#Angels and #Dodgers fan, English Shepherd lover, geek, libertarian. Californian by birth, Arkansan by choice. @Mmorgaine 💍
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Rob McMillin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Growing up, this Savannah Bananas star looked up to Troy Bolton from “High School Musical” as proof that sports and theater could go hand in hand. He even dressed up as the character for Halloween multiple times.
Watch the full video: on.wsj.com/4AjAgDw
Rob McMillin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
You think you're about to read some idiot who believes he could come off the couch and compete against the best in the world.
Instead, you read something brilliant:
Huh, one of my nephews passed the bar during the time this woman was in charge.
Imagine studying for months, taking the Arkansas bar exam, and being told you failed when you may have actually passed.
Former Arkansas court employee Nancie Givens has been arrested and faces 65 counts of tampering with public records. She’s accused of manipulating bar exam scores between 2020 and 2025, taking points from some applicants and giving them to others, even raising some scores just enough to pass.
Think about the consequences. Someone who earned a passing score may have been denied the opportunity to practice law, while someone who failed may have been admitted.
The Arkansas Supreme Court calls the allegations an unprecedented breach of public trust.
If these allegations are proven, how do you even begin to make things right for the people whose careers and lives may have been affected?
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Things Autists Do For Fun
YouTuber Geolocates Videos Using Airplane Sounds gizmodo.com/a-youtuber-figur…
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Rob McMillin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
TL;DR:
Every single possible data center ban passed.
Rob McMillin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
I find it bizarre that so many open-source projects have posted policies against AI-assisted contributions.
This will not last, because they'll be outcompeted by projects not afraid to use power tools to debug the code and and features. In crucial cases, AI-hostile projects will be forked to remove that restriction.
How can anybody not see this coming?
This dynamic is so obvious - and anti-AI rules so patently futile and doomed - that I have to conclude there is something like a religious frenzy going on.
I'm going to bend over backwards to be fair about this. There was a point earlier in the development of AI at which such restrictions might have made temporary sense, because model outputs were prone to enough noise and hallucination to be a net drag on productivity.
We're long past that now. And the obvious solution to merge-request queues flooded with AI-generated slop is to use AI to filter them so exercising human judgment on the remainder remains practical.
I'm not going to argue rights and wrongs here. One might just as well argue that it's wrong for sandcastles to collapse when the tide comes in.
The religious frenzy does bother me, though. Maybe less than it did 5 minutes ago when the mind infection was "wokeness", but a mob of crazies is never an edifying or reassuring sight.
I guess the most positive thing I can observe is that this phase of nuttery won't last long, because it can't. The selective pressure against it is too brutal.
It does leave me wondering what cause the nutters will attach themselves to next. Alas.
stay strapped
In which I read some tea leaves about the DSA congressional bloc quadrupling in size:
reason.com/2026/11/03/the-ds…
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Viewer discretion advised. This is a 3 minute real time replay of the Florida Learjet 60 crash, with the uncut ATC audio.
It pulls together public ADS-B, weather radar, satellite, dashcam and drone video onto one timeline.
Here's what we know as of Nov 2 based on OSINT and today's NTSB briefing:
- Went from ~35,000 ft to impact in ~78 seconds
- Flew into a string of thunderstorms
- Crew reported ice and turbulence; asked to climb then issued a mayday
- All nine aboard are deceased, with one person injured on the ground
- Plane debris spread across half a mile and still being recovered
- NTSB says there is some evidence the jet broke up before impact
- Weather at altitude is a key focus of the investigation; but the official cause is still TBD
I make a lot of 4D reconstructions and this is the most visceral and gut wrenching thing I’ve heard in a long time. My heart goes out to the families of those on board. Important to note that the details so far point to severe weather at altitude rather than a missile or air defense system.
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Rob McMillin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
The cool overnight temps have helped the trees develop some beautiful autumn colors.
Enjoy this short drive in western Pulaski County, Arkansas.
#arwx
Rob McMillin 🇺🇦🇮🇱 retweeted
Proposed trade: we make western NY its own state at the same time, creating two Republican senate seats to pair with the two new blue seats, and freeing western NY from downstates regulatory and tax burdens
"Mild-mannered" = "burn it all down", okay
Speaking as a mild-mannered, moderate, liberal Democrat who generally opposes revolutionary change, supports capitalism, etc., I would consider it political malpractice not to enact, and will work to primary Democrats who fail to full-throatedly support, both DC/PR statehood and Supreme Court expansion. If they *don’t* happen my p(doom) for America increases significantly.
So, yeah, 80% is good. (Musk’s #2 is just bullshit though.)
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