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Nate Frey

@natefrey.bsky.social

Alleged professional account, although I do not represent my employer here Demographer, lapsed geographer, data and analytics guy, etc Degrees from Penn State and Maryland

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Bat 🦇 Borus@matthewborus.bsky.social · 2w ago

It's really crucial to remember that a "gas tax holiday" means starving states of revenue. That means fewer resources for public needs. Who do you think wins in a fight between funding for preschools and highways?

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · last wk.

I am usually someone who spoils his consumption of media w reviews, so when I learned this week that True Detective: Night Country, (which I watched long after it came out having read nothing about), has a lot of dedicated haters, I was really taken aback. To me it might be the best season?

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am trying to do less generic political posting, but recent SCOTUS-sanctioned events in Tennessee remind me to unequivocally state in any available venue that the death penalty is unacceptable under any circumstances

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

On the one hand it’s an architecturally interesting neighborhood, so I get it; on the other hand, “your garage door can’t have panels, and your back doors that only guests will ever see should comply with architectural standards, and you can’t cut diseased trees without permission” is… ridiculous

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · last mo.

Having recently moved from a neighborhood with a weak HOA to one with a more restrictive HOA, I am once again reminded that HOAs shouldn’t exist or should at most have extremely limited powers

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Agree. I am reasonably good at Computer and I absolutely do not have time/energy to get any of this stuff cooking for the kinds of tasks for which it would be most useful, especially anything outside work

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 2w ago

Technology enthusiasts severely overestimate the average person’s desire or willingness or capacity to build and use AI agents. I understand some work roles that could mandate or encourage it but that is no way a tech revolution. Agents are best for structured, clearly delineated tasks.

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · 2w ago

Since the iced coffee interview discourse is still going, two things are true: 1) if you as a hiring manager care about this sort of thing, (outside of a few buttoned-up fields), you are very bad at hiring. Like, terrible at it. 2) as a candidate in a weak job market you gotta pick your battles

Joe Bak-Coleman@jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 3w ago

We can simulate fish schools or ants in ways that solve complex problems (gradient detection, bridge building, nest selection) but no one would create this weird soul/no-soul dichotomy to argue they these that multi-agent swarms of extremely simple rules are “thinking”.

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 3w ago

Once you’ve conceded that there’s nothing magic about humans or “living beings” that makes them the only entities allowed to think, it’s really hard to figure out an intellectually honest dividing line where the entities that are exercising creativity and solving complex problems aren’t thinking

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · last mo.

One interesting demographic skew of this website is the enormous overrepresentation of people who were against invading not only Iraq but Afghanistan Not sure I knew a single person who was against the Afghanistan invasion. Iraq? Sure, myself included. Afghanistan? Not until it started dragging on

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · last mo.

Having recently moved from a neighborhood with a weak HOA to one with a more restrictive HOA, I am once again reminded that HOAs shouldn’t exist or should at most have extremely limited powers

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · last mo.

Is there a trick to make Chrome stop eating so much memory? At home I simply don’t use it, but at work it is one of two approved browsers and the other one is Edge

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m obviously not going to defend Google, but as a geographer, it is mildly depressing that no one knows even fairly basic stuff about how the mapping technology they depend upon works

Nate Frey@natefrey.bsky.social · last mo.

I say this as someone who is sympathetic to the subject matter, to the point that I published a (pretty bad) paper on trees and equity in grad school: Any mechanism by which change in canopy matters but absolute canopy does not is not primarily capturing an effect of the canopy

Eric Klinenberg@ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Researchers in Chicago tracked neighborhood-level tree canopy over two decades and discovered something startling: “Each year-to-year percent increase in canopy was associated with around a 10 percent reduction in mortality." Keeping mature trees alive can help keep people alive -and cooler, too.