global investors will start to shun the US

Where would investors go instead? The UK, EU, and Japan already eliminated quarterly disclosure requirements.

I mean, plenty of us were hoping the shooter wasn’t antifa, and that’s not so different.

I don’t know, because filibusters are also an implicit threat. Plenty of bills from both parties never even come to vote because both sides know they will be filibustered.

When the majority allows a successful filibuster vote like those above, it’s because the majority wanted to put the minority “on the record”, for example as pro-trans.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-democrats-block-bill-ban-transgender-athletes-womens-sports-rcna194623

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/us/politics/senate-abortion-vote-republicans.html

To repeat:

This year Democrats filibustered an anti-trans bill, an anti-choice bill, and countless parts of the OBBB

Many parts of the OBBB were deemed subject to filibuster, and therefore didn’t pass.

If it weren’t for Democratic filibuster, all of these parts of the OBBB would have passed.

• Ban the use of Medicaid funds for gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors and adults

• Restrict coverage of abortions in many Obamacare plans

• Tax credit for contributions made to organizations that provide money for children to attend private schools

• Limit on income-driven student loan repayment options.

• Prohibit loan payments made while students are in medical or dental internships or residencies from counting toward forgiveness

• Authority for state and local officials to arrest noncitizens suspected of being unlawfully present in the U.S.

• Limit on preliminary injunctions or temporary restraining orders by requiring litigants to post potentially large bonds.

• Repeal of an E.P.A. regulation limiting vehicle emissions

• Automatic compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act for oil and gas lease sales

• Elimination of the Office of Financial Research funding

• Elimination of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board

• Requirement that electric vehicles used by the Postal Service are sold

And that’s only a partial list of what Democrats successfully filibustered.

This year Democrats filibustered an anti-trans bill, an anti-choice bill, and countless parts of the OBBB. You know this but prefer to complain about the only people who have done anything to stop MAGA.

When - not if - this bill dies, you can thank Democrats.

This bill, like many equally bad bills, will be inevitabily be killed by a Democratic filibuster.

Remember that if you are among those who think the filibuster should be abolished.

No, it doesn’t. Countries have no legal obligation to stop something happening outside their borders.

The Geneva convention does not authorize arrests of individuals. That’s what the ICC is for, but the US does not recognize the ICC.

If he can’t increase Tesla sales then it’s not a raise, It’s a pay cut.

You know what to do.

If you prefer active voice then “He died” is optimal.

Actually “He died” uses the active voice, whereas “He was murdered” uses the passive voice.

He also didn’t endorse her after the primary.

And did Mamdani send a scary message when he refused to back Harris?

A new model needs training data, it doesn’t matter if the data is new or old. But generally, a more advanced model needs more training data, so AI devs generally need at least some new training data.

No, the old model does not have the training data. It only has “model weights”. You can conceptualize those as the abstract rules that the old model learned when it read the training data. By design, they are not supposed to memorize their training data.

To outperform the old model, the new model needs more than what the old model learned. It needs primary sources, ie the training data itself. Which is going to be deleted.

It’s true that a new model can be initialized from an older one, but it will never outperform the older one unless it is given actual training data (not necessarily the same training data used previously).

Kind of like how you can learn ancient history from your grandmother, but you will never know more ancient history than your grandmother unless you do some independent reading.

They will need actual training data when they want to develop the next version of their LLM.

I doubt it. How would they keep disgruntled ex-employees from spilling the beans?