I see this one making the rounds so I am sharing a bit of a warning. This is a non-peer-reviewed, poorly detailed report from an advocacy organization. Some key information is missing, and what is reported ("The steepest judgment gap.. comes from male Gen Z") smells like p-hacking.

To put Cape Verde's national pride in context, I am considering my own small nation of Israel who qualified for the World Cup exactly once, in 1970 (population then: 3M). Interestingly it was Morocco's first appearance as well (clearly their game advanced a bit more since).

As quoted by @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social in the book 1929, "the only difference between a (bank) robber and a (bank) president is that the robber works at night". Given how this president sleeps during the day, I doubt that even this distinction is true in this case.

As quoted by @andrewrsorkin.bsky.social in the book 1929, "the only difference between a (bank) robber and a (bank) president is that the robber works at night". Given how this president sleeps during the day, I doubt that even this distinction is true in this case.

If you were curious about Infantino showing up at multiple #WorldCup games yesterday... here's an interactive tracker of his private Qatari jet movements and its climate impact (plus all the tournament's impact). wc2026-emissions.vercel.app/infantino

NIH grants have been under political scrutiny since early 2025. But what does the screening process actually look like? What is being flagged? I spent a month digging into leaked docs and emails. We've published the 235-word list that are being flagged by an internal AI tool. And so much more. 🧵

Looks like Emma is doing something right. I bet these morons don't even have a subscription to The Atlantic (or, for that matter, any value-providing, fact-checked, non-SV-aggrandizing publication).

New piece in The Atlantic! We always hear that AI will cure cancer, and I would immediately benefit if it did. Still, I argue that racing ahead on generalist AI models creates unclear benefits for cancer that are outweighed by broader societal harms. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

1/ LLMs learn narrative from their pretraining data but what narrative content is actually in there? It turns out narrative is wildly unevenly distributed across sources and topics. New preprint with @andrewpiper.bsky.social @elliottash.bsky.social @mariaa.bsky.social:

Heavy foot traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge at 8am, likely heading to the parade. As seen from the other bridge, on a subway headed the opposite way, and where a good third of people are wearing Knicks garb anyway

This is exactly what's happening. (The thread is its own crazy story)

I've never in my life seen so many people on so many streets (never mind that most of them have watched the first ever basketball game last week)

Wow this is some wild hallucination, Google! (Found on the Discover feed).

My best guess is that the government quickly "clarifies" its position on what counts as an export or negotiates a compromise with Anthropic that defines the safeguards around acess to Fable/Mythos, so that they will continue to be available with some access controls, even if they're somewhat leaky.

#DumbestTimeline “The department will look at our appeal options while we celebrate UFC Freedom 250 on the South Lawn of the White House this weekend in honor of our nation’s 250th with the greatest president in the history of our country — Donald J. Trump.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/u...

The Hand of God II

📣 New paper @nathumbehav.nature.com: A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I spent many years building up my following on the Daily Stormer, my posts get a lot of reaction, I am not going to leave just because it is owned by Nazis, Nazis profit from it, site is designed to promote Nazi ideology Exactly what I hear when someone tells me they're still actively using Twitter

US democracy and prosperity

If you thought this town fucking hated Trump before

OK -- is this really the billboard to welcome Trump to MSG tonight? www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06... (Source)

Every city in the nation:

Make it God, Jehovah, Allah, Black Jesus, and Jalen Brunson.

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o... By the decree of God, Jehovah, Allah and Black Jesus (Earl “The Pearl” Monroe)... On June 16 in the year of our Lawd 2026, the New Yawk Knickerbockers will defeat the San Antonio Spurs in Game 6 at da world’s most famous arena to win the NBA championship -- Spike Lee

📄 New paper: people choose AI models partly on political grounds This is joint work with @pettertornberg.com @chrisbail.bsky.social @michelleschimmel.bsky.social and led by @michaelheseltine.bsky.social

This will break many Blueskyer's brains, as it's the publisher of the NYT (Boo! Hiss!) delivering a straightforward and damning takedown of big tech and AI (BOOOOO! HISSSSSS!)

Rage bait and extremist propaganda performs well on rage-baiting extremist social media!

Where does the “it’s not x, it’s y” come from? It’s not only training data: LLMs are trained to use language to arrive at “answers.” Whatever we’re incentivizing and disincentivizing in our use of language when we resist “sounding like AI” has big implications for students, and for human thought.

danah boyd recently argued that social media (as we knew it) is mostly dead; what we have now is parasocial media: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... I agree. Networked social media is disappearing, replaced by a new logic/structure of content creator, creator-centered community, & algorithm.

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

Best note was in the comments: "Artificial intelligence is becoming a perfect test of whether capitalism serves society or society serves concentrations of wealth and power." On the other hand, to be fair, ChatGPT could have definitely improved on that protest sign

There's always an angle... (For those not following NBA economics: these are the cheap seats)

Very cool analysis

In other AI news, prompt injections are here to stay based on this new paper from Abdelnabi and Bagdasarian. "an adversary can always construct a context under which a blocked flow appears legitimate, or a defender who tightens norms will block genuinely legitimate flows." arxiv.org/abs/2605.17634

Out of 44 Knicks points in that final run, I counted ~40 scored on Harden as the defender. This is why he never has and never will win a championship.

Angels Appearing before the Shepherds, by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1910

We're here all week! I don't know about you but I will be there tonight to see @jtlg.bsky.social @nkgarg.bsky.social and Mukti -- I promise it will be as highly entertaining as it will be insightful. Oh and I will also be there on Wednesday to talk about my own work.

Finally, after all these years, a useful Grammarly feature.

I sure hope it's a record store and not a video rental shop

To counter all rumors of influence... Israel appoints a mentalist to report the national #eurovision vote and he claims he knows the overall winner

Jeez, towers, it was only the Sixers

A universal credit system tied to ORCID to address the problems editors are having with finding peer reviewers NOW (Yes AI complicates but the authors have suggestions).

Hey NYC friends, this is something really cool and unusual that I am doing in a couple of weeks -- a public pub talk about my research! Thanks to @pintofscience.us for organizing. Wednesday, May 20th at 7pm (it's $2 plus the beer you will be having). pintofscience.us/event/smart-...

Hey NYC friends, this is something really cool and unusual that I am doing in a couple of weeks -- a public pub talk about my research! Thanks to @pintofscience.us for organizing. Wednesday, May 20th at 7pm (it's $2 plus the beer you will be having). pintofscience.us/event/smart-...

A sobering take on the current and future enshittification of Meta. Instagram and Whatsapp are still strong properties but Julia paints a dark and entirely possible picture of future decline. As a former Yahoo I can relate.

One year later - my reflections on what's happened to US science since the National Science Foundation grant terminations last year. The problem of misinformation isn't going away, but our ability to study and understand it is under attack. 1/ 🧪 www.tennessean.com/story/opinio...

This is a big decision! Mass termination of National Endowment for the Humanities grants (remember DOGE doing this?) "unlawful, unconstitutional... and without legal effect." Terminations violate 1st Amendment & equal protection component of 5th Amendment, "and without statutory authority."