Ben Leedom

Brazil going the way of South Korea. Basically around the world women are desperately trying to keep power out of the hands of incredibly stupid fascistic grifters while men keep trying to hand it over. Men are an embarrassing cringe gender.

excuse me ‘obama’ but our nation’s proudest and most toothless yokels think of the cheesecake factory as a sort of high end golden corral which fyi means a lot in their culture. i know this because a lot of them used to janitor for my young republicans meetings at yale

As turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.

Cooking. Although air fryers might be considered a fad/trend, when you step back the small tabletop electric oven is a total revolution in convenience and energy efficiency, while also allowing those who might not have had the space for or money an electric oven to cook with more than just a hob.

An attempt to document important facts concerning AI Safety, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Rationalism and San Francisco Effective Altruism tldr definitely a millenarian death cult www.verysane.ai/p/ai-safety-...

Thank you to the driver of this Ford Explorer for making my day.

Love Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry, Charlie Brown

Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251

reminding myself that "if we have another meeting about this I'm going to start studying statistical mechanics" is not a work-appropriate thought

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

we're having one of THOSE days for computer security, I see

truly a wild time to be alive when the cryptography world is split between those worried about quantum computers and those whose private key is “4”

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

Hey, it’s the official release day for Seeing Like a Supply Chain! And of course I’m swamped with grading and lesson-planning, but maybe I can say a little about the book and the process of researching it. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

Actually maybe this is the solution to the Fermi Paradox. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/chip PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

was this revealed to him in a dream

My recent book AI and Consciousness: A Skeptical Overview is free online today and tomorrow (through Oct 19, presumably UK time). I don't think the hard copy is available yet. Get it while it's free! www.cambridge.org/core/element...

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

One would be good and the other would be bad because one cause is good and the other is bad. We are not in the realm of procedural justice concerns anymore, liberalism is not obligated to be neutral on the question of its own existence.

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ah fuck I started my day in media res. I have no clue what's going on

were the machines in fact close to human-level consciousness in the mid-1960s? if not, why were so many people so convinced that they were, and why are we now immune from whatever tendency drove that view?

It’s gonna be so funny when everyone who left California for Texas suddenly finds themselves living in a blue state again

When Harry Met Sally For Tax Purposes

I'm begging @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social to run against Musk. He's an unpopular and creepy white nationalist asshole billionaire whose approval rating in most polls is 20 points underwater. You can mock Paxton for needing to be bailed out *and* mock the puppet master pulling his strings.

Spotted near my home. I don't know how niche this is, but I love it.

I have since privately received information that the lack of credit was in bad faith, and that this was a blatant and intentional ripoff. I'm not the only one disheartened by the lack of due credit.

terrible move. history tells us the correct play is to abandon the city and defeat your adversaries at sea

chat is it good if you have to write your own source control system to keep up

whoever decided to split this clip into four separate sound bites that they could drip out to the media knew exactly what they were doing.

“This user is printing-curious, but not fully ready to commit to printing”

This thread by Terence Tao applies to all knowledge work being confronted by LLMs. The culture of knowledge production is being thrashed by the Silicon Valley cult of speed. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1173952...

Canada is refusing to issue ISBNs to books primarily generated with AI. This illustrates both the urgency of the problem of the growing flood of slop books, and also the toothlessness of addressing it on the honor system without there also being consequences for lying

Holy shit

Bartleby the Scri-jev-ner

If I go to someone’s home and find out they have a mannequin set up that they hit and yell racial slurs at I would probably leave that home, even though neither of us thinks the mannequin is person

Why are there so many, skeets about rainbows, that end at the grain belt sign

Keep the faith.

*youth pastor sits in chair backwards* you know who ELSE was betrayed by someone from a private 12-person event

I really love this chart. I'm guess that the correlation here (.85) is about as big as you would find for any other variable. Also, a less serious scholar than @tesler.bsky.social (namely me) would have made a crude Freudian reference to the slope of the line.