Even if some people don’t like Booker for his stances with respect to Israel, I think he has the energy required to actually effect the change demanded by Americans, which will still include progressive voices, whereas Schumer is using the leadership chair as if it was a retirement home like McConnell was.

If AOC wants to be President in 2028 (this is her choice and she hasn’t indicated anything yet), I think even a two-year stint as House Leader will give her enough limelight and any big achievements will be able to bridge her to becoming the Democratic nominee (over scumbags like Newsom), Ossoff is good too to potentially be set up in a similar fashion. She is presiding over some important committees already, but this is a potentially huge opportunity, not that I would be upset with Garcia, Khanna or Raskin becoming leader either.

Jeffries is set to become the first African American sworn in as House Majority Leader in January, I know many Democratic establishment don’t want to take away that moment from him, but this moment calls for way more than ceremony.

Republicans hate minorities, they can’t cope with being one again in Congress…

Don’t do it for me or anyone’s perceived vengeance. Holding corrupt people to account isn’t about getting even, we’ve got to do it for the sake of a fair system of rules for everybody, not a separate set of rules for the rich and connected.

Don’t hold back on prosecuting former Pres Clinton for his Epsteinery as much as anyone else involved.

Actually as it stands with Sanders caucusing with Democrats, then they can afford to lose Fetterman plus one rotating “objection of conscience” position for bills they want passed, like Turek for example, if he’s trying to take a bigoted stance on trans people once in a while. MS and AK will be bonus pickups.

I honestly think Turek won’t object on Medicare bill even if it implicitly includes help for trans people, unless pressed. Similar to how Republicans rotated between Rand, Murkowski and Collins to sometimes object to a bill just for show.

The protocol is not to get apathetic. Organize, draft plans, get smart, then…

• Enshrine Roe
• protect unions
• Lower costs by breaking up anticompetitive industry monopolies
• use War Powers Act’s mechanisms to restrain Trump’s military adventurism
• compel the release of Epstein files by legislating state standing to sue when the DoJ hampers state criminal investigations into Epstein-connected individuals and properties
• Throw Trump’s corrupt cronies in jail and ensure no bribes by their connected friends reach him in the pay-for-pardons scheme that was going on.
• allow individuals to sue when federal agents raid your home or detain you without warrant (enshrine Bivens)
• Legislatively end Citizens United
• Reform Medicare/aid into M4A
• Pass a federal wealth tax, or at minimum consider amounts above a $20M threshold borrowed against equities or assets as income for tax purposes.
• Implement universal childcare
• reform ICE to the point of it being unrecognizable to before.
• prepare to reform the Supreme Court in 2028.

No Kings shouldn’t stop now. This is only the beginning where the path begins to put America back together into a democracy, not a banana republic, and it won’t happen on its own devices. It takes active participation from people to shutout the fascist and billionaire influence.

It was closer to the other way around an hour ago but oh well, too bad. The fact that an alternative is even imaginable there…

Young Americans. Don’t forget tonight. Don’t ever forget what the last two years of evil that was allowed free reign in the USA and across the world.

Also. I didn’t hear a peep about Idaho this cycle, and even they’re going Independent?!?!? (Early results showed 47% I 40% R it’s no longer). Like yeah they are a bumfuck redneck state but even the guy they’re sending actually might support Bernie-style efforts to defeat anticompetitice oligarchies, billionaires, and might pass wealth taxes on them for deficit reasons…

Celebrate tonight, but deep down my thought is that if Cornyn was chosen, things might honestly be totally opposite in Texas still on all fronts. Which means the Ted Cruz replacement won’t be nearly as easy.

Good to hear some polls have been voted dry.

It’s retirees who have time to meander to the polls in their bumper stickered golf carts during the working hours. We need workers to, borrowing some sensational headline vocabulary, slam the polls as soon as the workday is done right up until close.

‘If I had known this man was going to behave this way, I would not have voted for him. And I regret voting for him,’ she added.

Where was Salemerón from 2016 to 2020? His behaviour should have been fully evident by then. This is a joke list but there were already signs the antichrist was in our realm, somehow not easily noticed.

Trump-connected folks bought oil stocks on Monday after they dropped the price by floating openness to peace talks, it’s time to raise them once again!

https://www.thestatesman.com/world/us-strikes-irans-qeshm-island-near-strait-of-hormuz-reports-1503658220.html

It was still hours away from Tuesday in the USA but I guess it was TACO Tuesday in the middle east…

What was

a $8.9 billion investment in US chipmaker Intel

Is now

the value of the government’s 9.9 percent equity stake crashed from almost $40 billion to well under $30 billion

, still an unrealized 200%+ gain, so I guess the government “bought the dip” in a way. Though why Republicans back their favourite President engaging in casual nationalization still baffles me. Maybe any Democratic president should employ a similar path to nationalization disguised as a bailout: to legislatively constrict the business model of any company they want to acquire at discount “market rates”, then restore something along previous regulatory conditions.

I agree that doing away with conventions like “9-to-5” would be a good idea, and just adjust schedules to whatever is healthiest rather than try to conform to a fixed system where not necessary. In China with a single timezone, the regions far west of Beijing supposedly just go about their day with offset schedules.

I’m saying that time zones should be arranged so that solar noon falls close to 12pm.

I suppose you might have meant that, but you did say in the earlier reply, quote, “Solar noon should be at 12pm” which would suggest each city would have its own noon so that it can be true for most people. Maybe I’m being too literal bordering on facetious, so I’ll stop there. Sorry for my misinterpretation of your comment.

The fact that Stevens would want a Republican over this guy I think most would conclude is a Stevens problem not a Democrat problem.

(People who really know would be aware its an AIPAC problem)

We used to do that in the 19th century before standard time was a thing with railways. Though scheduling an online meeting with anyone outside your city would be hell, for example a 9:00am meeting in New York City would be 8:48am in Boston and 9:12am in DC.

You should have also have a read on Japan’s time system before 1873 in the Meiji period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_clock

It breaks the day and night in 6 parts each. These parts are longer in summer and shorter in winter, corresponding to a changing length of the work day, which is what you were describing. Certain aspects were retained in Japanese vocabulary like 午 still used to represent noon like in afternoon (but using the standard 24h clock), or the word for snack derived from the number 8 because that was what represented the time 2/3s of the way through the day when labourers of the day typically took a break and had some tea and a light meal.

Thing is, I already am…

The price did grow several times in size, but even in the 4 to 5 digit price range, you or smaller companies can have a pretty competitive performing open source model as the frontier models from earlier this year and they are keeping pace.

Obviously I’d like the speculation bubble to end and the DRAM and GPU cartels broken up, as it’s late-stage capitalism where the existing regulations being unenforced on big tech because the regulators are in on it that’s the problem, not so much the AI tech itself. (Don’t get me wrong, the tech has bad sides to it too like stealing artwork, data centre environmental impact and whatnot, but just speaking to the cause of the component greedflation).

With an iGPU results are going to be very slow. Most promising things I have heard of so far is Mixture of Experts type models, if you have an 8GB card you might be able to run Qwen 3.8-35B-A3B-MoE which I think is the most capable for that hardware.

There are websites that can suggest a few for your specific hardware, I assume some are vibecoded and are only occasionally updated to the latest models, so take it as you will. See this Lemming’s comment. And [email protected] is where I think most of the discussion around new development with Local LLMs happens here on Lemmy.

Local LLMs are the way to go on AI, they can’t suddenly change the model up on you. And also, I guess Anthropic just wants their models to be more useless ahead of going public? Because I presume people that want to use AI, who don’t care where they send their data to, but don’t want to nagged about how they can’t do benign programming and analysis tasks, will just choose another model provider.