I get the hate for AI but I was able to use Claude to build tools to get access to hundreds of court records via courtlistener API, hundreds of 990s via Propublicas charity navigator, and thousands of political campaign spending records via FEC and Google to measure anti-trans political spending.

started / going

My favorite is this Kurzesagt video explaining how we controlled the screw worm in the past. Their resurgence is another massive step backwards. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq6...

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in general I think popular discourse confuses "vices that were downplayed, excused, or ignored for men's benefit" with "traits that were upheld as masculine virtues" and this phenomenon is part of why: these particular men not only have few if any virtues but single out their vices for broadcasting

Good job Minnesota 💪🏿

Fried mirch, samosas and filter coffee.

One more thing - this (the life sciences, and its associated products) is, in my opinion, the last place where America has/had the 'commanding heights' and Trump/Russell Vought is 100% trying to give that advantage away. Our children and grandchildren will be poorer and sicker for it.

In my masters program in Arkansas my advisor asked me what I was going to do when I graduated. I told him I had no idea. He asked if I wanted to go to Pittsburgh and get a PhD. I said sure why not.

Yup. Though I'd say it's more than just a matter of karmic dissatisfaction. A whole lot of people from the far left all the way to the center right are invested in arguing that if Harris had only run on _their_ agenda, she would have won.

Hey @fateswarning86.bsky.social Have you seen this? blog.flipper.net/flipper-one-...

I wrote about the man Tennessee plans to kill today. There is so much more to this story than one article can capture and it’s going to bother me for a long time. For @theintercept.com

Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social this might be good to cover on the podcast.

Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.

the process of building an app is like the process of building a protein: there are the useful problem solving bits - exons - and then there are a whooole bunch more bits - introns - related to navigating whatever framework(s) you're using to make the exons possible

He was my Senator and I called him once a week to beg him to stand up to Trump. And he did nothing of the sort. Weak sauce.

Perennial

There are a lot of people like this in the south. I know Jeremy knows it but many folks aren't aware. Ted Cruz was born in Canada and George W Bush is a Yankee by birth.

Can you really make an assessment of a mans taco order without also considering how he topped it? Which salsa did he choose? Did he include the jalapeno on the side in said tacos? We know he got corn tortillas because if they were flour it would have been in the headline.

Cassidy will have indirectly killed several magnitudes more of people because of his Senate votes than the people he helped as a physician

This thread down puts words to what I just kind of felt about folks like Stancil and the others she mentions. It's great.

Tell me your formative internet years didn't involve goatse without saying it explicitly.

New from me: Five years ago, I criticized a San Francisco TV reporter for getting her facts wrong. Ever since, she and her allies have alleged that I was part of a conspiracy to end her career. That narrative just got a boost with her new book, which is being promoted by some powerful tech people.

There should be a database of these stories that are first reported by independent outlets and individuals and are subsequently republished by the NYT with no or obfuscated attribution.

I'm a Californian and I'm really happy to see Newsom just above Trump in Likely Voters.

Reading through this thread I'm reminded of really complicated redstone machines folks build in Minecraft.

/2 Also: being drunk doesn’t make you a fucking bigot. Being drunk removes your social inhibitions about being an OPEN fucking bigot.

frankly I have come to believe techies are illiterate. science fiction isn't about the future, stupid. it's about the current political situation but set in space so no one gets mad. duh!

Honestly I think that "Everyone can just make their own stuff" is the flavor of "You don't have to pay Adobe for subscriptions any more".

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

Does anyone know what this drug review time from a year to 1-2 months refers to?

It is ridiculous to pretend X moved to the right because people left and not because it got bought by a neo-nazi who deliberately runs it with the overt goal of promoting his views and suppressing those he dislikes.

Unless your entire university is paper-based then this is a risk you face. This isn't a problem with LMSs it's a problem where this risk is offloaded onto customers because there is no price for companies that develop these services except bad advertisement. But because this happens to everyone,

So my son has been getting into Minecraft java which he tells me is so much cooler than Minecraft on his iPad. So yesterday he comes to me and tells me he wants to setup a server for his friends to play on. So I think: This is a job for Claude Code, and I have claude stand up a server.

This is the same logic that leads to cutting funding to track, treat, and contain infectious diseases in other countries. These folks cannot see anything beyond themselves and what is directly in front of them.

It failed because Rs simply do not recognize the legitimacy of Ds obtaining and wielding power. Their voters and therefore their power and policies are illegitimate. The sooner Ds internalize that this is how the opposition views them, the sooner they will play hardball of their own.

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

Hey @masnick.com I think on the last ctrl+alt+speech you were talking to Jess Meirs and at one point someone said: I don't think these AI companies have an interest in teaching their users how to commit suicide. My thought was: They do have a vested interest in keeping their users engaged.

This is kind of beautiful.

Gorgeous song; I'll raise you one of the finest classics of Cambodian rock, by another sharply dressed man. The one, the only Sinn Sisamouth.

This is a really good thread.

Yes hire them. mox does great custom work.

My wife and I are both working scientists in drug development. We nudge our kid in this direction, he sees this field on a daily basis in a way his friends do not. He has an interest and we make sure he gets educational opportunities in line with this kind of thing.

Hey @masnick.com, on the latest Vergecast @reckless.bsky.social said another podcast was going to pickup their podcast within a podcast: Brendan Carr is a Dummy. It's federated and royalty free. I figure both the Techdirt Podcast and Ctrl+Alt+Speech would benefit from this as well.

You know if Parks and Recreation was released today people would say that the Tom Haverford character was based on Kash Patel.

When my wife is away, I feed my cat by putting half a sachet of food in his bowl, then add some of his favourite biscuits, chicken flavoured gel and other treats. A little bit of all his favourites - so it's like when I have a thali in an Indian restaurant.

I remember when the message was: This war has been going on for 45 years or something.

The stock market just needs to keep up this irrationality for another 15 years so I can get to retirement age.

Welcome to the Jungle (primary). It gets worser every day. (I know the original lyrics say worse here, but as a kid I always heard worser).