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This episode has everything: a how-to guerilla guide to improving your McDonald’s hamburger experience; a spirited discussion of the Alabama Supreme Court decision that defines frozen embryos as persons (Steve thinks the media is willfully misreporting the decision—John is not so sure); those crazy new presidential rankings from political scientists—and even some soft-core porn!
Say what?
Well, it turns out that that Judge Arthur Engoron, who oversaw Trump’s alleged fraud trial in New York City, apparently has a case of Anthony Weiner envy, and posted some rather racy locker room pics of himself some years back.
And right in the middle of our discussion Lucretia flashed the pictures up on the Zoom screen, sending John and Steve rushing for some eye-bleach. There must be something in the bottled water Manhattan Democrats drink. (And doesn’t Engoron sound like the name of a dwarve or elve who goes bad in Lord of the Rings?)
In any case, we do finally get around to a new segment of the 3WHH, where we note three articles from the last week for what they can tell us about something. John chose those stupid presidential rankings; Lucretia chose an MSNBC article from leftist columnist Paul Waldman that unwittingly admits that everything conservatives say about the administrative state is completely true; and Steve picked Karol Markowitz’s NY Post column reflecting on how recent social science that ratifies the conservative view that two-parent families are the best way to raise children is so controversial with the left, which is no surprise.
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I thought Engoron was the full name of the monster Capt. Kirk fought out in my former neck of the woods, Vasquez Rocks, Agua Dulce, Calif.
I’ll have to check this out. Seems sensible.
One of the witnesses in Steyn trial asked Mann for the data used to construct the hockey stick. Mann didn’t have it readily available and finally refused to provide it. None of the other peer viewers asked for the data. We’re supposed to spend trillions of dollars based on a study which cannot be closely scrutinized. That’s climate science according to the Mann who cannot be criticized.
In any other venue than Washington DC, a jury would not only have sided with Steyn, but made Mann pay Steyn’s legal costs (as indeed a Canadian court ordered for Tim Ball, and Mann never paid).
Engoron is 70+ years old and puts these photos in a high school newsletter that he himself edits. So essentially he’s sending out shirtless photos of himself to his high school classmates from 50 years ago. YUCK!
If they’re drinking bottled water in Manhattan, it’s further evidence of their mental unfitness. New York City tap water can legitimately claim to be the best drinking water anywhere. It routinely wins blind taste tests for best tasting drinking water.
20 years ago or so, Penn Gillette did a solid send-up on the subject of bottled water and New York City tap water, on his SHOWTIME network show “BS” – although the show’s actual name was the full eight-letter compound noun. I don’t know if it’s available on YouTube, but it’s well worth a watch.
Unusable survey responses were those who listed the three bogeymen Reagan, Nixon or Trump near the top.
I noticed the passel of preposterous paeans to polyamory in the Times. Today (Sunday) they featured an author discussing how great it is to be a sociopath. No, that’s not the Bee, they really did.
Is prosecutable a word? As a layman, I’ve heard the terms election interference and malicious prosecution thrown around. Seems that both can be exploited by partisans using state or federal resources, so it makes sense to me that prosecutors need to stay inbounds, stay evenhanded and, to be above what looks like partisan hackery.
Novel legal theories support prosecution of the leading candidate for president. Are election interference and malicious prosecution describing something bad, but not illegal?
So the actual mechanism at issue in Google Gemini was not the algorithm itself, it was the query processor.
They wrote code that inserted (non-white) parameters into the question the user asked of the AI. This caused the AI to generate the images that it did.
A few reflections:
I understand that lawyers seem to first consider the fine points of these cases (e.g. the nature of the possible fraud, etc) but I don’t hear the outrage about political prosecution (see Beria, Lavrenty. ‘Show me the man,etc’). Lucretia gets it.
Same with Mark Steyn. I didn’t hear the proceedings or read the transcript but I understand that Mann’s counsel asked Mark about guest-hosting for Rush. That’ll fix his wagon for a million in punitive damages.
The whole thing shows that 809 years from Runnymede, the Anglo American legal tradition is over.
One more thing. Prof Yoo: do I hear a nod toward Lochhner?!