Stephen Miller, Mark Meadows, Other Top Trump Aides Ordered to Testify in Jan. 6 Probe; Judge Rejects Claims of Executive Privilege

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Mark Meadows, Stephen Miller, and other former top Trump aides tried to claim executive privilege (via Donald Trump’s legal team) to get out of Jack Smith’s subpoenas…. DENIED.

In a sealed order last week, Judge Beryl Howell rejected Trump’s claim of executive privilege for Meadows and a number of others, including Trump’s former Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe, his former national security adviser Robert O’Brien, former top aide Stephen Miller, and former deputy chief of staff and social media director Dan Scavino, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Former Trump aides Nick Luna and John McEntee, along with former top DHS official Ken Cuccinelli, were also included in the order, the sources said.

Trump is likely to appeal the ruling, according to sources briefed on the matter.

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1
EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:46:02pm

I hope the appeal is dealt with (and denied) in a few hours.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:47:44pm

The Feudalism Party has thoughts. They are stupid thoughts.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:48:11pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:50:29pm

Heh.

Crazy Rap (Colt 45 & 2 Zig Zags)

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:53:08pm

re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Libertarians are not libertarian.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:55:01pm

re: #98 The Pie Overlord!

Like Christianity, Trumpism will become a religion after he dies.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:55:01pm
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Jay C  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:55:31pm

re: #1 EPR-radar

I hope the appeal is dealt with (and denied) in a few hours.

Naaah, more likely it will take up a few days, rather than hours: which will buy TFG a minor respite to tweet out some more of his ALL CAPS fulminations, and issue his hollow blustering “threats”, (which, I’m sure, the media will appreciate, as it will give them just so much more airtime to fill up with inane speculation): but it’s just so much can-kicking…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:56:15pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

Heh.

[Embedded content]

my shocked face…
right across the Ohio River from me

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:57:20pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

I don’t know how this may shake out but I don’t feel sorry for the cops at all.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:57:42pm

re: #5 Crush White Nationalism

But they are libertarians. Everyone from Von Mises, Rothbard, and Buchanan on down argued for monarchy or feudalism (and segregation).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:58:50pm

re: #10 teleskiguy

I don’t know how this may shake out but I don’t feel sorry for the cops at all.

they are right there on tape stealing his money

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 2:58:54pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:00:03pm

Full version of Afroman’s video should be on YouTube in a few days

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:05:00pm

re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:07:01pm

re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth

Full version of Afroman’s video should be on YouTube in a few days

I watched two videos last night from him. One was about the full invasion, and one was specifically abiut lemon cake.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:08:24pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:08:43pm

Classic Streisand Effect.

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:15:51pm

re: #15 Belafon

What I’ve seen so far of the new Chatbots and the like is an ability to do some limited-domain tasks well (with good prompting), and an ability to produce a semi-infinite stream of plausible bullshit on demand for any topic under the sun.

Stupid executives will be mightily impressed by that second part (because they don’t realize it’s bullshit).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:17:47pm

lol

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:18:54pm

re: #19 EPR-radar

That tracks with the way AI works mechanically under the hood. Again, AI is designed to work best with a narrow focus; the more “general-purpose” you make an AI, the worse it performs at all those tasks. Essentially, the law of averages guarantees that a truly multi-purpose AI won’t even be a jack of all trades, but thoroughly average at best.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:19:20pm

re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth

lol

Too late.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:22:48pm

Life (2007) is pretty good.

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:23:53pm

re: #21 Nerdy Fish

That tracks with the way AI works mechanically under the hood. Again, AI is designed to work best with a narrow focus; the more “general-purpose” you make an AI, the worse it performs at all those tasks. Essentially, the law of averages guarantees that a truly multi-purpose AI won’t even be a jack of all trades, but thoroughly average at best.

The flip side of that coin is the astonishing AI results that have been achieved when the focus is truly narrow (e.g., chess and go). As time goes on, the OG Turing test looks better and better as the touchstone for true AI.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:24:06pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:25:10pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

Those Republican members of Congress should have been arrested on the spot.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:25:41pm

re: #21 Nerdy Fish

That tracks with the way AI works mechanically under the hood. Again, AI is designed to work best with a narrow focus; the more “general-purpose” you make an AI, the worse it performs at all those tasks. Essentially, the law of averages guarantees that a truly multi-purpose AI won’t even be a jack of all trades, but thoroughly average at best.

It’s called the No Free Lunch theorem.

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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:27:48pm

re: #27 Belafon

It’s called the No Free Lunch theorem.

I see that. I like it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:33:14pm
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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:34:10pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:36:50pm
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:38:19pm

re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is a serious news network that people should take seriously.*

* = unless we’re in court, then we’ll employ the Fucker Carlson defense.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:39:10pm

So, I built a 15-movement Steam Punk puzzle box — Puzzle box Mécanigma. The French design house @ nkd-puzzle.com creates puzzle boxes and games. They are quite the artists and mechanical engineers.

There are a lot of pictures, so I published a page that has them all — there is also some more info and a description of the box

The open box.
One orthogonal view
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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:40:08pm

re: #33 Colère Tueur de Lapin

So, I built a 15-movement Steam Punk puzzle box — Puzzle box Mécanigma. The French design house @ nkd-puzzle.com creates puzzle boxes and games. They are quite the artists and mechanical engineers.

There are a lot of pictures, so I published a page that has them all — there is also some m more info and a description of the box

[Embedded content]

If you summon Pinhead, don’t come running to me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:42:35pm
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Nerdy Fish  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:44:04pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

The anti-woke military.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:44:41pm

re: #34 Belafon

If you summon Pinhead, don’t come running to me.

Wonder what things I need to place in the box to ignite the summoning powers?

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:45:18pm

re: #37 Nerdy Fish

The anti-woke military.

A Band of Bothers.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:46:29pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

Anytime a “leader” wants a private army, he is at the point that he becomes an authoritatian ruler. Seems part for the deathsatan course.

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Targetpractice  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:51:22pm

re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Archers “Bloody Mary prayer”

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:52:41pm

re: #40 Colère Tueur de Lapin

Anytime a “leader” wants a private army, he is at the point that he becomes an authoritatian ruler. Seems part for the deathsatan course.

Here would be a truly pitiful way for the US to end — the only action taken vs. Trump is by the DeSantis GOPstapo, and the only reason for that action is DeSantis clearing his path to the 2024 GOP nomination.

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:56:36pm

re: #6 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Like Christianity, Trumpism will become a religion after he dies.

Let’s suppose he dies from a stroke brought on by high cholesterol. Will the faithful wear Big Macs around their necks?

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PhillyPretzel  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:58:28pm

re: #43 The Pie Overlord!

I have heard of sillier things.

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 3:59:27pm

Odd Beliefs

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:00:27pm
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darthstar  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:04:39pm

re: #46 teleskiguy

NY Times Pitchbot is starting to sound more and more like the NY Times.

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:06:42pm

re: #47 darthstar

Kind of like how The Onion is just reporting straight news.

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:08:42pm

Like in the Men In Black film series where they get all the best investigative reporting on the planet from Weekly World News, The Onion is just reporting the straight dope.

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William Lewis  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:08:44pm

re: #36 Backwoods_Sleuth

SO is DeathSantis going call it the Storm Detachment or perhaps the Protection Squadron?

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The Pie Overlord!  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:10:08pm
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darthstar  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:10:13pm

re: #48 teleskiguy

Kind of like how The Onion is just reporting straight news.

Susan Collins: “If they eat lunch, they won’t be hungry enough to come looking for my house made of candy in the woods.”

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:12:21pm

re: #48 teleskiguy

Kind of like how The Onion is just reporting straight news.

Virginia Foxx FTW.

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darthstar  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:13:34pm

LOL…the one Democrat was Feinstein and she said, “Because 11am is dinner time.”

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Patricia Kayden  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:15:40pm

re: #5 Crush White Nationalism

😂

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Captain Ron  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:16:50pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:17:34pm

Mastodon

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:20:42pm

re: #54 darthstar

LOL…the one Democrat was Feinstein and she said, “Because 11am is dinner time.”

Manchin was in there as well with (roughly) “How does feeding kids make coal barons richer?”

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gocart mozart  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:26:01pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

This is the music video using the raid footage

Afroman - Will You Help Me Repair My Door (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)

Chorus]
Will you help me repair my gate?
Will you help me repair my door?
Did you find what you was looking for?
Will you help me repair my gate and door?

[Verse 1]
Would you like a slice of lemon pound cake?
You can take as much as you want to take
There must be a big mistake
Would you like to have a slice of my lemon pound cake?
The warrant said “Narcotics and kidnapping”
The warrant said “Narcotics and kidnapping”
Are you kidding? I make my money rapping
Why does the warrant say “Narcotics?” (Well, I know narcotics)
But why kidnapping?
Let me ask you something, Officer

[Verse 2]
Any kidnapping victims inside my suit pockets?
Are therе any kidnapping victims inside my suit pockets?
You crooked cops need to stop it
Thеre are no kidnapping victims in my suit pockets
Let me ask you another question
Is there a thousand pounds of weed in my suit pockets?
Is there a thousand pounds of weed in my suit pockets?
You crooked cops need to stop it
There’s not a million pounds of weed in my suit pockets
Let me ask you something else

[Verse 3]
Any kidnapping victims inside my CDs?
Any kidnapping victims inside my CDs?
The Adams County Sheriff’s Department, you can get these
There are no kidnapping victims in my, in my CDs
How many pounds of weed are inside my CDs?
How many pounds of weed are inside my CDs?
Adams County Sheriff’s, you can get these
How many pounds of weed did you find in my CDs?

[Verse 4]
Why are you stealing my money?
Why are you stealing my money?
You represent the law and it’s funny
You’re stealing my legal-worked-hard-everyday-paid-taxes money
The sheriff disconnected my cameras
The sheriff disconnected my cameras
The sheriff should be locked up in slammers
The Adams County Sheriff’s Department disconnected my cameras

[Verse 5]
Did you have to traumatize my kids?
Did you have to traumatize my kids?
Did you have to traumatize my kids?
Did you have to traumatize my kids?
Will you pay me for doing me wrong?
Will you pay me for doing me wrong?
Will you pay me for doing me wrong?
Or will I have to get paid from this song?

[Outro]
Aye, you think they gon’ buy this, man?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:36:29pm

good grief

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TarHellion  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:38:23pm

re: #57 Charles Johnson

The Big Bang Theory did something similar to this.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:39:10pm
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jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:41:06pm

This is way too optimistic about the Trump cult members’ ability to change their trajectory.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:46:17pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:46:29pm

jfc

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:47:05pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

good grief

[Embedded content]

When my father-in-law got his by a train at a crossing that didn’t have guardrails, the train company sent in a crew very quickly to clear out all of the obstructions.

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gocart mozart  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:47:13pm
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Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:48:02pm

re: #2 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

The Feudalism Party has thoughts. They are stupid thoughts.

Dear Anarchists,

We don’t care what you think.

Love,
No one.

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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:48:07pm

re: #63 jaunte

This poor fellow doesn’t understand that all the MAGA are also crazy and genuinely wish to destroy the country so they can rebuild it as Crazyville. It’s not hyperbole.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:49:11pm
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:50:23pm

Currently, vaguely in my neck of the woods:

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:52:16pm

re: #21 Nerdy Fish

We won’t be able to fake intelligence until we know exactly what intelligence is.

I mean, we don’t even have a theory of mind yet.

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:54:08pm

re: #69 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

This poor fellow doesn’t understand that all the MAGA are also crazy and genuinely wish to destroy the country so they can rebuild it as Crazyville. It’s not hyperbole.

There will be a split between the literal crazies, people who have no care as to what’s real, who will support Trump, and the more rational fascists who see DeSantis trying to rule Florida with an iron fist but haven’t heard him speak.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:57:55pm

re: #33 Colère Tueur de Lapin

That looks as it solved Pinhead appears.

Pinhead Do I look like someone who cares what God think

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2023 • 4:59:02pm

re: #72 Romantic Heretic

We won’t be able to fake intelligence until we know exactly what intelligence is.

I mean, we don’t even have a theory of mind yet.

We may be able to get there without knowing how we got there using software that evolves. That’s the scariest kind of AI.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:00:02pm

re: #46 teleskiguy

A whole lot of people in that thread don’t understand satire.

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TarHellion  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:00:21pm

re: #67 gocart mozart

Got to see him pitch at Fenway in 2004. Pitched until he was 45. The knuckleball is so difficult to master because you are essentially trying to throw a pitch consistently with no spin.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:04:02pm

Local man electrocuted by powerlines while trying to install flagpole in Abilene

A man was electrocuted while attempting to install a flagpole in the front yard of a home in Abilene Friday.

While he was trying to install it, the pole came in contact with a live powerline.

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:07:19pm

re: #72 Romantic Heretic

We won’t be able to fake intelligence until we know exactly what intelligence is.

I mean, we don’t even have a theory of mind yet.

I don’t see why a theory of mind is a prerequisite for true AI. No such theory of mind was in place when human consciousness evolved, and it’s possible that a threshold for true AI can be crossed when sufficient complexity is reached without anyone understanding what just happened.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:07:37pm

Have to say I like this newly focused Jon Stewart. His new show started out disappointing but he seems to have found his vibe now.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:08:28pm
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jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:09:57pm
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Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:10:12pm

re: #75 Crush White Nationalism

We may be able to get there without knowing how we got there using software that evolves. That’s the scariest kind of AI.

At which point we’ll have to find out a way to teach them ethics.

As noted in a SF show starring an infamous wingnut, “Logic doesn’t care.”

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:10:24pm

re: #78 Belafon

Local man electrocuted by powerlines while trying to install flagpole in Abilene

We have regular PSAs during irrigation season about moving water lines around power lines. Still lose a couple of ditch riders every year because the aluminum pipe came into contact with a power line.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:11:30pm

re: #82 jaunte

JFC.

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jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:12:05pm

re: #85 Romantic Heretic

Empower bullies and this is what happens. Every time.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:13:12pm

re: #79 EPR-radar

Perhaps, but will we ever be able to match the innumerable interactions at both the genetic and world levels to replicate the process? I’m doubtful.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:13:20pm

re: #82 jaunte

ACAB

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Michele: Out of the closet, Into the fire  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:16:32pm
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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:16:58pm

About the Missouri pastor who two days ago claimed without proof that prayer regrew three toes a woman lost to her husband shooting her in a domestic violence incident.

showmethetoes.com

The Website is asking for proof. They have the video (now pulled down from the church Website) claiming the woman regrew her toes through the power of his church’s prayer (along with social media posts which were also pulled down).

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:18:41pm

re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I Can Get You A Toe

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:18:43pm
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jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:20:00pm

re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Just ask her son, Bud.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:24:11pm

re: #43 The Pie Overlord!

Let’s suppose he dies from a stroke brought on by high cholesterol. Will the faithful wear Big Macs around their necks?

One can only hope that they swallow their sorrow along with copious amounts of greasy hamburgers, fries, and chicken wings.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:24:21pm

Mastodon

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gocart mozart  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:26:19pm

SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: Republicans are lying again.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:33:34pm

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:34:20pm

The plumbers called: They are going to write down half of the charge today. My wife said for them to credit to our account, since she wrote a cheque to pay them and we’re getting the on-demand water heater on March 31.

I won absolutely nothing in the lotto today. However, the state is running a “sale” on Powerball tickets (three plays for $8), so I got that.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:42:04pm

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, has died at 94. Moore served in a number of positions at Intel, including President and CEO. He is responsible for coining what has become known as Moore’s Law which posits the number of transistors that can be packed onto an integrated circuit roughly doubles every 1 to 2 years. His honors and awards for his achievements and his humanitarian efforts would require pages to list in their entirety. A true giant in the hi-tech world.

intc.com

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Crush White Nationalism  Mar 24, 2023 • 5:57:00pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

Have to say I like this newly focused Jon Stewart. His new show started out disappointing but he seems to have found his vibe now.

I’ll give it another chance.

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Grunthos the Flatulent  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:01:44pm

Tomorrow’s Wordle copy-and-pasted smart quotes into a config file, the daft bugger.

Click to Reveal

A workmanlike performance from all concerned.

Wordle 644 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟩🟨🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

SibData: 3,4,4,4,5

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:12:38pm

Trump operating like a mob boss, as usual.

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:16:09pm

re: #102 No Malarkey!

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:17:05pm

We’re at the acid trip part of the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:18:10pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I won absolutely nothing in the lotto today. However, the state is running a “sale” on Powerball tickets (three plays for $8), so I got that.

Is that three plays with the “Power Play” engaged? I.e., 3 plays of ($2+$1) $9 is the normal cost.

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:19:03pm

re: #102 No Malarkey!

Reform of the federal civil service to make sure it wasn’t the president’s personal corruption cesspool of patronage was one of the major reforms of the Lincoln administration.

Naturally the civil service is a target of today’s Republicans, most crudely Trump, but the rest of the party isn’t far behind.

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:19:58pm

And in the NCAA men’s tournament, the last two #1 seeds bit the dust in round of 16. Houston lost to Miami, 82-70, while San Diego State took out Alabama, 71-64. ‘bama was thought by many to be the overall favorite.

Now, everybody, look sad and say d’oh.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:21:50pm

re: #98 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

I had not checked the Powerball website in a while… and I see it’s redesigned.

And… they’ve lowered the winning amounts?

Used to be one would win $5 for a wb+pb pick, and $10 for either three whiteballs or two whiteballs and the powerball and now it is down to $7.

Wow, inflation has hit hard Powerball.

Here in California the winnings are pari-mutuel so the value changes depending on purchases and winners.

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:22:11pm

re: #106 EPR-radar

Reform of the federal civil service to make sure it wasn’t the president’s personal corruption cesspool of patronage was one of the major reforms of the Lincoln administration.

Naturally the civil service is a target of today’s Republicans, most crudely Trump, but the rest of the party isn’t far behind.

The next GOP president will almost certainly purge the civil service to install tens of thousands of hacks committed to sabotage. The damage will be enormous, and almost impossible to repair, which is another reason we can’t afford to elect another Republican president.

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TarHellion  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:25:47pm

re: #107 sizzzzlerz

This will be only the fourth time the Final Four will have no No. 1 seeds since seeding began in 1979. The other years were 1980 (Louisville national champ); 2006 (Florida); and 2011 (UConn).

This marks the first time since the seeding process was introduced that no No. 1 seeds at least made it to the Elite 8.

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TedStriker  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:26:58pm

re: #99 sizzzzlerz

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, has died at 94. Moore served in a number of positions at Intel, including President and CEO. He is responsible for coining what has become known as Moore’s Law which posits the number of transistors that can be packed onto an integrated circuit roughly doubles every 1 to 2 years. His honors and awards for his achievements and his humanitarian efforts would require pages to list in their entirety. A true giant in the hi-tech world.

intc.com

Well, Moore’s Law is now well and truly dead…

///

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mmmirele  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:27:27pm

re: #15 Belafon

We had one of those Ask Me Anythings at work today, and I learned that all of the various AIs such as ChatGPT have been blocked at all the major financial institutions. Not sure if this was an internal decision, or something the OCC handed down, but you cannot go to those websites—at least right now.

In other news…

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No Malarkey!  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:27:39pm

re: #110 TarHellion

This will be only the fourth time the Final Four will have no No. 1 seeds since seeding began in 1979. The other years were 1980 (Louisville national champ); 2006 (Florida); and 2011 (UConn).

This marks the first time since the seeding process was introduced that no No. 1 seeds at least made it to the Elite 8.

A no. 15 might make the elite eight though!

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austin_blue  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:28:36pm

re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth

good grief

Lawyers…

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TarHellion  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:30:49pm

re: #113 No Malarkey!

For the second straight year - St Peter’s got there last season.

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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:31:04pm

re: #108 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

Checking the Wayback Machine… it seems I am misremembering. PB has been stuck in their payout pattern for some time.

It’s MegaMillions that pays out better for the middle wins, though it only pays $2 for the mega-only wins.

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:42:42pm

re: #103 Belafon

Mo Brooks is a conservative, therefore he only cares about himself.

He is a DeSantis supporter.

Former Trump ally Mo Brooks denounces him as ‘dishonest, disloyal, incompetent and crude’ (The Independent, November 14, 2022)

Mo Brooks, a former ally of Donald Trump who whipped up a crowd at the 6 January rally with his fiery rhetoric, has now described the former president as a “dishonest, disloyal, incompetent [and] crude” politician.

With many in the GOP openly criticising Mr Trump after the midterm elections disappointment, the Alabama congressman said it would be a “bad mistake” for Republicans to have Mr Trump as their nominee in 202[4].

Mr Brooks has said he will retire from politics after his sixth term in Congress ends on 3 January 2023. He earned an endorsement from Mr Trump last year for the 2022 Senate primary before he withdrew it, saying the Alabama representative “went woke”.

118
austin_blue  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:59:27pm

re: #71 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Currently, vaguely in my neck of the woods:

North Dallas Fascista.

119
mmmirele  Mar 24, 2023 • 6:59:37pm

re: #90 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

About the Missouri pastor who two days ago claimed without proof that prayer regrew three toes a woman lost to her husband shooting her in a domestic violence incident.

showmethetoes.com

The Website is asking for proof. They have the video (now pulled down from the church Website) claiming the woman regrew her toes through the power of his church’s prayer (along with social media posts which were also pulled down).

James River Church was one of the first churches to rehabilitate Mark Driscoll after he was given the left foot of fellowship by Mars Hill church in Seattle. So yeah, they’re going to be completely messed up.

ETA: They got Bill Johnson, the eminence grise behind Bethel Church Redding to go on about this? Oh man…wow.

120
Dangerman  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:01:38pm

re: #3 The Pie Overlord!

[Embedded content]

For me it’s not the lies
It’s that there’s *no* correction or pushback

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:02:04pm

The GOP is becoming more unhinged about LGBTQ people — which will only make them more unpopular (Salon, today)

Not if they establish their Christian fascist state first.

“A harmless drag show? Not possible.”

That was the response of Walter Wendler, the president of West Texas A&M University, in defense of his unilateral decision to cancel a drag show students had scheduled as a fundraiser for the anti-suicide group the Trevor Project. Wendler claimed his purpose was to stop speech that would “denigrate and demean women,” comparing drag to “blackface.” Students, however, argued, “Drag is not an insult,” but instead “a celebration of queerness, of gender, of femininity.”

In 2019, Wendler provoked a similar controversy by arguing that sex should only occur between married heterosexuals who do not use contraception. He was let go from his previous position as chancellor of Southern Illinois University Carbondale after he resisted allowing employees in same-sex relationships to have equal access to health care benefits. Student groups argue that Wendler broke a university policy barring the university from taking action against students “on the basis of a political, religious, philosophical, ideological, or academic viewpoint.”

(more)

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Dangerman  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:03:31pm

123
teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:15:50pm

Mastodon

124
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:24:45pm

The Salt Lake Tribune published the document of the person challenging the Bible in a Utah school district under the state’s new anti-pornography law.

The list of verses quoted were so long, the complainant put them in a Google Doc, which was linked in the Tribune article.

In the name of libertarian free speech (and to undermine the complaint to the school board), Google banned the doc from their site, but not before it was captured by Reddit’s r/Atheism to preserve.

All the verses listed in seven parts in the top of the comments, because the list of porn and violence in the Bible is just so long …

This is the backed-up document of Bible passages submitted to a Utah school district for removal on the basis of pornographic content.

Original article at the Tribune (Google Doc link within now dead): A Utah parent says the Bible contains porn and should be removed from school libraries. Here’s their full challenge. (March 22, 2023)

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:30:33pm

re: #124 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷

Saw this last night on Hemant Mehta’s Twitter, had to share to Mastodon.

Mastodon

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:39:17pm
127
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:40:36pm
128
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:45:21pm

…A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1015 PM CDT FOR
NORTHEASTERN CARROLL…WEBSTER AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES…

At 942 PM CDT, a confirmed large and extremely dangerous tornado was
located near Lodi, or 10 miles northeast of Winona, moving northeast
at 65 mph.

This is a PARTICULARLY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE COVER NOW!

HAZARD…Damaging tornado.

SOURCE…Radar confirmed tornado.

IMPACT…You are in a life-threatening situation. Flying debris may
be deadly to those caught without shelter. Mobile homes
will be destroyed. Considerable damage to homes,
businesses, and vehicles is likely and complete destruction
is possible.

The tornado will be near…
Embry around 955 PM CDT.
Bellefontaine around 1000 PM CDT.

Other locations impacted by this tornadic thunderstorm include
Walthall. (more)

forecast.weather.gov

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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:54:27pm
130
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:55:08pm

Rachel Maddow’s blog (today)

GOP rep suggests replacing libraries with ‘church-owned’ alternatives

Sounds like a job for The Satanic Temple.

But it wasn’t until yesterday when I saw a Republican member of Congress suggest that the nation’s public libraries be replaced with “church-owned” alternatives. Consider this missive Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana published on Twitter:

“Over time, American communities will build beautiful, church owned public-access libraries. I’m going to help these churches get funding. We will change the whole public library paradigm. The libraries regular Americans recall are gone. They’ve become liberal grooming centers.”

As best as I can tell, the GOP congressman wasn’t kidding.

(more)

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Belafon  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:56:14pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 7:58:45pm
133
wrenchwench  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:04:44pm

Mastodon

134
EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:12:20pm

re: #109 No Malarkey!

The next GOP president will almost certainly purge the civil service to install tens of thousands of hacks committed to sabotage. The damage will be enormous, and almost impossible to repair, which is another reason we can’t afford to elect another Republican president.

As absurd as it sounds, it is already justified to purge Republicans from all civil service and national security positions. That’s much more of a threat now than communist infiltration ever was.

135
teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:15:24pm

There is *a lot* of water sitting on the ground in the inner mountain west and the Pacific coast. A LOT of water. 60 inches of snow water equivalent in the Sierra Nevada. All those pictures we’ve seen of Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes just fuken BURIED in snow… 60 inches of water.

136
jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:15:28pm

re: #132 teleskiguy

I wonder if actors are at risk of losing ownership of their own likenesses to the film industry.

137
jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:16:54pm

You can see the lawyers’ arguments: “your face has no commercial value that wasn’t put there by Sony.”

138
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:20:17pm

re: #132 teleskiguy

139
Colère Tueur de Lapin  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:21:06pm

re: #112 mmmirele

but that they were going to stop issuing laptops. So what about working at home, you wonder?

OH WE’RE SUPPOSED TO USE OUR OWN COMPUTING EQUIPMENT FOR WORK.

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140
EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:23:31pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

There is *a lot* of water sitting on the ground in the inner mountain west and the Pacific coast. A LOT of water. 60 inches of snow water equivalent in the Sierra Nevada. All those pictures we’ve seen of Lake Tahoe and Mammoth Lakes just fuken BURIED in snow… 60 inches of water.

God help the west if there is an unusual heat wave in runoff season — the flooding will be biblical.

141
teleskiguy  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:28:37pm

re: #140 EPR-radar

God help the west if there is an unusual heat wave in runoff season — the flooding will be biblical.

That’s the rumbling discussion in the river communities, for damn sure.

142
jaunte  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:28:37pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

March 3:

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Amory Blaine  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:30:01pm

re: #63 jaunte

This is way too optimistic about the Trump cult members’ ability to change their trajectory.

Who does he think is going to burn us down? Trump? His followers, that’s who. WTF is with this nonsense that the followers are ” right around the corner” from abandoning him. Gtfoh

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EPR-radar  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:35:28pm

re: #143 Amory Blaine

Who does he think is going to burn us down? Trump? His followers, that’s who. WTF is with this nonsense that the followers are ” right around the corner” from abandoning him. Gtfoh

This Oberlin clown does not appear to have processed what Trump being the True Voice and Prophet of the Pig People actually means.

145
austin_blue  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:36:55pm

Texas is beating Xavier like a redheaded step-child.

Yes, I know its not PC, but it’s accurate.

146
Anymouse 🌹🏡😷  Mar 24, 2023 • 8:36:59pm

re: #143 Amory Blaine

Who does he think is going to burn us down? Trump? His followers, that’s who. WTF is with this nonsense that the followers are ” right around the corner” from abandoning him. Gtfoh

He’s got plenty of worshippers here. The general store here has a whole section of Trump swag, slurs against Kamala Harris, &c.

I could simply refuse to shop in the general store, but the supermarket in the county seat has the same. To get away from Trump swag in a grocery store I have to go sixty miles to Safeway in Sidney or Scottsbluff.


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