Hunter📈🌈📊

Data scientist │ MS in CS, stats, biochemistry │ Current Econ MS student │ 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇬🇧 Policy-centered tweets about tech, bio, urbanism, economics, & politics

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

@indri_4biking @sudoraohacker Buttigieg or Ossoff, take your bets

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Obama peaked 2009-2017 when we really needed him approximately, like, right now.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 OBAMA ON AI: "If we are thinking about AI just in terms of how do we cure cancer or get better energy, you can do that without having agentic AI and having it just roaming free in the internet. The reason you are doing that is because you have to market a product that people will pay money for.

That’s a misalignment between what our society needs and the commercial imperatives that these companies are facing, not because necessarily they’re trying to do bad things, but because they’ve got to justify these valuations.

So, that’s one more reason why it is really important for us to have a competent government and a serious bipartisan conversation around this issue, and we have to do it fast. And I would encourage voters to pay attention to this. If somebody does not have a serious plan for how to deal with this, then they’re not meeting the moment, and you should probably look for somebody else."

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@sudoraohacker Fair enough. I mean, I do see the contradiction. But at least he's engaging in a capacity that seems beyond most politicians tbh

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@MassJumbo Boston-Denver-Albuquerque might be your best bet from Maine.

There also direct Portland-Denver flights iirc.

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@alsemancher_ @metzgov Eh. They got 4 irl, and WI, NV, AZ, and MI were possible.

That would've been 8

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@GWHayduke97 @davidslosttt (Though there are better spots for shoes than SuitSupply)

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@GWHayduke97 @davidslosttt A relative steal! But slacks and dress shoes certainly do drive up the price.

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@davidslosttt I have several friends who worked in the menswear business professionally, happy to field any questions through them!

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@johnawahba I mean, he's physically capable of it, no doubt, which apparently counts for much more than I would've thought in 2015.

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We haven't had an American President capable of delivering a speech like this in literally a decade.

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Mark Carney, "In the heart of Germany, above Weimar, there is a wooded ridge called Ettusberg. And for decades, Goethe walked, thought, and wrote there. An oak on that ridge came to bear his name, a living monument to the highest ideals of European culture"

"As the 20th century turned dark, that same oak became trapped behind the barbed wire of Buchenwald. A silent witness to humanity's deepest moral failure. Goethe understood that ideals must be fought for, that values do not defend themselves."

"Indeed, at the end of Faust, the old man's last vision is of a free people on free ground. Nödvg, Värdjän, Siegfreiheit. Wie das Leben, de taklik si eroban mus"

"Freedom and life must be earned every single day"

"Every day"

"Every day, not once in 1945 or 1956 or 1989. Every day, including this one."

My take: 1945, 1956 and 1989 are not distant history lessons: they mark Europe’s liberation from fascism, Hungary’s uprising against Soviet rule, and the fall of the Iron Curtain. Carney’s point is that freedom is never something Europe simply achieved and banked forever - it is a choice, a responsibility and, when necessary, a struggle renewed by every generation.

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@moseskagan Not as many as I'd have liked due to COVID, but certainly enough to have had Everclear. It tastes quite vile though.

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Why are you allowed to sell 95% alcohol in the US? This cannot possibly be useful for anything.

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@Socdem_Michael Yeah, at absolute bare minimum tbh they need to flip NC and ME and win all their current seats for a 49D-51R minority tbh. Anything less is a very, very bad sign for the party.

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If Dems had a massively successful night and picked up every Senate seat where they have >20% odds in Nate Silver's forecast, this would be the map:

55D-45R, 8 flips. Almost a reverse 2014.

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@cmclymer Silver gives it 15.9% and 12.1% odds respectively

[Rowan Fornow 🚵🚉🏙️🦣🇵🇸 @rowanfornow]

I have here created a crude simulation of how thousands of Texans will see this ad this fall, as a lesson in paid media design

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@rowanfornow Extremely useful visual!

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@LinkofSunshine It's very impressive, but Peltola is still the better candidate, I think. She's sharing the top 4 with another Dem, she's challenging and incumbent, and there's still much higher polarization in Senate races.

Dunleavy is also way more unpopular than Sullivan.

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@SeanTrende At no point was I alive in the 90s, not even as a fetus

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@smittie61984 That's correct