with members backing a measure urging lawmakers to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while also more strongly approving a separate proposal calling for reforms to the agency.

Approving a proposal to reform ICE demonstrates that the vote to abolish it is merely theatre to appease progressives.

Convenient that they are only interested in speeding up infrastructure construction that harms the environment.

I’ve taken no public money

Letting politicians accept private funding is arguably worse, as it beholds them to private interests.

Now do the same for Apple.

Though the word “woke” itself originated in Black slang and had been around for decades in grass roots movements, in recent years it has been used pejoratively by some Republicans and moderate Democrats as a way to describe policies they view as out of touch.

No Democrat using the word ‘woke’ in the same manner as Republicans is a moderate.

And some public officials, including Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York, have walked back their calls to defund the police.

Using terms like ‘defund the police’ leads to bad faith assumptions that it means getting rid of the police entirely, rather than reappropriating funding used for military-grade weaponry for better purposes. Instead, emphasizing how those resources could be better used—such as the expanded use of mental health support in place of police intervention in many cases—might be more effective.

Agreed; Russia doesn’t want Europe to be a united front against its irredentist ambitions, while the U.S. doesn’t want Europe to be united independent of it. Both would rather see it divided and are funding efforts to that end.

A 2022 study found that 1 in 7 voters in the 2022 primary had their applications or ballots rejected in the wake of SB 1.

A clear case of voter suppression.

Because Taiwan isn’t part of Japan, while the Kuril Islands closest to Hokkaido are?

Hopefully there comes a point when native Linux builds become more common, versus asking all Linux users to play with a performance penalty.

While the UK would be far better off if Binface won, a constituency poll last month found that Farage had 73% support in Clacton.

The far-right in Europe would indeed exist without outside help; Russia, Israel, and the U.S. have merely been financing it to support its growth as a means of destabilizing their governments and the EU. Far-right politicians are also then more likely to adopt policies favoring the sources of their funding.

Given that your comments clearly demonstrate that you’re not a zionist, I think this is just another case of the flotilla’s zionist alarm being a bit too sensitive.

It was always our intention to reveal this until Stella violated her confidentiality clause and revealed this before we were ready.

I imagine they’d only have been ‘ready’ after most sales would have occurred.

I suppose it demonstrates how corrupt American politics are in terms of lacking effective electoral finance regulations compared to the UK, but just £10,000 for a candidate in a major election seems like a drop in the bucket.

If the agent’s behavior when unprovoked is to knock people to the ground, I’m sure that the agent would have employed greater force—probably disproportionate force—if knocked down himself.

With ICE agents murdering people for inflicting no harm upon anyone, none of them can be trusted to act with anything less than unprovoked violence.

Their point is that Claude is now engineering its responses to specifically conform to a detectable pattern, something that can of course be easily removed via a seperate LLM.

Even when people do manage to self-deport, ICE still goes after them to collect $998 for each day they spent in the U.S. illegally.

AI agents have no agency of their own; their operators are the ones with that control. Negligence in giving an AI agent access to the internet does not absolve the operator of liability.

charged with a misdemeanor

I wonder what would have happened had the activist thrown the agent to the ground… /s

It’s a loss; now people on the fence will think that Israel should be allowed to participate in Eurovision now that a token restriction has been applied to it.