The secret to Mariners baseball is to make the game go on so long that you aren’t sad when they lose, you’re just glad it’s over

Everyone in that stadium who sat through the 18 inning Houston loss and also this game deserves compensation of some sort from the Seattle Mariners franchise

AI transcription service defaults to CRISPR over crisper

They should remake Jaws but instead of sharks it’s ticks vineyardgazette.com/news/2025/08...

This is who Trump shipped to a Salvadoran dungeon: An event planner A coal miner An Uber driver Tortilla maker Barber DoorDashers Soccer coaches Furniture-maker Car washers Taxi drivers HVAC techs Auto parts worker Tire plant worker and 240 more... projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-i...

The manager for the Downey Animal Care Center, urges people who are in a position to adopt to stop by to visit dogs like Canela, a five-year-old Belgian Malinois. A total of 18 animals have been turned in due to the deportations. By @janettev.bsky.social 🐕 lataco.com/ice-raids-pe...

A look at where generative AI is replacing predictive machine learning, when machine learning is still the most effective tool, and how businesses are using the technologies together

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

NEW: The US government has collected DNA from over 100,000 migrant children—including a 4-year-old—and uploaded their genetic profiles into a national biometric database meant for sex offenders and violent criminals. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

Seeing a redacted birth certificate of a two-year-old attached to a habeas petition is what broke me.

POWERFUL: "As we continue through Holy Week, my heart aches for my husband, who should have been here leading our Easter prayers. Instead I find myself pleading with the Trump administration and the Bukele administration to stop playing political games with the life of Kilmar."

🚨New in @plosone.org🚨 Corrections of misinfo are often ignored. What can drive engagement? Twitter field exp & survey followups find -Social ties matter: users more likely to engage w corrections from accounts who followed user -Shared partisanship had smaller effects on engagement shorturl.at/0Ycdp

The Justice Department spent the weekend defying a federal court, and this morning Trump and his top officials revealed that they will defy the Supreme Court, refusing to take ANY steps to bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador. We have passed the point of crisis: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Fact-checking works & broadly popular mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-t... @dgrand.bsky.social: “Contrary to recent claims from many political elites, the main problem with professional fact-checking is not bias or overreach. The problem is that professional fact checkers can’t keep up..."

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center stands to lose $125 million in funding under the NIH cuts www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

putting out this call again: folks at DOE, EPA, FERC, OSTI, EIA etc who want to securely chat with a reporter.......my signal is mollytaft.76 (perhaps goes without saying but don't use work networks or devices to reach out)

Buried in yesterday's Interior Department Secretarial Order on "Unleashing American Energy"* is an attack on birds, indicating the reversal of "Regulations Governing Take of Migratory Birds; Revocation of Provisions," 86 Fed. Reg. 54642. www.doi.gov/document-lib...

🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨 Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong! We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps: i) want content moderation ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Did you miss our symposium last week on Aligning Innovation and Equity in the Digital Economy? A recording of the event is now available, including opening and closing remarks by @dacemoglumit.bsky.social and @simonhrjohnson.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #EconSky

Was that an earthquake I just felt in Arlington, MA?

If you are 1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or 2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week ...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential. crampell[@]washpost[dot]com

Who didn’t vote for Ichiro 🕵️‍♀️

I’ve been reporting for 2 years on a proposed federal rule to slow boats in order te save the critically endangered right whale. Republicans and boating lobbyists spent millions to block the rule by running ads, overwhelming NOAA and running down the clock. It worked 👇 apnews.com/article/whal...

If you’re interested in knowing more about fact checking, here’s some valuable recent research conducted by MIT scholars @dgrand.bsky.social and @cameronmartel.bsky.social #EduSky #EdTech mitsloan.mit.edu/press/warnin...

How is AI reshaping labor market opportunity, and for whom? Join us on 1/21 to hear from @johnjhorton.bsky.social, @sendhil.bsky.social and @lindseyrraymond.bsky.social about their latest research findings and insights, chaired by David Autor. Register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/align... #EconSky

🚨In Nature🚨 Meta is dropping fact-checking to avoid anti-conservative bias- but is there actually evidence of bias? We this test empirically & find that conservatives * ARE suspended more * BUT share more misinfo So suspension isn't necessarily evidence of bias www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Encountered a delightfully random moment of MIT research in the wild! The host of a Survivor podcast mentioned @natewilmers.bsky.social research about how people from different income levels come together most at casual chain restaurants like Olive Garden and Applebee's

INBOX: Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock of Georgia, the only active pastor in the U.S. Senate, releases a statement praising former President Carter amid news of his passing. Warnock concludes: “Well done, good and faithful servant, well done.”

I did the Times Sunday crossword in record speed, time for mom to rewrite the Christmas letter

The second edition of AI at Work went out today! This month I wrote about what leaders were talking about at the recent Business Implications of Generative AI conference (data! ethics! shifting human roles!) www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-w...

That the legal system too often becomes a second round of violation, abuse, and bullying is well known and still worth repeating.

It's a good day to donate to New England Wildlife Center, which is helping ducks and geese affected by yesterday's oil spill in the Muddy River in Brookline www.newildlife.org www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/m...

Interesting discussion on Marketplace about generative AI use in law firms and what it means for hourly billing www.marketplace.org/shows/market...

Report from the New England Wildlife Center on the Muddy River situation; says the oil is suspected to be heating oil and that it took several birds to its clinic in Weymouth and will return tomorrow: www.facebook.com/NewEnglandWi... #Boston #Brookline

This former CIA analyst on MSNBC has some top notch wall art

Simon Johnson and I are hiring a postdoc at MIT to research the history, social implications and future of technology. Candidates should have a PhD in a related field and experience conducting historical analysis, including the use of archives. shapingwork.mit.edu/careers/post...

We're excited to launch our new newsletter, AI at Work, tomorrow! It features insights from around MIT, and I snuck in a reference to AI-generated birds in the first issue. Sign up here! mitsloan.mit.edu/ai-at-work?u...

Hi Bluesky! It’s Nov. 12 and I’ve already watched a dozen Hallmark Christmas movies