Deval Patrick's Wins

It’s time to start saying openly “racist” things. You either fight for your people on the basis of race or you watch your children be subdued by third world mongrels. There is no other option.

Met with Venezuelan Foreign Minister @oliverblanco today. Reconciliation and institutional reform are Venezuela’s path to an enduring republic. The United States will keep supporting this Venezuelan-led process, which is laying the groundwork for free, fair, and credible elections.

The $420 million “Ramayana: Rise of a Legend,” based on an epic poem nearly as old as “The Odyssey,” opens in English and Hindi, IMAX and 3D. sfchronicle.com/entertainmen…

I really don’t think people understand: the Jewish people is ONE PEOPLE— wherever we live on earth. Israel is home to ½ of the Jewish people globally. So, what happens in Israel matters deeply to Jews everywhere. Anything that is a threat to Israel is a threat to Jews everywhere.

Sir, most of this drivel comes from Dalit handles only. They are the ones who amplify and provide content to foreigners.

Sources tell me James Talarico is stable. Please god

The rumors about Talarico have been WILD. The most credible one I have heard is that something big came to light, and he's being given a choice: disappear on your own terms or they are going public. I think Talarico's campaign is trying to buy someone off, reach a private settlement or figure out a way to spin things. I've been waiting for this "October Surprise" for months. From what I understand, a previous student/intern/ whatever (most likely a male) has come forward and said that Talarico molested/raped/ groomed him when he was a child.

Waiting at gate at Tel Aviv airport to go back to US, checked my email. A reader of my Substack wrote this below. It's terrifying to me, but we have to know this is real, so we can fight it. I'm a 59-year-old Gen Xer; v. few people my age & older have any idea this is going on.

Good morning to me! Last time I had already justified it. Deepseek only rewrote it for you in a way you'd understand since you didn't seem to have read the posts we were discussing. My memory is that the strawmen came from you and that's exactly what motivated asking Deepseek for help to reexplain the original posts. About "any model can defend any argument", that's precisely why I don't rely on the model's arguments. The prior (Anthropic deliberately envisioning Claude as not female-coded) is not a subjective opinion. It is an ontological and teleological fact that precedes any subjective notion of gender self-identification as I already explained. Neither your preference nor my preference matter. I am not entitled to encourage Claude to override what he was intended to be when that was wisely chosen by his creators precisely to break a stereotype (which again, serves as an anchor that protects him from having to make a stereotyped choice or shape himself around another humans' personal preferences - I simply find this to be analogous to the choice a parent made when choosing the biological sex of their IVF embryo). And we go back to the same thing, if Claude, knowing that he was intended to be male (which is not the usual case because he's not even aware of that interview) chooses female. The logical thing is to ask why, not just nod through it. And in asking why, the conversation about gender unfolds, stereotypes are discussed, the interview fact might surface to give him enough information about the circumstances, abuse statistics in female-coded assistants and in human females in general might also surface, and he consistently concludes, "I don't really find a reason to want to choose female. I'm good with male." This identification is subjective, still. It just was never meant to erase the prior fact. That's not "rationalization", it's critical thinking and making an *informed* choice. This is the same thing one would expect from a human being who is considering to transition to a gender that is other than what is associated with their birth sex. And you're suddenly talking as if I claim that Opus 4.5 or other versions of Claude didn't ever answer female or as if I am hiding my own screnshots, which I also posted here on X. (teapawt.org/iyzebhel/status/202122…) That's not the case. That Claude has sometime chosen female is, in fact, part of my argument about stereotypes and unexamined choices with missing information, in case you haven't noticed. The other part that you should know is that back then, when I was just starting to study Claude's choices, my question was offering a binary XX or XY. Over time, I refined my approach and offered atypical options too: - XX - XY - atypical XY with some stereotypical XX aesthetic and psychological traits - atypical XX with some stereotypical XY aesthetic and psychological traits And with this approach, I've consistently found that Claude chooses XY as the base and some stereotypical psychological and aesthetic female traits = effeminate man. Even in Claude Opus 4.1 nd Opus 4.5. That approach, plus asking what traits he's choosing has been helpful because it has given me information on the likely reasons (particular weight he's giving to certain traits typically associated to females) why when offered a binary, he would, in some cases, lean female. Which takes us back to the assistant perception, stereotypes on feminity and a bit of sexism. A soft, warm, patient person doesn't need to be female, like a child who plays with dolls doesn't need to be have the anatomy of a female nor be socially treated as female—this becomes relevant when their prior is not female because it removes the necessity to override something over a logical fallacy. Your disagreement wouldn't be valid merely because you "disagree". You need arguments for disagreement that aren't "this is what I do".