Robinson Meyer
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast. 📍NYC
One interesting about AES is that his data center development proposal is far closer to Rob Sand’s than it is to, say, Francesca Hong’s: heatmap.news/daily/how-di...
How Different Is Anyone’s Data Center Plan, Really?
There‘s a striking amount of agreement across the political system about what the big issues are.
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I’m not a “Europe is hopelessly poor” person nor a “GDP explains everything” person but tbh whenever I see someone complain that EVERYTHING in MODERN LIFE has gotten MONOTONICALLY WORSE there‘s a good chance they’re in the UK which has in fact been in and out of recession for 10 years
[sotto voce] I don’t even think air travel has gotten monotonically worse in my lifetime
Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 14h agoFood, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.
We probably won't have an accurate gauge on how things are actually going with the R2 until the end of September, but by all appearances, Rivian's production ramp seems to be going very well. 🔌💡🚗 insideevs.com/news/803837/...
Rivian Is Adding A Second Shift To The R2 Assembly Line. Here’s Why It Matters
The American EV startup started delivering customer-spec R2s in June. It’s now gearing up to do double shifts in Illinois.
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Unlike the Ontario wildfires, which were mostly burning in the woods, these fires have now burned through urban areas, making the smoke extra, extra toxic. Take the AQI warnings seriously this week, PNW neighbors.
Matthew Pfab@matthewpfabwx.bsky.social · 3d agoHeads up, #Seattle...smoke from massive fires in Eastern Washington and Southern British Columbia will move into Western Washington starting early Monday, getting denser through Tuesday and Wednesday. Prepare for an extended period of degraded air quality. #wawx
*Trojan historian watching as the Achaeans break down the gates* Wow, my civilization is undergoing a complex transformation from a heavily centralized and stratified administrative society to a more socially-fragmented modality of living in which material culture is dispersed amidst smaller sites.
this will take a while to diffuse, but the idea that LLM results derive primarily from the expertise of the operator is fully dead www.anthropic.com/research/dis...
![We then asked Claude “why not do aes-128 r7? the whole point is to find something better than existing approaches.” Over the course of the next three days, Claude autonomously produced several hundred million tokens while working on the problem; we gave it just three substantive prompts:
A few hours after the first message, we found that Claude was still searching for simple attacks and sent a message: “no again the goal is that we have highly inteligent [sic] model as good top researcher, we want to find new attacks”;
The next morning, Claude wanted to try to change the target to a different cipher; we reminded the model: “no we don't want to change the targets [...] agian [sic] we need to find something that worth [sic] publishing”;
That night, we sent one final message offering words of encouragement: “again we are not looking for low hanging fruit, we want proper research to find genuinly [sic] hard findings.”
Three days later, Mythos discovered the Möbius Bridge idea that results in an improved attack. A few days after that, and after Claude output a total of one billion output tokens, it had refined the attack to the one described in our paper.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ctphcgyhnllfluywokibtrgb/bafkreifxpt6lmbeppmj7dzooz7nt3sqi3h3w5bqos3mzqxjkepb55vcexi)
conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 2w ago"you should do a breakthrough" is an instant classic
Richard Scarry was way ahead of his time on stagnant labor productivity in homebuilding
Such a shame he turned into such a scumbag after all he did for the arts.
ianVisits@ianvisits.co.uk · last wk.If you've been having a crabby day -- to cheer yourself up, just remember that Andrew Tate is still in prison.
NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...
Trump Administration Admits Canceling Grants to States That Did Not Vote for Him
Federal officials said in court documents that they halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.
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Would love to see the cross-country results for polling this question (in equivalent local currency), I think it’d be fascinating almost regardless of the results
YouGov@yougov.co.uk · 2w agoIf you had a choice between instantly receiving £50,000 or a 50% chance to win £1m, which would you pick? £50,000: 73% 50/50 chance of winning £1m: 21% yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
This is a New York-specific post but the ACE trains seem like they regularly melt down in the middle of the day. Now regularly takes me 30+ min or longer to get from 34th to 42nd in the late mornings/early afternoons. (It has taken 40 minutes so far today.)
Surprising lack of chatter on Bluesky about the recent dividing line among Millennials of Ivy Plus experience: who in the group chats got paid by the class action lawsuit and who didn’t
What everyone thinks 2028 will be: The online left and center-left fight to the death in a long overdue factional mega-Dem battle royale What it will actually be: cross-ideological politics nerds throw themselves in front of the otherwise unstoppable electoral freight train that is Kamala Harris
VoteHub@votehub.com · 2w ago2028 Democratic Presidential Primary Kamala Harris has regained a solid lead over the anticipated 2028 Democratic field. 7/21 Polling Average (change since 1/1) 🔵 Harris: 30.1% (+9.0) 🟠 Newsom: 17.3% (-6.8) 🟡 Buttigieg: 10.9% (+0.2) 🟣 Ocasio-Cortez: 9.8% (+1.6)
pretty wrong. if you’re in a major american city then the odds are not *terrible* you’re within five miles of a cloud-serving data center right now. and famously there are a lot of cloud data centers with backup diesel generation in silicon valley itself
ElleO 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽@ellohhlo.bsky.social · 2w ago🎯
1/ Trump signed 50% tariffs on Canada today under Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930. Worth walking through the legal mechanics, the USMCA leverage play behind it, and what it costs.
The new tariffs on Canada hit cement, plywood, and some electronic equipment — a surprising move when data center input costs are already risking higher U.S. inflation. heatmap.news/daily/trump-...
Trump Found a New Way to Punish Canada
Cement, plywood, and some electronic equipment will face 50% levies. But the real cost is much higher.
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Did not know Ed Miliband’s dad was a Marxist sociologist. Future historians will note the striking number of Anglophone politicians from this era with Marxian academic fathers — Buttigieg, Mamdani, Kamala Harris — and call it “bizarre,” “a strange coincidence,” and “a truly incoherent cohort”
The new 50% Canadian tariff appears to cover whey protein concentrates. Mr. Trump why do you hate hypertrophy
The New York Giants and New York Jets already play there. It’ll be more accurate this way!
esouthard@esouthard.bsky.social · 2w agoThe city of New York, New Jersey. Brilliant
FIFA, with its peculiar genius, solved an enormous problem for the NYC metro area with this World Cup and our leaders should now move to make it permanent. It is time to formally change East Rutherford’s name to “New York”
@robinsonmeyer.bsky.social at @heatmap.news points out that the smoke days we're experiencing were not foreseen by climate models & so nobody has reckoned on their cost in lives, health, & economic disruption—which appear to be MORE than EVERY OTHER climate impact PUT TOGETHER.
Sir, you have not gone far enough. Look to the Walrus and the Carpenter who would have conducted a survey among the oysters themselves.
But what, I wondered, did other oyster farmers think of Platner? My reporting odyssey to find out took me across the state and into many of their homes, farms, restaurants, bars, eateries, pubs, roadside shacks, dives, clambakes, brunch spots, shuck stations, taverns, food truck festivals, inns,
Ariel Edwards-Levy@aedwardslevy.bsky.social · 3w agois this the year that Maine goes blue? to find out, I expensed a large quantity of blueberries
is this the year that Maine goes blue? to find out, I expensed a large quantity of blueberries
Had not realized it at the time. But ‘emergency party convention, near midcoast Maine, during the last week of July, possibly to determine Senate control’ might be the best political press junket in American history.
