The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
Will Beason
@willbeason.bsky.social
🏳️🌈 Serial Google software developer: Firebase, Cloud, and now Gemini. Advocate for sustainable, robust, and reliable AI. Gay as the sun breaking through rainclouds. I also read, run, cook, game, and make art. Views expressed are my own.
I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes
The Register@theregister.com · 3d agoSci-fi authors Scalzi and Stross decry AI's dystopian impact on their craft
1. Newer writers, just don't fucking use "AI" for anything, ever 2. How odd that being an established writer with a firm "no 'AI'" stance and ample pre-"AI" IP will become a definite competitive advantage over "new, hot, and possibly copyright compromised" deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
deadline.com
99% of the time, when someone accuses you of selective outrage, it’s a way of politically demobilizing you and shutting you up “Why are you angry about data centers instead of fast fashion” isn’t about making you care about fast fashion. It’s about shutting you up about data centers And visa versa
This is very well done, I think: leidendeclaration.ai A few choice quotes, that should be of interest well beyond mathematics: >>
Leiden Declaration on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics
This declaration calls for action to address the challenges posed by the use of artificial intelligence within mathematics research.
leidendeclaration.ai
Here’s an example of why you really need the govt agencies focused on protecting people from theft or fraud by major corps. My wife has a jewelry business and sent a piece of jewelry to a customer via UPS. It was insured since it’s a pricey item. The package never arrived. The customer lives in a …
LLMs including AI agents are killing forums. This is deeply sad. I learned many coding tricks on Stack Overflow. www.ft.com/content/cec8...
Today I ran 1/16th of a mile in 16 seconds. And I did that 6 times. (Not continuously, but with rest periods between.)
Glad to be working on a team where I can take a break to write a 10-page autoethnographic essay and it's seen as good and helpful.
Achieved a high enough activity level that my Garmin watch told me to skip training today.
![Batman, breaking a shotgun that has 'AI SLOP' written over it in half.
Below, [Batmam's] speech bubble, saying:
"This is the weapon of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fewi4qum3xz52r3wagr5egpz/bafkreigyqogqp5gqkiv7vmdxwvsfr7tnwkfmlnkaewwn4illpuv6662g4m)
Happy July 4th, USA. May the promise of a better nation one day be realized for every one of us who live under its flag; also and independently, may we all finish the day with the same number of fingers as we started it.
"Billionaires love it when you try to vote with your wallet, because they also vote with their wallet, and their wallets are thicker than all of our wallets put together ... so we always get outvoted. So the way you do politics is by doing politics." - Cory Doctorow
Just 10 people have already poured $617 MILLION into this year’s midterm elections. In the entire 2008 presidential cycle, the last election before Citizens United, total billionaire spending was $16 million. This is not sustainable. We need to get Big Money out of our democracy.
A lot of people in power would do good to hear this: "You had your chance to escape this. You could be enjoying a glorious divine retirement, if only you could separate enjoyment from dominion over others." (Children of Strife, by Adrian Tchaikovsky)
Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.
VO2 Max run the day after leg day on the gym is brutal.
Somehow "COSMERE" wasn't taken yet in Washington, so my husband nabbed it. Apparently "BRDG4" and "KALADIN" are still up for grabs (as of a few weeks ago).
One of the things I love about the mod scene for Factorio is the depth of interaction they're able to create with real-world chemistry and manufacturing. Just playing Nullius has gotten me poring through Wikipedia entries like Epichlorohydrin and the differences between SBR and NBR rubber.
Just arrived here at the Scalzi Compound: The advance reading copy of Monsters of Ohio. It looks fantastic. I'm likely to give one away in the next couple of days. Stay tuned. PS: That amazing cover art? Michael Koelsch did it.
Co-signed, says this UChicago alum, and also this former editor-in-chief of @chicagomaroon.bsky.social, where this essay is published: chicagomaroon.com/52978/viewpo...
Welcoming Claude Into the Classroom Risks the Soul of Education
Faculty have a responsibility to protect classrooms as a training ground for thinking, and proliferating LLMs endanger this core mission of the University.
chicagomaroon.com
UChicago AAUP@uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 2mo agoExcellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:
Listening to The Return of the Obra Din soundtrack. Thinking it'll make for great running music
Nothing makes you hate robins more than living near them in the northern latitudes. "Oh, it's nautical twilight, time to scream my head off."
I know a service was designed by people who don't think much of their users when its name is prefixed with "my". Every time I see it, like most recently "my Social Security" ... just sigh
Pope Leo is 🔥: "So-called artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships...nor do they have a moral conscience... a form of statistical adaptation...does not imply inner growth."
this! people almost always ask me, especially after my talks, to comment on "something positive about ai"... my brother in christ, everything you hear about ai is nothing but positive. no need for me to add more
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo agoone interesting thing so far about loudly hating AI is the way AI lovers are like "wow so you're just totally closed off to hearing another perspective??" as if their perspective hasn't been relentlessly pushed down our throats with no space to push back (particularly in professional settings)
Finally getting back to consistent 5ks. Found some nice 5k routes around Westlake and Fremont
I know it seems incredibly obvious to most of the people I hang out with on here, but sometimes it is worth saying to local government staff, "You can ask the question of whether a data center is the highest and best use of your community's resources."
Made my own shell with tab completions and hints and it feels magical