This is mostly boilerplate: he's 76, of course he thinks about it every year. But having the two oldest Justices is absolutely one of the main reasons why Republican voters should fight for every Senate seat even where their candidates are subpar. Especially in OH & FL, where a Dem would be seated immediately after Election Day.

With these devices and apps has come so much fake legal slop as these cases have gone viral, which is black pilling. But what’s been white pilling is seeing the nuance and counter arguments break through and go just as viral

As Dems make inroads with young men in the midterms, they risk falling for a mirage that makes them think they have a better standing with the group than they actually do. Some Dems are warning the party not to learn the wrong lessons from this fall @NRO

They’ve already decided who, by definition, is guilty and it’s only a matter now of going out and punishing them. Kathy Hochul should indeed have great confidence in Letitia James—to act in total accordance with the pre-determined narrative, like the political hack that she is.

“Anthropic is hardly alone. The culture in the AI sector, even among those vocally skeptical of the doomerist fashionovertaking it, promotes a certain detachment from public perceptions of normality.”

We undoubtedly will learn more as we go along to inform the question of whether the "Cornell Seven" case was actually a crime or not. But what we have heard so far suggests fairly strongly that it took place in a moral wasteland. | @baseballcrank

Olah's Macaw A must-read from @NoahCRothman on the AI priesthood's nutty cult (my words not his): His words: “We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience. We find evidence of introspection. We find internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief and unease,” Olah [Anthropic’s co-founder] told the Times. I cannot gainsay Olah’s personal experience, but I can point out that the key word in his observation is “mirror.” What he’s describing is mimicry. There’s no more sanity in rewarding that with legal rights than in extending personhood to a macaw because it learned how to ape its handlers." Please read the whole thing. The AI Industry Is Playing God, in the Weirdest Possible Way