Americans: oh, look, a systemic issue. I will solve it individually
Does anyone want to guess how many times I was called a "fuckin' Jew" and similar on my solo return on the same route, 1.0 kilometre through the homecoming crowd? I lost exact count but I have a lower bound (it's probably 1-2 higher)
Law and economics showing once again that markets like predictability youtube.com/shorts/h2YQc...
The justice we have left!
YouTube video by Liz Glazer
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There’s a lot of doom & gloom around how AI is affecting higher education. To a certain extent, I get it. AI is making some things harder. But I’ve found that AI has in some ways greatly enhanced my teaching. For one, it’s opened up applied activities that weren’t possible before. One example: 🧵
Why, when you've a lot going on, doesn't evolution program you to sleep like a log so you're at your best. How are sleepless nights a survival trait? Darwin, crock of shit.
if they want to slow ai down they should submit to peer review
I've started getting ads for things I've asked ChatGPT about when I'm browsing (FB ads for a company it had recommended, 3rd party ads in news articles), so that's where it is now...
I didn’t think letting my kids have a little fun by taking them to play whack-a-mole was a problem, but apparently the staff at the dermatologist’s office disagrees.
This part is EXTREMELY clear to anyone using their search function. I can put in the literal word-for-word description of a thing I bought before and it won't bring it up in the first two pages of the search. Their search function has become completely useless to me.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 2w agoAmazon's payola isn't about radio play - it's about *search*. When you search Amazon, the top results do not represent Amazon's best guess about what product will best match your query: rather, Amazon *auctions off* those top results to its platform sellers. 22/
I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Talent is distributed normally, opportunity isn’t
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3w agoMy favorite is that the current lead singer of Journey, Arnel Pineda, got into the band because guitarist Neal Schon saw YouTube videos of him performing Journey songs in a bar in the Philippines. When they called him to audition, he thought it was a prank. youtu.be/ragdoUO6s5w
I'm an immigration historian. We lack the lexicon to describe this evil. "Deportation" generally means being repatriated to the country you came from. Although there have been 3rd country removals in US history, they are rare, but now ramping up. Also "deportation" means when you're sent back, 1/
Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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where is the academic freedom letter, i would like to sign it
Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 4w agoA civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.
We just made our biggest grant yet: $212 million to @againstmalaria.bsky.social to support bed net campaigns in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with other GiveWell donors adding another $64 million. GiveWell expects these nets to avert 67,000 deaths, mostly in kids under five.
From the Economists' most popular articles within my organization. Once again he leads citations.
Tell me more about the "waste, fraud, and abuse" they cut by gutting USAID tho
Carolyn Barber, MD@cbarbermd.bsky.social · last mo.DHS spent $464 MILLION on a no-bid contract for 10 used planes it said were urgently needed for deportations. Then it barely flew them Former ICE Director Sandweg: Buying its own fleet “would absolutely not make the top ten” things ICE needed. $464M. No bid. Planes parked. #BlueSky #MedSky #LawSky
It’s too bad this title is taken for a title about how many people argue with @besttrousers.bsky.social
Matt Darling@besttrousers.bsky.social · last mo."Once the 6 months of UI ends, you’re not counted." This is not true, UI receipt has nothing to do with NLA numbers.
Parents Parents 2026 BCE 2026 CE 🤝 "These kids and their damned tablets"
More than 20 years ago I remember using a web conferencing application at work--it was possibly WebEx?--that would show you when someone else on the call had changed windows to focus on something other than the call. It was exactly the shitshow you could imagine.
Kid: You should start a podcast! Me: Why thank yo- Kid: Like one of those boring podcasts that helps people fall asleep Its like they all follow @hadas.bsky.social ‘s niece/nephew
Kid: You should start a podcast! Me: Why thank yo- Kid: Like one of those boring podcasts that helps people fall asleep Its like they all follow @hadas.bsky.social ‘s niece/nephew
🚨 New WP from our Kenya RCT. Tying malaria testing subsidies and provider incentives to diagnostic results roughly tripled testing and cut unnecessary antimalarial purchases. Because patients overestimate infection risk, these contracts deliver 4x welfare gains of free testing.
NBER@nber.org · 2mo agoDiagnosis-contingent incentives that tie treatment incentives to diagnostic results reduce unnecessary treatment and improve welfare, from Maria Dieci, Paul Gertler, Jonathan T. Kolstad, and Carlos Paramo www.nber.org/papers/w35543
