ICE paid CoreCivic $495 million for a prison in Minnesota that's only worth $75 million. Asked why, CoreCivic said, “The federal government ultimately determined the sale price following its assessment process.” CoreCivic donated half a million dollars to Trump.

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The concern about humanities subjects being "useless" strikes me as largely fake, the real concern people have is that students can get these degrees without necessarily actually mastering the subjects. www.slowboring.com/p/the-humani...

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Here's the thing: LLMs are actually *great* at doing this sort of thing if you don't prompt an outcome. Like for instance by doing this: "A corpus of 131 published critiques by other economists was supplied first, so known objections were tested rather than rediscovered."

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The fascist internationale is very much real and both left wingers and liberals should seriously think of their struggle here in the US as part of a global struggle.

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and I would walk 500 kilometers and I would walk 500 more

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