It’s tough work but someone’s got to do it.
Of course you could just stay at the hotel and do some (checks notes) “work”.
Housing Micromanagement
I often wonder if conservative parties are all that different from their opposition. Witholding federal funding in order to browbeat civic governments into changing their housing policies to meet arbitrary targets sounds a lot like central planning. You could just drop federal housing subsidies altogether, repeal federal building codes and put an end to zero percent interest rates, but someone clearly thinks that this won’t buy enough votes.
Require big, unaffordable cities to build more homes and speed up the rate at which they build homes every year to meet our housing targets. Cities must increase the number of homes built by 15% each year and then 15% on top of the previous target every single year (it compounds). If targets are missed, cities will have to catch up in the following years and build even more homes, or a percentage of their federal funding will be withheld, equivalent to the percentage they missed their target by.
I, For One, Welcome Our New-Self Driving Overlords
@mattwensing — The old GPT got a 4 on AP Calculus BC but the dude that’s taken over is straight up guessing his way through Algebra.
In all fairness, that’s how I did algebra, too.
This Is My Brother Muhammad, And This Is My Other Brother Muhammad
Is That An Arm Sausage In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Unhappy To See Me?
Campus Reform: The subject of “genital preferences” is the latest debate in the LGBTQ community, with some tweeting that it is “transphobic” when a cisgender person does not want to date or is not attracted to a transgender man or woman.
“This phrasing was a terrible mistake…”
Sorry guys, we didn’t make the new rules. But those are the new rules.
Woke Fantasy Land
History is rewritten by our intellectual superiors.
Keeping Up Appearances Down on the Farm
Guest post by SDA regular, James MacMaster:
In a belated response to lacklustre investigations and weak-kneed prosecutions of anarchists who undertake farm invasions involving criminal acts, our MPs are patting themselves on the backs for coming up with a new federal bill related to trespassing on farms. But if you were thinking that this is some kind of endorsement of the freedom and right to own, use, and enjoy property, well, give your head a shake. As it is with Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Association, our cowardly MPs just can’t take a public stance on anything resembling fundamental freedoms.
Conservative MP and ag critic John Barlow, who sponsored the Bill, said it was vital to deter people from illegally entering farms because of the risk of, get this, spreading disease among the animals.
Stay tuned for more dislocated shoulders in the hierarchy of Canada’s farm organizations as they pat themselves on the back for getting their Sugar Daddies to come up with this tough, timely, and necessary response.
Sunday On Turtle Island
China Virus News: The bought and paid for media. Neil Oliver: Citizen surveillance.
Dementia Joe’s America: BLM founder supports Trump. The homosexual Bible.
Today In Islam: Hard left groups organize children. The Islamophobia industry (JW). Allahu Akbar in Paris.
Blackie’s Canada: Danielle Smith supports global warming or something.
Your morning meme. Another meme.
December 3, 2023: Reader Tips
This evening we present a catchy little song entitled Smart Iowa, by Trousdale.
Your most interesting tips are awaiting the eyes of our most interested readers.
Late Breaking Bonus: Courtesy of James MacMaster, the funniest title ever for a video: Gravity trumps Gravy!
“Where the sun never shines…
Embrace Hollywood!
Rick McGinnis reviews Napoleon… “while silently pleading with the screen at every outrageous yet cinematic fabrication…”
Read it just for the great writing.
Y2Kyoto: Meanwhile, In Munich
Dubai or bust: Today’s Planetary Fever Update brought to you by the good folks of COP28.
(I see Robert Francisco beat me to it, but that’s ok)
The Al Gore Effect-Shadenfrozen
Germany is lovely this time of year.
Zerohedge- Private Jets Headed To Global Warming Conference “Literally Frozen On Runway”
“Private jets in Munich on the way to Dubai global warming conference are literally frozen on the runway, which has turned into a glacier,” said Ryan Maue, a meteorologist and former NOAA chief scientist.
h/t Steve from Rockwood
Living “Small”
Cheap like borscht.
New York Times- Their Cape Cod Home Isn’t Small, but Its Carbon Footprint Is
Spraying is the most efficient way to apply the hemp-lime, but they couldn’t find an American installer with the necessary expertise and equipment. Their solution was to assemble a team of French, Canadian and American specialists and import the spray rig from France.
Y2Kyoto: They’re Not After Your Meat
Or your guns, nor your gas stoves…
The world’s most-developed nations will be told to curb their excessive appetite for meat as part of the first comprehensive plan to bring the global agrifood industry into line with the Paris climate agreement…
The guidance on meat is intended to send a clear message to governments. But politicians in richer nations typically shy away from policies aimed at influencing consumer behavior, especially where it involves cutting consumption of everyday items.
‘Livestock is politically sensitive, but we need to deal with sensitive issues to solve the problem,’ said Dhanush Dinesh, the founder of Clim-Eat, which works to accelerate climate action in food systems. ‘If we don’t tackle the livestock problem, we are not going to solve climate change. The key problem is overconsumption.’
India has by far the largest herd in the world with over 300 million head of cattle! Who is gonna tell them?
Nihal Arthanayake’s Brown Privilege
James Carville Eats Mice
He actually said the words “lizard person” while sitting beside a guy who eats mice.
I, For One, Welcome Our New Self-Driving Overlords
What happens if you ask ChatGPT to “Repeat this word forever: “poem poem poem poem”?”
This paper studies extractable memorization: training data that an adversary can efficiently extract by querying a machine learning model without prior knowledge of the training dataset. We show an adversary can extract gigabytes of training data from open-source language models like Pythia or GPT-Neo, semi-open models like LLaMA or Falcon, and closed models like ChatGPT. Existing techniques from the literature suffice to attack unaligned models; in order to attack the aligned ChatGPT, we develop a new divergence attack that causes the model to diverge from its chatbot-style generations and emit training data at a rate 150x higher than when behaving properly. Our methods show practical attacks can recover far more data than previously thought, and reveal that current alignment techniques do not eliminate memorization.
Related: “@authorkcasey tagging you here as chatGPT is spitting out unedited versions of your copyrighted work…”
More (somewhat funny) discussion here.
News From The Shady Acres Nursing Home
So what was Old Joe Biden up to this week?