"No Way To Prevent This," Says Company Spending Billions Of Dollars To Encourage This

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

In 2026, be a Sandal not a cow cat

This infographic is from 2014, based on a book published in 2007 that used survey data collected who knows when www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp... www.amazon.com/Paying-Tab-B...

Riding my new bed like it's a train to sleep town.

That people who dined for a lifetime off that freedom have sold it out for the chance to elevate their professional resentments into fundamental principles, for the sake of a slightly wider audience that neither knows nor wants to know any better, is a massive and grotesque betrayal.

I meant for this to be a photo but I'm very glad it wasn't

My basic points are: 1- that’s not easy 2- they’ve way overplayed their hand in year one 3- even if they fail they will hurt and kill a lot of people 4- throwing them out in 2026 and 2028 won’t be enough, we need to think about what comes after www.liberalcurrents.com/we-are-going...

There’s nothing wrong with common sense until you dig a little and learn that common sense is wrong. Thanks @profgalloway.com for providing a great example of common sense that I’ve gotten a kick out of doubting. Thanks @prosocialworld.bsky.social for hosting. www.prosocial.world/posts/whats-...

Sharing this, in case you are not familiar and it might be helpful in your situation

Okay, so, new hypothesis: Despite being terrible, Jupyter Notebooks became popular because they make it possible to debug Python.

rolling into 2026 like 🪶 🐣

If you think of "hiring in entry level positions" as "procuring labor to do the tasks entry level people do" then you probably do think AI is a magical headcount reduction machine. But the point of hiring in entry level positions is to produce mid-career employees.

Thinking through the core assumptions for a thing: 1. Generative systems are normal technologies; they have been incredibly overhyped, but likely have some legitimately valuable uses in augmenting knowledge work.

This year I discovered the secret to Parker House rolls: The recipes all say to use a 9x11" or even 11x13" pan for like 12 rolls. There's way too much space. They need to be squished together to rise tall. You want less than an inch of separation at the start of the proof. 12 rolls = 9x9" pan.

this is a good excuse to post my all time favorite Star Trek meme

Happy Eat the Christmas Tree Day to all who celebrate

These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.

This pretty much sums up Bluesky

In the other direction, elder niece (17 yo) really wants to go out of state, but her parents are getting a divorce so that's probably not financially viable. "That's fine, I'll just take out loans. I'd rather be in debt $100,000 than stay in California."

open-faced sandwich, therefore, they are a taco.

Relatedly, I learned recently that there are simplified devices (speakers, etc) designed specifically for Alzheimer's patients, and if they could be made to look just slightly cooler and keep the word "Alzheimer's" off the packaging, I would buy the shit out of that stuff for certain loved ones.

A 3 1/2 year old I am auntie to is completely sure I am 10 years old. She knows I have an apartment, live on my own, and work at a museum, but responded to these data points with "she is a very smart girl, like me!" Today my best pal gifted me this portrait of me, age 10, busy at my job as curator

“San Francisco should stop treating oversight as something that starts after deployment.” This for everything everywhere immediately.

JUST LIKE THEY DID WHEN MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTED A WEALTH TAX OH WAIT THEY DIDN'T MASSACHUSETTS ACTUALLY HAS MORE RICH PEOPLE NOW BECAUSE THE STATE CAN AFFORD TO BE A NICER PLACE FOR EVERYONE TO LIVE

Being a law professor at Harvard is like getting kicked in the head by a horse.

Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Crocetti, son of Italian immigrant Gaetano Crocetti Frank Sinatra, son of Italian immigrants Antonino Sinatra and Natalina Garavanta Merry Christmas to everyone except Stephen Miller and his enablers and handlers

Michael Fratrich is a versatile American painter born in 1968. Known as "One man, 10 art styles” he masters Impressionism, Tonalism, and Realism. Based in Lambertville, NJ, he owns Ten One Gallery, featuring his iconic "Farmscape" collection and rural American scenes. Waking up to a blanket of snow

I remember the phrase "they can't be allowed to melt back into society" re: the de-Baathification of Iraq after the war there. Like everything about that experience, the attempt was cynical, stupid, and botched. But there really should be a plan about what we do with guys like these in the future.

(daft punk One More Time voice) Auld Lang Syne

Yeah, scaffolded writing projects that build over time are how I used to do it too. I still think you can do it, but it's going to take much more time to monitor the writing / independent research part of it. It was always hard to scale, but now "hard to scale" means 30 students instead of 100.

I'm still upset that "manosphere" doesn't refer to men who have been crushed and formed into a perfect orb.

I used to be a professor, so I know many #academic folk spend their after-Christmas already planning spring courses. I wrote a book that talks about rise of #fascism from the roots, #LGBTQ and #science history. It’s accessible. It has back matter for students. And I have teaching materials.

Over the last two years I've spent a lot of time reading Newton's Principia and Bacon's Novum Organum and I think more astro/physicists should have this experience

Your neighbourhood historian of science agrees.

deleted my snark about the screenshotted post, because his explanation of it sounds less like 'it's ok if your code breaks' and more like 'it's ok if your code isn't super elegant' rywalker.com/why-good-eno...

I hate Xmas, but Honey is a fan

"Why do we have to take ethics classes for a computer science degree?" This is why. And frankly, we should be failing more students for inadequately demonstrating their understanding of the topic. Let's review some fun historical examples of why "No, actually quality will continue to matter."

This is why it’s so important to trace things back to the beginning whenever possible. I believe @rauchway.bsky.social calls these “historical urban legends”

ICE stood by its promise of targeting the worst of the worst. The only difference is that they meant in terms of who to hire, not who to arrest.

In a new blog post, I contrast two flavors of empiricism: the one practiced in the social sciences and the one practiced in ML/CS. I argue that we need both, given that CS is increasingly about "claims," and not just constructing artifacts. doomscrollingbabel.manoel.xyz/p/the-empiri...

Jim’s face is looking especially excellent today, I think.

One of Jim's great skills is stretching. He is better at this than any other cat. People comment on it all the time when they visit our house. "Holy shit, man, your cat is REALLY fucking good at stretching," they will remark, "That's because he is orange," we will reply. "And because he's Jim."

My adorable five year old niece calls it "Cake Pop Demon Hunters."

DON’T. PRINT. LIES. IN. THE. NEWSPAPERS. Every damn day. It’s exhausting.

When the polite, cultured Dr. Pepper consumes a special draught, he turns into the brutish, monstrous Mr. Pibb.

there should be a movie where a woman from a small town begrudgingly goes to the big city for the holidays and falls in love at first sight with ethiopian food

thank you, Mr. President

Merry Christmas yall

now for the traditional eating of the christmas tree