David P. Baker

Nobels: Literature - Naguib Mahfouz, Abdulrazak Gurnah Chemistry - Ahmed Zewail*, Omar Yaghi*, Elias James Corey*, Moungi Bawendi (*=also Wolf) Medicine: Peter Medawar Peace - Anwar Sadat, Yasser Arafat, Mohamed ElBaradei, Tawakkol Karman Fields: Michael Atiyah Booker: Jokha Alharthi

damn that’s fuckin racist

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

Me sitting on the couch: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me getting up from the couch: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

the story goes like this

a programming teacher of mine once said the reason adults are harder to teach than kids is because adults want it to be perfect, the way they've seen it before, in their heads, and kids don't really know or care, they just wanna try you learn by doing, a lot of adults are afraid of doing

Boycott X. Boycott every business Musk owns. He is a fascist white supremacist who's using his obscene wealth to buy control of the US government. Do not participate in any business that enriches, validates, or empowers him.

Well, which is it?

HUMPTY HUMP: I once got busy in a

Is that good

I don't have an FT subscription so I couldn't read the whole article. But the excerpts screenshotted here are so enraging. The AI bros are constitutionally unable to avoid missing the point of life.

"Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding." www.ahmath.org/statements

It's a basic unit of language; maybe you've word of it

it me

Taxi Driver For Tax Purposes

Human Centipede For Tax Purposes

My Dinner With Andre For Tax Purposes

ELIZA effect is a hell of a drug.

I started to read this article but my blood pressure went up and I got cross-eyed with dread

Tell us how you really feel, three Jim Beams in

While we're on the topic of the machine learning Michael Jordan and his interview calling this hysteria around fictional machine gods for what it is, let me share with you this essay he wrote in 2018 where he was similarly spot on. medium.com/@mijordan3/a...

Mike Collins Mike Johnson Mike Rogers Mike Lee Maybe we should have a total ban on Republicans named Mike until we figure out what's going on

The moral is, if you’re appointed Ambassador to Greece as an unqualified nepo hire, don’t try to do bonus grifts. The grift is being Ambassador to Greece. You are being paid to hang out in Greece for 4 years. Grift accomplished

The passport is the latest national treasure to get a makeover from Trump. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

This story makes it sound like the major problem is that the Trump Admin did this w/in 60 days of an election. Yes, that's a real abuse. But the major problem is they're basically threatening to denaturalize an opposition legislator, based on racist insinuations. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/12/u...

"some"?

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

Ossoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"

“Every member of this ethnic group is a criminal who needs to be imprisoned by the state” is just pure uncut Nazi shit

Trump is a disgusting human

it's Adam and Intelligence not Steve and Intelligence

Stop anthropomorphizing LLMs. They hate that.

Excitable boys, they all said

Disgraceful. Government violence done in our name

White supremacist cops take a minority citizen, drive him out to the woods as a threat, and leave him there. No, it's not Mississippi in the 1930s, why do you ask?

Software developers are not okay: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2026/05-software-developers-are-not-okay/

Just saw someone say their AI runs their fantasy football team and I can’t stop laughing. Like, I’m sure everyone’s doing it or something but it’s very funny to me that pretending to be a team manager was so hard that you needed to pretend to pretend to be a team manager

it takes something special see a man hounded out of his future by politics you've helped legitimize step in front of a truck and then ask how the trucker feels

A whole political movement should be stood up against this arrogant and sociopathic bullshit www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Okay this is a good article. Presents a rough summary of behavioral evolution, the brain as a feedback-control system rather than a Turing machine, and argues against AI for cognitive delegation.

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

Elon Muskn't

How's the Hollandaise sauce in Amsterdam?