New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

So let me get this straight: On July 4, the white nationalist and fascist patriot front marched in DC. in an attempt to intimidate folks. Notably, journalists captured images of a Black woman surrounded by a bunch of them while riding a subway.

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

Please help me finish my thesis so I can finally be free of academia 🫶✨ aidetectionsurvey.carrd.co

Heads up friends ‼️‼️‼️ Be SUPER SUPER careful sharing Youtube links They made a new update that anyone who clicks it starts "interacting" with you, and can expose your name if you use human info on Youtube/Google Settings -> privacy -> channel visibility for shared links

Folks have a lot of shame for not immediately understanding media, and it harms their literacy. It's okay to not get something. It's okay to be upset about it, and strive to understand. It's also okay to just, let it go. Just, stop shaming yourselves & each other into worse, more bitter people.

Put another way: even the most Centrist Democratic US Politician believes that people deserve to have the safety net to retire by the end of their 60s, if they want to. Why stop there? Why not use the productivity gains of automation to create a society where people can retire at 50, or 40, or 35?

Gilld cheese....

reading AI eval papers using llm-as-a-judge is alarming for many reasons; many “scientific claims” rely on evals executed on models that are now deprecated. how are we supposed to treat “findings” that are inherently not reproducible? i despair. llms are accelerating the decay of scientific rigor

🤷🏿‍♂️There's a whole genre of jokes where people in declining nations imply "We're like a 3rd world country now!🤡" I do find them funny! Because India's economy is already larger than the UK's, and Nigeria's will be larger in the 2050s. It's funny that they will still be making these jokes in 2050.

None of this will be measured. No independent monitors, soil sampling, or remediation timeline, so the contamination will sit as it does in EVERY event like this, in every conflict, on every part of the globe.

"Ben owns a farm. He employs 100 workers. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10% productivity gain. Ben fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000% productivity gain..."

For years I've tracked billionaire excess. Each year I show students a chart that blows their minds. This year I had to redraw it for a trillionaire: Elon Musk, $1.32T. Depressing that we're here. Silver lining: couldn't have happened to a less deserving person, proof that wealth ≠ merit.

Dear @skatunenetwork.bsky.social, you are a madlad GENIUS and I will love you til’ the end of time for making a ska cover of one of the most iconic songs in Zelda. Your sax solos were *chefs kiss*. Please tell me you didn’t bang this out between now and the announcement?? youtu.be/mloagT49BtQ

FM (1978) youtu.be/UIhuYYZj4jE

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

@namecheap.com I have been a customer since 2015ish? and I spend a lot of money on your platform renewing domains that I will (eventually) get to. This is complete bullshit and you need to fix this now. A mistake is a mistake, but how you handle it is what makes or breaks the trust you’ve built.

Hi @tolariancommunitycollege.com! I was curious if the Magic content creator community would rally behind the Wizards union drive? If not, is there financial pressure for some to stay quiet and risk WotC sponsorship? Or is there a risk to viewership? 1/4 unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/support-us

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

A statement regarding @darkhorseunion.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4uOQHVM

This is the mega-thread of my experiences as a paid signature collector in Phoenix, AZ. What a strange gig... 🙃 I'm Russian-American-Canadian - 3 passports. After my second PCT hike didn't work out, I took a bus to Phoenix to help with elections and make some coin. 😎 1/🧵

Mayonnaise says happy pride (I think at least he could be thinking anything tbh)

You should see my friend on her debut stream! www.twitch.tv/punki_o_o She is very punk and very cool and very knowledgeable in so many things!!

“We’ve invented incredible tools: machines, robots, now A! I!” *crowd boos* “I appreciate your response” 😂 @rbreich.bsky.social your speech was brilliant and you are a badass!!! youtu.be/y2H5D4DhuO4

I saw someone referring to the booing of commencement speakers talking about AI as a tantrum from students who don’t understand technology. That made me think that I bet machine breaking was also perceived as a tantrum. Anyway, here’s some thoughts about the Luddites.

What? His approval is still at 37%? Who could have predicted this? 🤡 But people don't like his views on the economy, and the war is unpopular? I was told that this was all about the price of eggs? Gasoline? Inflation? It's almost like his popularity is driven by something else entirely! 🤔

✨ I’m working on “Animation Challenges”, the final boss of my new animations course. It feels like that Karate Kid moment. We don’t cover any of these animations directly in the course, but all of them can be built using the lower-level techniques we learn. Wax on, wax off 🥷

Just how many lines from Cher's Believe did I manage to fit in an article about gravitational wave autotuning? More than you might think! 🔭🧪 www.iflscience.com/this-wasnt-r...

We’re past the days of value generation and entered the age of value extraction—how much can be strip mined from companies while keeping them on life support. Perhaps they see the end of the world/capitalism as we know it and are looking for bunker money right now… but hey that’s just a theory

My latest—A Long Island school district agreed to settle a lawsuit w/ a Muslim former student for $100k. They added 25k to avoid what she really wanted: public acknowledgement that her pro-Palestine art they painted over wasn’t actually antisemitic hate speech. Exclusive report from The Handbasket:

@acollierastro.bsky.social, I just watched your Genesis mission video (on Nebula!) and I have so many feelings. For starters, I’m completely stunned by how fascistic this wealth distribution scheme is—I know you’re being careful with your phrasing, but I’m just going to say it youtu.be/p6Ejmhwb8Sc

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

in celebration of May Day, tomorrow is Saturday

If you were middle class, cishet, suburban and came from a middle to upper class family, the 1990s were probably great. If you grew poor or working class, if you weren't straight and cis, if you lived in a city riven with War on Drugs bullshit, or a dying rural or industrial town, then... nah.

the existence of this implies the existence of the Betterbahn, the Fasterbahn, and the Strongerbahn

On this day in 1963, hundreds of Black children began a movement peacefully protesting racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, as part of the Children's Crusade and faced intense police brutality, sparking nationwide outrage.

This is insane

Alice hiding under the sheets on our bed

Anyway I think the important thing is, I had nothing to do with opening a wormhole through space and time that destroyed any protoplanets I was busy I have an alibi I have several alibis actually

One last thing before we go. Today, after 2+ (or 10+??) years of work, we’re launching XOXO Explore, a complete archive of all eight years of the festival. xoxofest.com

The deep dive on the cocaine salmon paper you didn't know you needed, with the one and only @tomlumperson.bsky.social

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

There is so much malice in the justice system towards people, and this article does a great job of demonstrating how torture works. There’s a bullshit machine in our brain that tries to produce the words necessary for survive. However, the premise of the article doesn’t seem technically sound? 🧵

the penne opticon

Good luck MAGA. You're never going to get Texans to boycott Halal meat, because it's every barbecue obsessed person's secret ingredient.🤷🏿‍♂️ Muslims and Jews don't like eating poo in their meat.🍖💩 The rest of us don't seem to mind it for some reason? Kosher and Halal meat have almost no poo in them

Fuck that, give it back.