What appeals to me about Zohran is that he governs with a strong moral compass, even where I don't agree with the policies. The discourse is affordability vs. fight vs. gerontocracy. But I think the lesson for 2028 is the hunger for a moral compass.
Seema Jayachandran
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Economics professor at Princeton. I study environmental conservation, gender equality, and (too many) other topics in developing countries. seemajayachandran.com
This politician in Canada used ChatGPT to write his speech and then just directly read out loud the AI prompt without realising it, announcing to legislators “Here's a more natural, flowing version of that section that reads like a legislative speech rather than a series of short points." Glorious!
Wanted: An alarm app that adjusts the wake-up time later if I get a text in the middle of the night that my early morning flight is delayed...
The AI-induced surge in cold emails seeking RA positions is insane.
So the U.S. has gotten itself into a situation where the State Department is now warning Americans about traveling...anywhere. "The Department of State advises Americans worldwide to exercise increased caution." travel.state.gov/en/internati...
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Brutal photo caption from The Guardian: “Gianni Infantino carefully explains to Donald Trump that he is not part of the Spanish national team.”
I just banned "load-bearing" in my claude preferences. this is a game of whack-a-mole.
This seems a bit Nazi-ish, no?
PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w agoMiller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli
Do the cost savings from removing recycling and waste bins from offices really outweigh the productivity costs? The centralized bins and slots are small -- the setup is designed for you to stop working and walk from your office to the centralized bin for each piece of trash. Seems inane.
i know my questions aren't always clear, but does Claude really need to tell me it's trying to untangle them?
non-soccer person here. Spain might be good but they are boring to watch.
My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning
What countries have you only been to in transit? For me, the ones I remember are UAE Turkey Senegal Rwanda Malaysia Bangladesh Sudan The last two are probably the oddballs on that list.
Texas still has a really good senate candidate, just saying...
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It won't be long before Platner goes on Rogan. The political pivot seems inevitable.
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So @albertsonb2.bsky.social and I stayed at a cabin with friends who had a Texas waffle iron and we rated the midterms.
I feel like there's a growing gap in perception between people who use LLMs to code or do code-adjacent things and people who only evaluate LLMs on their ability to write prose. This might be a stretched analogy but it reminds me of the different "worlds" of the polarized US media environment.
This was prompted by some policy folks describing some findings and me being skeptical. So I read the two working papers (by a prominent economist) and was aghast at the authors' over-interpretation. Not great that the policy folks were credulous, but I get that. I place the blame on the authors.
Seema Jayachandran@seema.bsky.social · last mo.A tool I hope someone creates: Assessment of how much a scholar overclaims in their papers when interpreting empirical results. Seems well within the skill set of AI, e.g., Refine. Useful for non-experts assessing evidence (especially working papers but even peer reviewed). + a deterrence effect.
A tool I hope someone creates: Assessment of how much a scholar overclaims in their papers when interpreting empirical results. Seems well within the skill set of AI, e.g., Refine. Useful for non-experts assessing evidence (especially working papers but even peer reviewed). + a deterrence effect.
Donald Trump inheriting a situation that was suboptimal but honestly fine, deciding to personally intervene, and making everything significantly worse at great taxpayer expense is a perfect synopsis of every single thing he has done as president both times.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2mo agoThey're dumping hydrogen peroxide into the reflecting pool this morning trying to stop the algae.
There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.
Read the whole transcript. Glad to see someone has some integrity left.
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 2mo agoOliver Darcy got the audio of the heated 60 Minutes meeting where Scott Pelley dressed Nick Bilton down! "You know what was rude? Black Thursday. That was the absolute definition of rudeness. Telling Tanya Simon she had to be out of here at five o'clock." www.status.news/p/scott-pell...
A suppressed 2022 report at Yale found significant growth in many units (though the reasons were difficult to be certain of, absent cooperation from the administration). campuspress.yale.edu/facultyforya...
A gallon of gas was $3.10 the last time the Thunder made the NBA finals
Mike Vorkunov@mikevorkunov.bsky.social · 2mo agoA gallon of gas was $1.11 the last time the Knicks made the NBA finals