great how if you ask the new gemini a simple question it grabs marketing material instead of answering itself

pretty wild how active and populated the r/neoliberal subreddit is. every day if you sort by number of comments their discussion thread will be near the top. same as wallstreetbets, the meme stock people

another notch in the belt for the new public management regime

Lmao

funny how different the media and social media conversation is about google in the past day. all the news pubs are reporting about the new announcements at their annual launch party. everyone on the gemini reddit is talking about new restrictive usage limits and cancelling their subs

the new gemini's thing appears to be to search the interenet before responding and cite a bunch of seo spam type articles in each response

this is shimon naveh "operational art" stuff

really nice

turns out meta can make a chat bot that doesnt suck. might even be the best free one going right now

the cool thing about feral opposition to tax is the way it only very partially overlaps with economic theory about optimal taxation. the death tax mania is about a type of tax with zero impact on working-life incentives

reddit dropping r/all is a true embodiment of the enshittification process. taking away sorts and filters to force personalised algorithms so the user creates more data and can be advertised to in more targeted, lucrative ways. justified as being about "simplicity"

h2h: aldi vs coles - paulaner wheat beer edition aldi 4x500 = $15 ($7 per litre) coles/liquorland 24x500 = $113 ($9.4 per litre)

both forms of rugby should just be tries only as the way to score. conversions are just pointless forms of noise

eurovision's televoting system is so messed up that israel is topping the odds, because coordinated activity is the likeliest way it will be decided

paternalism is an overriding them for the bay area libertarians

two types of journos

nice

good stuff

Beautiful piece by Awais. Money quote below. My one concern is that many psychiatrists do not in fact mean what Awais means when they say "you have ADHD". They mean it in exactly the same way one says "you have liver cancer". And it's very harmful for mental health science and practice.

knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a... Now up at @knightcolumbia.org - Cosma Shalizi and myself on "AI as Social Technology." It says that AI models are really a technology of social mediation that allow humans to connect with thoughts of other humans. Short-ish thread with major points follows.

sounds like pure woo

"F&ck the planet" by the New York Times

lots of academics are like the most naive realists you can get. they reify every measurement tool they get their hands on

"Yet the system is also showing signs of strain.... In June a consortium of carriers successfully lobbied against an amendment to the GENIUS Act, America’s new law on stablecoins, that would have lowered interchange fees." www.economist.com/business/202...

wtf lmao

would like to read this report - google search doesn't seem to return anything?

excellent materials

"casual traders are bleeding cash while a small number of sophisticated pros—including trading firms with access to vast streams of data—eat their lunch, according to a Journal analysis of platform data and interviews with traders." www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

A brief reply to Michael Gawenda's slander overland.org.au/2026/05/jour...

its funny how like all football modelling of scores traces back to a paper from the early 80s written by a british transport safety academic (maher) who hasn't really published on the topic since

its funny how chatgpt got rid of the sycophancy thing and what happened was they the model become a kind of pedantic curmudgeon

incred immolation.bandcamp.com/album/descent

This is a good description of why I think we need to stop asking this question, without being a lot more specific: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

IDF commanders told Haaretz that southern Lebanon is being demolished “like Gaza.” The declared goal is to prevent civilians from being able to return. Both are war crimes punishable under international law. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

this doesn't feel ideal, as a development www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

polite but brutal takedown response piece that excels in the genre

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... Sharing this (rather ridiculously detailed) article about the #laws-of-probability with a quick reminder that the AI you might be using is based on this.

built (read: vibe coded) a tries-only poisson model for nrl. attack and defence parameters + home advantage + a 3 parameter patch to boost draw and blowout probability.

Props to the WSJ, they managed to pack almost every Trump decision-making pathology into a single story. It’s all here: 1) Short attention span 2) Impulsive behavior 3) Knowledge deficits 4) Gambling for resurrection 5) Belief in the madman theory www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

looks identical to the stuff we saw in aus, but now developed to the point where there is a central online front group www.rferl.org/a/hayi-iran-...

chatbots cant get enough of suggesting you use bayesian methods - almost every open ended question will be met with this as an answer

"In Poisoning the Minds of the Low Orders, his great book on early modern conservatism, Don Herzog notes how British conservatives relentlessly argued that the lower orders ought not to be educated lest it provoke 'insubordination.'" www.liberalcurrents.com/the-right-wa...

yasher koach to the american jewish establishment and the government of the state of israel...you did it!

the darkest pattern on the internet might be how uber eats doesn’t let you get a proper view of discounts at the item level

stiff competition but I found it, the worst policy proposal

Just to crib Jan's great chart here a little bit - here are just a few of the headlines that came out when growth somewhat slowed in 2024 Many, many media outlets do not really know how to handle technological change like this

enshittification

mehdi hasan is probably the only person i like on this list