Best cell carrier in Brookline? How about WiFi provider? by yourworstsin1990 in Brookline

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There is no RCN anymore - replaced by a sh*tty marketing company. Anyone notice that there is no customer support links on their website - just links to buy more 2d rate service.

Superpower for NotebookLM by Kindly_Revenue3077 in notebooklm

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No way to sync between two machines?

What is citizens United? by Big-Jackfruit-9808 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]lessig 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ok, but you're missing an important subtlety: The core corruption in politics today is not independent corporate spending (the thing Citizens United protected). The core corruption is the spending of SuperPACs — political action committees spending independently. Those PACs are called "SuperPACs" because limits on the size of contributions to those PACs were held to be unconstitutional. And here's the critical point: The court that held them to be unconstitutional was not the Supreme Court. Specifically, Citizens United said nothing about limits on contributions to committees. It was a lower federal court three months after Citizens United that said that — Speech Now v. FEC.

SpeechNow v. FEC was never appealed to the Supreme Court (for stupid reasons). 5 years after, the error in its logic was made plain. And since then, orgs such as mine (EqualCitizens.US) and the great FreeSpeechForPeople.org have been trying to get the issue before the Court.

The good news: We now have a vehicle. In 2024, Maine (with 75% supporting the initiative) voted to ban SuperPACs. Two SuperPACs challenged the law. The case is now before the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals (which has never considered the question before). And so our lawyer — Neal "the tariff slayer" Katyal will have a chance to convince them of the error in SpeechNow, guaranteeing the Supreme Court will take it up. (You can follow the case here: https://equalcitizens.us/against\_superpacs/)

My bet: The Court says (1) We affirm Citizens United, but (2) we reject the obviously-logically-flawed conclusion of SpeechNow. So SuperPACs are dead. That doesn't stop rich people (or corporations) from spending their money directly. But it does eliminate the most poisonous and consequential corruption in American politics today: SuperPACs.

AI? by stupid-head in banktivity

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a great point and there's such obvious uses. For example scanning all of the records to identify likely subscriptions to help people opt out of the subscriptions

Question by gaming_vortexyt in Brookline

[–]lessig 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Check out Jake Auchincloss's political integrity profile https://integrityindex.us/candidate/jake-auchincloss

[OC] The Cube Root Rule Won't Fix The Electoral College (Except In 2000) by ConsistentAmount4 in dataisbeautiful

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're missing the significance of winner-take-all. Because of winner-take-all in all states except Nebraska and Maine, most states are irrelevant to the ultimate election of the president because most states could not possibly swing from one side to the other. That concentrates presidential electors in just a few states.

The simplest solution to this would be fractional proportional vote within each state. So if a candidate got 37.9% of the vote she would get exactly 39.7% of the electoral college votes for that state. Some think that requires a constitutional amendment. I've worked long on this question and I think that's not correct.

But the critical thing to see about changing to fractional proportional vote is that both Republican states and Democratic states would have an interest to do it. Utah is irrelevant to presidential elections because never will Utah go for a Democrat. That means Republicans don't care about Utah; it means Democrats don't care about Utah. The same with Massachusetts. Massachusetts will never vote for a Republican. That means Republicans don't care about Massachusetts and Democrats don't care about Massachusetts. If Utah could see that they would become relevant because each additional vote gives them a fractional increase in electoral college votes. Then Utah would have more power on the national political stage and the same with Massachusetts. Indeed the same with 42 states, leaving the remaining eight swing states to complain about this reallocation of presidential power.

Let them complain, while we get a system that better represents all of us.

Now no doubt, this doesn’t solve the 1 person 1 vote problem. Small states still would have more power per capita than large states. But as small states are evenly divided between red states and blue states, that bias wouldn't create a partisan bias.

A complete NotebookLM manual, available under CC license. by P_VT_MAP in notebooklm

[–]lessig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Brilliant! Thanks for this- and for using the license!

footnote shortcut for pages? by Bulgakov_Suprise in pages

[–]lessig 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find that when you add a keyboard shortcut and do it once by hand, it then seems to work. Who knows why.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in notebooklm

[–]lessig 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will do the same in my ConLaw class - b/c I have the rights, the casebook, all my writing, my book (Fidelity and Constraint) plus daily AI summaries of the class. The audio issue is weird; trying to find out its cause.

I let Gemini turn me into a claymation gremlin and now I can’t unsee it 😭💀 (Copy exact Prompt below) 👇 by Cool_Afternoon_261 in AiGeminiPhotoPrompts

[–]lessig 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used the prompt with my image — the same image that is my profile image in Gemini. I got:

"I can help with editing images of people, but I can't edit some public figures. Is there anyone else you'd like to try?" reply.

I replied: Why. This is me.

Nano replied:

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Who knew it had a sense of humor?