so he wants a piece of putting college students into unbelievable debt over sports gambling, too

hey what the fuck

The cake didn't have gluten. The alcohol didn't have alcohol. The birthday girl didn't leave home. I reflect on turning 40 with Long COVID and how appearances can be deceiving when it comes to "invisible" illnesses. www.thegauntlet.news/p/party-tricks

As many of you know, I've never charged for any of my public health reporting but my personal essays are paywalled. In honor of my 40th birthday, I'm offering 40% off!! paid subscriptions, also makes a great bday gift to me :) www.thegauntlet.news/subscribe?co...

Mechanism and updated prediction for the epic fail of Lincoln Memorial Bioreactor's polyurea coating! First chemistry, then physics It was sprayed in big sections. In addition to pool edges, failure will concentrate at the OVERLAP SEAMS between sections because they likely barely bonded at all. 1/x

My neighbor told me the British political system keeps eating his PMs so I asked how many PMs he has and he said he just goes to the Right Sort Of Chaps and gets a new PM afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding PMs to the British political system and then his daughter started crying.

"A technological revolution is not being allowed to take place in the west, or at least in the US -- and that's because of politics" @70sbachchan.bsky.social in our new bonus podcast episode pod.link/1884213852/e...

I don’t understand why almost nobody is talking/writing about the collapse of cognition. Everything everywhere is completely stupid and “how did we get there” is barely scratched. It’s not just the death of expertise or whatever. It’s complete cognitive catabolic collapse at the societal level.

“Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI tools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a ‌negative impact on learning, the country's prime minister said on Friday." @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Trump is mostly defeated by single cell organisms, like Covid and algae. Occasionally, he is defeated by more complex systems like hundred dollar mines and drones. Life is hard.

Happy Capitulation Day to all who celebrate.

The three genders (nonbuynary)

"The United States draws its SPR; the world prices off the suppressed signal. When Cushing hits its operational floor — a matter of weeks at current trajectories — the self-correcting mechanism arrives not gradually but abruptly." Sounds bad. www.carlyle.com/carlyle-comp...

When this happens its going to be a 3-5% GDP hit instantly

"The money for the new coal plants would come from funds that Congress originally designated for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from polluting industries." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/c...

“Yes,” said Frog, reaching for a cookie, “we need will power.” “What is will power?” asked Toad.

W/ my colleague Martha Kenney, new piece on what we call “AI centrism” — a position that claims to split the difference btw genAI boosterism and detraction, but still leads to its acceptance and use. E.g.: - “We will use AI ethically/responsibly/thoughtfully” - “We will keep a human in the loop”

Some thoughts on the Trump-specific aspects of the last 24hrs, stipulating that structural, national, and domestic interests in the Middle East are the most important factors, not Trump. But the U.S. has so much power and leverage, worth thinking about. 1/

We're all trying to find the guy who did this

Trump is beginning his day by posting deranged AI slop

“Hurry!” said Frog. “We will run and catch it.” “No!” shouted Toad. “I cannot do that.” “Why not?” asked Frog. “Because,” wailed Toad, “running after my list in not one of the things that I wrote on my list of things to do!”

A new investigation announced by special anti-corruption prosecutors in Albania into the $1.4 billion luxury project Jared & Ivanka are trying to build on protected wetlands. My deep dive into this project that's bringing thousands of protesting Albanians to the streets. youtu.be/Y6XhwqOw3bA?...

Toad slipped off the turtle. With a splash, he fell in the river.

I’m interested in some of her guests, and hence sometimes listen to Rachel Donald podcast “planet critical”. Hearing her constantly blame our predicament on the name of capitalism feels like bordering on torture to me.

Edgar Morin, sociologue du temps présent et agitateur d’idées, est mort à l’âge de 104 ans

"AI" and effects on work Good News About Work And AI!

My latest contribution to @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social Energy A Beginner’s Guide to Reopening the Strait One day, some day we’ll get a deal—here’s what the arduous and multi-step process to reopening Hormuz will inevitably look like whenever that day comes thedispatch.com/newsletter/d...

I also very much think because you can get Long Covid from asymptomatic Covid cases that some people are incorrectly attributing their symptoms to the vax.

Compute is technically a heat engine. But if the “work” it performs produces low‑value, low‑signal artefacts, then from an information‑theoretic perspective it behaves like an entropy generator.

This episode of "Why is this happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast" is excellent. It is part of a series calld "The AI Endgame" Title: The Ethics of AI with Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app explains everything so well! Very enjoyable. open.spotify.com/episode/37Ew...

We granted full access to the chatbot, why?

The attacks on Talarico show: for MAGA, "trans" is a catch-all category to describe anyone they deem gender non-conforming. You may be cis. But to MAGA, they probably would call you "trans." Merely being progressive is considered gender non-conforming to them. We can't ignore this.

Generative AI as symptom of cognitive catabolic collapse A semi-impromptu essay on reframing generative AI as a counterproductive cognitive prosthesis for a world that outgrew human minds. (1)

This man is quite transparent regarding his worldview. The failures are baked in.

I couldn’t resist, he was so fun to make! He’s a tribute to the cartoon that became the meme. Original art by @kcg.bsky.social

I was naive enough to think that once the white nationalist policies started significantly hurting the economy, the economic elites would say to the GOP “ok, you’ve had your fun, now cut this shit out or we’ll knife you.” Ah, sweet summer child.

to write new good code you need your brain spinning unconsiously on what code to write, but all these guys are getting their brain spinning unconsiously on what prompts to write, literally just deleting the code-spinner in their head heh

Today in somebody should do something.

It’s amazing to watch the professional journalism class dance around this:

I‘m working on complex governance and architecture systems at work and my colleagues and bosses are like rednecks with ketchup and a frying pan after being given Kiwami Omakase.

“Days after the Norwegian whaling industry announced that 575 minke whales were slaughtered this season (the most in five years) shocking new documents reveal that dwindling domestic demand for the meat means it is sold for dog food or dumped into the sea.” uk.whales.org/2021/10/18/n...

This may not be obvious to people who aren’t trained/experienced system thinkers, but the current rate of unraveling of energy access and complexity is staggering. Everything is in full blow catabolic collapse.

Uncle Roger’s voice: “how you know Auntie Claudia not conscious. How you know.”

Not bad. But even better would be: "The use of AI is prohibited."

We really need a fix to this “thermodynamics“ problem.

I have the feeling that this isn’t going to end well.