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Backlash is already here. Venues are cancelling. Desperation move made by a non-politician.
Too bad. Smart guy. Had some good ideas. Could make the tough call. Stupid politician.
If you want to rip Trump for gas policy, rip him for trying to explain that gas prices “don’t matter.”
They matter to the average American– a lot.
Petroleum or its by-products are in over 6,000 products according to the U. S. Department of Energy. If the price of a barrel of oil goes up, it reverberates throughout the economy.
Landman | Tommy Explains Why Even Wind Turbines Depend on the Oil Industry (S1, E3) | Paramount+
And years later, two FBI agents are indicted for lying about their involvement with the Hunter Biden laptop.
Two ex-FBI officials charged with allegedly lying about Hunter Biden probe: DOJ
Support of Putin in any way is bad for the free world and bad for Russia.
I used to work with an older attorney, he’d be in his 80s now. For two years in the late 1970s, his firm tried to establish an office in Moscow. The CCCP gave him a party contact, a young KGB officer named Vladimir Putin. The attorney said that Putin was the most corrupt person he’d ever met, in any posting, in any country.
Apart from that, he’s a war criminal who is desperately trying to revive the Soviet Union. On a very short list of America’s true enemies, he’s near the top.
We’ve cozied up to other murderous thugs before, but Putin is at the bottom of that dung heap.
And he’s bad for Russia. 1.57 million Russian casualties (per Ukraine) since the start of the special military clusterf. The BBC estimates between 512k and 626k killed. JP Morgan Chase’s center for Geopolitics estimates 875,000 wounded back in May, 2026.
Putin Nears a Prize: Restoring Ties With the U.S. While Giving Up Nothing – The New York Times
Trump faces fresh questions over ties to ‘humanitarian’ Putin
Nordstrom Rack is coming back to Union Square:
Nordstrom Rack returning to San Francisco in Union Square
Also returning are Lids, Los Angeles Apparel, Kith, Zara. A few others have already returned, including AT&T, Uniqlo, McMullen and TheRealReal.
OMG, my niece is in that idiot’s school district….
A generation ago, the head of the NEA (one of the two major teacher’s unions) stated that it was the responsibility of the gifted students to teach the slower students. Oh. And I thought it was to learn.
And he unilaterally voided the will of the voters to eliminate the death penalty. Apparently, the parole application of Sirhan Sirhan will be unopposed. https://www.wsj.com/articles/rfk-and-the-california-death-penalty-11629925897
There are 563 death row inmates in California. And Governor Newsom is considering commuting all of their sentences. He had first imposed a moratorium on executions in 2019.
Gov. Gavin Newsom reportedly mulls commuting all California death sentences
Didn’t know that Newsom had a foster brother (Steven Wesley Ashby) who was paroled from San Quentin in 1996…
A Pew poll in August, 2026 show that 66% of Americans now favor the death penalty.
Most Americans Favor Death Penalty for Those Convicted of Murder | Pew Research Center
Union Square may finally be back:
Union Square was written off. Is it finally back? | The San Francisco Standard
The Gallo family will open La Piazza, an Italian espresso and pizza bar, in a 900-square-foot kiosk near Powell Street, Union Square, in April. Menu highlights include sourdough pizza, focaccia sandwiches, house-made pastries, and espresso from Equator Coffee.
Here’s what is taking over SF Union Square’s most contentious food kiosk
A truly bipartisan issue. Most Republicans, Governor Newsom, Planned Parenthood and the California Teachers Association are all against higher taxes on California billionaires.
They might support it at the national level, Newsom has said so. And interestingly, the only issue that Kamala Harris really achieved traction on in 2024 was on raising taxes for the wealthy.
Top Democrats join the wealthiest in fighting a California tax increase on billionaires
AOC ran on the lack of affordability in NYC. So did Mamdani, seven years later. She didn’t like Speaker Pelosi and vice-versa.
Today, Pelosi adores AOC. Supposedly, she is the odds-on favorite to win the Dem nomination over Kamala, Newsom, and Buttigieg. That Ossoff and Shapiro (winners in swing states) aren’t even mentioned says something.
This article, incidentally, is not complimentary of NEwsom (“smooth operator” “easy liar” “the only thing authentic about him is his ambition” “multiple personality disorder.”) Also mentions his odd pride over his “dreadful performance at the helm of the Golden State.”
Buttigieg basically has no chance. A June Emerson poll registered his base of support with black voters at zero percent, a non-starter for a Dem.
The stars may be aligned for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in 2028
Why do some people refer to it as “super intelligence” versus “artificial intelligence?”The distinction between artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial superintelligence (ASI) is important, particularly because the terms are increasingly used in discussions about the future of technology, business, and society. The simplest explanation is that artificial intelligence describes the technology, while artificial superintelligence describes a hypothetical level of capability that technology might eventually achieve.Three levels of artificial intelligence
Researchers commonly distinguish among three broad categories:
1. Artificial Narrow Intelligence (ANI)AI designed to perform particular tasks, sometimes at superhuman levels.
Examples include today’s ChatGPT, legal research platforms, image-recognition systems, and specialized medical diagnostic tools. Although modern AI systems can perform many different tasks, they still have important limitations.2. Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)AI capable of performing a broad range of intellectual tasks at approximately human levels or better, with the ability to learn, reason, and adapt across unfamiliar situations.
There is no universally accepted definition of AGI, and whether current frontier AI systems qualify remains contested.3. Artificial Superintelligence (ASI)
A hypothetical AI that substantially surpasses the best human experts across virtually every important intellectual domain.
This could include scientific discovery, technological innovation, strategic planning, mathematical reasoning, and creative problem-solving.
No AI system has been demonstrated to meet this definition.Why are some people already calling it superintelligence?
I see four explanations.
First, AI already exceeds human capabilities in specific areas. Systems can process enormous quantities of data, recognize subtle patterns, and outperform human specialists on certain benchmarks. Some commentators confuse extraordinary performance in a specific discipline with general superintelligence.
Second, the terminology reflects expectations about the future. Some technology leaders believe that AI development will progress from today’s systems to AGI and eventually to ASI. They sometimes discuss superintelligence as an anticipated destination rather than an existing reality.
Third, the term has marketing value. Superintelligence sounds much more revolutionary than artificial intelligence. It can attract investors, customers, talent, and media attention. That doesn’t automatically make its use misleading, but the distinction between a research objective and a demonstrated capability matters.
Fourth, the boundaries are genuinely difficult to define. Human intelligence isn’t a single measurable capability. An AI system might outperform the world’s best mathematicians while still struggling with tasks requiring physical intuition, judgment, or adapting reliably to unfamiliar environments.
A useful distinction for the legal industry
Consider how these categories could translate into law-firm work.
Capability Illustrative Legal Application Today’s AI Reviews contracts, summarizes discovery, drafts documents, identifies potential conflicts, and supports legal research AGI Could independently handle a broad variety of unfamiliar legal and business problems at human-expert levels, with appropriate oversight ASI Could potentially develop legal strategies, commercial insights, or approaches to complex disputes that exceed the capabilities of even the most accomplished human experts The second and third examples describe hypothetical future capabilities, not independently established features of today’s legal technology.
My perspective
The most important distinction isn’t whether AI can do something better than an individual human. It already can in certain domains.
The consequential question is whether AI can consistently outperform the best human experts across a very broad range of domains, including unfamiliar problems requiring sophisticated judgment.
That is a much higher threshold.
Artificial intelligence and autonomy aren’t the same thing. An extremely intelligent system doesn’t necessarily have to operate independently, and a highly autonomous AI agent isn’t necessarily superintelligent.One question I find particularly interesting for professional services: If an AI system could develop a better litigation strategy than a team of elite trial lawyers, would clients still insist that human partners exercise final judgment?
That question gets to the heart of how increasingly capable AI could transform law firms, their value propositions, and ultimately what clients are willing to pay for.
Great story. While at Penn State, Urschel missed a practice. The coach looked in his chart showing which players had classes at what time. Color coded for underclass or post graduate classes. The coach saw a different color code, one that he had never seen before — so he asked his staff what class Urschel was taking. He was told “John’s not taking that class. He is teaching a post grad class in astrophysics.”
While still playing college ball, he had a paper published on two bodies in space orbiting a central point.
