We are somehow approaching a political system where:
1) Every person who can tell true from false is united on one side.
2) That side still loses about one out of two elections.

I use a classic water-boiling humidifier (a Vicks). It's very cheap, needs no special water, and puts no particulates into the air. It acts as a small steamy heater, which would be bad if I lived in a hot dry place, but in my climate I only need it in winter anyway.

As a kid I wondered why Republican politicians didn't sound like the conservative Fox-watching New Yorkers I knew. Well, now they sound exactly like them.

Closer to home, Saturn's moon Titan has lakes of natural gas on the surface like water. Some people I've mentioned this to have been amazed that we don't just go get it.

> every Anglosphere user still on X

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When a conservative has truly messed something up beyond recovery, he either says that thinking about it is unpatriotic, or that thinking about it is womanly.

Not necessarily magic. Sometimes the bad guys get lucky.

It could also be cowardice: waiting until he was fairly sure Trump was too weak to retaliate.

"Monarchies with endless time horizons" is a sentiment unworthy of a free mind.

This result is crazy. You finetune a teacher model to love owls. Then you have the teacher model generate a string of numbers, and finetune the student model on those numbers. The student model will then also love owls.

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"Who will hit back?"

Can confirm. My dad would bake these on Sundays with a crunchy browned butter top made of corn flake crumbs.

China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

It makes sense if you assume there's no link between what politicians will do and what the marginal voter expects.

Voters Did Not Understand the Stakes in 2024 - The American Prospect A large majority of American voters are greatly dissatisfied with the state of things, most especially the economy. It turns out that median voters were catastrophically misled about the stakes of the...

"A critical mass of people who decided the election were bamboozled by America’s horrendously broken information environment, and don’t like the results of their own choices." prospect.org/2025/10/29/v...

More academic source describing Ford's wages from the perspective of his labor retention problems:

The Fred Trump treatment. Give him a fake job while Miller draws up missile strike plans on fishermen.

There's one way: hostile billionaires own most of the news and social media.

I mean, it's understandable, wherever you see big buildings you also see high rents. It's like how wet streets cause rain.

"Reviewing its legal options" aka "asking its shabby Supreme Court pals if they're ready to ban political speech yet."

We're also looking to hire a Red Teaming Lead in Mountain View.

Come join me as a CBRN Research Engineer at Google DeepMind! NYC and Bay Area positions both available.

Top admiral’s retirement sets off alarm bells over Caribbean boat strikes The abrupt retirement of the four-star Navy admiral overseeing the U.S. military’s strikes against boats in the Caribbean is raising alarms as to the validity of the attacks and the Trump administrati...

This is worse than usual and the US military knows it.

Mitigation efforts to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and meet the Paris Agreement have been offset by economic growth - Communications Earth & Environment Global carbon dioxide intensity declined from 2015 to 2024 following the Paris Agreement, but total emissions still increased due to economic growth, according to a global analysis of population, gros...

Good news: carbon intensity has declined

Bad news: carbon emissions increased, due to the rapid rise in world GDP

Also bad news: the chance of staying below 2°C remained low, at 17%

Better news: chance of going above 3°C has gone down substantially, from 26% to 9%

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Don't laugh, innumeracy is a real problem that affects trillions of Americans.

I think the median voter scorns Congress (with reason) and doesn't feel represented in the spending process either way.