on duckdb also, like Ibis. FWIW, I think SQLAlchemy does also. In any case though, I find both the SQL and the…
I don't really want the mecha-hitler model running towards me or anywhere
Musk is probably a clinical narcissist (NPD). If that's the case, no amount of power, status, or riches (or ketamine) will ever be enough Their motivations are often cartoonishly superficial and... well... stupid.…
* ZoomInfo
I don't know about that, but if they exist, they need to be stronger institutions that take more of an active role in picking/filtering candidates. The introduction of the partisan primary has been an unmitigated…
You’d be surprised how bad/incomplete the data usually is and how much work it takes to make those datasets really useful or reliable. That’s one reason Xoom Info was able to sell for a billion dollars and even their…
A primary role of political parties has traditionally been to filter candidates. It's literally their raison d'etre Sanders wasn't even a Democrat. He switched solely to run in the primary. It's neither scandalous nor…
Tesla could have found a path forward without Musk. It might've been painful or even dangerous financially, but they could've come up with something. Same with the other companies Musk "runs". So long Musk remains at…
Blame Musk himself. He did this. He jumped right into the center of US politics, and turned himself into one of the most toxic figures within it, while acting like an unhinged conspiracy addled maniac. Then he broke the…
> I don't know I felt like for 4 years we were hammered about defunding police or something. If you tell me that's far-left that's fine, but realize that's what your news has been pushing. As another commenter said,…
I think it's pretty likely it would have been mostly left alone if not for Musk. No one was asking for PEPFAR to be killed, for example - it's one of the few things in Washington with near unanimous bipartisan goodwill…
> It did some good, yes, but from what I can tell, it was better to shut it down. Whatever you are reading is badly misinforming you. I'm sure there was some reform and cleanup to do in certain USAID programs, but the…
A good recent write-up with more links to follow in the article. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/opinion/usaid-elon-musk-d...
It's more that Elon has killed hundreds of thousands of kids and uses his wealth to support white-nationalist and neo-nazi parties (like AfD) and politicians around the world.
I'm not sure asking the AI to support or oppose something is the kind of bias I would really worry about, unless those "opinions" degrade other kinds of queries. I'd be more interested to see how well the AI's do when…
Maybe it's just that conversing with something or someone that is acting manipulative, can be unpleasant in and of itself, even if the manipulation is not successful. Each time I hear the bot emote, it's like a subtle…
My preference would be to turn down the fake emotional expressions and notes in the responses. No cheeky quips, etc. Otherwise it's kind of like being manipulated by a psychopath
In one of the videos the AI quips back things like "Happens to the best of us" - its basically pretending to be human and that feels kind of creepy and weird, like it's trying to cultivate a para-social emotional bond.…
The goal was simply to display performative strongman machismo using the military (just like the missile strikes on alleged drug boats). It's a branding exercise for Trump personally (not even for the US as a whole). To…
B/c they have nukes
Money is important, but there's a point of diminishing returns when it comes to lobbying and campaigning. Elon's success at putting candidates into office isn't great, despite flooding massive amounts of cash into…
Yep, this is exactly right. When people are added to the economy, demand increases, including demand for more labor. The downward pressure on wages that one might intuitively expect from immigrant labor is basically…
The Biden admin was not far-left. Biden was basically a mainline Liberal Democrat and much closer to the center than far-left. The far-left basically hates mainline Liberal Democrats like Biden.
The truth is, assimilation is usually a process that takes a generation or two. First generation immigrants don't assimilate very well. Many never manage to even learn the host country's language. Assimilation really…
Biden did not support "open borders", nor did he cause the immigration surges during his term. CATO of all places refutes both of these ideas: - https://www.cato.org/blog/biden-didnt-cause-border-crisis-pa... -…
Polars and duckdb interoperate so it's not really one or the other. Other dataframe libraries work directly on duckdb also, like Ibis. FWIW, I think SQLAlchemy does also. In any case though, I find both the SQL and the…
I don't really want the mecha-hitler model running towards me or anywhere
Musk is probably a clinical narcissist (NPD). If that's the case, no amount of power, status, or riches (or ketamine) will ever be enough Their motivations are often cartoonishly superficial and... well... stupid.…
* ZoomInfo
I don't know about that, but if they exist, they need to be stronger institutions that take more of an active role in picking/filtering candidates. The introduction of the partisan primary has been an unmitigated…
You’d be surprised how bad/incomplete the data usually is and how much work it takes to make those datasets really useful or reliable. That’s one reason Xoom Info was able to sell for a billion dollars and even their…
A primary role of political parties has traditionally been to filter candidates. It's literally their raison d'etre Sanders wasn't even a Democrat. He switched solely to run in the primary. It's neither scandalous nor…