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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • Recent article that explains why the US Marshals would be a useful landmark:

    Here’s One Big Way You’ll Know if We’re in a Presidential Dictatorship

    The fundamental weakness of courts is that their orders have force only if people, including government officials, obey them.

    [T]he increased procedural complexity of criminal contempt proceedings combined with the specter of presidential pardons renders criminal contempt an improbable recourse for the judiciary.

    That leaves civil contempt, which, as noted, authorizes the imposition of fines, imprisonment, or both to compel compliance with judicial orders.

    [T]he primary traditional function of the U.S. Marshals Service is to act as the enforcement arm of the courts.

    Should the attorney general order the marshals and BOP not to enforce a judicial contempt order against an administration official, that would be an open repudiation of the rule of law and a plain declaration of presidential dictatorship.







  • I wonder: Has this happened with anything else?

    Where an older generation struggled to understand at all, a middle generation adapted to it early enough to witness all of the quirks, and then a later generation was born into an already-smoothed out system — and they all lived simultaneously?

    Seems like a uniquely modern thing, but then again agriculture and clothing and currency have all had periods of rapid change in the past.

    Like were there Generation F dudes out there like “omg we’re the only ones who understand knitting frames smh”?










  • Isn’t this still subject to the same problem, where a system can lie about its inference chain by returning a plausible chain which wasn’t the actual chain used for the conclusion? (I’m thinking from the perspective of a consumer sending an API request, not the service provider directly accessing the model.)

    Also:

    Any time I see a highly technical post talking about AI and/or crypto, I imagine a skilled accountant living in the middle of mob territory. They may not be directly involved in any scams themselves, but they gotta know that their neighbors are crooked and a lot of their customers are gonna use their services in nefarious ways.