This is a very good post to send to your friends and colleagues who use AI, teaching them how to learn how to get more correct answers out of LLMs. AI haters should read this too, as it’s research-based and you can see how these systems work when you encounter them.

Shin Muscat grape season is here!

Hottest topics on Chinese internet past couple weeks. 1. Poop water coming out of facets in Hangzhou. 2. Mass lead poisoning of kindergarteners. Coverups likely. 3. A middle-aged man dressed as a woman tricked 1000+ straight men into having sex then sell the hidden videos.

Batshit crazy. Any political opponents of Orange Turd can be denaturalized.

My wife became a citizen in 2006. I’ve repeatedly said that attending her (and 100+ others) naturalization ceremony on a random fall day in Syracuse is the most I’ve loved America. It’s America at its best; the very embodiment of our values. This is a clear threat to us all.

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

Wow, Honda launched a successful test of reusable rocket. global.honda/jp/topics/20...

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All of NIH funding to Northwestern University is frozen. This pause includes noncompeting approved funding, new and competing grants with fundable scores. No reimbursements for money already spent have been received since March. This situation is rarely reported so please Please get the word out!

Harry Potter Butterbeer flavored popcorn.

Sriracha Doritos. Yay or Nay?

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

My painting BLUEBONNETS

Per @thorbenson.bsky.social, I will now be calling her "the Vanna White of shitters"

Much outrage fuel in this piece about AI cheating in college. This bit got me: Columbia's Core Curriculum is the core of a liberal arts education that seeks to educate the whole person, for citizenship & to lead a life well lived. This fucking doofus 'breezed through' the opportunity of a lifetime

Today in Orange America. Can’t afford Charmin toilet paper anymore.

Rinse and repeat for the foreseeable future.

This is getting fewer headlines than it should. After coming to power promising to help working people, the president is revealing his real priorities by actively making it easier for banks to rip people off.

Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops. I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III. Remind you of anyone?

I did not realize they sell Bob Ross drink and Duff drink from The Simpsons. No, I didn’t get them.

DHS now threatening *all* of Harvard's international students with loss of legal status. Just beyond the pale. #edusky #academicsky #phdsky #highered

I found a China tariffs loophole. Stock up on children books!

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

Art of the deal!

No worry.

How I feeling right now.

This international student is incredibly brave for going on the record about his visa suddenly being revoked, including how he has one semester left and his mom has terminal cancer: www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

This headline from the Toronto Sun belongs in the Louvre

With futures trading heavily down today, commodities crashing, and the S&P down 13.55% over five days, traders are getting margin calls. Margin calls can accelerate selloffs and create their own momentum. Here’s what they are and how they work in both futures and equities markets.

Back to watching CNBC. "This is not a misprint: Dow futures with an implied drop of -4.5%." Each anchor has the vibe of a guy waking up from a years-long bender on the side of the highway with no phone and an empty bank account. Continues to be better TV than almost any show.

Spectacular view of 100,000 people attending the #HandsOff march in NYC

Babe, wake up. New cakes just dropped at Paris Baguette

MAGA America is crazy.

yes

Here are some nice mushrooms

I just heard that a cryptography professor at Indiana University had his house raided and was fired. Don’t know much more. www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

New varieties of cauliflower at Whole Food.

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

Dictator shit

Well, we now know Elon’s 5 weekly bullets: - Play video games at EEOB - Destroy the government - Destroy Tesla’s stock value - Conduct shadow foreign policy - Blow up rockets

They called him Sleepy Joe because we could sleep at night.

Second Season of Trump Clown Show so far.

JFC. The US Economic Policy Uncertainty Index is at its highest level since 2000, higher than during the Financial Crisis, higher than during COVID

Is it just me or are many websites completely unusable/unreliable at night. The curse of cloud based money pinching computing. Terrible for night owls. 😢

Not for nothing, but the tariffs go into effect midnight tonight. We’re not serious country.

The theme of the rest of this decade is going to be “I didn’t fuck around, why am I finding out?”