"Hold on, pause the conversation a second! I just need to reboot my glasses."

^^ Do not, under *any* circumstances, leave your drink unattended with that guy while you run to the restroom.

In case you needed further incentive to vote YES on Tuesday:

Ouch! Hope you’re doing okay!

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In classic American style, the actual cost of tariffs bludgeoned consumers. But “refunds” will go to corporations who passed that cost along.

Another $166B corporate handout.

Come see the cutest little gopher-in-a-bucket you’ve ever seen.

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The first paragraph of the article is a pretty disgusting admission of how much the author agrees with this exploitative take.

“to find traditional wives”

You know EXACTLY what this means and you’re purposely normalizing it.

I’d personally choose a better word than “insane” to describe it, but yeah 100% agreed with the conveyed sentiment here.

💯 Like, I don’t even care what the content of those deals say. The fact that major news outlets (like the Associated Press!) are signing contracts and exchanging $$ in any way with news-betting markets, automatically calls into question their entire mission.

The entire phrase "𝘕𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘒𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘩𝘪 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘭𝘺𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵" should land people in courtrooms automatically. It's a society-eroding conflict.

Executives "banning staff from using them" doesn't eliminate the conflict, just concentrates it at the top.

Same.

There are things I’d like to say about “alternatives to higher taxes for the rich.”

But I will not say them, because posts can be read in a court of law.

Is it still for sale?

CEO declares bankruptcy, lays off everyone. Empty office space turns into a telephone-crypto amusement park. The private equity Board quietly shovels the last of the co’s bank assets into a Qatari offshore account.

CEO:

“This is because AI made us more EFFICIENT!”

**Tech media nods approvingly.**

Any day now. Right around the corner.

Just like factory-automation and outsourcing in the 1990s turned Flint, MI into a thriving leisure town of wealthy and relaxed former factory workers.

Snap, Inc has been bleeding money for years, the company is being shook for pocket-crumbs by its private-equity owners (including “BEP”), and lost >90% of its value in the last 5 years (most losses 4 years ago!). But they wanna convince you *this time* it’s…

“Because AI!”

Most… will believe it.

Just wanna be clear, the US economy is in a downturn, many companies are announcing layoffs, and nearly all of them will say it’s because “AI.” That’s a convenient excuse, far better than “we made bad business decisions.”

They will never show actual evidence that AI was the reason for *any* of it.

I... am? About 20 mins away anyway. I'm tempted. It's hard to just "cut out & get away" unscheduled with family at home in the evenings (and my wife is sick) but I'll check. Maybe I can.

And you shouldn’t have to! We had them first!

I had a short meeting with colleagues overseas, and holy crap everyone, they're still doing things like funding climate science and geoscience work (without needing an "AI" hook to justify it). I gotta admit I'm more than a little bit jealous.

It comes and goes. The server back-ends still have issues sometimes. It's not you; everyone (I think) is experiencing this at random times.

That’s so depressing. We want students to do it themselves (“Don’t let AI think for you! That’s the point of the exercise!”). But then we falsely accuse them of cheating anyway when they do, because they wrote things clearly, and our AI “flagged it as AI.”

What an enormous demotivator. 😔☹️

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If their metric is “has complete sentence structure and ideas conveyed in a short amount of text” then guilty-as-charged. But “any text not laden-with-typos must be AI slop” seems counter-productive.

People really use these crap “detectors” to police student-written submissions?? Really?!?

Screenshot of an "AI-Detector" results on 2 paragraphs of hand-written text. It says "HIGH - High probability of being flagged as AI-generated. Consider refining or verifying your text."

Gawd, that's annoying. I just pasted 2 paragraphs of a human-written email I'm sending out (brief summary of a project). Out of curiosity I ran it through an "AI detector." It claims "High probability of being flagged as AI-generated content."

I wrote every word myself. No em-dashes. F these guys.

As someone whose writing typically has em dashes—my ADHD brain loads every idea with a bonus idea!—I find it particularly annoying that if people read text with em dashes they now immediately think “it has to be AI.”

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Just a reminder that Tyler Cowen is *this guy.*

Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.