Nicholas Bauer PhD

It ends: "So, unfortunately, the only message that the public will receive from this “peaceful transfer of power” is: We surrender."

This is happening to me, but with "tips" about a huge range of crypto-related issues (or perceived issues) people are personally struggling with. The volume is genuinely challenging to deal with.

It's amazing how editors will say "we can't see inside this public figure's mind," "we can't assume their intentions" — and then write stuff like this.

We murdered five more people in a boat today

AREYOUFUCKINGKIDDINGME?

there are a million things worse in the report, but a random billionaire hornball starting a beauty pageant for 14-to-19-year-olds is a red flag you can see from space, and I feel like society should have been better about saying "Hey hold on there just one minute buddy"

The assurances should be in the form of retribution for anyone that follows such an order. Anyone who does is a traitor to the country.

Tl;dr she’s not getting assurances

* BRAZIL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO MISSES SUPREME COURT DEADLINE TO HAND IN PASSPORT TO FEDERAL POLICE -- SOURCE * BRAZIL FEDERAL POLICE CANCEL SENATOR FLAVIO BOLSONARO'S PASSPORTS AFTER DEADLINE MISSED -- SOURCE @reuters.com $EWZ

LOL. Claude was better at diagnosing a remote AWS issue than AWS's own LLM tool was.

And then he stiffed them!

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

One cool thing about being a regular Dem donor is how the party tries to demoralize me before every election. I am again drowning in spam texts clearly aimed at ripping off the elderly. Several Senate candidates have worked hard, overcoming my many "stop" replies and blocks, to make me hate them.

Roughly 1/4 of its workforce. $MSFT

Mass Effect was my ultimate white whale, my all-time dream project. For the last couple years I'd been in discussion w/ BioWare & EA to take on the project & as part of that I wrote close to 20 minutes of music to explore where the franchise can go next, may as well share it!

Guys, we can win, we can also lose. The future is unwritten. More than that, it is changeable by us. You can go out there and chase the future you want. The cure to anxiety is not “everything will work out okay” but “I can make it work out better.”

Elon Musk has spent more money on American elections in the last two years than George Soros has in his entire life.

Just fucking read the paper

Moscow has begun installing towers equipped with autonomous turrets to counter attacks by kamikaze drones. #Russia

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Unfortunately millions of people are dying. The loss of USAID alone will result in 14 million deaths by 2030. Fascist movements cannot crumble fast enough.

sorry, but it's very hard to take your warnings of existential risk seriously when you are simultaneously throwing up to $120 billion at Elon Musk

This drives me CRAZY. I grew up playing sports w/ boys. I played on a U12 boys select soccer team, b4 switching to a U12 girls team that kept beating us. Nobody had any issue with any of it. Youth sports have never had the strict sex/gender boundaries that “XX-XY” activists are now trying to defend.

The flip side of this is that our own candidates need to be saying interesting things to amplify. A lot of them don't.

That's why you have to legally and politically crush the insurrectionists and facsists when you have a chance, so that they literally can't come back next time.

One of my all-time favorite students said to me: I love your class, Professor Murray, you let every one talk and debate, but what I need you to do is: handle the assholes. You have always got to handle the assholes, not appease them.

this is so fucking bleak

Tons of ladybugs out today. I don't think I've seen this many in years.

There's nothing I can say that the quote tweets don't say better, but they're worth a read. (Like me, they endorse this comment)

"Despite massive investments...[AI] has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins."

Another evil layer to this ad from Josh Turek: When he turns to say "stop the nonsense from both extremes," he opens with a clip of Rep. Becca Balint, the first openly gay woman to represent Vermont in congress and one of the few openly gay members of congress.

Don't happen to have any expert electron microscopists reading this who could stand to answer a couple of questions?

Quadruple the house: double the number of districted seats, and then add that many statewide party-list PR seats.

Look how they've massacred my boy

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

Two ways to do this: 1, use the pardons to extract all information they have about criminality. 2, void the pardons under 14AS3.

Spotted in Boston. Apprently the company does autonomous undersea work?

I was about to share an interesting art piece related to Boston history, but turns out they were using AI. Oh well.

scott galloway and jessica tarlov held an event here in town yesterday where “don’t impeach or waste time on investigations because ‘28” was the consensus position of the panel. so yeah, this is something to anticipate.

wtf

That it'll fail because they lack sufficient consolidation and centralized control does not make it trivial that the president of the United States is trying to steal elections and produce an illegitimate sham Congress. It is open rebellion against the Constitution and morally tantamount to treason.

The Andromeda Galaxy, low in the sky over New South Wales, Australia.