Emil Mertzel

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That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

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Large Models of What? Mistaking Engineering Achievements for Human Linguistic Agency arxiv.org/abs/2407.08790 New paper with Marek McGann

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Project 2025, page 455-456: a national abortion database that includes detailed medical information, including the person's state of residence to assist with criminal prosecution

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The media has spent the entire week since learning Donald Trump is a serial pedophile rapist demanding Joe Biden drop out of the race.

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lol, lmfaooo even www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...

French prosecutors launch investigation into Le Pen’s campaign financeswww.aljazeera.com Prosecutor’s office says it will look into allegations of embezzlement, forgery and fraud.

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I would love this! How fun!

It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to criminally investigate a sitting Supreme Court justice. What's more, the case against Clarence Thomas is quite credible. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Dems seek special counsel to investigate Justice Clarence Thomaswww.msnbc.com It's not every day that senators ask the attorney general to appoint a special counsel to investigate a Supreme Court justice.

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i made this shareable version of my one sentence project 2025 summary so it can be easily shared across platforms. feel free to repost.

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there's a certain irony that liberals who have spent four years yelling at leftists who criticize Biden at all for any reason have now, in one week, done more damage to Biden's candidacy than all those leftists combined

I think the freakout has been absurd and overblown and far more damaging than the debate itself, which would have been survivable if everyone had been willing to circle the wagons and push back on it I am, from a purely pragmatic standpoint, extremely concerned that the damage cannot be overcome

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Tyler King

Or to put it another way…

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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.

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"With fear for our democracy, I dissent," is about as bedrock and terrifying and vital a statement as you're going to get. That's a line you spraypaint on walls, that you ink into your skin. And it's chilling that it is necessary to say at all.

Justice Sotomayor, in conclusion.

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we desperately need well-funded progressive media!!!!!

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drow zelensky

Yeah, I get this can go too far the other way. And frankly, I'd care a lot less about the economic benefits the current generation of pensioners get if they were content to just keep to themselves and enjoy that cash, rather than demanding the world reflect their every petty aesthetic opinion.

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preach the Truth to the face of Falsehood

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It’s not too late to tell your friends and family the New York Times represents conservatives. And it’s not too late for Biden and top Dems to say this either. The country needs to know. It would go better for Dems if people knew this.

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All of this is designed to distract you from the very simple fundamentals of this issue: Gender-affirming care for adults is wildly beneficial; all evidence indicates that it is also beneficial for children; there is no reason to believe it's being provided too quickly or without assessment.

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pssst … @nytimes.com

For the good of the country, Donald Trump should drop out the 2024 presidential race.

Donald Trump Should Drop Out | Washington Monthlywashingtonmonthly.com We’ve had months of calls for Joe Biden to drop out because of middling poll numbers. The grounds for a Trump withdrawal are far firmer.

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Hearing the refrain that Biden should step aside just because he didn’t appear to have enough RAM the other night is stunning after months of hearing that skeptics need to just fall in line despite our opposition to genocide among other valid critiques. Nah we gotta hold that. That’s what you said.

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The mad lads did it

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

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It’s hard not to see the election media coverage as a performance of, for, and by a very specific set of people who ostensibly spend their days trying to understand the motivations of The Common Person but who really just want to dictate to them how they should feel and act.

Voters: they’re mysterious!

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we're about two cases away from judges including venmo links at the bottom of decisions lmao

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Let's be clear, when mayors say they want to ban masks for "safety", they couldn't care less about public safety. What the mean is they want to see faces for surveillance purposes. They care about criminalizing your right to protest not your health or safety.

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hi, i wrote a post - "destroy AI". ali-alkhatib.com/blog/fuck-up...

Destroy AIali-alkhatib.com I’ve been struggling to articulate this idea, and maybe the problem is that it’s actually kind of simple once you put it out there, and there’s really no good reason to unpack a whole case for it once...

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Karen Bass just announced that LA is looking into a mask ban and it is a move that would essentially ban me from public life. I am humbly asking, if you are an LA resident, please call the mayors office and tell them about what it would do to those of us who have no choice but to mask for health.

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If you have to say “again” after “upend the national legal landscape” then there is no reason whatsoever to think this court wouldn’t do it

An associate editor at Wash Post wrote this today: "At the same time — and, yes, I know how cavalierly they tossed aside precedent in Dobbs — I doubt that even this court is about to upend the national legal landscape again and eliminate the right to marriage equality" Sotomayor knows better

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There’s a Quiet New Deal going on

"A record-setting 11.8 gigawatts (GW) of new solar panel manufacturing capacity came online in the US during Q1 2024, making up 75% of all new electricity-generating capacity added to the US grid in that period." electrek.co/2024/06/05/u...

The US installed more solar in Q1 2024 than it did in all of 2018electrek.co In Q1 2024, the US saw the largest quarter of solar manufacturing growth in its history, bringing its total installed capacity to 200 GW.

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Seems like a good day to reup this tweet from two years ago:

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Here’s a miracle solution: stop fuckin doing it