James Felix Black
A large person, in Canada. Father to two, smaller persons. Wife guy. Dual citizen, a modicum of discipline.
Proud liberal. Hobbesian. Unix apostate, Classic Mac OS revanchist, tilter at path-dependent windmills. Emacsist.
- xAI blaming a new hire for changing the system prompt without asking first is, if true (it isn't) an indictment of xAI's access control practices and not the new hire
- "i can walk in on the first day and change the behavior of our flagship product, without testing, for everyone in the world" is as bad an organizational smell as things get
- It also is entirely 1000% believable
- idk if it’s little-known, but I feel like not enough people know there is nothing written down at all about who can be PM of Canada nothing about age (upper or lower), citizenship, or even being a member of parliament, let alone leader of a party it’s literally all just norms and precendents
- It’s not as much of a potential hazard because the remedy for a lousy PM is a lot less burdensome than that for a bad President.
- Hire quickly fire quickly: underrated benefit in political systems!
- So much of this seems to me to be downstream of pure Pauline Kael Nixon Thought. The chattering classes just don’t think the GOP is real. Only the centre left they brunch with exists.
- the other thing here is that yes, Biden was old as shit in office, that rightly was a major story. but SO WAS TRUMP and it got 0.001% as much attention
- This is the thing I find so utterly telling about the behaviour of the Times et al — ok, maybe it’s a bad idea to elect a President who is Too Old, and you feel duty bound to explain to your audience why this is so. Well, then, when Trump won the nom, the President was going to be
- old and presumptively that was a problem regardless of which aging jerk won the general. So where was the coverage of Trump’s manifest infirmity?
- somebody should start pushing a constitutional amendment to cap the age of the President
- This is solving a downstream problem but I wouldn’t hate it
- This is only very debatably true in California, where Prop 13 means almost any kind of housing will eventually become a net fiscal drag on a municipality, perpetually requiring services that increase in cost faster than the tax assessment does.
- Between Mark Zuckerberg, Ronald Reagan and Harold Jarvis, California has SO MUCH to answer for.
- It’ll make you think.
- [Not loaded yet]
- It is distressingly plausible.
- It’s really true. Maybe not Erie.
