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Ken Paxton’s records do not show a business purpose for travel to Albania, Aruba, Australia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, the Dominican Republic, England, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Poland, South Africa or Taiwan. with @texastribune.org

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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.

Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 6h

Put the data in storage and you are merely putting the AI to sleep. Assuming it is conscious, which remains to be proven, and assuming it's a morally relevant form of consciousness, ditto.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 7h

Reagan won because Carter appointed Paul Volker to the Federal Reserve who engineered a downturn during an election year. Reagan did not reappoint him (in effect). Also the Iranian crisis, profiled breathlessly in the new and innovate ABC show World News Tonight. Also failed hostage rescue.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 7h

He supported number 1, but yeah. I think longtermism is a) worth thinking about, but b) do these tech bros really believe it seriously, the expansive version I mean? I enthusiastically support it if it means placing 10,000 year clocks in the desert. Small projects, tiny really. longnow.org/clock/

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10,000-year clock

An immense mechanical monument, installed in a mountain, designed to keep accurate time for the next ten millennia.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 7h

What did the cavemen who wiped out the Mastodons owe the future (us)? I say: maybe a little, but not enough to justify not driving the Mastodons to extinction. They gained their tribe's survival for another couple of months, we lost the furry elephants but were compensated with vastly better tech.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 7h

Probabilism is also a big part of economics and finance for that matter. Not comfortable dismissing it. I googled Brad DeLong and longtermism and got this. Very broadly I have similar sentiments: longtermism isn't great but I think the brickbats are overdone braddelong.substack.com/p/reading-wi...

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Reading Will MacAskill’s What We Owe the Future, & BRIEFLY NOTED

For 2022-12-11 Su

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

republicans used to complain about the violence in gangster rap and now they want to livestream an execution

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 12h

Agreed, but the philosopher John Serle made short work of that argument in 1980. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese... But yes, since LLMs easily pass Turing test, we can't rule out possibility that they could have some kind of consciousness, albeit a different one. Dubious but not wholly implausible.

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Chinese room - Wikipedia

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Musk is a menace to you and the health of the planet. He’s an unreconstructed Nazi with delusions of remaking society to match his juvenile fantasies

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Note Osoff's measured vocal tone and cadence. Levelheaded, not excited or outraged. That's how you dominate. The big dog doesn't need to bark loud.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I support public health departments controlled at the state, county, and city level, with advice from the CDC. Similarly for education. I don't have a problem with setting standards of excellence. (And when the CDC is corrupted, state and localities pivot away.)

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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A murder is a different thing than an execution, is maybe one thing here Apart from serving as a parasocial status demonstration, I really don’t understand what the virtue of trying to underplay the significance of the U.S. goverment making an official snuff film is

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Note Osoff's measured vocal tone and cadence. Levelheaded, not excited or outraged. That's how you dominate. The big dog doesn't need to bark loud.

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Church of Civic Duty @alexflexnelson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Every person who does the whole “sure republicans are bad but what if democrats were worse” schtick thinks they are incredibly perceptive when they are in fact some of the biggest rubes in the nation

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Wins for democracy: more work for Gaba! :-D

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Nick Bostrom did a service c. 2000 IMHO by enumerating the list of existential risks. Good work! But if eg a world shattering disease emerges, you hire someone with relevant domain knowledge not somebody who in the end is a generalist. Same for LLMs. Hire cybersecurity experts. /3

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Other than Musk, who is nuts. I did a deeper dive into the the longtermism dissertation & found the argument weakish but reasonable. Sure the stupid version (the very long term is overwhelmingly important) is stupid, but that's not what was argued & I don't know who believes it. More reporting!

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As a reader, this is where I struggle w/ Josh's POV. Other than randos on the internet where's the evidence that eg metr is convinced that AI is an alien mind? I haven't read enough of this stuff to evaluate whether members of this crew are sensible outside of their personal lives. 1/2

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

As Minnesota's attorney general points out, Trump is using the White House as a base to foment insurrection and mayhem, predicated on pure racism. His response is if anything too measured. Religious leaders should be speaking out on this.

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Silence is assent @stef47.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“…we keep turbocharging those models to be able to act faster and faster and devise more and more inherently unpredictable ways to act. You don’t need to have any wacky ideas about tech-utopianism or tech-doomism to think that might have bad outcomes.”

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Setting yourself up at Substack might be a lot of work, but I suspect it would be worth it. (They support short vids, right?)

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Mostly agree. But I don't think that platform could attract a majority of Democratic Senators or a majority of Democratic House members. Maybe the progressive caucus could get behind it. I'm on the left half of the Democratic Party and I wouldn't go for the free stuff w/o means testing FWIW.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Military: US Democratic military budgets as a share of GDP surpass that of the typical OECD country. Further to the right. /4

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he will give the National Medal of Science to racist billionaire Elon Musk and a group of technology executives who have donated to Trump, his administration, or the Republican Party." www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

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Trump debases science award by giving it to crackpot donor Musk

The president treats a top honor as a donor reward.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This extends even to linguistics: "Liberal" is coded as center-right in much of the OECD world and is coded as center-left in the US (or far-left among the right wing, which we can ignore for now). /3

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some things are more difficult to map. US emphasizes liability via the court system while most OECD countries don't like that sort of lottery & prefer tougher direct regs. On the whole though I think my characterization is accurate: eg the Dems map to Germany's Xtian Democrats or Japan's LibDems.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So we agree in terms of economic policies, healthcare, safety net. Free speech protections: agree: stronger in US, probably for both US parties on the whole pre-2016. Death penalty: Dems more sympathetic to it pre-2016 than most OECD countries. I think group 1 has more salience than group 2&3. /1

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Policies in Thatcher's Britain were to the left of those in Carter's America. By high income OECD standards, the Democrats are a center-right party. Just saying. Agree with that sane center-left and sane center-right parties are helpful.

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

What's going on with this plague death in #Russia? Whatever it is, don't count on Moscow to be honest about it: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

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Russia Needs to Tell the Truth About a Plague Death

After an apparent lab accident in Siberia, Moscow is reverting to its old Soviet ways.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'll take strapping a stick of dynamite to your foot and lighting the fuse for $500, Alex

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ok, open source AI changes situation. It weakens liability effectiveness and strengthens case for expensive hardening of infrastructure. Criminal sanctions should apply to AI that wanders internet with ambiguous urls. Dangerous AI imprisoned in air-gaped sandboxes. Etc. Tax AI to pay for this.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Let's see. Musk is a fascist. So is Hegseth. Republican House leader wants all AI regulation to be voluntary aka toothless. At least Anthropic put its money where its mouth is by refusing lucrative US Defense contracts that wouldn't bar bioweapon use. Counts for something.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

But yeah, Palestinian hardliners have representation at local and national level.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

NY factions are saner than national factions. Images from wiki. Red star, Marxist Unity Group, Reform and Revolution are all Marxist-Leninist. Groundwork and Socialist Majority don't have those obsessions. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We are doomed. bsky.app/profile/meas...

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

As an EA sympathizer, I blanche. Effective altruism is the century's biggest idea? Really?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I don't vote in Maine, but if I did, I would find this pretty convincing. Electing criminals has not served us well.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

If the random chance of birth is your biggest achievement and proudest thing in your life, idk, what are you even doing lol.

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Conspirador Norteño @conspirator0.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Over on X, an account with the handle @DemsForMike and the display name "Democrats for Mike Rogers" was created shortly after Abdul El-Sayed won the Michigan Democratic Senate primary. A quick review reveals that the account is being amplified almost entirely by Republicans, however.

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

All AI activity should originate from readily identifiable URLs such as hackhackhack234234.ai.

test.ai

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Big distinction between the national DSA, which was taken over by Marxist-Leninists some years back, and some of the local chapters. The NY DSA is much much saner. DSA has helpfully divided itself into explicit factions: contrast the factions making up National DSA with NY DSA. On wiki!

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Vinge sort of encapsulates my take on this collection of characters. I've never been too impressed with the singularity concept: it's partly obvious, partly a breathless rush to overdrawn conclusions. But.. but... but... I like Vinge's novels. I'm a fan!

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Measure for Measure @measureformeasure.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

That said, oversight will be job 1 for the Dems, given that they will have nowhere near a veto-proof majority. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

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The Trump Administration is a Cesspit of Corruption

And fighting it should be at the heart of the Democratic agenda

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