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If you represent someone convicted of murder, you owe them your best efforts. Today, the Supreme Court of Georgia affirmed a murder conviction where appellate counsel could not have taken more than 15 minutes to write the brief.
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The Statement of facts says the client was convicted, and helpfully pointed the court to the indictment.
Appellate counsel asked for an extension to write this, caused by a family medical emergency.
I am completely sympathetic to a family medical emergency. But you need to find someone else to do the work if you can't.
I am completely sympathetic to a family medical emergency. But you need to find someone else to do the work if you can't.
Drama right now in the Senate Elections Committee.
@Esmeralda_Soria is trying to prevent people who have been registered as sex offenders from running for public office with AB 2753.
She refuses to accept amendments from Committee Chair Scott Wiener which would only prevent those who are registered for life…🧵
@Esmeralda_Soria is trying to prevent people who have been registered as sex offenders from running for public office with AB 2753.
She refuses to accept amendments from Committee Chair Scott Wiener which would only prevent those who are registered for life…🧵
California has a three tiered sex offender registration system. Tier 3 is Lifetime, 2 is registration for 20 years, 1 is 10z
Asm. Soria wants this proposed law to apply to anyone registered.
Sen. Wiener says he’s recommending a no since she won’t take amendments for this to only apply to Tier 3….
Asm. Soria wants this proposed law to apply to anyone registered.
Sen. Wiener says he’s recommending a no since she won’t take amendments for this to only apply to Tier 3….
Wiener says state’s sex offender registration system has been broken.
He says it’s a tool for law enforcement to be able to monitor people who could cause a risk.
Wiener worries it’s broad and would prevent anyone from running for office…
He says it’s a tool for law enforcement to be able to monitor people who could cause a risk.
Wiener worries it’s broad and would prevent anyone from running for office…
*** Ontario Virus Update | June 30 ***
Hospitalizations due to COVID have increased from 9 to 18 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations remained stable at 13 and RSV increased from 3 to 5 so not quite finished for the season yet for those two.🧵1/
#Ontario #Virus #COVID
Hospitalizations due to COVID have increased from 9 to 18 in the last update. Influenza hospitalizations remained stable at 13 and RSV increased from 3 to 5 so not quite finished for the season yet for those two.🧵1/
#Ontario #Virus #COVID
Looking at age groups, those age 75+ and 65-74 tied for having the highest rates of hospitalization due to COVID and both increased since last update. The only other age group with hospitalizations was 50-64, no children this past update. 2/
For this epidemiological year 2025/2026 so far, adults 75+ had the highest rate of COVID hospital admissions, followed by age 65-74 and then age 0-4 in third place. Young children 0-4 had hospitalization rates twice as high as fourth place group age 50-64. 3/
Today's newsletter is about how the AI industry is losing - its economics don't work, its leaders can only sell its product through swindling and egregious forward-looking statements, and the largest financial institutions in the world are wising up.
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On Sunday, the Bank of International Settlements published a report about the health of the global economy, agreeing with me on the systemic risk posed by the data center overbuild, and how hyperscalers cutting capex will cause big downstream problems.
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The hyperscalers have created a time bomb for the entire economy — juicing up the revenues and stock prices of semiconductor firms, as well as their own valuations — and when their spending stops, it’ll unleash a historic carnage on the markets.
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"They've silenced her.
"This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth."
The "bizarre" moment @maitlis is forced to ask Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams to leave the studio.
"This is an attempt to punish someone who spoke the truth."
The "bizarre" moment @maitlis is forced to ask Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams to leave the studio.
@maitlis A spokesperson for Meta responded with the following statement:
"This former employee is trying to use the legal process to sell books, which an arbitrator already ruled broke the agreement she signed with the company when she accepted a large severance payment years ago." 1/2
"This former employee is trying to use the legal process to sell books, which an arbitrator already ruled broke the agreement she signed with the company when she accepted a large severance payment years ago." 1/2
@maitlis "Her book is divorced from reality, disparaging and riddled with false claims." 2/2
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "NY Mayor Mamdani said this past weekend that the Democratic Socialists could win anywhere in the USA. I'm not sure that makes sense.
Most Americans understand that New York City is not the United States of America by nearly every measure.
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Most Americans understand that New York City is not the United States of America by nearly every measure.
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Yet, the NY-based media gives everyone a different image, making it seem that what happens in NYC actually is like America and represents a lot about American thought and life.
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These Democratic Socialists who are getting elected in NYC could not get elected with their rhetoric in any other state in the Union in any numbers. It is the particular population mix in NY that makes those people successful, but it won’t work in almost the rest of the USA.
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1/ Today, more than 140 companies, most of which compete fiercely with one another, agreed to back the same stablecoin. The vehicle is @openstandard, a new and deliberately independent company launching Open USD, or OUSD, and positioning it not as anyone’s product but as neutral infrastructure for payments, trading and the internet economy.
2/ The backer list is impressive: Visa, Mastercard and American Express in the same consortium, alongside Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google, BNY Mellon and a long roster of banks and fintechs that have committed to integrating OUSD at launch. And the design is the tell: OUSD charges nothing to mint or redeem at any scale, sends nearly all of the reserve income back to the companies that distribute it rather than to the issuer, and is governed collectively rather than by whoever got an early start first.
3/ It goes live across Solana, Stellar, Base, Polygon and other chains later in 2026, with Bridge co-founder @zcabrams as interim CEO. It is the open standard that the economics of stablecoins have been pointing toward all along.
It really is in everywhere.
Here are some foods you might think could be freely eaten if you are avoiding foritfied flour.
But they all have folic acid in them.🧵
Duchy "organic" sausages:
Here are some foods you might think could be freely eaten if you are avoiding foritfied flour.
But they all have folic acid in them.🧵
Duchy "organic" sausages:
Chicken Teriyaki rice bowl
Quorn
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Democratic Socialists
Look at their goals.
Democratic socialists want to replace capitalism with an economic system where ordinary people collectively own and manage the key drivers of the economy.
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Look at their goals.
Democratic socialists want to replace capitalism with an economic system where ordinary people collectively own and manage the key drivers of the economy.
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They aim to dismantle corporate power, shift wealth and decision-making to the working class, and establish universal social and economic rights through democratic means. Official position of the Democratic Socialists of America.
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While the long-term vision calls for ending the profit-driven capitalist framework, in the short term, democratic socialists often advocate for massive redistributive policies similar to Scandinavian social democracies to immediately lessen inequality.
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Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "In a way, history repeats—Russia 1920, the USA 2026
In Russia 1920, Russia ended its revolution with two parties, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Both were socialist-oriented, but the first, the Bolsheviks, was pure Marxist-Communist,
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In Russia 1920, Russia ended its revolution with two parties, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Both were socialist-oriented, but the first, the Bolsheviks, was pure Marxist-Communist,
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desiring to impose fast change—a dictatorship controlling events and development—while the Mensheviks were more for civil liberties and gradual change and a more democratic system.
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The Duma, the legislature, had an absolute majority for the Mensheviks. The Bolsheviks (though their name indicated that they were the 'big' party) were a minority in the Duma, but what they did was organize street gangs to protest, and their Duma members disrupted,
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Getting LLMs to output valid JSON is one of the most common production tasks.
But most benchmarks can't tell if your model actually does it well.
Here's how the team at @LiquidAI built IFStruct to measure exactly this (and how they trained a 350M model to beat models 10x its size). 🧵
But most benchmarks can't tell if your model actually does it well.
Here's how the team at @LiquidAI built IFStruct to measure exactly this (and how they trained a 350M model to beat models 10x its size). 🧵
Most evals either do one of two things:
> force the model's output using hard rules
> score content quality alongside format.
The gap IFStruct fills is to answer the question:
"Can a model follow a schema when a user asks for it in plain language?"
> force the model's output using hard rules
> score content quality alongside format.
The gap IFStruct fills is to answer the question:
"Can a model follow a schema when a user asks for it in plain language?"
The dataset:
Schema requirements are presented in 6 styles
(because that's how users actually write them):
• Raw JSON Schema
• Annotated examples
• Conversational chat requests
• Flat path glossaries with field types
• Bullet points with explicit field paths
Schema requirements are presented in 6 styles
(because that's how users actually write them):
• Raw JSON Schema
• Annotated examples
• Conversational chat requests
• Flat path glossaries with field types
• Bullet points with explicit field paths
Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "Glenn Beck recently suggested that Israel is the core of the worldwide struggle for moral values and freedom, and that people need to choose sides now—and can do so publicly by wearing lapel pins with the U.S. flag and the Israeli flag.
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Just a thought, but Israel's problem is that it is a small country that makes for an easy victim, even more so as it is seen as a target for bullies because of ingrained cultural antisemitism that has affected Christian Europe like a disease for centuries,
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and infects Muslim nations today.
Think about all the other nations in the world that are small and can be bullied by the powerful—by an EU that wants to control every detail of life in every member nation to the benefit of France and Germany,
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Think about all the other nations in the world that are small and can be bullied by the powerful—by an EU that wants to control every detail of life in every member nation to the benefit of France and Germany,
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