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AI, language, and liability How worried should we be and why? This is a meandering essay about language, intelligence, and the claims of AI enthusiasts and catastrophists. Although I’m no expert, given how little we really know about human cognition relative to its infinite complexity, I am…

My dad died earlier this week. Due to his many strokes and our growing epistemic gap, we had a harder and harder time communicating in his final years. But he was a profoundly good dad and I loved him deeply, if imperfectly. Here's my goodbye: katestarbird.substack.com/p/saying-goo...

The self-publishing journey continues... My serialization of Grendels now has links between the chapters to facilitate navigation. Check it out! open.substack.com/pub/grendels...

Given the number of named administration in the #EpsteinFiles, and their apparently unwavering loyalty, what if....that loyalty is being coerced by Trump because he knows why they are in there? What if it's all degenerating into a Mexican standoff of blackmail?

THREAD Funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out this week. OF COURSE Republicans are going to paint this as hurting TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA. What they WON'T tell you? These funds are fungible! These discretionary funds can be used to cover TSA, FEMA and the Coast Guard. 🧵

An outstanding summary of what we're up against this fall. Could Trump Cancel the 2026 Midterms if His Party Loses? by @WesODonnell01 medium.com/p/could-trum...

Some Varicella vaccine history (originally posted on Your Angry Pediatrician on Substack, lightly edited) This is a story of how in science, despite our attempts to achieve some understanding of objective reality, context still matters. What seems like a good idea in one instance can become a…

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Well, here's at least one Republican with a shred of integrity and decency. He must be very lonely at the Central Committee meetings.

Holy shit this hits close to home.

Nutrition and Metabolism Nutrition is necessarily related to metabolism, because what you eat is what fuels the metabolic processes that make everything happen in your body. It is both extremely simple, and hideously complex at the same time. First, a snapshot of the complexity: This is just one…

Also effing brilliant

another good one. Avoiding reality today.

This is f*cking brilliant