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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023

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  • The article you didn’t read and the summary you didn’t read would have told you about his real challenger. It also would have told you he just joined the race.

    That he’s the choice of the party comes from a different article.

    Trump’s pardon of Cuellar comes just a day after national Republicans got their top recruit to challenge him in a seat made redder thanks to Texas’ mid-decade redistricting. Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina, a former Democrat who switched parties last year, announced his campaign for the 28th District as a Republican on Tuesday after months of speculation.





  • In what world does Henry Cuellar have a moral compass? Every aspect of this story is a demonstration of him lacking one.

    His opponent is a Democratic judge who switched parties, so the delta with Cuellar is pretty small. Anything where Cuellar could be the deciding vote (up to and including deciding who gets to be speaker) is an opportunity for Trump to call his debt in. Or he’ll just switch parties as soon as he’s elected. There’s no reason to think Cuellar is going to be a reliable Democratic vote.

    Hopefully he gets primaried so there’s a more reliable anti-Trump option, because right now it seems like a “heads I win, tails you lose” sort of decision.












  • Using the best models as synthetic data is mostly pointless. You’re just going to recreate all of its biases and failures in a degraded copy. The whole point of open source software is being able to analyze the source code to learn how it works and understand and ideally remove its weaknesses.

    Open weights doesn’t let you do that, and what research it enables is mostly just tinkering around the edges. If someone trained a network, but it kept saying racist stuff, you can’t figure out why it’s racist or rebuild it without the racism from weights alone. Just the weights is like having a binary. Maybe nice to have a gratis app to use, but not really open.