The Chinese national security law is bogus for many reasons. A general but incomplete list is here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/hong-kong-national-security-law-10-things-you-need-to-know/

If it’s a bogus law, the charges are bogus. Cultural relativity is not an excuse for arbitrary authoritarian oppression.

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Yeah, I’m assuming Weiss, the opinion commentator cosplaying as a journalist with a $150 million costume David Ellison bought for her, didn’t try to clarify that earlier statement from Kirk.

But it makes sense. The whole point of Weiss’ “moderate” schtick is to normalize right-wing ideas and people. Her purpose is to pull the Overton window to the right from the middle, so kumbaya-everyone-see-fascists-are-just-like-us was certainly her editorial goal here.

Megan Waldron, a second graduate student who teaches the course alongside Curth, agreed with the grade. “Everyone has different ways in which they see the world, but in an academic course such as this you are being asked to support your ideas with empirical evidence and higher-level reasoning,” she wrote to Fulnecky, according to the screenshots.

Yes, “I think there are only two genders” isn’t an empirical statement. This isn’t hard. This “student” is someone who has no business being in a science class.

Fulnecky has said because they only communicated online, she did not know Curth’s gender identity until the Turning Point USA chapter pointed it out on social media. She told The College Fix, a conservative media nonprofit focused on universities, she thinks Curth should be fired if she can’t separate her personal feelings from grading assignments.

The sheer audacity of gaslighting here, I can’t even. The MAGA student’s religious feelings were not sufficient for the coursework, so clearly the teacher is the one who can’t separate her personal feelings from the assignment.

In short, the right wants to prevent cancel-culture when people are objectively awful, hateful bigots, but supports cancel-culture when they do their jobs neutrally and objectively; they want to claim the left acts based on feelings and can’t accept reality, but when they call their own feelings “beliefs” then expect those feelings to supersede law and empirical reality; and they constantly claim victimhood from positions of decisive (and unearned) power.

Despite the preceding paragraphs, I’m actually dumbfounded by this story - the above is as effective as a wordless guttural scream since none of what I said comes close to expressing the disappointment and frustration with how much power stupid bigoted people have right now.

Bari Weiss doing what she was placed at CBS News to do, I see.

What? Do you have a link? That’s a gut punch if so…

CD-R and CD-RW discs use different methods of data encoding, and were never advertised as having similar longevity.

I mean…sorry, but this is wrong. Mitsui CDRs for example are still being sold on retail sites advertising 100+ (and sometimes 300+) year longevity. Similar to bitrot, internet rot makes it hard to find advertisements from the 90s, but I am comfortable that was true then too and not limited to “gold” high quality discs like Mitsui.

Remember that CDs, CDRs, and so on were originally pitched as surviving 100 years. Turns out they last a highly variable amount of time but potentially as little as 2-3 years before they degrade, depending on the construction.

So I’ll just say, this is clearly a theoretical value.

Edit: Words.

Two observations:

1. He always denies more strongly when criticisms are true. This seems to be reflexive, probably stemming from his Roy Cohn, escalate-everything training. So I take this as evidence he has serious health issues.

2. Whenever he uses words outside his normal vocabulary, it’s because someone has used them to him recently. Since reporting has confirmed Bondi is preparing a report on “anti-American” terrorism (presumably at Trump’s direction, even if he remembered to send that message privately this time) that Ken Klippenstein has evidence will just be criminalizing opposition, we may actually be approaching the phase of fascism where people are arrested and charged with treason for criticizing Trump.

Yeah, sure, but it’s not this principle at play right now. I bought 64GB of DDR4 RAM 6 months ago on a whim for $87, and now it’s $300-450. That isn’t just because it’s not “cutting edge,” that’s extreme demand compared to supply.

Which LLM is this from, ChatGPT?

DDR5 was the first to be hit with 200-400% price increases, but DDR4 is also seeing similar price hikes as demand cascades to what’s available.

Yeah, but did you hear? Spez is a billionaire now! The last step of the business model! Great job everyone!

I’d vote for Newsom if he’s the nominee, but I really hope he’s not the nominee (assuming, obviously, the relative utopian future where we get to vote in 2028).

I’m glad when his media exposure goals overlap with doing actual good things, but - and I may be putting too fine a point on it - he’s basically Hillary if Hillary had a penis and was super jazzed about it, and I am fairly confident I know the smug look he makes when he smells his own farts.

Since we’ve all enjoyed SaaS allowing us to pay monthly fees until death for everything from our word processor to our sleep tracker, get ready for Compute as a Service to take over everything else once none of us can afford home computing.

This is the internet, you can’t swear here.

Ok, that is much closer to half (or, let’s just say effectively half) than I thought. I’ll go eat some crow.

That is so technically accurate, I love it.

Not downplaying that this is real dumb, but “half the US” is meant to be misleadingly attention-grabbing. The states that are doing this are not the most populous states. No law like this exists in NY or CA, for example.

I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws, but it is not nearly half, even if half the states have passed such laws.

The other 51% are either intentionally lying to themselves, are so financially secure that they didn’t notice the changes, or are immense idiots.

That’s a great summary of the Trump coalition, generally.