I have not previously disclosed this to protect our child’s privacy and safety, but in recent days it has become clear that tabloid media intends to do so

Yeah, five months passed without anyone in the media caring about her or this baby. She got impatient and wanted to yell it from the rooftops whole blaming the media for the attention seeking behavior.

Do you really need pagent for that versus just ssh-agent?

Note that it says article (and headline) were updated. At the time the article just had the State department document about 400m in armored Tesla. Then after initial backlash the document was amended to say armored electric vehicles. Then eventually the Trump administration declared this was not a thing and to the extent it was a thing, it was Biden.

Now it could be as they say, but it is also the Trump administration, that isn’t too big on the truth. So hard to say if this was a mishap about a misleading document, or something that was fired off without the broader approval of the PJ2025 folk and it getting killed after coming to light and needing a cover story as to why things didn’t get close to as blatantly corrupt as it sounded.

Even with windows, putty is a bit weird now. Windows comes with ssh/scp now …

Oh look: https://www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g-s1-48571/trump-administration-order-400-million-worth-of-armored-teslas

They don’t have to take it away, they can just set up the backend to blackhole those requests. So presence of the report issue facility does not imply they actually will ever even see the issue.

Don’t forget the revelation that USAID was looking into Starlink in a critical way…

I think that really underestimates how corruption would work. Tesla might make a show of a “government edition” software loadout, whether because they had to or even as theater to pretend they catered to government requirements when in actuality it’s largely the same but maybe with some branding.

In terms of pricing, I’m sure that any actually “bulletproof” vehicles cost plenty. Which is why even departments like the DHS have largely unarmored fleets. Tesla wouldn’t meet those standards, but the marketing might be sufficient to serve as a bullet point over the current non-armored vehicles they use.

The MAGA crowd mostly needs to give their truck gender-affirming care by giving them truck nuts.

This administration is “Oops! All trust fund babies”

They don’t have that much of a majority. They can impeach but there’s enough Democrats in the Senate to block it.

Wow, old comment.

1099 is income, not a deduction.

Vance is basically the Cheney, doing a lot more than anyone really notices and he might want to keep it that way.

Based on some stuff I’ve seen, Vance seems more the leader of Project 2025, and leading the mechanism that churns out those executive orders for Trump to rubber stamp. Trump is an odious man, but watching him sign the executive orders just calls to mind all those stereotypical images of a doddering clueless leader blindly obliging whatever the evil vizier tells him to. He barely is aware of the material of those orders (the details are too boring for him to care), but he knows they stroke his ego when he signs them.

In this scenario, it’s not that he would disagree, it’s that he’d want the appearance of “fixing” things that he would blame on Musk, even as he fails to materially undo the main part of his work. It’s not about reality, it’s about the story he’d want.

Trump is the once great man undone by his advanced age and resulting diminished mental capacity, but we don’t accuse the great MAGA Trump of deliberate misbehavior. Things need to be blamed, and Trump is the face of everything and as such makes a terrible target for blame. Musk is the malicious manipulator that took advantage of that to advance whatever things PJ2025 needs to blame away. Musk is some obnoxious person with more money than anyone, a foreigner, advancing these leftist electric cars and solar, and is someone no MAGA fanatics asked for. Just the perfect person to throw under the bus to fit the narrative to take Vance from some background character in the minds of the MAGA fanatics to a worthy hero successor to what Trump was “supposed” to be for them.

Maybe they do some token unwinding of low priority stuff, or just some theater to make it look like they did.

Of course, I’m not sure if Vance actually wants the spotlight or prefers to lead from behind the curtain. So not sure if he’d advance himself or advance some other convenient face of the movement so he can keep eyes off of him.

I would rather have 50,000,000,000bps

I’m sure that in in 2025 those are available in every corner drug store

It doesn’t see “strawberry” or “straw” or “berry”. It’s closer to think of it as seeing 🍓, an abstract token representing the same concept that the training data associated with the word.

Except many many experts have said this is not why it happens. It cannot count letters in the incoming words. It doesn’t even know what “words” are. It has abstracted tokens by the time it’s being run through the model.

It’s more like you don’t know the word strawberry, and instead you see: How many 'r’s in 🍓?

And you respond with nonsense, because the relation between ‘r’ and 🍓 is nonsensical.

Yes, at some point the meme becomes the training data and the LLM doesn’t need to answer because it sees the answer all over the damn place.

It doesn’t even see the word ‘strawberry’, it’s been tokenized in a way to no longer see the ‘text’ that was input.

It’s more like it sees a question like: How many 'r’s in 草莓?

And it spits out an answer not based on analysis of the input, but a model of what people might have said.