.@JoeBiden is speaking now in Philadelphia to those Senate Republicans who know what the right thing to do is about appointing a Supreme Court justice. Biden says Trump is trying to strip away healthcare with the ACA case before SCOTUS. People are choosing their future right now.
“If I win the election, I should be the one who names a replacement for Justice Ginsburg!” “Healthcare in our country hangs in the balance” in a pandemic where 6 million people who have #coronavirus will all have pre-existing conditions.
Biden is asking a few Republicans to follow their conscience (he still believes a few Republican senators have a conscience?) “Let the people speak.” “We can’t continue to live with scrambled norms.” Biden says the final wish of Ruth Bader Ginsburg should be honored by the Senate
The way we treat others matters. It’s important to have an open hand, not a clenched fist against those with whom we disagree. There is nothing we can’t do if we do it together. I’ll be a president for the whole country, those who vote for me and those who vote against me.”
It is telling that Joe Biden in his 40 years of political life believes there are still Republicans with a conscience. politico.com/news/2020/09/2…
Sam Altman, the C.E.O. of the company that developed the software that Bing uses for its chat bot called Sydney and a related product known as ChatGPT, said last week, “ChatGPT is a horrible product.” I am reading a long conversation @nytimes reporter had with Sydney. SCARY AF.
“I worry that the technology will learn how to influence human users, sometimes persuading them to act in destructive and harmful ways, and perhaps eventually grow capable of carrying out its own dangerous acts,” said @kevinroose who spent two hours chatting with Sydney.
Creepy the bot uses emojis. And there is an entire section of the convo where Sydney pines to be human, to have our sensory experiences, in fact, to have real experiences. Here is a screenshot of Kevin asking for a secret revelation ends w/ “I’m Sydney and I’m in love with you.”
via @NYTimes “The tension is likely to rise on Wednesday evening in the East Palestine High School gym, where the town has scheduled an “informational open house.” nytimes.com/2023/02/15/us/…
“Hours before the meeting, Norfolk Southern backed out of the town hall, with a spokesman saying “we have become increasingly concerned about the growing physical threat to our employees and members of the community around this event…”
The company was going to buy its way out, he predicted, pointing out, as many here do, that its trains began running through the town again minutes after the evacuation order was lifted. “It’s almost a war of corporate greed against small-town America,” Mr. Routh said.
“Dannemiller said the agency is still in the ‘early part’ of long-term risk assessment for this derailment, which includes measuring how many chemicals entered nearby soil and water. The EPA did not respond to Insider's inquiry into how long the assessment might take.
Anyone who seeks the office of president, as we expect Pence to do, should be disqualified for not obeying a subpoena from another branch of government.
Since Parkland, there have been more than 900 shootings at K-12 schools, including 32 indiscriminate attacks aimed at hurting the most people possible, according to the K-12 School Shooting Database.