Michael Hunter
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Computer science, math, progressive politics, and deeply nerdy things.
Miller REAAALLLLY wants everyone to be as racist as he is.
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Parker Molloy
5 days ago
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
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Incompetence, rushing, or willful disobedience?
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This rates a "mostly bullshit" on the Bullshitometer.
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Esther Mondragón
8 days ago
"Ultimately, learning requires friction. It requires the uncomfortable sensation of not knowing, the strain of recall, and the cognitive demand that tech companies are seeking to eliminate."
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I am SOOOOOO glad I got off of all of Meta's platforms a while ago. It's like one big dumpster fire composed of smaller dumpster fires.
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jamelle
10 days ago
one thing that is important to know is that BIRTH OF A NATION is so racist that people at the *time*, in 1915, were like, āholy shit this is racistā
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Shane Anderson š³ļøāš
10 days ago
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." -
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with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!
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This sure does fill me with confidence that the Democrats will fix any of their problems in the future! \s
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Oh, this sounds real bad.
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Paul Frazee
13 days ago
I can easily tell you if a problem is NP hard, but it's very difficult for me to find new NP hard problems
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Robert Komaniecki
14 days ago
I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury
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Aaron Rupar
13 days ago
this is one of the most psychotic things Trump has ever posted
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Waldo Jaquith
14 days ago
Look, thereās a simple solution to private equity buying up and enshittifying the software that keeps us safe: a handful of municipal fire/rescue departments should team up, collaboratively build and share better software, and release it into the public domain. This is a common pattern!
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Private Equity Finds a New Source of Profit: Volunteer Fire Departments
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-private-equity.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8k8.Gb5B.gD0lVreY6jAP&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Justin Wolfers
14 days ago
Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
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jamelle
15 days ago
i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesnāt like into a bespoke ideology. itās not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded āismā responsible for everything he doesnāt like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.
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Jenny Hunter
15 days ago
The latest AI-tastic update of Amazon Alexa is putting me in mind of this scene from Office Space
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Pavel
15 days ago
This overlaps with a challenging mode of decision-making in orgs: validation. I've made a decision, and invested some effort into executing it. Now I need you to validate that decision. If you find any problems we can still fix, we'll fix them. But if you find problems we can't fix ā don't.
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Captain Disillusion
16 days ago
The actual execution of it is so cringy. Like, whatever the technique, they couldn't bother to make it look even a TINY BIT like they're interacting or share the same location-appropriate lighting? This had to be made in 5 mins, like a comedy news show graphic for a gag, except it's an annual cover.
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Gravel Influencer
17 days ago
Wow, that must be so terrifying to think you're being abducted.
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Brad Lander
16 days ago
A year ago, our lawsuits helped make sure congestion pricing would go into effect on January 1, 2025. Now, the results are clear:Ā Congestion pricing has resulted in a marked drop in air pollution ā not just in Lower Manhattan, but throughout the metro region.
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Lindsay Beyerstein
16 days ago
The right pulled this off on gun control. Every legal scholar recognized that the Second Amendment was about gun ownership in the context of a well-regulated militia. Until right-wing pseudo-scholarship undermined the consensus.
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No true bill
18 days ago
Giving the game away. he has more āscholarly ammunitionā than he did in January because a bunch of professional bootlicks and liars who have never had real jobs started lying about birthright citizenship in January.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick
17 days ago
HUGE. Judge Xinis grants the writ of habeas corpus and orders that the government "SHALL release [Kilmar] Abrego Garcia from ICE custody immediately."
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jamelle
19 days ago
there is no available evidence that donald trump understands what a tariff is, what a trade deficit is, and what the national debt is.
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Take Back the Court
20 days ago
āSupreme Court reform is now the sine qua non of any reformist program in the United States, any program to re-implant/re-secure civic democracy in the United Statesā --
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talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court...
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Court Reform: Breaking the Corrupt Rule of the Six GOPers Is Everything
Iāve become something of a broken record on this. But repetition sometimes...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/court-reform-breaking-the-corrupt-rule-of-the-six-gops-is-everything
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K. Thor Jensen
20 days ago
We are in hell
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I concur. Zotero is a game changer.
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21 days ago
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Ian Bell Danskin
22 days ago
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
23 days ago
from a state party director
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Of all the dumb ideas in the world, this is certainly one of them.
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27 days ago
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jon ben-menachem
29 days ago
Fuel for my long held view that executives provide very little value and should be compensated around the middle of their org pay scale
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Also, murder is illegal. Probably lots of places in maritime law.
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Stephanie š
30 days ago
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
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Erik Angner
about 1 month ago
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
h/t
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Parker Molloy
about 1 month ago
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI. Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
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Nicholas Grossman
about 1 month ago
On one side of the ledger, we have half a trillion dollars in operating losses expected over the next 5 years. On the other side of the ledger, we have all the money we'll hypothetically make when the hypothetical technology we imagine comes into existence mostly on its own. So it's net positive.
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Michael Hobbes
about 1 month ago
Is it a 'masculine value' to melt down about some new fake shit every week?
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Dave Levitan
about 1 month ago
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to āyou didnāt want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinationsā in a few years was the right idea
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Michael Hobbes
about 1 month ago
The only thing better than dinner-party fun fact pedantry is being able to out-pedant someone else.
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Doug Mack
about 1 month ago
* You know how Van Halen had a contract rider demanding bowls of M&Ms with the brown ones removed? They later claimed that was all a test to make sure venues were reading their contracts. Clever! BUT WAIT, that claim itself is actually false. I fact-checked it. Snack Stack exclusive:
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In Search of Van Halen's Brown M&Ms
Contract riders and the meaning of a modern pop star
https://snackstack.net/2023/07/03/in-search-of-van-halens-brown-mms/
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sarah jeong
about 2 months ago
ok one last post -- oldheads are always going to "why is the web dying.... how can we get the kids invested in the free and open web" bro the kids can't read. that's why the web is dying. first things first
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Chris Jackson
about 1 month ago
The left has a problem with political violence. Anyway, hereās the President of the United States saying his political opponents should be executed.
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Michael Hobbes
about 1 month ago
This is easily an order of magnitude larger than the number of firings in the entire years-long 'cancel culture' panic.
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Jenny Hunter
about 1 month ago
You should subscribe to The 51st--either for free or paid! I pay for my subscription b/c I value this high quality, worker-led nonprofit local news source, run by many people who used to work for DCist before WAMU killed it. Sign up below!
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Eliot Higgins
about 1 month ago
Bellingcatās contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, weāre seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
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Joe Kassabian
about 1 month ago
Lmao
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Kate Klonick
about 1 month ago
So this ad revenue metric is indicative of such a fascinating and weird set of business decisions by Google to inexplicably kill of SEO-- and I honestly don't get how they think this is going to pay off for them in the long run. š§µ 1/
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Jenny Hunter
about 1 month ago
Yes Elizabeth Warren, but also, no shit!!! Does Harvard really want to wait for an outside pressure campaign before doing the VERY OBVIOUSLY right thing here?
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