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I don't always agree with Ioannides but this is spot on t.co/y7bn699UXy

Omg, we are entering the resident evil phase of history youtube.com/shorts/a7vCT...

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

This assshole and the ndp party as a whole could have maintained power _this_ election if they had proportional representation but instead the BC conservatives get to fuck up our services for four fucking years.

IMO, not only is "AIs are going to lock in a lot of dysfunctional X" (for every value of X) a hugely under-discussed risk, it also goes a long way towards explaining the AI enthusiasm and blind spots of Furman and many others.

tenure

I voted! 🗳️ (absentee, online) Before I moved to Canada, I lived in Raleigh, NC. So as an overseas citizen voter, I'm a Wake County North Carolina voter forever (unless I move back to the States). If you're eligible to vote in the US midterms, I hope you voted too!

Jason Furman with some predictably and remarkably bad ideas in- where else- Axios. www.axios.com/2026/10/23/a...

Heidi Wong's Halloween costume (instagram) is as the Shimmer from the Annihilation movie, with a purse using my novel. Really clever, looks good affixed to the purse.

“Likes Canada” is cheating; “likes no one” goes hard; “likes Florida” is just sad.

Why will control of the 435-member U.S. House depend on just a handful of 2026 midterm races? Because 81% of this year's House elections are so "safe," they’ve already been decided. Ranked choice voting & proportional representation can change that ⬇️

is there any cold medication that doesn't make you drowsy and fed up with academia

Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

A reminder: Scams are (mostly) not in the Consumer Price Index.

and since whining is not a strategy, we need to reform Section 230 cepr.net/publications... and promote alternative media cepr.net/publications...

*Even their financial infrastructure is a strange ouroboros, a self-inflating ring of I-loan-to-you and you-loan-to-me *It's like Enron with Nvidia chips instead of natural-gas

When you don't know anything about the field you are put in charge of. *FEMA was created because this approach did not work.

Elon Musk boosted the lie that James Talarico stayed at a mental hospital. Meta suspended No Kings’ Instagram account during nationwide actions. Staff at the Ellison-owned CBS News were reportedly told to tie Abdul El-Sayed to the Muslim Brotherhood and 9/11. Democracy dies in billionaire hands.

Connie Luck of MAD Global Strategy is Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign mouthpiece leading the attempted smear of @amyactonoh.bsky.social Remember her name: Connie Luck. share.google/DJJ2dnqXxmQl...

I remain convinced that the most prestigious honor in the hospitality industry is the annual prize for Clever Way to Hide the Hair Dryer So They Will Never Find It.

Along with A New, Obscure, and Overly Sensitive Shower Control.

She ended up something of a novelty act in the '70s, appearing on shows like ‘The Love Boat’ — but it’s worth remembering that at one stage CHARO was ranked the 3rd best Flamenco guitarist in the world.

Hello Pittsburgh! I am familiar with your TV show about agonizing medical situations

*Here in Ibiza we're having a greenhouse rain-bomb and the sky has opened up like a zipper *The authorities are distributing nervous disaster warnings via cellphone *It's a little odd that so few people admit the obvious, that drought, wildfire and deluge are worldwide commonplaces

when someone announces they got into a phd program

me at work

*When Yudkowsky moaned that we might have to airstrike the data centers to kill the rogue AIs, people were "oh come on Mr Doomer" *People will airstrike data centers now, just for the sport and the spite of it

*You want an Ophelie Gaillard cello record that's one king-hell of a cello record, this is her best one. If you don't dig-this-crazy classical-cello record, you might as well set fire to the next cello you see ophliegaillard.bandcamp.com/album/vivald...

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

*Decades ago, I lacked the bland cosmopolitanism that afflicts me now *In those days, I made sharp critical distinctions between punk rock from Manchester, London and Liverpool Even Bromley. Even Cardiff

This is just scratching the surface but a good start: youtu.be/YJrhBwGw7Ac

uncertaintyprinciples.substack.com/p/sugars-in-...

CoreWeave is down 13% so far finance.yahoo.com/quote/CRWV/ and Oracle is down 5% finance.yahoo.com/quote/ORCL/ Looks like we all might have something to celebrate this weekend!

I feel the need to remind Americans that Liz Truss is the former conservative Prime Minister who got lost trying to find her way out of a TV newsroom after her interview. So "Trump's Press Secretary" is a good match for her abilities.

literally, fleeing what

@doctorow.pluralistic.net covered them in a section of Enshittification, for which I can recommend the audiobook 😊 Dreadful, grasping outfit.

Wow the Bsky science feed is a mess.

90 minutes is just going over my fears and regrets

Me, all of these:

AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure in Leaked Documents Financial Times reveals that OpenAI’s annualized revenue is roughly $20 billion lower than previously expected: https://futurism.com/future-society/ai-financial-bubble-openai-billions-failure

Ruh-roh youtube.com/shorts/ojdao...

Okay, posting AI is blockable