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it is interesting to contrast the discipline of the most successful protest movements of the 15 years (maidan, South Korea) with whatever the fuck is happening in France

This article quotes a sociology professor, a lawyer, and an architect who reject the notion that housing prices are set by supply and demand and do not believe that building more homes reduces rents. It is the housing policy equivalent of platforming climate change deniers.

not to be flippant but I think that almost all of these people have severe personality disorders and it’s merely a result of circumstance that they’re here instead of storming the capitol on Jan 6th

Another possibility is that humans lie in the "low samples, high compute" quadrant that research hasn't really explored. Until recently a breakthrough there wouldn't have had much effect on LLMs because we had samples, but now with RL it would.

RIP Dolly Parton

Q: How evil do you have to be to cut a Dolly book program? A: Pretty f*cking evil. Solution: Dolly for Prez! Dolly Parton Calls Out Indiana Gov Over Plan to Dump Her Imagination Library www.thedailybeast.com/dolly-parton... cc @drjengunter.bsky.social

In possibly the fastest shift in public opinion I've ever seen, local data center approval went from -5 to -65 in less than a year heatmap.news/daily/data-c...

It's finally here! I gave a TED talk in April in Vancouver, and it was released online today. You can watch it here: ted.com/talks/saloni... I've also adapted it into an article, which was published last week: worksinprogress.co/issue/future...

There's roughly 4 buckets of school districts in California: 1. High poverty ones with lots of ESL kids 2. Wealthy ones, but not wealthy enough to be self sufficient 3. Wealthy ones that are self sufficient (aka Basic Aid) 4. Everyone else

BIG NEW piece by me. A few years ago, if you asked me to summarize my entire worldview in one article, I would’ve said it was too broad and too difficult. But this year, I decided to do it.

Embrace Galbraith thought @jdcmedlock.bsky.social

I have a few: 1) The night sky. Light pollution has fundamentally changed our experience of the stars. 2) Actual quiet - no distant traffic or electrical lines. 3) Music and the spoken word. We’ve been raised in literate and now audiovisual cultures; that’s a recent innovation. 4) Memory.

Happy SpaceX IPO day! As a fun game, I randomly selected 10 of Elon's 50 most recent tweets, as well as 10/50 of his tweets 10 years ago and shuffled them together. Can YOU tell the difference between Elon today and Elon from way back then?

gatekeeping who can and cannot be a “real New Yorker” is some absolute loser behavior and goes against the very ethos of New York City. and the cherry on top is that JLo lives in LA now

The state has always been an mess but it's starting to get hard to ignore politically. The state has rested too much on it's laurels and now it's starting to bit us in the ass.

It is funny but anyone who knows the history of the state would know this isn't all that surprising. We are pretty contradictory in many ways. Not to speak on the candidates individual ability to govern effectively.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

This app might low key be dead

Want to again recommend the new Ken Burns "American Revolution" series that doesn't hide America's flaws but also doesn't let them override its strengths.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

the Republican Party needs to be fucking destroyed and every single person who has enabled Trump’s crime spree needs to be prosecuted

It's a supply problem, not a demand one. But they're not going to care.

i think powell's response here is a demonstration of the folly of the idea that democratic accountability requires presidential control. what if the president is not acting in the public interest? you want independent agencies to be able to push back and pursue their *congressional mandate*

Poverty does not make you more noble, nor does wealth make you smarter. This is the heart of the human condition, you have a lifetime to grow and change. Never underestimate where that can lead.

Elon Musk, Feb 2025: "America should mind its own business rather than push for regime change all over the place"

We had a good run

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

In just one year, Trump has gotten to the Ethiopian stage of fascism and it's as maliciously criminal as 1935

One of my more controversial opinions is that the US needs to significantly raise taxes to the tune of a couple % of GDP right now, even before any expansive social democratic reforms, and that means you—yes you, dear highly educated professional—will need to pay up, not just nebulous billionaires.

what frustrates me is how ahistorical it is it makes me think of the magnificent Execution of Torrijos painting: liberal soldiers coming to terms with their imminent execution for fighting against absolutist monarchy. liberalism cannot be taken for granted, it is something we must fight for

The internet is still so much smaller than it should be.

WNBA stuff shows how many conservative have a basically feudal understanding of employment where it's a boon extended by the bosses to employees who should be appropriately grateful, rather than a capitalist one where it's a payment for services that both sides negotiate to optimize for themselves

I agree and I think the pro immigration activists should be educating that that is not the case and advocating to make immigration more like what people imagine.

Since a lot of artists are on here, but Yishan is not, he's running a solar punk art contest with generous prizes. Tag people who might be interested. medium.com/@yishan/sola...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others

Obama and Biden are not responsible for the actions of the GOP or outbursts of right-wing violence. They are, however, fully implicated in the failure to understand what the American right was becoming and accepting the consequences for addressing it honestly and forcefully.

In a short 400 years we went from knowing we were the center of the universe to knowing that we are just one planet in one of billions of solar systems in our galaxy and our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies and I do think we haven't quite dealt with that...

I think this is the best take on the matter.

as someone who lives nextdoor to both supportive housing and public housing, i need people to understand that the best locations for both are going to be the central neighborhoods in a metropolitan area, where there is easy and reliable access to services and jobs.

There’s a certain kind of person who thinks Keynesian stimulus is “putting off” a necessary correction and I’m always amazed how many of them there are.

Newsom showing us why he doesn't serve anyone's time and respect. Much love to Senator Hollen.

We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵