Home remodeling and construction is one of the most expensive things and it’s completely overrun by AI slop and hyperreal products. Affordability aside, I fear for anyone who has to buy one of these things in 10-15 years when whatever toxic stuff is in this vinyl starts off gassing like crazy

Oh futurism.com/future-socie...

The partner gets back to our townhouse and immediately gets a long and stale rant on postmodernism of the type I’ve not felt the need to think about for 20 years

Umberto Eco was more right than he knew

“We know that this decades-long process of an ever closer economic relationship between Canada and the United States has ended…”

Note on nomenclature: the “third world” countries referred to Cold War era non-aligned nations more than anything else. First world were countries aligned with the U.S., second world with Russia, third were basically everyone else. Using the term reveals willful ignorance more than anything else.

Not just newspapers. Consider other data sources, like scientific collections. The compact for R&D infrastructure has been that if you publish in the open you get it for free, but if you’re engaged in profit-seeking activities you’ve gotta pay full cost recovery to support the high-value tool.

Yttrium is also important for tech like quantum and fusion. YBCO superconductors can operate using liquid nitrogen (higher temperature, much easier to contain, much less cryo and lower needed). YBCO is often also framed as less geopolitically charged than niobium, which has fewer mines.

Like a broken record I’ve been harping on this point for years now: U.S. sanctions and technology policy is weakening the type of soft power we’ve extended over much of the world. This is going to make America weaker. Great way to kill the value props offered by American companies.

It’s not about the drugs…

Oh JFC

Absolutely GOATed movie 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐 Like five GOATs GOATed

What our turkey looked like this year 10 minute preparation Loads of flavor and spice Easy to clean up

Seriously people it's possible to just decide your turkey should have spice and flavor

Time to relearn/gain new appreciation for the phrase “moral hazard.”

Costa I did a Buffalo Old Bay Turkey one year and it was divine

Literally what the fuck State Department

Doing a renovation right now and all the image search results for specific styles are literally just AI generated slop.

In the future, AI chatbots may weave ads invisibly into “helpful” advice, steering conversations without you even knowing, argues Daniel Barcay, executive director of the Center for Humane Technology. When the AI we rely on starts steering us for revenue, not our goals, human autonomy is at risk.

The Department of Energy is one of the most significant global supporters of physical science research. I joined my colleagues at the @scientistsorg.bsky.social Addy Smith, Alice Wu, Zoë Brouns, and Arjun Krishnaswami to offer our perspective and warnings on DOE’s reorganization.

In space, insurance markets are collapsing because only people flying expensive geo birds are buying. With AI, insurers see they accidentally sold a new and riskier product to everyone. If not separated out, AI risk gets priced into everything, putting inflationary pressure on the whole economy.

Removing gross cabinets from the new house as part of the renovation. 50 years old leaves plenty of fun sanitary surprises

What a year tonight has been

I get the "wtf just happened" reax but I think this is mostly a case of game recognize game. Trump also likes novelty, celebrity, winners, and “strong.” And we *know* he is detached from ideological commitments. Same quality that leads him to talk openly with Putin and Kim Jong Un. Not that deep.

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This is good news. CERN is an organization that can be counted on to manage megaprojects responsibly. China unfortunately has a history of locking down parts of projects that might be considered sensitive, usually for arbitrary reasons. The United States hasn’t been able to deliver, historically.

Yes when I was unconscious and bleeding from the head on the side of a mountain I absolutely had a choice to go to a less expensive hospital and decline the ambulance.

This academic summit is LIT

FWIW the Monroe Doctrine was actually British policy intended to contain the imperialist aspirations of other European powers. The United States lacked the military capacity to enforce it, but it did enable us to fulfill our own expansionist goals.

Traffic and metro delays=two hour commute. Government must be open again or something.

I promise you that the DoJ is not going to approach FARA this way with the Latin and Asian American communities.

Gross

So yes. I am ace. And yes, I’m into dragons what about it

MTG giving a mea culpa on live tv is a surprise to be sure but a welcome one People taking ownership and saving face is the most important part of getting out of this.

Get in loser … we’re reinventing the rule of law from first principles

Because this worked so well for them the first time. Look, if you’re going to allege espionage, there needs to be a national security information nexus. The whole false pretense of the False Claims Act isn’t having the results that these folks want at trial. Definition of insanity.

Again, the amazing thing about this is that it doesn’t deter the behavior they’re trying to deter. If you’re in the five year window, why not keep working with the folks you were working with and seek other funding sources? It treats the federal money as the thing to be protected.

We have always been at war with Venezuela, apparently

Folks from the Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden be like “what”

“We bend international law all the time to serve our interests and desires” isn’t exactly a defense of the rules-based order or an answer to the question “who are we killing, here, and based on what evidence?”

As the former OSTP Assistant Director for Research Security: This will backfire spectacularly. People who have had interactions in the previous five years will be given no reason to stop. People cut out from funding opportunities will be motivated to seek funding from other governments.

Never before have I felt more validated in my previous work trying to make sure this didn’t happen. (Collider tech is extremely dangerous stuff when used for the wrong purposes—like “every component needs to be export controlled” level dangerous.) You want responsible actors building these. (CERN)

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Guys, I am doing some work on AI and scientific collections and even regular old Google search is really bad at image curation! It's really bad if the first image when you google "blue whale" isn't actually a blue whale!

Metro driver this morning: We are going to return to New Carrollton after reaching Landover Whoops just kidding we are going to Vienna Oops we overshot Federal Triangle Hoping we stop when we reach my station

Normal Veteran’s Day News, apparently: - US torpedos quad leaders meeting (Politico) - UK stops sharing intelligence information with the United States (CNN) - UK and China pledge to cooperate more in science (via the British Government)

This Armistice Day, taking a moment to remember the lessons passed down from my great grandfather, a World War I veteran. “War is really bad” and “Never do that again”

The problem with The Diplomat is that it’s a show that doesn’t trust its audience enough to actually make the show about diplomats and not the White House.

I’m watching The Diplomat Season 3 and I gotta say, Keri Russell is the least aware career State Department officer in the history of the organization.

This exactly. The people who are going to save us is us.