Jon Phillips

I should probably pin another "this is a baseball account for the duration of the world series" warning on the ol' timeline

No matter how much we want to, we CANNOT separate this “philanthropic push” to fund science from the current state of science. Riddle me this: why would the people who supported AND funded Trumps annihilation of the IS scientific ecosystem now be rushing to fund scientific research?

Meanwhile Erika Hilton, a congresswoman in Lula’s party, has called on the Federal Police to investigate acts of violence committed by Bolsonaro supporters during the election (including the fatal attack by seven men on Marcelo de Oliveira Rocha, a Lula supporter they were filmed beating to death).

this man is a gotdamned patriot

Something benefiting you personally is not necessarily a good thing. Something that inconveniences you personally is not necessarily a bad thing.

the markets have essentially become a gauge for how much corruption the government in power is going to let the business class get away with

Going to start unfollowing people Bryan Johnson doesn't email me to whine about

Tbh, this is a great illustration of why we shouldn't take Anthropic's moral claims seriously, even if they're sincerely held. Becoming wealthy and powerful warps your beliefs, bending them towards justifying and expanding that wealth and power, no matter how well-intentioned you were at the start.

Michael Atiyah 🇪🇬: Fields Medal 1966 (also Abel Prize 2004), for K-theory. Ahmed Zewail 🇪🇬: Nobel for Chemistry 1999, for his work on femtochemistry. Omar M. Yaghi 🇯🇴: Wolf Prize 2018, Nobel for Chemistry 2025, for his work on reticular chemistry Naguib Mahfouz 🇪🇬: Nobel for literature 1988

Just a reminder that there is no good data to support these uses in K12, we are just testing it live all on kids who won’t ever be these ages again and can’t get them back if we fuck it up.

Supporting the Cheesecake Factory by blocking the entrance while carrying a gun and a bible

At long last we have created the multi-colored wines from Brandon Sanderson's classic doorstop "Don't Drink the Multi-Colored Wines"

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

no amnesty

The Rays can still win if Mike Pence has the courage

do…we get a position pitcher in the World Series?

So it would seem

Well, I guess it's safe to call it a night

"Hitterish" sounds like a slur

Wait was it really cheaper for Brewers fans to fly to Florida to see the games at the Trop than to buy tickets for the home games?

I know better, yet the temptation to rubberneck is stronger than I would have expected

Walter was more than Chekov. He was a writer, a teacher, a thoughtful man, and a loyal friend. To the fans who loved him for so many years, thank you. He loved you too. Rest well, my dear friend. Keep navigating a steady course. – George

Going to have to mark Koenig's passing with a dram of scotch, Russia's greatest invention

RIP to an incredible actor, Alfred Bester is one of my all time favorite Lawful Evil villains

The destruction of the academic research library is one of the great underappreciated crimes against higher ed and scholarship of the 21st century.

If LLM use ends up killing the consultancy grift, I may have to revise some of my opinions on their overall net effect on society.