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I don't like cancelling wind projects but there are some incorrect assumptions when you just read this headline.

The company paid $800M for a lease on federal waters to build the wind turbine. This is more akin to a refund than "pay them not to do this". That, and the money will instead be used to build natural gas power, which is stupid for reasons mentioned in the article.

For all models, optional real-time web search, browsing, and retrieval features were explicitly disabled when available. Each vignette was evaluated in triplicate. All replicates and vignettes were parsed independently. To ensure comparability, optional features such as real-time search were disabled across all models.

Hm. Seems like kinda hamstringing things

I have yet to be able to vibe code anything relatively involved. The closest I've come is a ffmpeg wrapper script to edit out scenes from a video with a fade in/fade out title card. But even then, I ended up at some point having to debug and add my own arg support because it kept screwing things up. The first draft did do something, though.

I find at this point that it's still only useful if I have a very clear goal in mind with a lot of context on the area I need to make changes to. That lets me get a more specific prompt, and then I'll still need to review the output. I have only ever gotten a successful one shot like this with tests.

As always, reality is more complicated. She voted against the bill. The amendment was worthless anyway.

https://www.jta.org/2025/07/21/politics/aoc-faces-backlash-vandalism-after-voting-against-cutting-us-aid-from-israels-iron-dome

In a post on X Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez defended her vote against the amendment, writing that Greene’s amendment “does nothing to cut off offensive aid to Israel nor end the flow of US munitions being used in Gaza,” which she suggested she would oppose.

“I have long stated that I do not believe that adding to the death count of innocent victims to this war is constructive to its end. That is a simple and clear difference of opinion that has long been established,” wrote Ocasio-Cortez. “I remain focused on cutting the flow of US munitions that are being used to perpetuate the genocide in Gaza.”