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Rupert Chapman

@rupert3.bsky.social

Archaeologist and Lover of English Literature

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MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

🚨NEW: Todd Blanche’s new order rescinds the May 18 Anti-Weaponization Fund—but quietly leaves the May 19 IRS immunity settlement intact. Instead of rescinding it, the accompanying memo reaffirms DOJ’s interpretation, arguing the immunity applies only retroactively and only to the parties involved.1/

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Marie 🇨🇦@pawbaby2.bsky.social · 7d ago

Miles Taylor is right: Trump claims he’s worried about election security while gutting the FBI’s election task force, DHS election teams, ODNI’s threat cells, and now leaving the EAC with zero leadership. Weird way of showing you care. #USDemocracy

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Dr. Mar@boldnewme.bsky.social · last wk.

The substance found in Lorenzo Salgado’s van was not an illegal substance. As his family has always maintained, it was electrolyte powder used to stay hydrated during the hot Texas summer.

Rep. Sylvia Garcia @RepSylviaGarcia X.com We can now confirm that the substance found in Lorenzo Salgado's van was not a narcotic or any other illicit substance. As his family has said all along, this was an electrolyte powder to stay hydrated working outside in the hot Texas summer. The attempt to cast a shadow over Lorenzo Salgado's name has failed.
David Roberts@volts.wtf · last wk.

That basic problem -- the problem of the information environment, which I've banged on about for 20+ years now -- is upstream of *everything* else. There's no simple fix. It's certainly not going to be fixed with clever word choice or policy proposals. You have to shift the deep mythologies.

Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

11. I don't think I have to help anyone read between the lines here. AI: good. Universities: bad. Trades: good. Academics: bad. It's a straightforward continuation of the Vought/Vance "the universities are the enemy" program.

Fourth, we must prepare our research enterprise for the AI revolution. AI will accelerate and radically transform the way we do science. But even the most capable AI models will be slowed down in the bottleneck of institutions and systems built for the last century. As we renew the infrastructure that powers American science, we must reengineer it for the AI age. And even as AI compresses the time from question to answer, we will still need human hands to build the instrument or prototype. We must build that capacity, too, investing in advanced manufacturing, the skilled trades, and the vast pools of talent and tacit knowledge outside the traditional academic pipeline.
Carl T. Bergstrom@carlbergstrom.com · 2w ago

10. Hard to even know where to start in commenting on this report because it's such a jumble of grievances, lies, and accelerationist fever dreams. But this paragraph floors me. Not only is it talking about AI agents doing the science, it's utterly ignorant of the information economics of science.

n such a world, experimental information becomes a tradeable commodity, and price mechanisms replace slow institutional coordination. Markets could form to support the scientific enterprise, such as prediction markets informing grantmakers about technologies on the horizon, bounty markets directing re- sources toward unsolved problems, and reputation markets tracking which agents produce reliable results. Agents would interact directly, exchanging data, hypotheses, and compute time through microtransactions. The whole system runs continuously, at speeds no human institution could match, but is guided by human judgment about which breakthroughs merit large bounties, and which questions require framing that machines cannot yet provide.