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I think there are several lessons for journalists to learn from recent years.
1. Make sure to look up any big words you don’t understand.
2. If someone says something you think wrong, check it.
3. If someone says something you think right, check it *twice*.
OK, something I’m really not following here: members of the Senate just forced the Senate to remain in session to pass Trump’s agenda. Now you’re insisting on shutting down the Senate. Do you guys know what the hell you’re doing?
The House Freedom Caucus just demanded an immediate recess of Congress so President Trump can make recess appointments. It's a brilliant move. And if Minority Leader Thune refuses to comply we should withhold every penny from Republican lawmakers and the RNC.
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Replying to @awstar11
@awstar11 it is often well to know the facts before jumping to a conclusion.
Replying to @chasrmartin
USPSTF recommends against routine PSA screening for men 70 and older (Grade D), as harms typically outweigh benefits. ACS advises no screening if life expectancy is under 10 years; health status matters more than age alone. AUA/SUO favors shared decision-making: screening every 2-4 years for ages 50-69, with possible continuation in select healthy men over 70 who have long life expectancy and prior favorable PSA levels. Decisions are individualized.
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Nice plagiarism, there, Tyler.
Go read the original at PJ Media.
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zerohedge.com/political/othe…
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You are neither real smart nor actually have you ever been a jew.
Replying to @thewebbie
The Jews in Skokie didn't know what Israel was. The internet had not yet democratized the information flow.
But Jews today have the internet, so there's no excuse to not know. They know. And these business owners continue to support it anyway.
That's the difference.
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OK, this is one of those arguments where? Honestly my usual comment of “you’re not real smart, are you?“ Is multiply appropriate. People say happy holidays at this time of year because some people celebrate Christmas. Some people celebrate Hanukkah. Some people don’t celebrate either one and some people are orthodox and don’t celebrate Christmas until January. For God sake, look it up.
It's not a culture war issue dumbass. The holiday IN JAPAN is called Christmas. There are not a bunch of other winter holidays around that time to be lumped into a generic "Happy Holidays" Japan celebrates specifically Christmas. A Japanese version of it but it is called Christmas. Changing it is factually incorrect and a mistranslation. Dumb fuck.
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Now imagine applying this to government.
Elon Musk explains his 5-step process for running companies:
"First, make your requirements less dumb. Your requirements are definitely dumb. It does not matter who gave them to you.
It's particularly dangerous if a smart person gave you the requirements because you might not question them enough. Everyone's wrong no matter who you are.
Everyone's wrong some of the time. So make your requirements less dumb. Then try very hard to delete the part or process.
This is actually very important. If you're not occasionally adding things back in, you are not deleting enough.
The bias tends to be very strongly towards let's add this part or process step in case we need it. But you can basically make in-case arguments for so many things and for a rocket that is trying to be the first fully reusable rocket.
There's never been a fully reusable rocket. People don't understand. This is like the holy grail of rocketry. So you've got to delete the part or process step. Super important.
You can't hedge your bets. That's why the grid funds, for example, do not fall down because that's a whole extra mechanism that we don't need.
Also, whatever requirement or constraint you have, it must come with a name, not a department. Because you can't ask the department. You have to ask a person. That person who's putting forward their requirement or constraint must agree that they must take responsibility for that requirement.
Otherwise, you can have a requirement that basically an intern two years ago randomly came up with off the cuff and they're not even at the company anymore. These things are often just way more silly than you think. So step one, make your requirements less dumb.
Step two, delete the part or process step. If you're not adding things back in 10% of the time, you're clearly not deleting enough.
And then only the third step is simplify or optimize.
The third step, not the first step. The reason it's the third step is because possibly the most common error of a smart engineer is to optimize a thing that should not exist.
Everyone's been trained in high school and college that you've got to answer the question. Convergent logic. So you can't tell the professor your question is dumb. You'll get a bad grade. You have to answer the question. So everyone's basically, without knowing it, they've got a mental straitjacket on. They'll work on optimizing the thing that should simply not exist.
And then finally, you get to step four, which is accelerate cycle time.
You're moving too slowly, go faster. But don't go faster until you have worked on the other three things first. You can always make things go faster.
And then the final step is automate.
Now, I've personally made the mistake of going backwards on all five steps multiple times. Literally, I automated, accelerated, simplified, and then deleted.
One example I've talked about before is there were these fiberglass mats on top of the Model 3 battery pack that were in between the floor pan and the battery.
And it was at one point choking the battery pack production line. And I was basically living on the battery pack production line trying to fix the line.
It was choking the entire Model 3 production program. So the first mistake was I tried to fix the automation, like make the robot better. So automating was a mistake. Then accelerating was a mistake. Then optimizing was a mistake.
And finally, I said, what the hell are these mats for?
And I asked the battery safety team, what are these mats for? Are they for fire protection or something?
They said, no, they're for noise and vibration. Then I asked an NVH, a noise, vibration, harshness team, what's it for? They said fire safety.
So literally, it was like being in a Dilbert cartoon. Actually, I feel like I'm in a Dilbert cartoon quite frequently. So then finally, OK, great, let's try a car with the fiber glass mats and without. And they put a microphone to both and see if you can tell the difference.
In fact, I was like, which one is which? So we just deleted them and just bypassed this $2 million robot cell.
It was just a complete pile of nonsense."
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This is f*cking insane. Elon Musk, the man behind SpaceXAI, was asked how a 20-year-old can avoid being left behind in the AI transition. His answer:
"To know what to ask the robots for, you need to formulate the question"
In 84 seconds, he lays out the plan: get the broadest education you can. Arts, sciences, engineering. The more you know, the better you can tell AI what you want
He even names the skill: prompt engineering. You have to convey your wishes to the robot
Then the wild part: there will be so many robots and so much AI that they'll be eager for any request you have, and it gets done immediately
Broad Knowledge → The Right Question → Grok Bot → A Team of Bots → Harness → Done Immediately
Save this before it disappears from your feed
Pick your field. Every guide here comes straight from SpaceXAI:
Getting started with Grok Bot
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Engineering: run a fleet of engineer bots
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Six bots, one mobile game studio
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Design: explore more ideas with always-on bots
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PMs: for the first time, a team that reports to you
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Marketing: six bots that research competitors and draft positioning
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Founder-led sales: research and outreach with bots
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Recruiting: interview prep, scorecards, sourcing
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Legal ops: contracts, triage and 1:1 prep
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Support: work the whole queue with bots
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Templates: share a bot as a recipe
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Every guide here is free
Soon AI will do the work. The ones who know what to ask will run it
95% will wait for someone to tell them what to study, the 5% who learn to give AI clear jobs will have a team of bots working for them
Bookmark it and open the guide for your field tonight
Then use the guide below to build your harness before everyone else does ↓
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