If Claude researches like I did as a PhD student, then there's a very good chance it'll just decide to spend the day playing Championship Manager

As Ukraine’s strike capabilities improve, don’t be surprised if Trump tries to delay or cancel the 3,350 ERAMs sold to Kyiv. Russia can’t afford to face both Ukraine’s homemade missiles and thousands of US cruise missiles. We all know Trump sides with Russia

Attacks leave dead vs killed

It turns out the U.S. did a “double tap” attack just as emergency responders were arriving at the girls’ elementary school. This is what the Russians do routinely in Ukraine. That’s a war crime under international humanitarian law.

Even with Russia helping Iran target Americans, the Trump administration approach to Ukraine is Russia deserves to get something for its aggression, and the goal of U.S. pressure is to get Ukraine to bow down to Putin.

This is no different from Putin saying MH17 was shot down by Ukraine or Assad saying rebels gassed themselves.

“Dr NaN”

The world’s most unreliable encyclopaedia: Elon Musk’s AI Wikipedia alternative is dangerously distorting the truth about Northern Ireland, defaming & perversely altering history. It smears Troubles victims, lauds a paramilitary force & libels politicians.

A good reminder of what pathetic cowards we have been when it comes to Ukraine. Europe didn’t place large orders of SAMP/T batteries and Aster interceptors, so it should at least have ordered many PAC interceptors for Ukraine. Traitors

Hello! Hello? Anyone there? Is this thing on?

Let's just come out and say it -- this is worst U.S. war crime since the Vietnam War.

Yet another example why helping Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression is critical to US national security. Ukraine could have, and wanted to, destroy Russia's Shahed drone factory but Trump refused to allow them. Now Putin is shipping those drones to Iran.

1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health

“Many of their commanders are especially delighted with how graphic this battle will be zeroing in on how bloody all of this must become in order to fulfill and be in 100% accordance with fundamentalist Christian end of the world eschatology.”

We wanted to save Iranians from the bad guys. So we killed the bad guys. This turned out to be unfortunate, because our plan was, after saving the Iranians from the bad guys, to pick one of the bad guys to be *our* bad guy and to leave him in charge.

Translated: "We are OK with war crimes."

AI agents will increase the number of academic papers, also high-quality papers. But, before the agents are _inside_ the secure servers, closed data sources like register data, will become even more attractive.

I am prone to *configuratis*, a disease where you spend the majority of your working time improving workflow and configuration files instead of doing the actual work. Agents make this even worse. Now I can configure the agent to more efficiently configure pandoc/LaTeX/Beamer/Makefile etc.

There is more evidence that Roger Boyes won’t be round by spring not least the amount he must be drinking to assume things are going well for the army that is currently tricking Africans to join because they’re running low on cannon fodder

They've monetized and incentivized committing crimes against humanity. It's a scandal on par with Pete Rose betting on baseball, if Pete Rose were undersecretary of defense, and baseball was murdering civilians with bombs.

Using agents to do research is making me feel like I do not have to do research in order to do research, but I guess I eventually have to do research anyway.

January: Kidnap the president of Venezuela February: Launch an unprovoked war with Iran March: ???

THIS.

This is amazing.

Stephen Miller and everyone else in the Trump administration lied

Sorry but the craziest and worst regime in the world is North Korea and they have nuclear weapons and Donald Trump wrote what he described as love letters to its dictator.

Hey - there's a preprint about the bioRxiv preprint server published as a preprint on the bioRxiv preprint server: bioRxiv: the preprint server for biology www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

There's a lot going on. But it deserves FAR MORE ATTENTION that Whiskey Pete is going to seize the means of AI production so he can 1) engage in mass surveillance of Americans and 2) shoot without human intervention. Dystopias this bad would be deemed unrealistic. www.axios.com/2026/02/24/a...

Prins Andrew, Mandelson og Jagland.

All coders' fav movie: Repo man.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

LOL! The demented crazy guy can't help diallng in to under his old pseudonym (which he later used as the first name of his son). Or is this some kind of deepfake? If so, it is _really_ deep.

State of Florida's new mandate for public college Intro Sociology curriculum: "The following should not be included in any course content... "Discussions arguing a causal association between institutional sexism and unequal outcomes between men and women" Indoctrination, not education nor science

Demografifaget i Norge trenger et hjem! Det finnet intet integrativt "population center" i norsk forskning. Til sammenligning finnes det minst fem sentra for kjønnsforskning. www.morgenbladet.no/ideer/demogr...

The first Earl of Orkney cut off his rival's head and rode home with it strapped to his saddle. A tooth in the severed head cut his leg, the wound became infected and he died of the infection en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigurd_...

We’ve had Turning Point USA. How far are we from Breaking Point?

We applaud the few nations draining their arsenals to save Europe. We should be shaming the rest for hiding behind them. This war is existential yet the biggest economies act like it is a charity drive. The current "high" effort must become the absolute minimum

Remember: Viktor Orban has built a corrupt, stagnant Hungary that is much poorer than it should be www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Once thronged with congregants; now sadly out of fashion as everyone attends the Church of the Collider instead.

Comrade Rubio doing his job.

As a sociologist, I'm compelled to like any 2×2

Russia’s regime doesn’t limit itself to bombing Ukraine, it also keeps silencing opponents at home. Two years ago, Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison camp, poisoned with a lethal toxin. The Kremlin bears full responsibility. (1/3)

Register data user? How can we get coding agents on the _inside_ of closed server systems (i.e. no real inet access on the inside). Is there some OS solution?

Strongly recommend @causalinf.bsky.social posts about Claude Code. I use Codex (openAI) but it seems similar and much of the experience translates across systems.

Working with an AI assistant on an old project with a lot of coding / data extraction work. The project is now alive again! Immense productivity boost.

Thought police watch:

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Enten må vi sørge for at ukrainerne vinner, eller så må vi forberede oss på krig.

I think it's time to rethink how we categorize "middle class."

Bare det at Nobelkomiteens medlemmer tar imot gaver som privatpersoner er jo ekstremt undergravende for tilliten. Alle evt. gaver som gis bør tilfalle instituttet, og være gjenstand for full åpenhet. Dette er uakseptabelt, og alle tre må svare.