I've been on nine flights in the last 10 days, in the US and Europe, and have not seen almost any masks, but this is a perfectly enjoyable discourse to have for both sides

I read it in Polish. Nothing in this article (which is a summary of her live answers to questions from readers) implies that AI writes anything for her, only that she uses it and has thoughts about how it might be used in the future. This thread selectively picks and incompletely translates quotes

is there a way to have all the different sides of this issue lose?

DOGE, but this time definitely good.

Bipartisan view of the US government budget

They also believe that half of the budget goes to military. Not much is left after that.

Grisly, but you have to be impressed by crocodiles using drones

Bill Gates would be among these 12 but he gave too much and is no longer on the list. It tells you something about the methodology

Ok, the infantilization of college students has gone too far. Now there is a parents' union?

I've known since 1973 that this would be about Marx

💔 Their friendship could survive only one Papal assault

Weak. Fewer people, easier to take over than Greenland.

It is a perfect airport for a layover if you are flying from New Zealand to South Africa.

Halloween year round in National Parks

When archeologists decipher our records in 1000 years, they will find out that Big Pharma was the ruler who killed the most people, with Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Chuck Norris and Lenin distant also-runners

This is how you implement "cap-and-trade" in practice, kids

In the future when we look back, it will be clear that Musk and Trump were the two people most responsible for transition to EVs

I might be in minority here, but the real problem here is that we do not have enough Grand Conspiracies and, thus, we cannot reliably study them empirically so that we have to rely on theory and anecdotes. Hopefully, one day, we'll have more data.

The UI team even added an arrow there. Unreal

I have to admit that Hormuz is a very clever design that keeps things interesting. Kudos to Slartibartfast. You can't convince me that it was an accident.

Is this the first 5.16a?

Oh yes, all those important conversations taking place on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok

That's unfair. It's well-known that five-year olds cannot control their tantrums

I appreciate the throwback to the popular joke (but, really, the truth) under communism, but I am actually usually sure that corruption in this administration is true whether they deny or not

So much to unpack

I hope she stapled her paperwork before filing

The lawyer said with a straight face that it'd take an act of Congress to stop the president from sending military to deal with the Beatles

I'm teaching uncertainty in GE soon and I'm going to steal this thread

I'm disappointed but not surprised that referring to capitalism as gospel got no traction on Bluesky

Protestantism started with a vicious attack on capitalism (selling indulgences), but it ended with accepting the gospel as its "ethic"

The death toll is now higher than Tiananmen Square or October 7th and Iran is barely news. Not trending here, a bit more but also little on X, scroll down the feed to #9 on NYT

I totally expected the attempts to seize private property, but seizing the CEA took me by surprise

Me, for perhaps a 1000th time in my NYC apartment: "Alexa, what's the weather like?" Newly LLM-trained Alexa: "Today in Ann Arbor it will be..." Me: "Why are you telling me about A2?" Alexa: "Our records show that you live in A2" It's been 24 years since I lived in Ann Arbor...

I don't have five minutes to read it, but in my personal case I'm pretty sure that the biggest factor influencing it would be just watching it

My take on this is that doctors are usually not PhDs.

Received on December 23rd. Luckily, it is a European publisher so "two working days" means it's due on January 15.

His point was "some people will like using Twitter more than Bluesky because the range of topics on which Bsky will allow respectful disagreement is fairly narrow" and the fact that that, in itself, is not something you can say on Bluesky without getting this much vitriol sort of proves the point.

I've been told that the other site is toxic but this one is not

This site doesn't have censorship, it has community-induced self-censorship.

Wikipedia editors have grudges

I did not know that the president owned an apartment in Ann Arbor

'My papers say what I have researched. And therefore neither I nor my papers have any more to say. I am a researcher, not a speaker. Do you hear me? Actually, if you're going to interview anyone, you can interview my papers. If you don't find an answer there, then that's your own fault.'

Here is why you need local knowledge in your research

It is smart to invest in coincidences

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Substitution response to the fertility crisis. Markets always find the way.

This is many dollars higher than my reservation price

Spotify baited me and then offended