CombatWombat

I’m with him that the evil is mostly coming from Miller et al, but I don’t think there’s enough Trump left to do much of anything other than watch cable news and shitpost online:

López Obrador urges Trump to “tell the parasites surrounding him to go to hell” and concludes by saying “for everyone’s sake, let the other Trump return”.

This study doesn’t really improve my impression of LLMs, but it does really hurt my impression of the value of a law degree:

Participants created 40 representative contract law questions that students might ask after class or during office hours, wrote their own answers, and then evaluated responses without knowing whether they came from AI or other participating professors. The AI systems performed comparably to the best human instructor in the study.

Perhaps most striking: professors flagged AI responses as pedagogically harmful only 3.5% of the time, compared to 12% for peer-written answers.

“In most fields where AI gets tested, there’s a right answer. In law, there often isn’t,” said Sarath Sanga, co-author and professor at Yale Law School. “Two opposing arguments can both be good. What we wanted to know is whether AI can meet the latent professional standard that lawyers use to evaluate each other’s arguments. In this case, the answer was yes.”

The meme was a response to my top-level comment on a Guardian article. I am chaffing because I am not, and will not, discuss this in terms of what House Democrats should do, I am continuing to frame this as what the Congress must do, and the meme mischaracterizes my position.

I keep telling you we need a big goal line stop from the defense, and you keep asking me what I want our running back to do about it. The fact that running backs aren’t going to make big defensive tackles doesn’t reduce the need for the defense to make a play.

(edit for our non-American readership: “I keep telling you we need to pump crosses into the box to look for our target striker, and you keep asking me what I want our center backs to do about it. The fact that center backs don’t get into the attack doesn’t reduce the need for us to score a goal”)

This story is not about House or Senate Democrats. This story is about four House Republicans who broke ranks with the White House. Focus up.

Saying vetoing this bill would be bad for Trump is like claiming he couldn’t survive appearing in a tan suit

I will answer this! My argument is not about Democrats and Republicans, my argument is about the balance of power between the legislative and executive branches of the US government. My point is that the showdown over the ongoing military operation in Iran is a disagreement primarily between the Congress, which has not authorized a military action, and the White House, which is pursuing a “military action” which is manifestly a war that requires authorization from Congress. My frustration is not that the Democrats have succumbed to the Republicans, but that the Legislative branch has cowed to the Executive. I am not arguing with you about which of the two parties is the “good one,” I am telling you that the important part of this showdown is whether the United States has three branches of government or one. I want congressional republicans to be backstabbing, power grabbing, self interested assholes and make a naked play for political power against the most unpopular man in the world on his weakest issue because the Congress cannot possibly be organized enough to be as evil as Stephen Miller.

Yeah. A lot of USLW games are played in gridiron stadiums, and the touchline is way further out than the sideline. They’re not required to be strictly uniform like gridiron, though, it’s more like a baseball diamond in that regard, so I’m not sure if they’re strictly wider, or just usually wider.

Right?! It’s just so puzzling a choice.

Yes, in fact, I do require an actual resolution to have actually passed both houses that actually has a chance of constraining the use of executive power before I will have considered the legislature to have done something. My greatest concern is not that the Ds aren’t standing up to the Rs; my concern is that the legislative branch is letting the executive do whatever it wants.

I am also fascinated by the measurement “two soccer fields.” Americans largely play soccer on American football fields, so any American would just say “two football fields.” But everyone else hates calling it “soccer” and prefer to use metric rather than comparisons? This just seems like they chose all their measurements to be maximally irritating.

Surprise! It doesn’t actually matter at all 🎉

The vote’s impact is symbolic, with the margin well short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a presidential veto.

This is a very Yeats-coded climate article:

Turning and turning in the widening gyre   
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;  
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;  
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,  
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere   
The ceremony of innocence is drowned  

Nope! Most all everyone just reacts to headlines and doesn’t even click through.

I guess I’m just a coastal elite, but I didn’t find the argument that Dems have tacked left and the electorate has stayed the same particularly compelling. The part about the working class identity was annoying — there’s so many people who want to think of themselves as some kind of merchant or artisan class that I don’t think really exists, and they would be much better off if they realized that if you live off the income you get from your work, you’re working class. Overall, I didn’t find the analysis persuasive.

Thought for sure this was the US being assholes again, but seems like maybe not this time?

The South African Football Association (Safa) admitted the team had “experienced challenges regarding Visas for some players and officials” but did not give further details. National broadcaster SABC described what happened as an “administrative bungle”.

Cringe for the French to riot after winning without scoring from open play against Arsenal. It wasn’t even an impressive result from PSG, Arsenal just completely choked.

Some sports is news, but most sports is not. Scores aren’t, trivially, but I’d say things like land use policy for stadia and immigration policy changes for international tournaments are. It’s a fine line and I think it’s wise to err on the side of keeping the sports separate, like in !worldcup@lemmy.world , when it’s marginal.

Personally, I’d prefer to keep most coverage quarantined to !worldcup@lemmy.world but I think I’m in the minority here

Oh hey, we had one of those once… !simdemocracy@lemmy.world

Understandable; over the many years, the community structure has gotten somewhat unkempt and rather unruly, I’ll admit. I think the best solution I’ve seen is regional instances – if you block seattle.pink and social.seattle.wa.us on mastodon, you can really clear up a lot of the Seattle chatter, but there isn’t a regional instance for us to host our communities that you could block easily. Realistically, I’m not sure how much a field would help – you’d still see away games for the Seattle sports teams even if you muted the Seattle geo-tag, for instance, since they would be posted with the geo-tag for the home team.