Seems like Silicon Valley is gunning to seal the top spot in the human depravity Olympics over Wall St.
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@jonathancorbin.bsky.social
Behavioral scientist. Psych. blogger. “You even picked the ideal weather. Overcast and chilly. Perfect for staying inside and reading" voxpopsci.com
Silicon Valley Disruptors reinventing Epstein from first principles
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · 3h agoWomen trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below. Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
Republicans wreck economy. Rural voters abstain or vote Dem. Democrats fix economy. Rural voters vote on culture war issues. Republicans wreck economy... Round and round we go.
Timothy McBride@mcbridetd.bsky.social · 7h agoThe most pressing midterm issues for rural voters www.axios.com/2026/09/27/r...
There's a list of pernicious, toxic things, deeply embedded in my culture. Auto-downloaded into worldviews by society without consent that are sick, and must be recognized and purged. The idea that larger bodies aren't beautiful is one I especially hate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Why girls have worse mental health than boys - Nature Human Behaviour
Analyses of data from more than 3,000 adolescents found that loneliness and desire for thinness contribute to the higher prevalence of depressive symptoms and suicidal ideation among girls than in boy...
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Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
New from Nikole Hannah-Jones: In fighting for every Black child, Did I betray my own? ‘A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge NYC’s unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice’
In Fighting for Every Black Child, Did I Betray My Own? (Gift Article)
A decade ago, I made a decision about my daughter’s education that I hoped would challenge New York City’s separate and unequal school system. Now 16, she thinks I made the wrong choice.
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Most sci-fi has AI gaining consciousness and destroying everything. Here's a reminder that the more likely scenario is AI destroys everything because humans asked it to.
Stupid AI usage almost started WW3 Cool. Boy, am I glad that we're totally talking about the right kind of existential risk, like escalating interimperial rivalries, or climate change, and not this "AI will go rogue" stuff... right? www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
ALT: I Think You Should Leave Hot Dog Suspect
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Sara Gaiser@akrazia.bsky.social · 2w agoSen. Bill Cassidy (R-Louisiana) on Wednesday said the nation’s worst measles outbreak in the United States in 35 years is “going to be a terrible legacy for this administration,” citing recent deaths in Pennsylvania.
every single republican president of my lifetime has started a war in the middle east and destroyed the economy
#statstab #574 When the Mean is Misleading: a Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes Thoughts: The "it's fine to analyse likert/ordinal data with t-test" camp is not doing themselves any favours #ordinal #likert #probit #regression link.springer.com/article/10.1...
When the Mean is Misleading: a Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
Objectives We demonstrate the utility of ordered regression models for analyzing ordinal outcomes frequently encountered in criminology, comparing their predictive accuracy and estimation against conv...
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Inspired by a @f2harrell.bsky.social comment, I did some #rstats simulations about how big a sample needs to be for the central limit theorem to kick in and the sample mean be normally distributed for inference purposes. Yes, with skewed data the answer is "lots". freerangestats.info/blog/2026/09...
Excited to share our recent publication in @natcomms.nature.com We started by trying to make people stop associating the money rewards they obtain with irrelevant features of their behavior. In the first experiment, we used clear instructions framed as a story, and it didn't help...
Israel continues to commit genocide, atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, UN independent commission finds | UN News share.google/UUd5zyKUOkHX...
Israel continues to commit genocide, atrocity crimes by deliberately targeting Palestinian children, UN independent commission finds
Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide and atrocity crimes in the Gaza Strip and war crimes in the West Bank, a UN independent c...
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I wrote about the necessity of persuasion (and its pitfalls), a disappointing statement from a national figure, and how we might disrupt traditional popular exclusionary and bigoted stories of Them, by challenging them with open and expansive stories of Us. www.the-reframe.com/us-and-them/
Us and Them
Exclusion isn't good for the team. Telling disruptive stories in a fascist locker room.
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Seeing a lot of folks writing 'ofc' (of course) at work and my brain always reads, "Of Fucking Course"
New: The federal income tax has 7 brackets today. That may seem normal, but it’s a historical anomaly. There were once 56 brackets, and there were 14 as recently as the 1980s. But, like it did much else, Reaganism broke our brackets. @samarthgupta.bsky.social has a new brief on how to fix them: 🧵
Reaganism Broke US Tax Brackets. It’s Time To Fix Them.
The US once had dozens of income tax brackets. Samarth Gupta argues that restoring more brackets at the top would better address today’s extreme income inequality, raise revenue, and give policymakers...
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Quote-posting to highlight Sargent's excellent advice for El-Sayed: say "JD, every time Trump and MAGA attack my family's religion and smear my wife for wearing a hijab, they are attacking your wife and kids, too." This works on so many different levels, without being an attack on Vance's kids.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w agoLet's be honest about what JD Vance is really doing here. He assumes keeping El-Sayed tied up in a dispute that highlights his Muslim heritage is an automatic plus for the GOP. This is complicated for El-Sayed, but there's a way to turn it to his advantage: newrepublic.com/article/2149...
An absolutely incredible development here. This leg would have been unimaginable just a few short years ago. (Original post by @science.org on instagram)
He'd be saved by his own indecisiveness. The ring would give up out of frustration as he turned every temptation into a moral quandary to be investigated.
Ackso's Worries and Concerns
Alt: Chidi would never make a choice
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Josh Grubbs@joshuagrubbsphd.com · 2w agoName a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring.
Just re-read this great piece by @anildash.com "The constructed cultural narrative around the day bears almost no resemblance to the actual lived experience of anyone I know who was here that day. So maybe it’s worth telling a little bit of what I actually saw." www.anildash.com/2024/09/11/2...
23: What was 9/11? - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
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I wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell. aiguide.substack.com/p/misleading...
Misleading Metaphors, Real Risks
What To Fear from AI Agents and How to Reclaim Our Human Agency
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30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"
Prison inmates help to pay down school lunch debt
A school district's unsettled lunch debt was substantially paid down by a group of inmates.
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