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Maybe it seems weird that AI bosses won't stop rending their garments about the terrible potential of their bots, from the jobspocalypse that'll ensue when AI does our jobs, to the impending moment when the word-guessing programs learn too many words, wake up and turn us into paperclips. 1/

How long til we find out these people were publishing fake polls to move betting odds?

The name of the account is "good trailcams." Promises made, promises kept.

' "Obviously not blowing up is sort of like task number one and two, or whatever,” Aschenbrenner said during the fourth hour of a popular tech podcast in 2024 ' Lol, obviously

Congress appropriated billions of dollars for new transit projects. Why is the Trump administration spending none of it? Why are even transit projects in red states going unfounded? New reporting in @nytimes.com (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2026/07/27/u...

Autopsies show how hard doctors tried to save babies who died after not getting a vitamin K shot: tubes inserted in their airways, blood transfusions. They’re excruciating to read because they underscore how preventable these deaths could have been. (Published May)

"Suck on that Spinoza, you amateur. You absolute dickhead."

You love to see it

finally found something to make me laugh and it's this I've watched this like 30 times in a row

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

A pan-galactic coven of pastry witches? Oh, right, the beignet gesserit.

it’s kind of annoying how we have dozens and dozens of studies showing building more housing puts downwards pressure on rents, but once a year a small cadre of crank economists publishes a shoddily-researched paper to try and muddy the waters and for some reason, papers like Hell Gate take the bait

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

Conor Åberst Åreås Heågie The US Åpen

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

"The 15-Hour City believes everything has its place. Houses go in one location, businesses in another, and in between is a dark sea of soul-crushing concrete and asphalt." buff.ly/fLNN71n

on the david foster wallace porn convention essay flaminghydra.com/issue-507/#o...

More lawless slaughter at sea by the Trump administration under the specious guise of counterterrorism. Fake counterterrorism. Make believe armed conflict. Real killing.

Beautiful day here today. Also: thawing dog turds everywhere, left behind like erratic boulders from the receding ice sheets.

Per the crossword, why is it a pair of pants but not a pair of shirts?

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

Shoveled my block today along with my neighbors. It felt good to see neighbors I hadn't seen in a while. People seemed cheerful despite the poor weather. Several remarked on how quiet the city gets after a good snowfall. Anyway here's a chubby lil junco.

Absolute horrors are unfolding in Iran.

Average Sunday show interview: OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats HOST: how will you pay for it? OFFICIAL: tariffs HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed HOST: thank u for ur time

"Luther informed Hitler in no uncertain terms that the Reichsbank was not part of his revolution. It was an independent fiscal entity with an international board of directors." (The parallels here to Trump vs Powell are uncanny--almost too on-the-nose, really.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is extraordinary. I can’t think of a single Fed statement this defiant — ever. The Fed works through open consensus building and when it must, quiet, patient resistance. I cannot stress how bad things are that Jay Powell is saying these things out loud.

"Then Trump said the U.S. would run the country directly. Once again, journalists attempt to clothe an emperor who's fine with letting it flop around for everyone to see."

You say potato, I say tomato

This is hands down my favourite #SolarFlare in recent years, an event from September 2024. The flare persisted for several hours, giving us a jaw-dropping view of ‘coronal rain’ (seen in the yellow structure) and ‘supra-arcade downflows’ (seen in the cyan structure). A beauty!

I read this (extremely good) piece a few months ago and went back to listen to The Wall for the first time in years, paying attention to it much more carefully than I have done before. Highly recommend reading it.

The team behind Google’s tool for predicting how proteins “fold” won a 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Here's the state of that tech and how it’s being used in health research today. ⬇️

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

This isn't a closing election argument, it's Vidkun Quisling explaining why surrender is better than resistance.

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

I was watching some YouTube today and was being served AI slop ads for medicinal honey, blueberries, and other kinds of snake oil, featuring fake astronauts, doctors, moms, etc. Seemingly there's no regard for truth or credibility.

More than that. "The FBI ***recorded*** Tom Homan taking the money "after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration."

Cancelled Disney+ and Hulu today

"We beheld throngs of swaying bodies, caught up in some sort of blood-trance, all of them shimmying as if to some unheard music, circling a massive, formless statue, all intertwined in a seething mass of sweat-covered skin and beehived hair-dos that seemed to defy gravity."

My 10 y.o. was telling me it would be cool if football players had mics in their helmets so they ask for a lateral or something. So I showed him the Randy Moss lateral and his eyes lit up. And I was like "yes it was exactly that awesome when I saw it too" youtu.be/hXcGNVpblQ4?...

All because dude dared unfreeze illegally frozen federal funds that went towards helping people

Trump’s Caddie magically drops a ball for him not in the deep stuff ⛳️

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart govts do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it wastes public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.bsky.social