Dave Sullivan

in general i think blue sky left has an enormous blind spot as to how much people use ai and overestimates how much people dislike it. i think this could be a significant problem as we move forward with how to legislate on it.

Got to my Boston MBTA orange line stop thinking maintenance was over and nope, one more day. Whose idea was it to END on a Monday? At least I’m getting my inbox cleared out while riding the shuttle.

Gonna briefly do an AI take: it used to be possible to have interesting discussions about AI here, and it's got progressively less so. You can't just think AI is bad, or overhyped, you've also got to subscribe to a very particular worst-case scenario about *how* it's bad and how bad it is.

this, for me, is the defining Lindsey Graham statement

this countrys fetish for punishing those we decide are unworthy of help at the expense of all of us is so completely bat shit

FFS

I can’t express how disappointed I am in John Fetterman. I was so excited when he was first elected to the Senate, but he’s now been reduced to this.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day from Minnesota where we still have your goddamn flag and we’re not giving it up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Vi...

"Even if you produce more oil than you consume, you still pay the same global price for oil everyone else pays & thus still suffer from supply constrictions & high prices." This basic, elementary fact -- global energy markets 101 -- refutes basically the entire GOP energy policy & worldview.

Today be like:

We need more moral leadership in this country, and less political leadership. I don't mean preachers. I mean people who serve as a quiet example in our everyday lives, of what doing the right thing looks like.

little domino: scotus strikes down trump tariffs big domino: chief justice kyle rittenhouse

Merrick Garland reading the South Korea news like “I don’t get it.”

Every time they release more Epstein files, it’s like “oh, THAT’s why they didn’t want to release them.”

This is one of my favorite charts because the obvious implication is ... obvious, but you absolutely are not allowed to say it out loud in US public discourse.

I just gave my 20yo a rundown of the day's news, and he said, "It's all so dumb, it's hard to take seriously and so it's hard to fight. We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians!" "We'd be better at fighting smarter authoritarians" is going to stick with me.

Perhaps the reason for the most hope is that the public seems to be rejecting the Republican news environment prevalent across virtually all media. Voters aren't falling for it, as overwhelming as it has felt to watch our institutions fall. They can handle the truth!

For the second time in the past week, I almost got ran over crossing the street at a marked crosswalk by a distracted driver who only braked when I screamed.

i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

Put the Epstein files on the blockchain. by Andrew Yang

CBS News should just change their name to Trump News, cause after the bribe that’s all it is.

This analysis is pretty spot-on:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M_b_v?w...

"Is the Pope Catholic?" would cease to be a rhetorical question.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Seems accurate

Perhaps one of the lesser-known facts about Boston: the turkeys mean business: www.nbcboston.com/news/local/t...

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

Ready Fire Aim is a lousy way to govern.

Today on Volts: As YIMBYs (pro-housing activists) win battles across the country, they are beginning to network & learn from one another. Momentum is building. It's exciting! I talk with two superstar activists about recent victories in New York City & Austin, TX.

I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier

Inside my head I’ve been pronouncing Kubernetes the same as diabetes, and I just heard someone else pronounce it for the first time, and now my day is ruined.

This could be catastrophic. Consequences for US universities (and the world) may be beyond imagination.

Be careful out there this morning Boston -- almost slipped & fell twice just now while walking the dog, especially treacherous on unpaved surfaces and trails.

TIL it's "Tysons Corner", not "Tyson's Corner".

Call it a purge, not a buyout. Call it a coup against Congress, not a spending pause. Call it censorship, not a review. Words matter, and we in the media have a chance to do better this time.

Going to be an interesting arms race to follow

Welp, there you have it. The "sin of empathy."

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

Really interesting study which seems to have some implications for consciousness: www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/new...

The porn bot follower problem is getting really out of control on this site in the past week or so. Been having to block half a dozen a day and it's getting progressively worse.

Happy thanksgiving everyone!

Hope I'm the first to post this all time classic on this platform

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Not only have I completely abandoned Xitter, but I'm finding that this place is also cutting into the time I was spending on Reddit.

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