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BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply? MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.

Really enjoyed the new comedy special, Kumail Nunjiani: Gigachad

Chatbots study didactics but generAIs study epistemics.

(Bluesky user bursts into university lecture) OH SO YOU HATE MY PERSONAL OPINION??

In 2015 (!), Tim Urban (waitbutwhy) published this post which included this graph. waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/arti... Bluesky's AI discourse affliction is that it still holds the distorted view in the second image. I worry a lot about what's going to happen to society when we reach "The fuck??"

My problem with the new sci-fi show Pluribus is I don't like either of the characters.

Cross-posting this one from METR. If you've seen this graph before, you're probably going to be pretty interested in the new update. If you've never seen this graph before, please just ignore this post. Just a guy and his charts, nothing to see here.

I wanted to give an end-of-year shout out to @ourworldindata.org, who we recently gave a three-year, $3m general support grant (short 🧵)

2026 will be the year of superintelligence (note phd level in the graph here). There is no wall and there never was.

Some news: we're committing $175m to @GiveWell in 2026, growing our >$1B committed to date. Based on GiveWell’s estimates, we think this funding has saved >100,000 lives so far. 🧵 coefficientgiving.org/research/al...

Good morning

I'm surprised to see this AI policy brief from a16z. Either the authors are about to get fired or they're turning over a very new leaf, e.g. acknowledging catastrophic risk from AI and the importance of a variety of policies the AIS community calls for. a16zpolicy.substack.com/p/a-roadmap-...

Elie is awesome and the Givewell story is a huge part of why we built Good Ventures to do leveraged philanthropy at scale.

Trump's Truth Social post about Rob Reiner's death has dominated Bluesky today. Here's how people are processing it - from raw fury to media criticism to tributes for Reiner's legacy.

NEW: After freezing billions in U.S. foreign aid and putting countless lives at risk around the world, Trump administration officials in Washington celebrated with a sheet cake. By @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy, photos by @peterdicampo.bsky.social

Hank Green offered a simple suggestion: "People are really missing out on putting a little bit of coffee in your tea." What followed was a predictable collision between purists and the globally curious.

Menswear writer Derek Guy spotted a viral post promoting the rural American dream: a $95k house in Aplington, Iowa. Work at the post office for $25/hour, marry, have seven kids. The replies did not disappoint.

Trying something new - summarizing interesting discussions, including the sub-threads. This first one is about @jamellebouie.net 's thread about the Atlantic article.

I did this a year ago and got nothing but Elon posts. Sounds like the same thing happened to Tim.

We're never going to stop talking about this. (Spoiler alert: he tacos)

Crypto investors adding leverage: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Crypto investors experiencing leverage: well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

For @thinkyparts.bsky.social I've added a finance feed. Pure finance: trading, stocks, crypto, earnings, portfolios, market moves, investing tips. Politics-free zone. bsky.app/profile/did:... Other requests welcome, but I draw the line at sports.

This is a fucking nightmare and right now I am very, very angry with the people who put Trump back in office. More and more kids are going to die from preventable diseases. As I have said for months, RFK Jr. has more power to singlehandedly kill more Americans than any other cabinet secretary.

I learned how to make feed generators. These use semantic matching, quality filtering, and NSFW filtering. "Smart Policy" finds thoughtful policy analysis - filters hot takes and partisan dunking for substantive discussion. https://bsky.app/profile/skysight.live/feed/smart-policy 1/6

meta is not so subtlety signaling their intention to hire 3 more AI heads next year

You’re absolutely right — you are Pagliacci. It would certainly be difficult for you to attend your own performance! I should not have given such paradoxical advice, and I apologize deeply for the error. There is no excuse for my failure.

David Sacks is someone who is being recognized more and more these days. www.theverge.com/column/83693...

Lidar stopped being prohibitively expensive 5 years ago but Elon kept lying about it because he made a bad decision and people refuse to stop repeating the lie.

Gift idea under $50 www.amazon.com/dp/B0FBGD62SV Just saved me 10 minutes on one project.

I’m going fucking crazy

I feel like one of the most underrated explanations for what's happening right now in global politics is that almost everyone has lost their minds.

They never really believed in free speech

There is no reason for anyone to be intimidated by this unpopular failing lame duck whose mental and physical health is circling the drain

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

The musicians at the showe stopped playinge. It was disconcerting.

Breaking: The six Democrats now confirmed they've been contacted by the FBI. The lawmakers accuse Trump of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress."

Version 0.7.0 of shadowsky.io features improved personal analytics, including high-level suggestions, as well as the ability to run a similar analysis on other profiles. For example, here is everyone's "favorite" account @jcsalterego.bsky.social .

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Justin Wolfers reports that it hasn't been a great year for jobs. #EconSky

BREAKING: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's resigning from Congress — effective January 5, 2026.

BTC went as low as $80k today - off a high of $126k just last month - so a lot of traders are playing out this pattern right now, losing money extremely quickly in their desperation. I'm sincerely worried about them. That said, it's ok that one is Andrew Tate. finance.yahoo.com/news/andrew-...

/3 Asserting the (legally correct) point that members of the military may refuse illegal orders is not conspiring to overthrow the government or hinder the laws by force. You can tell because if it were seditious conspiracy Trump would be pardoning it. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Me Too Two

Claude: yes, I can help you plan a trip to New York City! Let's make sure you hit all the best spots for photos too given the love for photography I can see in our conversation history. Stilgar:

Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna cofounded Open Philanthropy to identify charities that would create the biggest impact per dollar. Now, they’re changing its name and encouraging others to join the effort.

When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When the law is on your side, argue the law. When neither is on your side, glare menacingly while pointing and calling someone “piggy”. - Snarl Sandburg

Some news: Open Philanthropy is now Coefficient Giving! Our mission is unchanged but the new name reflects our growing work with other donors to multiply the impact of their giving. 🧵 on our work to make philanthropy a more efficient "market" and plans going forward: