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Tyler Cowen interviews OSTP Director Michael Kratsios. A few points of the conversation worth highlighting:

I just told another PhD student about paper management software (Zotero specifically). I look forward to checking in with him in a week to see if he has 100 or 200 unread papers saved then...

Voter guide is up! (plus an interview I know will be watching later!)

#nolasky any word on the recall? Just remembered the deadline is Oct 31.

My first gumbo of the season for a night of pumpkin carving. Couldn't have asked for better weather for this

"We are the dictionary"

This was a really interesting thread

it must be so freeing knowing your fans and investors are the dumbest people to ever live

This is homophobia AND journalistic, or at least headline malpractice "He didn’t specify which study he read, but the idea that color can affect a person’s mood, behavior or physiology isn’t far-fetched, at least according to Alaina Bruce, a licensed interior designer at Ritter Maher Architects."

Every time someone says "we all know immigration is broken," to me I ask them how and what do we do about it? Their answers are often about as as concise and convincing as the AI are conscious and will end the world people.

I want someone to ask him, while they are standing side by side, what their names are and which one is which. There is zero chance he gets that right.

It's not that it turns out we live in a simulation, that we are all simulations, self-aware and thinking and feeling though we might be. It's not even that the simulation is shutting down. It's that it's shutting down because all the AI data centers we built use too much data. It's too stupid.

This is a great piece, a little too great. I want gumbo now.

This is exactly the point. OpenAI says they released 100s of proofs but do not have the experts or care to actually show that is true. Instead they take it as a PR win and leave mathematicians to sort out the real from the bullshit.

New at @martajewson.bsky.social Lamplighter News: US Speaker Mike Johnson's candidate filings list 10-digit strings of 0s and 5s as his campaign phone number. To be clear, we are talking about an elected official who has advanced the SAVE Act, which could effectively curtail mail-in voting.

100% this thread

"[...]AI companies aren’t presenting their systems simply as tools scientists can use, like microscopes or supercomputers. They’re insisting that the AI systems are making discoveries themselves." Spoiler, the AI is not making the discoveries.

Really interesting thread on techno-optimism in scientist

I emailed the registrar of voters asking why I was moved to inactive. I am attaching the email exchange to this. I feel like we definitely need an explanation from the secretary of state office for what led to this error. What were they doing trying to do to cause this?

Well that's a horrifying stat that I didn't know...

ICE is opening a concentration camp for children in Alexandria, Louisiana run by a private company with a horrendous human rights record. Because of significant opposition, the local government and ICE are doing everything they can to keep what's happening a secret www.nola.com/gambit/news/...

Just like "Economics"TM. (This was a snobby physics post).

It is amazing to see how the more wealthy someone is, the lower their reading/story comprehension is.

🧪⚛️ Dam Son at U Chicago, shepherding a clean physics result from Claude (interesting style of presenting this as authored by the AI tool). This is a great example of something AI tools are presently good for: tracking down pernicious calculational details. home.uchicago.edu/dtson/papers...

This just describes how a large portion of New Orleans operates

There are a lot of bad austerity measures governments try. Defunding low barrier shelters is pretty high up there as one of the top bad ideas.

🚨🚨🚨 Just got info from the Jamie Davis (Louisiana US Dem candidate) campaign that a poll taken from 9/17 to 9/19 shows he's within 4 points of US Rep. Julia Letlow (the R senate candidate) in the Louisiana US senate race. Of note, Letlow's name recognition is double that of Davis. (82% vs. 41%)

Raise some fun (and funds) for Jamie Davis Saturday, October 3rd - 5:00 to 7:00 PM at the Howlin’ Wolf 907 S Peter’s St New Orleans secure.actblue.com/donate/oct3w...

I try to follow the framework: nuance is more helpful if you have the same goals or assumptions in mind (coopetition/ I really hate that word but it is what it is) and stronger more direct arguments are more effective when you don't agree on the problem or desired outcome (competition).

There's A LOT of ways the Trump admin is currently attacking & decimating American science. Here's a breakdown of what they are doing, and what you can do about it. 🧵

BREAKING: OMB PROPOSED RULE IS PAUSED UNTIL DEC 11th. This is a direct result of OUR ACTIVISM! It's a critical step in the right direction AND the fight continues. NOW, it's time to revoke the rule. Email here: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/rev... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's like a parody, but it's deadly serious; the Commerce Department (which includes Census, NOAA, and others) has outright deleted "don't alter or suppress scientific findings for political reasons" from its scientific integrity rules. Seriously.

This 100%. When I was just out of grad school at a think tank there were humanities, social science, and physical science researchers. Many of the younger ones still had this weird tribalism I saw in grad school. The more senior ones knew why the think tank hired all three types to co-mingle.

Better ALMOST LATE than never, today is the last day. Get your comments in to prevent disastrous changes to the grant making process.

Also see climate change vs global warming.

Well I didn't know I needed to read this thread but I did.

I get why this feels tempting for the Mayor in a city that needs money right now but this would be an absolutely terrible choice and we need to push back hard to make sure she understands this is a non-starter. #nolasky

Today is a great day to give Cassidy a call #nolasky. Let's remind him Blanche is pretty widely disliked across the board and is absolutely unqualified for the AG position.

Oh this is a fun new dashboard to play around with www.nola.com/news/new-orl... #nolasky

I killed so much time playing this game instead of studying and will now probably waste much more time on it again. Thanks @archive.org !

I really can't stand our state leadership....

I wonder if that is more or less than the number of Landry employees who have signed the recall effort.

I got excited when I saw the walk up window/bar going in. I haven't seen it open yet but I will be walking up for a drink when going down Mag.

#nolasky

This thread is just fun, people trying to find other examples and then BAM here is an animal that does the exact same thing that you didn't know about.