Andre de Souza

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How can you say there is accountability when Creed is allowed to go out there every week and snap balls into the dirt despite being one of the highest paid C's in the NFL?

3rd and 6.. Nix throws incomplete and it'll be 4th down

For the second time this season, Kansas City Chiefs HC Andy Reid has benched starting LG Kingsley Suamataia for what's being described as a "coaching decision." It has already affected the first offensive drive of the game. 🤔

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes people owning RAM is wasteful, and that it belongs in data centers instead. "From a global allocation perspective, actually, it’s quite terrible to have everyone have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAM sitting in their own computer."

The Alaska ballot situation is unique because of its Rank Choice Voting. If it was First Past the Post, the inclusion of a similarly named Independent or Third Party candidate to the Republican candidate wouldn't be that big of deal, because what few votes such a candidate took away from the Republican would get balanced out by the votes that would get taken away from the Democratic candidate. And that's why this unprecedented situation doesn't have any neat laws to deal with it. But with RCV, it's an entirely different reality, since voters for whom the Republican candidate isn't the first choice might still choose that candidate as their second or third choice, Democratic voters can choose their candidate first and the potemkin candidate as their second to inflate the distortion, and the entire model of voting gets corrupted as the Republican candidate loses votes for first, second, third, and on down the list, with the impact on the integrity of the vote getting more pronounced with each simulated runoff. It conpletely turns the benefit of RCV upside down by ensuring muddied runoff results for one contender in hopes that the other benefits. In my view, since we now know this was coordinated, this is most definitely an attempt to defraud voters. But how Alaska deals with the situation is anyone's guess because, as I said, the laws are not well equipped to handle this novel question. At the very least, I hope the recruited pretender is suspended as a legitimate candidate, and if the ballots cannot be corrected in this short window, then an effort should be made to notify the public and some kind of understanding made where the Republican candidate gets at least a portion if not all the votes that might still go to the recruited pretender.

JD Vance on ranked choice voting: "I don't understand it. It seems to me that you have an election, the person who wins the most votes should win. That seems to be not what happens with ranked choice voting. The fact that it's so confusing to a person who pays pretty close attention to politics I think suggests we should do our elections in, like, the normal way."

I don’t know how you put the cork back in the bottle, but insofar as it is possible to eliminate the use of AI or algorithmic screening from hiring processes, it’d probably be good for society.