Neal Parikh
Teaching AI policy at Columbia (https://nparikh.org/sipa6545). Previously Director of AI for NYC. https://nparikh.org
- If you are in NYC the next two weeks, go!
- I’m not about to compliment these judges. This is all way too slow and way too small and just pathetic. This is a few individual people and they’ve still mostly failed and those people have been abused for months already. No one has faced consequences. And these are the *best* judges.
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View full threadThey do *not* do that because there is massive leeway in interpretation and much law is eg administrative or case law and decided in individual cases by individual biased judges.
- Like, look further up in this thread with the emotional judges. Look at what we are now talking about with birthright citizenship. This is all already settled by lawmakers but judges do what they do. And by the system I include the legislation, lawyers, all, not only judges.
- This is what “judges” are. I don’t respect a single one by virtue of being a judge. There is far too much respect of this group, down to small claims court.
- Like I said, this entire area is morally, intellectually, and logistically bankrupt.
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- Then these worthless legal pundits and law people come around lecturing everyone about how this is “appropriate”. They are as bad as anyone in this.
- It is a morally, intellectually, and logistically bankrupt area.
- Given that Biden was not in fact the nominee, and almost nobody but his (admittedly delusional) inner circle thinks he should have been, you have to think that the real reason the press is so obsessed with this is that the were denied their dream of an interminable, divisive Democratic primary
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View full threadCorporate media serve corporate interests.
- This is quite a different situation.
- This isn’t a deep critique or anything, but I do think it is telling how these decentralized and post-democratic ideas of cryptocurrencies and the network state required their guys to essentially take over the US government and get the backing of the power of the federal government to see their day
- As I wrote when Trump announced his "freedom cities," the concept is clearly out of the Network State playbook. Trump's weird new cities and the Network State cult (August 2024): www.thenerdreich.com/trumps-weird...
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- Sure. It’s all a bunch of bullshit. I’m agreeing
