Defensor Pacis 📯

@defpac.bsky.social

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German citizen with ties to the US. Mainly here to follow good people.

AI text: In December 2022, President Biden signed legislation forcing a compromise to avert a national rail strike that threatened severe economic disruption. The deal, based on a September 2022 tentative agreement, imposed a 24% raise over five years and significant bonuses, but lacked the 7 paid sick days demanded by unions, providing only one additional personal day. Key details of the Biden railroad union compromise included: Forced Agreement: Congress passed, and Biden signed, a bill utilizing the Railway Labor Act to codify a contract, making a strike illegal. Contract Terms: The agreement included a 24% wage increase (2020–2024), with an average $11,000 retroactive payout. Lack of Sick Leave: While the deal improved health care premiums and attendance policy flexibility, it failed to include the paid sick leave that several unions requested, which was a major point of contention. Political Fallout: While 8 of 12 unions approved the deal, 4 voted it down. Biden was criticized by some workers for removing their right to strike, although he maintained the agreement was necessary to prevent an economic crisis. Post-Deal Actions: Following the forced agreement, the Biden administration continued to pressure rail companies, leading to some, but not all, companies later adopting paid sick leave policies through separate negotiations.
Screenshot meiner "chat settings" auf bsky
Screenshot of the Google AI response to "can the US government be sued for defamation" ... and the answer is: not really, and if at all, it is hard. Very hard.
Screenshot of "Deleted Account" information from the bsky DMs/chat list.
O’Brien silenced him by a movement of his hand. ’We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. You will learn by degrees, Winston. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation — anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenthcentury ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.’ From 1984 by Orwell
“But what I'm able to do with AI is deliver to them a much more thorough, a much better piece in the end because what I end up doing is I write, I write my entire article without using any AI at all. And then I have a set of very, very detailed, I think this actually matters, but very detailed, very thorough prompts. That I ask the AI and I say basically, I've trained the AI that I use on Techdirt articles, first of all. So I'm saying I'm writing for Techdirt. This is what a standard Techdirt article is like. This is what the audience is like. This is what they expect. They're not expecting the kinds of things that other publications might expect. And then I sort of say, I need you to be a tough but fair critic of what I've written.” “Go through this and tell me, where is it weakest? Where are people most likely to be able to challenge what I'm saying? How can I strengthen those arguments? I have a bunch of other things in the prompt, and the AI will go through it and say, oh, really interesting things. It'll pick up on things like, you mentioned such and such in the opening, that feels like the key thing that you're going to talk about, but then you don't mention it again until the 18th paragraph. Maybe it should be moved up. Or this argument feels a little bit weak and you're rushing through it. I think you need to emphasize things, things that a good editor will do and that my human editors will do, but if I can take care of that before I even hand it off to them, I feel like then they can focus on things that are even more productive as well. And so it's actually made me a much better writer and it sort of continually drills into my head like, think about this, how do you do a better intro?” From Techdirt: A History Of Techdirt, And More, 24. Jun 2025 https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/techdirt/id940871872?l=en-GB&i=1000714400968&r=3868 This material may be protected by copyright. From Techdirt: A History Of Techdirt, And More, 24. Jun 2025
“So, what is agentic AI mean? In very simple words, and this is gross oversimplification of things. But if my LLM is given the capability of making decisions autonomously by providing it memory in some way and access to a lot of different tools like external APIs to take actions, that becomes an autonomous agent. So my LLM can reason, can plan, knows what has happened in the past and then can take an action through the use of some tools. That is an AI agent, very simplistically put. Now think about it in terms of rank.” From Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers: Abhinav Kimothi on Retrieval-Augmented Generation, 18. Jun 2025 https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/abhinav-kimothi-on-retrieval-augmented-generation/id120906714?i=1000713469955&l=en-GB&r=3121 This material may be protected by copyright.
Screenshot from amazon com showing 8646 Impeach Biden TShirts
Cute cartoon bunny awaiting its tariff reward
Scene from Shrek where the prince tells his underlings that some of them will die, and that he is willing to make this sacrifice.
Overall, men voted for Trump by 11 points (43 percent Harris – 54 percent Trump), a 9 point swing from 2020 when Trump won by 2 points. Women voted for Harris by 6 points (51 percent Harris – 45 percent Trump), a 4 point swing from 2020, when Biden won these voters by 10 points. Americans under the age of 45 voted for Harris by a 2-point margin (49 percent Harris – 47 percent Trump), a 17 point swing from 2020 when Biden won these voters by 19 points (58 percent Biden – 39 percent Trump). Men under the age of 45 voted for Donald Trump in the 2024 election by an 8-point margin (44 percent Harris – 52 percent Trump), a 16-point shift from 2020, where the group voted for Biden by an 8-point margin. Women under 45 also shifted 5 points, voting for Harris by a margin of 10-points (52 percent Harris – 42 percent Trump), where they voted for Biden by a 15-point margin.
Wahrsagerin blickt in ihre Kugel und sagt dem Kunden: "Sie sagten, Sie sind bei der FDP. Ich sehe hier keine FDP".
Meme with J6 QAnon Shaman on top "I did my own research" and Thor/Banner below "Or did you just look up information that confirms your bias .."
Screenshot of edit section of my bsky profile
screenshot of the bottom icons bar when skeeting, with the "+" sign for creating a thread
Top photo: a sniffing dog sniffing glasses with sniffing material. Bottom photo: a zoomed in nose of a dog and his eyes looking at you
Screenshots of insane statements from voters who supposedly voted Trump/AOC
Some fine young ladies resolving a dispute with a misogynist asshole.
Screenshot of a forum post by memzilla: I'll bet her parents came over on the Horst Vessel.
Governor Tim Walz: Today marks the 41st anniversary of raising my right hand to serve in the National Guard – one of the best decisions I ever made. To all our service members: Thank you for your continued sacrifice for our state and nation.
POTUS Lisa Simpson looking like Kamala Harris.
Tweet by Marisa Miller @MarisaMillerCA Will 'Biden out' camp provide actual Harris numbers that are better? Real ones in swing states. W 3rd party candidates. Cut w race/gender tax, not running on own performance, add youth, cut w trump's 'willie brown's lover' Show those numbers! That's your case. Make it or drop it
Cartoon by Clay Bennett, showing the US constitution cut to pieces and rearranged as crown.
Ari Fleischer on Twitter: f Biden resigns the presidency or if he doesn’t run, one person who has a lot of explaining to do is Kamala Harris. She has a weekly lunch with him. She sees him regularly. Why did she gaslight us? Why does she tell us how sharp Biden is? I get she may be loyal, but she’s the tip of the cover-up spear.