Cartoon by @markdolk.bsky.social

Party allegedly paralyzed by upholding norms sure is fighting back by shattering some norms.

Anthropic is the Will Stancil of AI. I will not elaborate.

words don’t mean things

The Fed is a policymaking institution, not a fact finder.

I do not think we will have “20 to 30% unemployment within the next 2 to 5 years due to AI” but I do think a whole lot of Reddit and TikTok pixels will be burned to convince people to believe it and to be mad about it.

People on bluesky will point at surveys showing negative sentiment for AI as some sort of proof of its lack of utility; but I think we’re about to see massively negative AI sentiment because everyone with economic power is yelling about turning the vibecession knob up to 11.

I want to plug a Thing into a PoE and all my other Things automatically Time Machine to the Thing.

“pick an airline to be loyal to” only works if you live near an airport that has a dominant airline or an abundance of options. When I lived in Albuquerque you took whatever one airline was flying the one flight needed that trip.

Yes.

many people are saying

0.00047%

“Absent the tariffs (blue line below), they estimate core goods prices would have fallen in 2025, similar to their pre-pandemic pattern. Instead, these prices rose sharply (black line).”

Fundraising Emails as Data and WBB Games I recently passed the 11-year mark of collecting political fundraising emails, which seems either noteworthy or problematic. Who wants more email, and from...

New edition of SELECT * is out!

This one features downloadable JSON data of political fundraising emails plus play-by-play data for more than 200k women's college basketball games.

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A Venn diagram of people who make minimum wage in the United States and people who use metric units to weigh beef.

Relevant!

99% of “when covid hit” utterances are about lifestyle disruptions.

It's also super weird that in a democratic society we have a major institution of government that has the transparency of the Vatican.

The tragedy of Computer Science is that it is really a rich discipline concerned with logic, structure, and the boundaries of knowledge and computation, but it was mutilated into a Silicon Valley internship mill.

"this call may be recorded for quality and training purposes" hits different in an LLM context

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That Uplink repo is neat!

Also: are the emails going out? I didn't get this in my inbox. Could be an issue on my side.

Really cool application for the useless stochastic parrot!

*heading out the door*
wife: Where are you going?
me: Strait's open.
wife: ???
me: *grabbing a bucket* Strait's open.

Neat.

SPOUSE: I have to work late Thursday
OUTER MONOLOGUE: I am going to miss you
INNER MONOLOGUE: I am going to eat something very stupid

🌎🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀 never has been

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