Nick DeVito

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The quote doesn’t even make sense! Trump is in bed with the oil companies! Why isn’t he stopping them from raising the prices if you think he’s so great!?! But also the mechanism by which the prices are going up is incredibly clear! Where they get the fuel from is blocked!

Classic case of “if I’ve never heard of it, it doesn’t exist” but also not looking for it or seeking it out.

I can’t imagine how much consulting work is just going to be this now…

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What’s absolutely fascinating—& entirely predictable—is that the MAHA kooks (RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, etc.) used to say that it’s important to do proper RCTs & it’s important to get rid of financial conflicts of interest in medicine, but now that they run the health system they think the opposite 🧐

It’s incredibly dumb and condescending to everyone to pretend Cheesecake Factory isn’t a gauche chain restaurant.

There’s no better reminder of different people having drastically different lived experiences than me than some adult man in this video I’m watching not knowing what carbonara is.

Republicans pushed the Biden issue relentlessly. Dems have not done the same with Kushner.

“Only I’m allowed to pull strings!”

Boggles the mind how this same country elected Donald Trump (Again!) a mere 2 years ago.

Feels like table stakes that any serious 2028 Den candidate needs to pledge to do something about Musk.

I mean...come on

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Another one. The premise: Young people are cutting off their parents for minor mistakes and misunderstandings. The lead anecdote: A woman severs ties with her family for refusing to get vaccinated before her wedding — to a man who *lost his mother and brother to COVID*

I don't think I really mind the prospect of a screen there but saying this screen is crucial to "sustaining the vitality of the Westgate" is hysterical.

Did they have a follow-up question of: “do you think this is bad or cool?”

Retired guy whose healthcare bill is entirely paid for by working adults talking about how he shouldn’t have to pay for other people’s kids to go to school while standing in front of a mansion he owns is really just an excellent encapsulation of the Republican base.

I hope in the next part of this speech after the video cuts out he then talks about what he would like to be done about all this in real terms.

Get bent you selfish pricks.

The iPhone review guy is all about this.

Hell yea

NGL, Wu Man shreds.

In the most incredibly nerdy way, I'm kind of pumped about this? There was a class on this I always wanted to take as an undergraduate but never could fit into my schedule (and the one I did manage to take was bad)...now I get to listen to a Richard McElreath course about it!

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Probably a bad thing that the right can come up with a totally nonsense conspiracy theory about James Talarico and journalists have to spend valuable time 3 weeks before the election debunking it instead of covering Paxton actually going to Dubai with his mistress on a trip paid for by a criminal

Living in the UK this really drives this home. So much "ancient tradition" is just Victorian cosplay.

I think Dems could do well to sound more like humans reacting to these horrors and less like corporate PR.

My X feed is a ghost town now. I came here because almost all the people I enjoyed following did.

whenever trump's DOJ has to go in front of a judge to get yelled at, every lawyer on here is like "omg i've NEVER seen a judge this mad, if a judge yelled at me like this i'd immediately commit seppeku," and then at the end of the hearing the judge is like "ok no sanctions just don't do it again"

Yuuuuuppppppppppp

That's quite a heading for the publishing journal to just ignore:

Which, to my understanding, is unfortunately the US judiciary’s corruption standard.

Incredibly bleak

Our reflections on the recent "AI and Research Integrity" meeting in Montreal: We are somewhat worried that many AI trustworthiness assessment tools are not trustworthy. @lhdjung.bsky.social @jamiecummins.bsky.social trustworthy.scientific.claims/posts/trustw...

Muslims make up, at most, 2% (rounding up) of the US population and less than 1% of Congress, less than 1% of all state legislature seats (and no governors), and less than 1% of the federal judiciary. Where exactly is this caliphate growing from?

All these places that give America an amazing competitive advantage in research and innovation? They’re bad!

Waiting patiently for @scishow.bsky.social clinical trials transparency so I can have a reason to talk to Hank Green.

Incredible stuff.

lol, this is absolutely going in my Peer Review seminar the next time I deliver it.

Seeing the Brewers and Rays being described as "teams who play the game the right way instead of just listening to computers" is further proof that analytics just means "things I don't like" and that people have somehow gotten dumber about this stuff over the last decade

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If the goal of a wealth tax is “balance the budget” it’s probably unfit to do so but if it’s “you’re too rich, sorry” that’s a fine goal too!

I'd be so embarrassed to go on national TV and say this.