Truly wild to frame "agricultural runoff causes cancer" as a data center problem. Agribiz in Oregon is *currently* lobbying to avoid reporting their nitrate usage! Kinda makes me want to believe the @segyges.bsky.social "AI water usage was a WaPo op" theory

I named my fists "Dunning" and "Kruger" because I haven't trained in any sort of martial art but am confident I would do pretty well.

yeah I'm an Orthodox Scientist, I celebrate the traditional holidays like "Flushot"

Based on my experience in an online politics forum in the 2010s: some of the most tiresome people in the world are going to hate this

the only thing keeping half this country together is our collective anticipation for this party

soon may the wellerman come your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb so much to do, so much to see to bring us sugar and rum and tea we'll take our leave and go you'll never shine if you don't glow

Oh yeah, I remember when this article came out, and was widely ridiculed for somehow claiming *both* that Franklin was not mistreated ("no victim"!) *and* that she was an equal contributor to the discovery but received almost no credit for it at the time.

Hastily modifying my diploma to say "Oornell"

"Democrats swung economy-focused voters by 93 points" is simultaneously great and kinda depressing...

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

It's Halloween

Lyft driver immediately switched from his music to a sort of millennial pop he assumed I'd like and he's right but I feel a little called out

i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal

I wrote about the degrading choices our political system forces on us, the importance of respecting yourself, and the time I experienced a mild Oliver Stone moment at Sammy's Deluxe in Rockland, Maine. defector.com/what-job-is-...

Lifehack: if you're a leftist populist but you're worried that your nazi tattoo and history of vile reddit posts might derail your candidacy, try running in the *Republican* primary. They'll immediately circle the wagons and never examine your actual politics! Win-win

note: you have to wait a little bit before sending this to people who aren't terminally online.

Squashing rumors at work by responding to "how was your weekend" by asserting that I definitely *wasn't* in Paris

free thoughtpiece: by embracing AI slop and attaching it to his putrid brand, Trump is actually helping reduce carbon emissions in the long run

"New York hotels have an infinite number of rooms, but they are all occupied. The set of all parades that do not parade themselves is in town, and the participants must be accommodated. Mr. Mamdani, do you have a solution for this problem?"

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

It's hard to even envision how the next iteration of America might earn back the reputation they are so intent to destroy

a good reminder to every university: fight instead of rolling over (again)

trump does not have the capacity to investigate, much less prosecute, even 0.1% of the people who attend no kings protests. you absolutely should call this bluff

As it happens "live here with each other" is pretty explicitly not part of their plan

Posting right now is a real Kobayashi Maru situation, huh

colin a newspaper was a sort of folded timeline that a child laborer delivered to your homestead in the oldentimes

🎵 it's the i of the tiger, with a g to the right Risin' up to the challenge of a vowel And the last two letters are an e and an r And a t is in the front of the iiiiii of the tiger🎵

This should have been a Wii Sport

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

I definitely hope this guy defeats Collins but I'm not going to pretend I don't have concerns... This dude claims he's a Maine oyster fisherman but I could easily understand everything he was saying. Suspicious!

The idea of "networking" always feels gross to me. Another way to think about it is that you want your old coworkers to remember you as competent and kind. What your old boss thinks might be less important...

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

Our paper benchmarking foundation models for perturbation effect prediction is finally published 🎉🥳🎉 www.nature.com/articles/s41... We show that none of the available* models outperform simple linear baselines. Since the original preprint, we added more methods, metrics, and prettier figures! 🧵

Trump: People were taken out of the spa, hired by Epstein… I told him we don’t want you taking our people, whether it’s spa or not spa. He did it again, I said out of here. Reporter: Was one of the stolen people Virginia Giuffre? Trump: I think so. He stole her.

This is neat! Anti-obesity drug that boosts fat burning rather than suppressing appetite.

Have a half-assed theory (certainly not original) that "guess" culture works better/is more efficient in a more homogeneous culture, while "ask" is better for heterogeneity. If your priors on everyone around you are good, asking is a waste of time. But that's too hard to manage in a diverse setting

I wrote a new piece on how much progress has been made in treating childhood leukemia. The answer is: quite a lot! Before the 1970s, fewer than 10% of children diagnosed survived 5 years after diagnosis. Now most are cured and around 85% survive that long. ourworldindata.org/childhood-le...

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

Biking through the insane traffic caused by MIT commencement, knowing that somewhere... @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social's brother is near

Macbeth, learning about Macduff's c-section 🤝 me, having an ice cream bar last night "Aw, dang"

call me Macbeth because I just got a temporary crown 🤘

Update: he did not clean up his socials

There's a delay between the white smoke and the announcement so the new Pope can clean up their socials

LLMs are not bad at writing simple code, which is good evidence that we are writing code wrong. Reminiscent of @worrydream.com's "future of programming" talk

Reminder, you don't need to engage with anonymous replyniks

Director of the Port of LA is very good here explaining how tariffs are melting down global trade and about to smack the US retail sector and economy very hard. 👇

Hell yeah I finally made it

So is @mayorwu.boston.gov allowed to use this in the campaign

Spring is in the air