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  1. Trumps ambassador nominee to Malaysia is Nick Adams (Alpha Male).
  2. These fucking people sold their souls for a cabinet position and their reward is having to talk about chemtrails.
  3. This was some Bridge Colby shit. Hegseth doesn’t do anything but PT with the enlisted men and make social media videos. And he’s too dumb to realize when he shouldn’t just do something Colby suggests. Colby’s been on a tear over there and is breaking a lot crockery with Allies and within the government. The consequences of not having a functioning NSC and a morning show SecDef are that his worst instincts don’t get nipped at the interagency level.
  4. Sirens going off with this line. Someone starts going on about striving for “purity” and I put them in my jihadi/Crusader/Heaven’s Gate mental box. You can’t argue with it. “We believe freedom of speech is the most fundamental human right and guarantor of other freedoms, so we vigorously defend expression we find personally abhorrent.” 100 percent less crazy, open to debate and discussion, same general principle.
  5. A couple of inter-related thoughts and observations: 1. People who are comfortably above average intelligence (the vast majority of this board) dramatically underestimate how taxing things that seem straightforward can be for those of average to below average intelligence. I’m talking about things that they CAN do, but it requires a level of mental exertion that people with more cognitive firepower don’t need in the day-to-day. Comparing two straightforward tables, skimming a short text for meaning, figuring out the relative value of consumer goods by weight or volume instead of sticker price, filling out a form correctly. Things that many of us find trivial and can do on near autopilot require bursts of concentration and effort for people of even average intelligence. For these folks, AI is legitimately useful but moreover, IMPRESSIVE. If you breezed through the reading portion of the SAT, ChatGPTs ability to summarize an essay is a neat party trick. If it was a challenge, then AI is a Godsend and you also likely overstate its abilities because it can do things that are “hard.” 2. As a manager in an org that has a spectrum of work and patchy (but encouraged) AI uptake, I’ve noticed a pattern. The biggest AI acolytes use it to complete work that can be described as somewhat tedious but not really challenging: namely, written products following a fairly constrained template that require some creative input, some surface level research, and some collaboration. Before AI they complained loudly about how these tasks were a time-suck, now they extol all the additional space they have to do more “challenging” or creative work that is more rewarding and important. By and large their new “tedious” products are marginally better than before. There has been zero productivity increase in the challenging work, and little to no improvement in its quality. My AI holdouts or late adopters rarely complained about the tedious work. Before AI it was an annoyance, but not overly so, and they were able to knock out good product and move along to the important stuff with minimal fuss. Their work is still better on the tedious side than the work of the AI acolytes, and they are still more productive across the spectrum. When they do use AI, they deploy it much more strategically, for example, to do the surface level fact checking that then gets incorporated into superior written product. I can very much tell how people use it and why. The most enthusiastic are clearly using it as a crutch to ease the mental load on things that high performers find “easy” while the high performers can use it thoughtfully to actually be more efficient.
  6. Truly stunning accomplishment to build an LLM that sexually harasses its CEO.
  7. The Grok crash-out is just downstream of what was done in society. LLM AI is just a really good predictive text generator and doesn’t create anything new or have thoughts. It’s reflecting what we put in the information space back to us. So when you plug in the “don’t favor reliable sources; treat edgelord content as equal” we are just getting shit that racist and idiots have already pumped out spat back at us with the building blocks slightly rearranged. And the danger is that real idiots who don’t understand LLMs will believe that what they are seeing is some kind of neutral, super-intelligent confirmation of these “spicy facts” and not for what it is: an unsentient program simply burping stuff it ate back up.
  8. Grok had some training wheels put back on, apparently. Great work xAI, nicely done all around; what did we learn today?
  9. Watch Gordon Ramsay do it here. The butter goes in the pan at about 1:30 and the steaks are out of the pan a bit after 2:00. 30-45 seconds after a good sear and crust has formed is plenty for the butter baste and he even says “don’t let this burn, that’s why you start out with oil.”
  10. Grok will also write vivid rape fantasies about X users.
  11. Along with the new America party, he’s been working at turning Grok literally into the Nazi AI.
  12. Sorry man, I can’t believe paragraph one on this. Whatever else you think, Mandami comes from an extremely privileged and sophisticated family and went to an elite private grammar school in Morningside Heights. His dad is an academic and professor at Columbia in post-colonial studies. Of all the things in the world the family knew, it was college applications and admissions process and American racial politics. They paid tens of thousands of dollars for a guidance counselor to help them do it! And that should be ok, it just isn’t a good look to be head in the sand about someone looking to use an affirmative action program that is supposed to be a good thing. That is exactly why he ticked the box.
  13. Trump’s superpower is that he lies clumsily and openly, and he tells the truth completely devoid of subtext or nuance. Trump has a knack of turning the implicitly scummy into the extremely explicitly scummy. When he said (paraphrasing) “yeah, I know Epstein, he has parties with lots of hot women. A bunch of them are really young,” you can accept on its face that this is what was going on. It’s an exemplar of how Trump is incapable of speaking between lines.
  14. I’ve gotten away from the butter baste because I find that making a compound butter and putting a room temp disc under and on top of the steak as it rests delivers the same experience with less drama and chance to go wrong. If you want to use the same pan and baste, add the butter and herbs very late, like 45 seconds before you’re going to pull the steak. Use a big spoon to do the baste as it melts and then pour the drippings on the steak. You can also use clarified butter to reduce the chances of burning even more. Butter is for finishing and not cooking in. That steak is not going to absorb the flavor of butter and herbs into the meat by the time you’re cooking it. You just want it melted and mixed with dripping and any resting juices.
  15. Could be, I didn’t follow too closely as it got swamped with nuttiness. I know Epstein himself knowingly preyed on very young girls. I thought most of the girls he took to parties and the island had been in their late teens and twenties. None of that is to offer an excuse or defense; it’s the textbook example of trafficking minors. And it happens because gross old men allow it to.
  16. Just having a hard time believing that old rich guys were doing it simply for sex with beautiful women they believed to be in their late teens or early twenties. It’s can’t be so simple and obvious.
  17. They for sure removed lots of files. This is the reality (or something very close to it): Epstein and Maxwell realized that wealthy and powerful people (including themselves) enjoyed sex with beautiful young women. They used Epstein’s money to bring beautiful young women, some of them underage, to events hosted by Epstein. The women and girls were given to understand it might be worth their while to have sex with the powerful men who came to party with them. Epstein did this to ingratiate himself to powerful people. No blackmail was needed, these powerful people did favors for the guy who gave parties where young women appeared, and no one bothered to ask too many questions about them. No client list was needed, Epstein did this because he enjoyed it and the men he invited enjoyed it. It’s all very simple and very sleazy. A rich man procured beautiful women and then invited powerful men to meet them. And no one checked IDs.
  18. I am kind of astonished at the ugliness under the surface of some posts here. This camp was indeed a place for upper-class city girls to go over the summer. I think I mentioned up-thread that I went to a church camp within a few dozen miles that was $100 dollars per week in the 1990s; today it’s all of $200. There are scout camps dotted around that also host more middle-class and modest means kids. And of course there were lives lost in RVs and campgrounds where plenty of Texans were spending the 4th. And the fact is that for decades people have been going to those places and been safe and had fun. The last big camp disaster was in the 1980s and happened because they tried to ford a crossing. This truly was a completely beyond the norm event. None of this applies to the legitimate and well-founded criticism of governments and responsible parties. The aftermath of a disaster is EXACTLY the time to hold elected officials and the agencies they run to account. But for God’s sake take a beat and ask if you’d be proud to show one of these moms or dads— whether from Camp Mystic or a RV park— what you wrote for the world to see before offering up thoughts on the families and their motivations and actions.
  19. There has been a flooding event that killed campers in the past. In 1987 a church bus trying to evacuate a bunch of kids got swept away and 10 kids died close to Comfort. It was a scarring event and when I became a camper a few years later (at a one week, $100 dollar church camp), it was always on the minds of adults. Buses parked for the week where everyone knew them, close to the cabins and pointed at the “back way” out to avoid the river, radios in cabins, etc. I completely agree that local officials needed to be more on this. I just do think that this is going to be a cascading chain of failures in planning and reaction down the line.
  20. The natural response is always to prod the pros to do things better. And I want to be clear that I am a huge advocate of the NWS and NOAA and am furious at their defunding, and the DOGE massacres. That absolutely has to be part of the post-op. But the fact is that user error is usually at fault and that’s where the deep probing needs to happen. Weather forecasting is always inexact and you will never have a system that can’t be ignored. The tough questions are going to be on the camp side. Questions like: who monitored weather and emergency alerts and how? What was the plan in place if you had gotten advance warning in time? How often did you practice that plan? What staff members knew the plan? What did the campers know about the plan? Was it activated? How far along did you get? I have a suspicion that the breakdown was around the first and second question. Maybe I’m wrong.
  21. Those flash flood warnings are usually not for you, they are for travelers and people who are living or staying in flood prone areas. The banks of a CenTex river is certainly that. There will need to be a serious post-mortem to discern how the camp administration was keeping track of the weather and alerts. Anyone at any time camping or staying along those rivers or hiking in canyons should have an NOAA weather radio where they can hear it basically all the time.
  22. I agree with Marge’s initiative. We’ve perfected chemtrails for mind control but trying to manipulate the weather is dangerous and unproven.
  23. I agree that the EAS with silver and amber alerts is overwhelming. But, an NOAA weather radio is pretty damn good and in this case broadcast a life threatening flash flood warning at 0116. The questions are what people did with that info and who had the radios. A weather radio will automatically alert even if its not in use.
  24. We have no idea yet what happened in the camp in those hours and what they knew; it’s far too early to make them the primary point of failure and there will have been multiple points.
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