Its not just about urging them. It takes creating a situation where they correctly believe that staying in power means ending fossil fuel use

Yeah, and the NYT isn’t even covering a lot of the abuse which has been all over the Korean press

It’s a gift link, so most folks with Javascript turned on won’t need that for the next 30d

Police in the US are almost always deemed justified because the standard is basically thst they felt afraid, so it was OK to kill

If you say that, one colleague loses access and another gets their show taken off the air

The solar panels are real. You can see them in satellite images and on the ground.

That doesn’t mean that China doesn’t burn a lot of coal as well; they do.

There are big protests in the places they’re doing the most aggressive racial profiling. It just doesnt make the national news. See this for example

Realistically it means we’re likely to see a lot of people trusting chatbots that have been tuned to lie to them

Last time NPR posted the Declaration of Independence it made Republicans angry

Ideally by having local police arrest those who violate it. If they want to claim some sort of immunity for being feds, they can do that in front of a judge after spending the night in a holding cell. That’ll keep them from meeting their quota or getting their $1500/person kidnapping bonus.

Not quite all; there’s a limited exception where CA state police can shield their identity under some circumstances. But it’s pretty close, and covers all federal agents.

It applies broadly to law enforcement. From the article:

California’s measure would bar law enforcement officers from wearing face coverings, such as ski masks, balaclavas and neck gaiters, that shield their identities. It does not apply to medical masks, clear plastic face shields, respirators, eye protection or other safety devices.

Yeah. With the racial profiling they’re doing, ICE and the Border Patrol have really alienated a huge chunk of the population

My understanding is that its machine learning (eg:pytorch) but not an LLM

Because they fired all the military lawyers who would have said ‘no’

I think an awful lot of people were duped when the press treated Trump’s disavowal of Project 2025 as if it was real

The New York Times is a huge apologist for any kind of right-wing government

The UC system means all campuses

UC <location> or <location> state university refers to a single campus

Ranking member of the minority party. So for now, he doesn’t have the power to act.

Yeah, I’d normally expect participants in a California-specific community to know this.