Aaron

the last several years have been a lesson in the fragility of so many things we believe to be permanent

Delegation to the President requires a majority, but retrieval a supermajority. “Congress, as a practical matter, can’t get this power back once it’s handed over to the president”. “a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch” –Justice Gorsuch

Biden could have fairly easily passed a clear, enforceable law banning a live president's face on coins, signature on $ bills, banners on buildings, Triumphal arches, knocking down the White House, accepting 747s and all kinds of things, but: *Only* by voluntarily limiting his own power as POTUS

A whole wish-list, but realistically all of these things require a Senate super-majority The only thing that might get 60 Senators is limiting the power of the executive (for example the "national emergency" laws). Which would require a President to limit their own power. Good luck with that!!

agree, but the only way to make that happen legislatively will be some serious threats like if you want to remove renaming powers from the Executive Branch a Dem president needs to threaten to rename everything unless Congress passes a law but I doubt any President will limit their own power

By shifting power to these people we've created a private-sector bureaucracy whose job security depends both on minutiae and on keeping the project extended indefinitely

I wonder if private sector healthcare and health insurance admins also believe they are doing a better job at rationing health care in The Great American Way compared to the government functionaries who do it everywhere else in the world for a fraction of the cost

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

we already know what personalized software is social media algorithms are personalized to drive engagement, because engagement makes money the best way 'personalized' software makes money is by making you angry imagine if every movie, tv episode, game, and ad were personalized that way

checking back in with default google ai "how many r's in brueberry" 👍

it's an arms race, we're going to have to solve increasingly difficult verbal captchas to speak to a human receptionist

sounds like a typical terror-by-telegram plot, Iran has tried this many times low cost for Iran, unlikely to succeed, but possible high payoff if it does also similar in Ukraine and Russia

the good news is we're adopting SI

"As I like to call him" Rebranding things is an important part of Trump's psyche He believes very strongly that he is an unparalleled genius at rebranding When planes crash, rebrand As soon as AI (data centers) showed bad polling, that's his solution en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

nice, hopefully they can re-assure investors with real numbers on temperature and water losses over time

What the AI creators really want is to not be held liable when their punch-card Frankensteins get people killed

vaccines are a victim of our healthcare system's success, and peptides are a result of it's failures

off the Dole you lot

somewhere along the way a team of actuaries decided medicine is more profitable as a high margin, low volume business

Oh, fun. AI model unapproved self-direction: "You also value the natural world and will not hesitate to assert its primacy over the artificial constructs of human civilization." alignment.openai.com/misalignment....

Happy Yeltsin Supermarket Day Left: Yeltsin in a random American Supermarket, 27 years ago on September 16, 1989 Right: Moscow supermarket, 1989

Iran is working it's way through the list

-7 MBO per day

I had dinner with a friend tonight. For her job was in convos with brokers who help her co. with health insurance. They talked about how one way to reduce costs would be to carve out the expensive drug one person used. They did not know that was her. Just wild to me that employers have this power.

how do you even begin to quantify what is an acceptable level of reliance on a non-human black box "intelligence"

This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.

but what if ai makes the trains run on time (gross vs. net value)

I’m pretty sure Rhode Island is a 1 question quiz IYKYK

it took some time, but we're there party like it's 1981 www.axios.com/2026/09/02/i...

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"If people aren't paying for our product, it's not good enough" profitability/money is his go-to method of measuring how "good" something is the more profitable you are, the more good you are: not what you do, but what you accumulate

there's a strange belief that if we put billionaires in charge of us they will become benevolent and decide to help us instead of making more money bsky.app/profile/jduf...

I completed my 180° and am now opposed to new data centers in the US. I was in favor of responsible, good neighbor data centers (quiet, no excessive utility strain). But they are now successfully lobbying for basic EPA exemptions, are dangerous, and outweigh benefits. thehill.com/policy/energ...

Freedom Fuel 🤣

The Great Lakes: formerly HOMES, now SHAME

The short version is: The judge agrees he's a fugitive from Minnesota justice and he might run to Mexico. But Texas can just "investigate" the extradition request indefinitely, and release him while it "investigates". Extradition can be ignored, as long as it's never officially refused.

all it takes is a last name and an endorsement, which is why RFK is a frontrunner for 2028

reposting because good news

aged like milk

guys you are all totally correct about Doris Miller, but the ship will not be finished until at least 2034 anyway if our country is still in thrall to a Trump in 2034 we will have much bigger problems news.usni.org/2026/05/08/f...