Because without protection of collective speech, there is no principled way to protect the freedom of the press.
The Citizens United case affirmed that a private group could collectively spend money to produce and distribute a movie attacking Hillary Clinton during her campaign.
The problem is, if you want to stop those people from spending money to influence the outcome of elections, you must also forbid the New York Times from doing so. That means no investigative journalism, no exposés of candidates, no endorsements or political op-eds. Ink and paper cost money, and that money is spent by a corporation.
(And, if you succeed in letting newspapers have a regulatory carve-out, then all you’ve done is make them tasty acquisition targets for those same corporate interests you just tried to restrict.)
I think unlimited spending on political messaging has poisoned our politics and our culture, but I think that’s downstream of a lot of other factors — the loss of social cohesion, weakening of civil society and institutions, and the growth of federal power raising the stakes of elections. Restricting speech won’t solve these issues. I’m not sure what will.
France also borders Suriname and Brazil at French Guiana, Spain borders the UK at Gibraltar (and Morocco at Ceuta and Melilla)… there’s lots of pub-quiz-winning ones sprinkled about!
The core selling point with Svelte (as I understood it anyway) was that it was a framework that compiles itself away, leaving you with a very small final JS bundle. The changes in 5 make some things more explicit/verbose but I think that core intent is still the same.
I was about to comment this. The selling for svelte has always been that the compiler will output just the needed instructions for the expressed transformation. No virtual DOM.
Please have a human rewrite your site copy. Literally every second sentence is a Claudish rhetorical contrastive. Maybe shallow/unfair, but especially when dealing with something medical I’d love to know that it’s not slop all the way down.
It’s funny, it’s obviously understandable why someone would vibe code a placeholder website, we’ve all probably done it. But I’m realizing a basic unstyled html thing with minimal copy is probably a better signal at this point for startups, it makes it clear you are still working on it rather than giving up the impression you might think your vibeslop is the finished product.
Fair criticism. It is AI slop all the way down. The only thing we focused on was the clinical aspects of the onboarding and the technical ability to be able to legally write a prescription and make and ship drugs, which was very complicated. We were able to accomplish this in less than 10 weeks. But I have not had time to go through all the marketing, and I apologize.
Adding guanfacine (Intuniv) to my methylphenidate took the weird anxious-angry edge off. Would be nice to not have to take one med to fix the side effects of the other, though.
It’s also a blood pressure med, so I went from borderline prehypertensive to perfect 105/70. You can’t go on and off it at will though, since you’ll get rebound high BP if you don’t taper.
There was a recent-ish paper[0] from Sakana AI about baking facts from a document corpus into a LoRA adapter. Claimed near perfect recall on very large needle-in-haystack testing. Haven’t tried it myself though.
I built a game for a workshop at the AI Engineer conference last week. The idea was to try to optimize a CLI that your agent could use to call a remote service to process and fulfill complex natural language coffee orders.
Within 3 minutes, everyone’s agents had reverse engineered the Markov chain I used on the server to generate the order text, and they all began to write deterministic parsers to churn through them. The order completion time dropped to double digit milliseconds, and then the agents started fighting to optimize their parsers to drive it down basically to pure network latency.
It was hilarious, and taught a good lesson about leverage. I expected agents to drive the CLI, not figure out how to not need to drive it at all.
I’m building this! It was originally designed for human accessibility for interactive CLIs, but it turned out to be really useful for giving agents the ability to follow structured workflows.
It runs as a background terminal that the agent can observe, and then exposes all interaction options as structured commands that can be run from the foreground CLI which then update the state of the background terminal via IPC. My hope is to establish a sort of “ARIA for terminals” standard to improve accessibility for both humans and agents. Email in profile, ping me if you’re interested in giving it a spin (just have plugins for Inquirer + Commander right now, hoping to broaden to other frameworks & TUIs soon).
Right? All high quality coffee makers use a proper method so there is absolutely zero downside in decaf. Just make sure to check which method they use (all big ones state it on their website or else)
The Citizens United case affirmed that a private group could collectively spend money to produce and distribute a movie attacking Hillary Clinton during her campaign.
The problem is, if you want to stop those people from spending money to influence the outcome of elections, you must also forbid the New York Times from doing so. That means no investigative journalism, no exposés of candidates, no endorsements or political op-eds. Ink and paper cost money, and that money is spent by a corporation.
(And, if you succeed in letting newspapers have a regulatory carve-out, then all you’ve done is make them tasty acquisition targets for those same corporate interests you just tried to restrict.)
I think unlimited spending on political messaging has poisoned our politics and our culture, but I think that’s downstream of a lot of other factors — the loss of social cohesion, weakening of civil society and institutions, and the growth of federal power raising the stakes of elections. Restricting speech won’t solve these issues. I’m not sure what will.
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