Andy the Dog

An infinite # of cockerpoos with an infinite # of typewriters with an infinite amount of time would eventually write the works of William Shakespeare.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.

Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.

So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.

1/ Here it is - in one🧵

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

When innovation and atrocity live in the same body, we don’t get to look away. Accountability shouldn’t pause for stock prices.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

I simply don't understand how the US does not have any mechanisms to stop Trump's physical destruction of Washington, DC.
This country appears completley lawless.

[Axios @axios]

Establishment Dems face blowback for trying to play kingmaker https://t.co/Nizd1rWlBK

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

it took my entire lifetime for normie liberal voters to start realizing we were right when we said Democratic Party leaders are corrupt and bad and shouldn’t be listened to in primaries — but hey, better late than never

[Pascal @creatorpascal]

https://t.co/THdggRjbHL

[slash1s @slash1sol]

IN 1985 ONE OF THE GREATEST PHYSICISTS WHO EVER LIVED SAT DOWN TO EXPLAIN HOW COMPUTERS ACTUALLY WORK AND TOLD A ROOM FULL OF ENGINEERS THE MACHINE IS COMPLETELY DUMB

76 minutes from Richard Feynman, still called the clearest explanation of what a computer really is ever given.

-> The idea that lands: a computer is just a very, very fast, very, very dumb file clerk. It doesn't think. It follows tiny simple rules, billions of times a second.

All the complexity you're in awe of comes from stacking simple things. There's no magic underneath. There never was.

Forty years later everyone calls the model "Intelligent". Feynman already told you what it really is: speed, not thought.

Being amazed by the machine was never the point -> understanding what it's actually doing is.

Most people are dazzled by what AI says. The ones who watched this know exactly what's happening underneath.

Bookmark & Watch it today. This one's a legend ↓

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

It’s the 20-year anniversary of this piece — I spent a day with @BarackObama & wrote this article that generated the most feedback of any article I’ve ever written in my whole life.

I got berated for it. But I’m proud of it — it predicted everything that subsequently happened.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Read a page, close the book, write down what you remember. A week later, students who learned that way recalled 61% of a science text.

The ones who reread the same pages four times recalled 40%. Same material, same hours of study. The only thing that changed was pulling the ideas back out of your own head instead of letting your eyes pass over them again. That experiment ran at Washington University in 2006, and it is one of the most repeated results in memory research. Scientists call it the testing effect, even though no test is involved. You are just forcing yourself to pull the ideas back from memory.

Putting it in your own words adds a second boost. In a 1978 University of Toronto study, people who saw "lamp, l___" and filled in "light" themselves remembered it far better than people who just read "lamp, light." Making the answer yourself beats being handed it, even though the readers saw the full word. Rewriting a paragraph in your own words is the same move, just bigger.

Highlighting does almost none of this work. A 2013 review led by a Kent State psychologist ranked ten common study habits from best to worst. Quizzing yourself and spreading study out over days took the top spots. Highlighting, underlining, and plain rereading fell to the bottom, rated low value. All three feel productive. That feeling is the whole trap.

Robert Bjork at UCLA gave it a name: the fluency illusion. A highlighted page reads smoothly the second time through, and your brain reads that ease as a sign you already know it. The ease is just familiarity. Spotting a line when it is in front of you is a different skill from recalling it once the page is gone, and only that second skill shows up in an exam or a conversation.

The effort is the point. The reason closing the book feels harder is the same reason it works.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

The real problem isn't immigrants or trans kids. It's the Epstein class rigging the system and getting rich doing it.

[Raytar @Raytar]

My friend applied to 200 tech jobs in two years. No CS degree. No callbacks.

Last month Anthropic offered him $750,000.

All because of one Stanford lecture. Free on YouTube. One hour.

A professor explains how ChatGPT actually works. Not the Twitter version. The real one.

He watched it in bed. Paused it eleven times. After that hour he told me something I didn't believe. "It's embarrassingly simple."

Three days later he applied to Anthropic.

Every single question they asked him, he knew from that video.

[Jaynit @jaynitx]

Conor Neill on why luck is not random and how to deliberately get more of it:

1. Luck flows through people and travels by conversation. James Clear's framing: keep talking to the same people, keep finding the same opportunities. start talking to new people, start finding new opportunities. If you want different luck, start walking into different rooms. The people you have access to determine the opportunities that reach you. This is not a metaphor. It is mechanics.

2. What separates successful people from unsuccessful ones is not the amount of luck they receive. It is return on luck. Jim Collins's idea: when a luck event presents itself, what do you do with it. Most people get roughly similar amounts of lucky moments. The difference is who is prepared and paying attention when they arrive.

3. A careers advisor in Spain gave one piece of advice that changed everything: meet one new person every week. For 25 years, the speaker kept a slot in his calendar every single week for a coffee with someone new. almost every significant opportunity in his life, his teaching role, his business, came through a single individual and a conversation. The math on one new person per week over 25 years is staggering.

4. When you meet someone new, you are starting at number 21 on their list of priorities. Dan Sullivan's framework: they have at least 20 things more important than talking to you. If you spend the conversation talking about yourself, your goals, what you want, you drop from 21 to 30 to 50 and fall off the list entirely. If you ask about them, their goals, what brought them there, you move up. Most good people, if you explore who they are, will then explore who you are. That is how a real conversation opens.

5. Luck surface area is a size you can control. The more people you meet and the more genuine conversations you have, the larger the surface through which luck can reach you. same people, same conversations, same luck. new people, new conversations, new luck. It is that simple, and most people never deliberately expand it.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

This clip explains the entire American economy in 76 seconds:

- Steve Martin is the middle class

- Martin Short is the working class

- Chevy Chase is the billionaire class

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump told Leslie Stahl something years ago that everyone should hear.

She asked Trump he kept calling the media fake news.

He said, I do it because I need to discredit you, so that when you say negative things about me, nobody believes you.

That is EXACTLY what he’s done.

The problem everyone has with him is that most of us grew up with values, ethics, and integrity.

That is not Donald Trump.

He figured out a long time ago that he can bully his way through any rule and if he keeps pushing harder and harder, people will relent.

For most of his life they did, but we must stand up against it.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

WCGW - The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED; thus allowing: polio, whooping cough, influenza, etc,,

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

That fucking fraud deserves prison.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

A senile Republican narcissist surrounded by grifters and drunks just led our nation to the greatest diplomatic humiliation in its history. Here’s why my next five Atlantic pieces will be about the dangers of woke.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[Jesse Eisinger @eisingerj]

Obviously I'm a little biased since I edited this thing but that a story about a killed criminal investigation into a sitting senator wasn't picked up, followed & pushed forward by major outlets is an excellent & sorry illustration of our broken information environment.