Sam Weinberg

ran @katabughazaleh’s campaign
lots of other stuff

[Sam Weinberg @SamWeinberg01]

This is called France

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

A country where every neighborhood can have a bistro downstairs, legally and by right.

[Bicoloured-Python-Rock-Snake 🦬🪐🌲 @pythonrocksnake]

TIL the lovely blue color of our vintage Ball canning jars (as well as telegraph insulators of the same glass) comes from the distinctive mineral content of a single Indiana sand dune that was mined away to nothing in the early 20th century.

That's pretty wild.

[Ashley Reese @offbeatorbit]

OOOF

[Henry Shevlin @dioscuri]

hey look we had a good run

[Nick Burns @NickBurns]

The hypothetical dream two-book deal is one where you write the same book twice, once for a university press, carefully circumscribed argument dealing in detail with all the literature on the subject; then again for a trade press in absolutely shamelessly demagogic fashion

[Sam Weinberg @SamWeinberg01]

From something I wrote in like 2022

[Rachel Vorona Cote @RVoronaCote]

I’m certain that others have noticed the popular “two epigraph” trend, in which the first is something esoteric, perhaps from poetry, philosophy, or poetry, and the second is current and quippy. I’m trying to figure out how it emerged, and what the underlying motivations are.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Telling Zohran Mamdani that "we charge you with genocide" is a good way to render the designation meaningless (and signal that you are a fucking moron)

[(◕_◕) @AnnoyingDroid]

you cant tell me this then expect me to be normal about it

[rishanth rajendhran @rishanthrajendh]

Can you tell if the ideas in a piece of writing are from a human or an AI?

As AI writing becomes more commonplace, emerging policies on AI use increasingly focus on who came up with the ideas in the text rather than who wrote the text. Modern AI detectors such as Pangram answer the latter question but not the former.

Introducing IdeaLens, a detector of AI ideas!

[Ben Crew @BenjaminCrew1]

We are kinda in an epidemic of books that read like the instruction manual for a movie adaptation rather than an actual novel

[Sam Weinberg @SamWeinberg01]

@OrganizerMemes CM knocking doors is a criminal misallocation of resources

[Yacine @hearts4kamiko]

I fantasize about being asked questions

[@ratlimit @ratlimit]

The best writers almost never write. Our standards are too high. Only mediocre writers can tolerate fiddling with an idea hatched shy of perfect; can stomach subjecting others to anything uninspired.

[Moonstruck❤️‍🔥 @godspeed_aflame]

the mass adoption of text messaging has foreclosed upon any possibility of romance.

[Gautam Kamath @thegautamkamath]

I saw someone post a dozen+ AI slop papers purporting to solve niche open problems. This is antisocial behaviour and worse than if the problems stayed open.

0 people understand the solution, and there is no readable writeup. Also, incentive for either is removed.

[Kevin Esvelt @kesvelt]

Vaccines will be ineffective against competently designed pandemic weapons. Russia may not be competent yet, but future AI will democratize competence.

We should stockpile pandemic-proof PPE and install germicidal far-UV and glycol misters in public spaces.

4/4

[Sam Weinberg @SamWeinberg01]

@_rotimia @nytopinion CONGRATULATIONS THIS IS HUGE

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

Former Chicago businessman Alphonse Capone, who rose to the top of the beverage distribution industry and was later jailed for violating tax laws, has died.

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Obsessed with this van in my town owned by someone who is in a feud with a local car dealer (Pohanka) for not honoring the warranty on their van so they spite covered that same van front to back in stickers with bad reviews, emails from the owner, and “Puck Fohanka.”

10/10 Hater behavior.