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Things that I think are worth your time.

  • Impeachment is a Duty

    Happily, it so happens there is a very specific remedy set aside within our Constitution specifically for the occasion of a president posing a threat to our democracy and its people and the Constitution itself. This process is known as…

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  • Star League at 1,000

    Back in 2021, I was one of the founding moderators for a new BattleTech fan server. At the time, the big existing fan communities for the game tended to allow open bigotry and other unwelcoming behavior, and there wasn’t really…

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  • AI, Search, and the Internet

    I wish I could say this is not a sustainable model for the internet, but honestly there’s no indication in Pew’s research that people understand how faulty the technology that powers Google’s AI Overview is, or how it is quietly…

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  • Liberal Dissents

    But look closer at the dissents, and it is evident that, whatever their differences, the three liberals agree on an overarching theme: They no longer see the Court playing by the old game of constitutional law. Their dissents suggest anything…

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  • Chatting into Dark Corners

    This is the sort of thing that should come as no surprise. Of course an LLM that ingests as much of the internet as possible is going to incorporate works of fiction, and these programs don’t have any way of…

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  • HTML Quine

    I saw this page shared on Mastodon, and it is an impressive showcase of some things that HTML and CSS can accomplish. Its title also meant that I had to look up what quine means: quine: A program that produces…

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