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listened to two episodes of Too Far Gone after the recent NYer reference yowch. what the fuck did i dip my my ears into? looking online for solidarity, can’t say this review has aged a day lareviewofbooks.org/short_take/c...
lol doesn’t seem like respect, seems a Bluesky desire to dunk on tiny frame of his larger take. also serious misreading (partly bc of difference btw biology & maths) what actual empirical vs provable line is. shorter Q: would you take the medicine in a test yourself without any non-AI check?
much respect for Professor Tao, but there are so so so many medical therapies that work without anyone really understanding how or why they work one of the great things about science is that we can use empirical knowledge in practice far ahead of when theoretical frameworks catch up to refine it
the end of Civil Rights law seems a bit more important than NHJ or bringing coffee somewhere www.nytimes.com/2026/09/24/u...
Day late, dollar short @nytimes.com Thank you @404media.co for breaking this
NEW: A high profile hacking group claims it has breached multiple FBI-related services and stolen data “on all FBI employees and applicants.” A representative of the hacking group told 404 Media the data includes FBI agents’ names, home addresses, phone number, and information on their spouse.
Every sentence jaw-dropping. There is no fix for this. ICE is evil. The country that allows it to continue must be judged as well.
When a few men -- Cubans -- refused to get off ICE plane in *Liberia* yesterday, agents *pressed knees into their necks,* forced them back on the plane and banished them... to Equatorial Guinea. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/21/w...
This is extremely good on TAH, and how he’s laundering ideas, and serving as “the last black person I talked to” cloakinginequity.com/2026/08/19/t...
to expand: beyond the boyfriend working at Anthropic, the bizarre rationales about Hard Fork podacst leaving NYTimes, the distasteful yak-it-ups w/ PJ Vogt, he’s just got his bobbling huge head everywhere… wild how many who are pro-AI and don’t see what it’s like when mainstream journalists cash in.
We’re all trying to find the guy who hampered this.
The NY Times writes that “Trump’s promises to restore fiscal order and reduce the amount of America’s debt burden have been hampered by spending on the Iran war, tax cuts and tariff refunds.” As if it’s just a run of bad luck instead of an ongoing con job against the American people.
The day she was taken prisoner, on a battlefield near the village of Petrivske, she was raped by a Russian soldier. Three had initially approached her. “You have to understand,” one of them told her. “We’ve been in the field for three months.” Russia’s New Gulag www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The day she was taken prisoner, on a battlefield near the village of Petrivske, she was raped by a Russian soldier. Three had initially approached her. “You have to understand,” one of them told her. “We’ve been in the field for three months.” Russia’s New Gulag www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
“Trump Isn’t a Threat to Our Democracy. Hysteria Is.” By Samuel Moyn and David Priestland Aug. 11, 2017
“As Trumpism has flailed and failed, it hasn’t consolidated the kind of authoritarian power anticipated by its most alarmed opponents. It doesn’t justify making anti-populism the measure of all things.” . www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/o...