Nitish Pahwa
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staff writer for business/tech @slate.com and Council Member for Online Media @wgaeast.bsky.social. words also in NYT, LARB, Brooklyn Magazine, Complex, and POW Mag. he/him. nitishpahwa.73 on Signal. if it's major, hit me on my pager.
Happy 73rd birthday to Joe Strummer, the individual who perhaps more than any other inspired and clarified for me what it is I wanted to do with my life. Reposting an essay I wrote about the 40th anniversary of London Calling for The Ringer. Oh mi corazon. www.theringer.com/2019/12/17/m...
The Siren Sound of the Clash’s ‘London Calling,’ 40 Years Later
Released in 1979, the Clash’s third album changed everything—punk rock, the band that made it, and the fans who worshiped it. Decades later, its rich, eclectic, propulsive sound hasn’t aged a minute, ...
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"As well as protecting patients from out-of-state investigations, the law creates a new criminal charge for individuals in New Jersey who block access or intentionally intimidate those seeking gender-affirming or reproductive healthcare at facilities that provide it."
LGBTQ Nation@lgbtqnation.com · 7h agoNJ Gov Mikie Sherrill signs expansive bill to fight back in war on trans & reproductive health care - buff.ly/91ferD0
people are quite frustrated with their weather apps and understandably wondering whether our whole prediction apparatus has been degraded. it turns out the issue lies more with *how* these apps process and present data—and how we choose to interpret it, in turn. my latest: slate.com/technology/2...
Is Your Weather App Awful? It Might Be Your Fault.
Forecasts are more accurate than ever. Why doesn’t it feel that way?
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BREAKING: The editor of military newspaper Stars and Stripes says he has been fired for insubordination after calling any censorship a "red line."
Stars and Stripes editor says he has been fired for insubordination after doing interview
The editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes says the Pentagon has fired the editor-in-chief of Stars and Stripes, as well as its publisher and a reporter.
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I wrote about how angry I feel watching people write columns about trans women in sports.
Just call me a man already and get it over with
I'm angry. I hate writing when I'm angry. I think it makes me too emotional, too attached to copy and most importantly makes my brain move too fast having ideas pop up and die before I can even get t...
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You cannot appeal to rigorous academic standards and argue for the inclusion of racist pseudoscience, the most fallacious, damaging, and discredited idea of the past 500 years. You might as well teach doctors to recognize the four humors.
The op-ed writers getting mad about another op-ed writer having a column spiked mostly confirms for me that these are not people who have ever actually had any editorial guidance in their careers. Their editors are just the people whose job it is to hit publish.
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This makes a good point that most weather apps are very bad at communicating uncertainty. One weather app I use, Acme, tries to to a better job showing the *range* of possible forecasts:
Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 11h agopeople are quite frustrated with their weather apps and understandably wondering whether our whole prediction apparatus has been degraded. it turns out the issue lies more with *how* these apps process and present data—and how we choose to interpret it, in turn. my latest: slate.com/technology/2...
For my newsletter, I wrote about how everyone misremembers "Woke 1" and how all the things people hate about it are just outgrowths of modern internet culture (and things the right does every day still) www.burnsnotice.com/everyone-mis...
Everyone Misremembers "Woke 1"
For the first time in the internet age, minorities were able to exercise power publicly, that's why the right wants you to remember "Woke 1" as out of control
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Interesting piece. Some friends and I have an ongoing debate about the most accurate forecast source 😆😆 But reading this, I'm reminded that a key issue is the public often doesn't really understand what a forecast is, modeling a range of likely conditions rather than a precise prediction.
Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 11h agopeople are quite frustrated with their weather apps and understandably wondering whether our whole prediction apparatus has been degraded. it turns out the issue lies more with *how* these apps process and present data—and how we choose to interpret it, in turn. my latest: slate.com/technology/2...
As a scholar of government data, fascinating “It all tends to be the same data,” said Gifford. “If some app tries to tell you it has a fancier forecast, you roll your eyes a bit, because it all mostly comes from governments.”
Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 11h agopeople are quite frustrated with their weather apps and understandably wondering whether our whole prediction apparatus has been degraded. it turns out the issue lies more with *how* these apps process and present data—and how we choose to interpret it, in turn. my latest: slate.com/technology/2...
similar dynamics to realtime transit data but for weather
Nitish Pahwa@nitishpahwa.com · 11h agopeople are quite frustrated with their weather apps and understandably wondering whether our whole prediction apparatus has been degraded. it turns out the issue lies more with *how* these apps process and present data—and how we choose to interpret it, in turn. my latest: slate.com/technology/2...
people are quite frustrated with their weather apps and understandably wondering whether our whole prediction apparatus has been degraded. it turns out the issue lies more with *how* these apps process and present data—and how we choose to interpret it, in turn. my latest: slate.com/technology/2...
Is Your Weather App Awful? It Might Be Your Fault.
Forecasts are more accurate than ever. Why doesn’t it feel that way?
slate.com
NEW YORK CITY THE ABSOLUTE JUICE IN THIS WEEKEND'S FORECAST IS THE RETURN OF LOWS IN TO 60s, FUCKING LOVE TO SEE IT, IT HAS BEEN TOO LONG, HELL YEAH, MORE OF THIS PLEASE. FRI: 80°/69° SAT: 78°/71° <-- KIND OF PERFECT SUN: 82°/66° MORNING RAIN
it's only been done once in all of NBA and ABA history: https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/201810200DEN.html
Justin Russo@flybyknite.bsky.social · 22h agoIt appears that Angel Reese’s night is done: 20 points, 10 rebounds, 8 assists, and 3 steals on 100% shooting. First player in league history to accomplish that.
You can now read an excerpt from FINDING RENÉE RICHARDS on @slate.com!
The Modern Right Is Obsessed With “Protecting Women in Sports.” The Origins of That Fixation Have a Surprising Story.
If only it could have simply stayed about the game.
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Sounds ridic. But college coaches are control freaks. They want every single thing rehearsed. So Iowa State did a practice run at the hotel they stay at for game days. Practice dinner. Practice sleep. Practice breakfast. And yes practice snacks. It cost $116,000 www.foiaball.com/p/training-c...
Is your team practicing how to stay in a hotel?
It costs one team $116,000 to do a dry run.
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Wahab notably also a sponsor of the anti-caste-discrimination bill that Newsom vetoed in 2023 bc he wanted the Hindutva lobby's support for his presidential run
R Subramanian (he/him)@rsubramanian.com · yesterdayAIPAC really hates Muslims, huh. Good they lost.
for whatever it's worth I blame Marc Andreessen's manifesto in significant part for this
hailey@hailey.at · 2d agothere's this idea that you cannot be pro-AI and simultaneously support strict regulation around energy sourcing, land development, etc. from a lot of folks unfortunately.