I’ve had AI answer that a public figure was older than a second, then citing their birth dates, confidently “reiterate” that the first was younger than the second. On a historical question, AI casually situated an event “following” one that took place forty years later, having included years of both. Given a story problem on which I said I’d calculated the answer to be 70, AI responded that 70 was incorrect, stated the equation to be used, and that the correct result was 70.

All these examples are recent. Next will be news that the IRS is using AI to audit returns.

CPAC straw poll winner for 2028 Republican Presidential candidate, ladies and gentlemen.

Or, announce they’re changing their name to the Washington TACOs, then later in the week announce they’re putting implementation on a 90-day pause.

Appreciate the clarification.

“The trouble at UnitedHealth comes almost exactly six months after the murder of Brian Thompson, one of its top executives.”

Curious that the article dilutes Thompson’s position to “one of its top executives” against terming him “Witty’s predecessor as CEO for over three and a half years.”

That would be after the low hanging fruit of Moldova. Neighbors Ukraine, Constitutionally neutral, does not admit stationing foreign military troops on its territory, can only be altered by referendum, and not at all during a state of national emergency, martial law or war.

I’m from the school that says Harris’ is settled law and it’s Walz’ vs. Walz’s that needs litigated.

It’s not like there was a Warren-level progressive in the running.

And if there were, we know from 2020 there’d still be cosplay communists insisting she wasn’t progressive enough.

She isn’t on the Republicans for Ukraine report card because (duh!) she isn’t a Republican, but the only criteria that would get her mildly dinged there would be that she didn’t sign Discharge Petition 9 or 10. Republicans with identical records as Omar get an A - Excellent rating.

Early into the 2022 invasion, she was among fifteen Progressive Democrats to vote against the Consolidated Appropriations Act, receiving some press attention on that. Around the same time, she voted against the Asset Seizure for Ukraine Reconstruction Act, criticizing it as a symbolic gesture substituted for practical assistance. Neither count on the above report card, but are examples Samuels might cite to impugn her record.

If I were in MN-5 voting singularly pro-Ukraine, there’s little for Samuels to genuinely improve upon, and the pretense that he could suggests disingenuousness on the issue I wouldn’t consider preferable.

Odd. I wondered why friends from Chicago always order tuna salad whenever they visit.

I flunked Sunday school, so I’ll take the item description on its word that it’s a “great way to give witness to God’s truth in the Holy Bible.”

Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:

Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn’t work.

Same again true of Peter Samson’s original 1959 and 1960 editions.

Republican House Leader Matt Hall quoted in the article: "offering food stamps to the rich does nothing to put food on the tables of Michiganders in need.”

But distribute $1.5 billion to the rich through the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve fund and Matt will reassure you that it helps create jobs.

6 Degrees in Bucktown had them for 13 years, but closed down last year. The owner was the daughter of Paul Keefner of Bachmann & Keefner Drug Store in Springfield, the last in the city to still have a lunch counter when it closed in 2004.

I speculate that horseshoes will migrate north as poutine migrates south, eventually to breed a hybrid called a “mooseshoe.”