Shane Spiller

“Quick to judge, quick to anger, Slow to understand. Ignorance & prejudice & fear walk hand in hand”

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

A plumber knows more about plumbing than you.

A pilot knows more about flying than you.

A scientist usually knows more about science than you.

That doesn’t make them automatically right.

But it does mean the burden of proof is on the person claiming thousands of experts got it wrong.

Science isn’t a democracy.

It’s not decided by likes, vibes, or confidence.

It’s decided by evidence.

And evidence doesn’t care who wins the argument.

[Simon Maechling @simonmaechling]

Spend 20 years studying Chemistry.
Collect data. Publish papers. Pass peer review.

Earn a PhD. Go online. Get told you're wrong - by an electric screwdriver salesman.

That's the internet.
Expertise vs confidence.

Science isn't broken.
Our respect for it is.

[Owen Zidar @omzidar]

Admin bloat is a big problem and addressing this issue should be the main focus of University leaders as they consider other measures that directly hurt our core mission of research and teaching.

At MIT, for example, faculty grew only 9% from 1985-2023. Administrative staff grew 189%. https://t.co/nAQNqzXAaK

[Shane Spiller @ShaneSpiller]

Is @GravesGilbert really so broke they are texting me on a Sunday morning to pay a bill I haven’t even seen yet, from a visit 2 weeks ago?
Are y’all ok over there?

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔UC Berkeley's computer science department just posted its worst failure rates in years. 35.3% of CS 10 students got F's in spring 2026, up from under 10% in prior semesters. Professor Dan Garcia says the primary driver is a "vast increase in academic dishonesty" through LLMs. Students use AI to complete assignments, never learn the material, then fail exams. His office hours, once full, are now empty.

My Take
Companies are firing experienced engineers while the pipeline that produces new ones is being gutted by the same technology. Students use AI to bypass the hard part of learning, show up to exams without the understanding, and fail. One professor discovered a student's linear algebra class had an "open AI" policy for homework and exams. That student then couldn't do basic linear algebra in the next course.

Both ends of the workforce are eroding at the same time. Senior engineers are getting cut to fund AI spending. Junior engineers are graduating without the skills because AI did their coursework. And the companies spending trillions on these tools haven't connected those two facts yet.

Hedgie🤗

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

Artificial intelligence is causing a net U.S. loss of 16,000 jobs per month, per Goldman Sachs.

[Matthew Keys @MatthewKeysLive]

Just one day after ending "The Late Show" on CBS, Stephen Colbert returned to TV — to host a public access show with rocker Jack White in Monroe, Michigan.

Appearances by Jeff Daniels, Eminem and Steve Buscemi.

[Shane Spiller @ShaneSpiller]

The great time suck that it takes to attempt to maintain academic integrity

[John H. Boyer @johnhboyer]

A peak into life in the ai term paper trenches 🧵

3 student zoom interviews today about suspected ai use in papers. All three were flagged by @pangram. Here’s how it turned out:

[Western Kentucky University @wku]

Getting involved changed everything for Karlee Powell. From Chapter President of Alpha Delta Pi to a GFCB Ambassador, she built community, led with purpose, and found her place on the Hill. Now, she’s turning that experience into a career supporting college students. 

Read more at WKU News: https://t.co/EPzqiEF2VE 

#WKU #WKUSpring2026Grad #GFCB #StudentLeadership #CampusInvolvement

[Kyla Scanlon @kylascan]

Why is the stock market shrugging off... everything? Well, maybe it's betting that AI will save it and that the government won't let AI fail. Call it the AI put.

My new piece in NYT Opinion about the market's reliance on getting rescued:
https://t.co/ZHJactIN2A

[Josh Brown @RhubarbBrown]

If MLB Replay existed when I was a kid, I wouldn’t still think about Kent Hrbek. Thank God I was raised on pure, unadulterated baseball so that I can hate that man for the rest of my life. These kids will never understand.

[GFed🇺🇸 @GfedGoCrazy]

April fools doesn’t hit the same living in a misinformation epidemic

[Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth]

“Perhaps consuming a few dozen book pages a day should become the new 10,000 daily steps — a basic foundation of activity to maintain cognitive fitness.”

https://t.co/IeOGhGmrPq

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

This reminds me of COVID. Certain areas of the world facing impacts first, while everyone else acts like life will be normal, until it’s our turn

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

My brother’s son is in 9th grade learning about the Great Depression.
He showed me a paragraph from his textbook today… and for a second, I genuinely thought it was about today’s economy.
Strange how 100 years pass, yet some things barely change.

[Kentucky State Data Center @UofLKSDC]

Over the past five years, Warren County's population has increased by 11% (nearly 15,000 people), the fastest growth in Kentucky. Madison County grew 9.7% and Allen County grew 9.5%. Kentucky's two largest counties, Jefferson and Fayette, also gained people during this period.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Traders placed $580 million worth of oil trades 15 minutes prior to President Trump’s post about a potential peace deal with Iran this morning, per FT.

Details include:

1. 6,200 Brent and WTI futures contracts were traded between 6:49 AM ET and 6:50 AM ET today

2. $1.5 billion in notional value worth of S&P 500 futures were traded at the same exact time

3. It is not known whether one entity or several entities were behind these trades

These trades likely generated over $100 million worth of profit in ~20 minutes.

[Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein @robinsreport]

1/ As I reported my book, I noticed something that has completely changed American life: widespread chronic under-staffing. It leads to, among other things, deadly medication errors at pharmacies, flight delays, messy stores, and the crime wave. From me today @TheProspect

[Michael S Roth @mroth78]

Cal Newport:"Universities need to..portray themselves as citadels of concentration...Academic institutions need to demonstrate that the life of the mind is hard & worth it. We need to think about cognitive fitness the way we think about physical fitness." https://t.co/VUlc6rkjgx

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

CNBC’s Trump-loving reporter sounded the alarm on the economy—warning that it’s shaping up to be the “worst of both worlds.”

https://t.co/DfrKWnDKyh