kids who drank coffee tended to be shorter but they also tended to be malnourished on several additional fronts which means we don't really have any hard evidence that caffeine stunts your growth so go ahead and give your baby a monster energy drink

Picky-eating American children are afflicted with a form of privilege we don't talk about enough: not-dying privilege. To explain, @amybrown.xyz kicks off our TASTE week: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/picky-book-r...

...3 to 5 years

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To be the most millennial song, it has to be a song that black people also liked.

"Ignition (Remix)". Nothing wrong with any of these candidates, they will win specific best of breed category awards, but "I(R)" wins the overall

There are so many insane wildly misleading stories coming out about data centers almost every day now that I'm mostly having to give up on commenting on them to focus on actually getting blog posts out, but it feels like a tsunami. This is one of them. Will go into it in a thread below.

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i enjoy this quadrant, we'd be better off if more people joined this quadrant from wherever they were before, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut we do actually need to do better on the 'no child labor' part. we have a lot of children laboring and we aren't yet stopping it.

Godspeed DUNE! Worm Emperor

Quacks love ivermectin and are now recommending it for hantavirus. Obviously, it doesn't work. But why ivermectin? Why this drug in particular? I wrote a bit about why. smol.news/p/why-the-iv...

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If you have, or know someone, with a Yarbo robot lawn mower... they might want to read this. www.theverge.com/tech/925696/...

From Richard Jones

Perrin Fertha's family office and/or lifestyle business

How is uncertainty in LLMs output reflected in internal representations? In our new work (to appear at ICML 2026), we show that the shape of internal token trajectories provides a direct geometric link to behavioral uncertainty (output entropy). 🧵(1/n)

@seankuhn.bsky.social @asrabkin.bsky.social @ioannissagonasmd.bsky.social here's a serendipitous thread touting a fun new paper, and this in particular is what makes it taggable w.r.t. Chap 17

Ted Turner is getting a decent send-off because his cable channels were each disruptive in the actual Christensen, costs-less-does-less sense. Seen people fairly measure the 2nd order effect of 'a tv channel that's *only* news' as good or bad, but the 1st order effect is benignly low-impact.

Ok so I was gonna post this morning that my two biggest just-for-me things -- lifting, and the Regression and Other Stories -- were both sucking lately. But then the lifting session went really well. (in terms of, was there a huge line for the squat rack or not. not this time!)

introducing: the classic Alexis Simpson Workflow Method™️ -dick around for 1-2 hours -decide to focus 10min before a scheduled meeting -get resentful that the meeting is "interrupting my focus"

"You cannot kill me in a way that ope oops uhh uh--"

Huh. They arrested my state senator on May Day: www.mv-voice.com/menlo-park/2...?

I can't say I've been blown away by the gubernatorial field, but of all the credible contenders this is the correct choice. Steyer's housing platform is good and significantly more fully realized than anything his main opponents have offered.

Let us peer into the soul of the nation, via a staged non-discussion about a contentious tax measure for library funding in El Cerrito. And then let us heal: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/we-dont-deba...

When I read this, and when I start up "In Good Faith", the inkblot/lady-or-tiger test I'll be mulling is, we've doubled how much we spend on pets since 2013 (and not just due to one big COVID burst). Perma-problem wise, is that selfish (animals aren't people) or selfless (we're loving more)?

Posting 5/4s www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPTC...

STAR WARS as a series has exactly one good (and not very original) bit: it's the future, but all the spaceships and droids are rickety pieces of junk that require constant maintainence like they're old beat-up cars. Pretty much every iteration rises and falls based on how much they include that bit

MARTIN SCORSESE [from mid-2010 until its premier in October 2011]:

Props to Safeway for not putting the dumb little plastic window on their pasta boxes

Andrew Gelman ponders Dan Luu's* question, why does it take high-stakes to bring out serious poker play? And the way I go with this is: 1- the juice in poker is Being Right, being smart enough to clock P(win) and E[hand] 1/n * (i can't read Luu's post, maybe what I'm about to say is all in there)

Why the homebuilders hate the candidate who wants to build the most homes

Well this is why we have ABS. This was called a ball.

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Stephen Tobolowsky did a movie with David Byrne. on the set, he told Byrne about his belief as a child that he could hear people's thoughts. David Byrne wrote a song about this story, called Radio Head. And you'll never believe what happened next

worth remembering how short and simple the 15th Amendment is, as well as how sweeping its grant of congressional authority is. the idea that this doesn't cover a ban on racial gerrymanders is transparent horseshit

very gently looking into it, an intro fpga is ~$170, which, i dunno, is that a high entry cost for a hobby? cheaper than golf; *much* more expensive than baking. and futzing around with "the art of electronics" should feel like intro to baking. digilent.com/shop/basys-3...

this is getting the right number of groans/dunks. pinhead is the universe's unstoppable consequence/punishment, not a conniving schemer. light a candle though: @eliasisquith.blog on anton chigurh, who *really* wants you to think he's a pinhead, but is not www.necessaryfictions.blog/p/why-sam-al...

alllllmost said something about this in the post-last-week referred to, but: even when there's zero, or negative!, economic growth, investors earn returns. they receive a share of economic *production* which is different than production's growth rate. e.g., this is what piketty's r-vs-g is about.

"A vague plan for a meal-prep and shopping-list app explodes on the launchpad as you realize [...] the main challenge around shopping and cooking isn’t data synthesis and ingredient inventory but that, basically, 'things happen' and 'Thai actually sounds good tonight.'" Familiar on multiple levels

Do I have any writer/reader friends on here who are seriously knowledgeable about When We Cease to Understand the World?

This was pleasant to watch. Like a really long Vince Gilligan cold open

my new short film Homemade Gatorade is out now youtu.be/SFJOHlnoQNM

I can't get over this. according to @stevemagness.bsky.social: Sawe's *second half* of the marathon was faster than the US half-marathon record. a century ago people wondered if it was physically possible to run a mile under 4 minutes. Sawe's *24th* mile was 4:12, only 12 seconds slower than that

unbelievable

Eric Swalwell can go to hell. This post is not about Eric Swalwell.

Serious question, why is this the only genre that has that? PBS Mystery comes close but otherwise it's all Cryptkeepers and Svengoolies and Rods Sterling. Who is the romcom Elvira

it’s not even close (this is from 1985)

GRANDSON OF THE WIND with a triple go giants

15 years ago and more, tide detergent with its high wholesale pricing was one of the standout products for the steal-from-CVS,-sell-to-corner-store(-or-another-CVS) black market nymag.com/news/feature...