Brad Wyble

Explaining to my grandkids that back in my day a picture like this required you to actually get 700 beds and put them on the beach instead of asking AI to draw it. [Left picture is from Pink Floyd's 1987 Momentary Lapse of Reason album]

Not only a vital defeat of the far right, but also a win of inestimable value for the planet.

🧵 Matt Yglesias is one of the biggest reasons the Democratic Party leadership is so feckless, cowardly, and lazy. I'm not exaggerating. Yglesias is often a featured speaker at private Democratic Party events, despite almost always being wrong. Let's discuss...

“‘There’s no way to sugarcoat this,’ Lau told them. Springer Nature felt that Scientific American’s criticism of Trump was threatening their broader business—selling subscriptions to their scientific journals. The federal government was a major client.”

This is a really striking tweet.

We may never know how many advances we’re missing out on due to modern lab safety standards, with chemists no longer eating or smoking in the lab and tasting something unexpectedly yummy or tripping balls.

I'm no legal scholar but this seems like a cogent analysis of why enlarging the SCOTUS is our best choice.

These are good questions. So I'm going to spend a little time giving my answers to them. Will build it as a full thread that posts all at once, rather than post by post.

Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome

AI researchers warn technology 'months away' from being able to get reimbursement using Concur

Have to be clear just how dangerous this is. If it continues, it effectively removes constitutional rights from an entire class of people. Imagine you had to fear that if you criticize the regime, any error on paperwork filled out by your family decades ago could be used to strip your citizenship.

Departmental List Serv: Hey everyone, Leftover Dunkin coffee in the break room! New lab head: "Sweet thanks!" Experienced lab head: "Can I have the leftover cups?"

"Optics" is not the best reason to walk this back but I'll take it.

Think about how little your representatives have said or done to defend their colleague Ilhan Omar. Now try to imagine how little they will do when it's our turn.

New paper! Accepted at Perspectives on Psychological Science. A textbook finding in infant psychology is that newborns - within ~1 hour of birth - visually track a simplified 'three blob' facelike stimulus further than its inverted control (see picture). This suggested inborn knowledge of faces!

The NYPD just released surveillance video of the ICE shooting (which occurred off camera). Two men in civilian clothes run up to a car with guns drawn. One second later, one man begins smashing the butt of his gun into the driver’s side window. The driver appears to panic and hit the gas.

Six months ago:

Parenting hits exactly the same when you work in AI. If you outsource it your children will be strangers. He's just using a computer instead of a Nanny.

One thing I find endlessly funny about the rise of AI is that it has revealed that there is a large number of people who believe that the reason they wrote essays at school or university is their teachers were desperately waiting for them to provide a definite answer to “Lear: what’s up with him?”

the tech industry is about to invent books

I can imagine a future in which old Dells with a functional installation of Windows 10 are sold on ebay for north of $10,000. (I doubt it, but I can imagine it)

There is an argument that some AI-psychosis-sufferers tend to make which I find very gross, stupid, and bad. It goes something like, “the way you are talking about Claude sounds a lot like how they used to talk about [some historically marginalized group], sooo, you better think about that”.

You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.

When your university screws up so badly that the state has to pass laws to prevent it from happening again.

Announcing the merger with Titanic footage is an incredible bit

As of today, the CDC has changed (reverted) their Covid guidance to make the vaccine recommended for all people over 18. In addition to being a smart public health move, this recommendation also means insurance must cover it. Read more here: www.cdc.gov/covid/hcp/va... Listen to a breakdown here:

Drexel University is very suddenly shutting down their museum of Natural History which hosts key specimens. There's more info here about what we can do to raise our voices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxyf...

Trans Teen Hatches Nefarious Plot To Undergo Years Of Medical Treatments And Counseling To Win At Swimming https://theonion.com/trans-teen-hatches-nefarious-plot-to-undergo-years-of-m-1850433563/

Alternative view: Any institution beset by such a gauntlet of challenges in rapid succession would struggle. Higher education is adapting to these challenges with varying success in different aspects. But that wouldn't make for a good headline would it?

The racism and eugenics is often waiting right there under the surface. Just scrape the veneer away with a fingernail to find it. Or sometimes they'll say it openly.. www.youtube.com/shorts/8u0J4...

The US President's new proposal to tax international students has been approved by the White House for release this week. It's an unprecedented $100,000 tax on int'l grads who stay to work after graduation on Optional Practical Training (most grads do), a crucial bridge to remaining by any channel.

An armed man charged at the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio less than a week ago, and yet Republicans aren't being yelled at to turn down the temperature. The double standard is maddening.

Interesting counterweight thread to the HuggingFace hacking incident impact.

Pretty insane that NYT doesn’t have story up on man linked to GOP scandal who attacked @amyactonoh.bsky.social at campaign event yesterday. www.thedailybeast.com/twist-to-dem...

Guys, this is Bernie Sanders' guy for all things AI. Max Tegmark of the Future of Life Institute, funded to the tune of $665m by crypto billionaires, that's of course, after all the Muskrat + friends' money. Their "seed funding" was from Musk. 🧵 www.politico.com/news/2024/03...

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:

Quick followup for you Chris, what happened to the administration that made the previous deal?

Psych Science has retracted Ariely & Wertenbroch (2002). The second author requested the retraction. Both authors agreed to it. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... So grateful to @datacolada.bsky.social for these blog posts and the work behind them: datacolada.org/138 and datacolada.org/139 1/2

So many of the supposed divides in the Democratic caucus simply boil down to "this one will fight for all of us, this one will not" and for the past two years Team Fight is sweeping the board.

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

In 20 years or so we will look back to the era when talking to any company on the phone required us to spend about 10 minutes arguing with an AI, eventually resorting to screaming "OPERATOR" until it relented, and shake our heads in wonderment.

This thread is amazing, long, and worth the read. You'll learn about the history of the DMCA and how it intersects (negatively) with technology

(1/3) With Dolly Parton's passing, I want to put good words on the wind for her. Feel free to quote reply with your own. Dolly became the single largest donor for the Moderna COVID vaccine because of a chance encounter and friendship with a Vanderbilt researcher Dr. Naji Abumrad years earlier. She