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[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

The dating app model worked for Grindr because if you’re a gay guy looking for commitment-free hookups, a picture is basically all you need. It does not work for

1. Women
2. Anyone looking for a real relationship.

And because it’s not aligned to relationship formation and ignores sex differences, it produces crazy and bad outcomes. Now a generation has matured with this as the primary way to date, and they’re attributing the failures of the platform to the opposite sex in general.

Remember this every time you see late millennial/gen z dating discourse. People have griped about the opposite sex for all of our history, but the modern fever pitch of insanity around dating and romance is largely driven by the fact that dating apps suck, and they suck due to a combination of bad incentives and blank slate ideology.

[FreakyDeakyLeaky @FreakiSeeki]

@AmadeusBolshev @InsaneFrog And von Neumann was a godfather to neocon geopolitics.

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"misogyny...if men's attitudes to women were the main driver of sexual misconduct, then gay men would be less likely to victimize other men than straight men are to victimize women. They're not, though; they engage in similar rates of victimization." https://t.co/CqS3r2MbRl

[Adam Sellers @YisraelChaiAdam]

Andy Burnham - All prisoners on early release scheme will be heavily monitored by police

Police monitoring -

[Philip Greenspun @PhilipGreenspun]

The New York Times told us that Claudine Gay "resigned" from Harvard. The university's IRS filings, however, show that she was being paid at the rate of $3.1 million/year after purportedly resigning. https://t.co/OX6W2M92rr

[Nicholas Decker @captgouda24]

The New School is going through budget problems, and must layoff staff. Somehow, the only person laid off in the econ department was the person criticizing the admin. Might I suggest instead laying off Ying Chen? Who has spent her time there making appallingly bad papers. 1/

[🐻‍❄️Welsh Rainforest Bear 🐻‍❄️ @ursine_meeting]

"People without ILR are already ineligible for social housing"

Unless they're in absolute poverty (they are all in absolute poverty)

[Swann Marcus @SwannMarcus89]

So I discovered something interesting today.

I keep hearing Francesca Hong is running some innovative campaign where she isn’t spending money on TV and it’s working like a charm. This confused me because I have family in Wisconsin and I know for a fact there are tons of Francesca Hong ads on TV - there actually seem to be more ads for her than any of her opponents. So I thought "gee, if Hong isn’t spending money on TV and the Democratic Establishment hates her, who is paying for all this ad time?”

A lot of Hong’s direct TV advertising came from a super pac called Middle Class Priorities. Middle Class Priorities only has one donor, Progressive Prosperity Caucus, Inc. And what is Progressive Prosperity Caucus, Inc? A fake GOP slush fund run by Republican operatives that’s spent millions of dollars getting leftists nominated in swing districts. Most leftists who have won swing district primaries are being funded by the GOP btw, that’s why so many of them claim they won despite being outspent. William Lawrence had massive Super PAC support from an organization called Michigan Sunrise that came out of nowhere and conveniently timed its inception so it did not have to disclose its donors until after the election

On top of that, another Republican Super PAC spent 2.2 million dollars “attacking” Francesca Hong starting in early July. That’s weird - why would you waste money attacking a candidate who was barely leading in the polls at the time in a crowded primary? Because their “attack ads” only ran in extremely Democratic areas like Dane County and they were all about how you shouldn’t vote for Francesca Hong because she opposes Trump’s immigration agenda.

They were fake attack ads meant to improve her standing with Democratic Primary voters. Francesca Hong’s spike in support happened in mid-July, at the exact same time a GOP Super PAC launched an ad campaign meant to make Democratic Primary voters think the Republicans are scared Francesca Hong will stop their immigration priorities

The Republicans have spent more money on TV advertising for Francesca Hong than every Democratic candidate has spent combined. Literally her entire TV footprint is Republican Super PACs. She currently has zero dollars of her own television ad buys lined up, has spent zero dollars on TV ads the entire campaign, has no support from outside money that isn’t a Republican psyop, has one-tenth of Tom Tiffany’s cash on hand, and can’t receive support from the DNC because the party is broke

People are underestimating what a blood bath this is going to be. She’s already behind in the polls and the second the primary is over every penny of Francesca Hong’s TV advertising disappears and the GOP will spend tens of millions of dollars on ads about how she’s a radical police abolitionist who hates Valentine’s Day, is grotesquely obsessed with her son’s ethnic heritage, and pals around with a guy who said America deserves 9/11. There will be no response to these ads because Hong doesn’t have any money for ad buys and all of her Super PAC support came from Peter Thiel

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

The joke writes itself: capitalism gets judged by every inconvenience of reality; communism gets judged by promises it has never managed to deliver.

[Charles Small @C_Small_]

@SAshworthHayes It's such a strange way to run an empire they don't admit to having. At least the communists had something coherent and for the most part consistent within its branches. We don't even have a little red white and blue book of George Washington-MLK-Donald Trump Thought.

[Sam Ashworth-Hayes @SAshworthHayes]

What do you think's been happening for the last half century?

The US has been funding all sorts of grant programmes and "activist training" in European countries for decades targeted at exporting American social values. Those values have now flipped.

[Smirkley @Smirkley]

Murder is mostly personal, but how personal depends on the pairing.

[arctotherium @arctotherium42]

We're getting UK-style Muslim political blocs swinging things in Michigan.

[Tommy Blanchard @TommyCBlanchard]

"Why do some songs become chart toppers while others fall flat? Why do Stephen King’s books sell millions of copies while other talented authors are lucky to sell thousands? Why do some paintings become enduring classics while others fade into obscurity?"

https://t.co/kdeGFU06uQ

[Jesse Singal @jessesingal]

1/ There is a neoliberal ideology here (not sure what else to call it) that is very management-oriented. Most problems are best understood as matters of bias or education that can be managed away with more training.

https://t.co/cWcWFRK10Y

[Whyvert @whyvert]

Postmodern obscurantism is no longer the problem in academia.
That was high-IQ French nonsense.
(Pinker may be showing his age here.)
What we have now is low-IQ nonsense like me-search, critical race studies, and third worldism.

[Andy Hall @ahall_research]

Full paper: https://t.co/eo1seVrM5A

[Andy Hall @ahall_research]

Why do major AI models tell left-wing voters in Japan to vote for the communist party? My new research paper led by Sho Miyazaki.

In 2026, voters across the world will be asking AI to help them vote. How will the AI respond? We study this question in Japan, which recently held a snap election.

When voters provide policy positions, we find that the models rely heavily on this information—and in Japan, the models heavily recommend the communist party in response to left-wing positions, even though the positions we provided are held by a range of other parties.

Why are the AIs doing this? We’re not sure, but we have a theory: in Japan, the communist party operates a content-heavy, fully open website with a “newspaper” that is openly accessible for AI models. In contrast, many Japanese news outlets block AI models from accessing their content.

The result: the Japanese Communist Party website is one of the most-cited “news sources” in our study.

This pattern of recommending the JCP is consistent across many models, including the most recent frontier models.

There’s much more work to do here, but we think our paper suggests two main takeaways:

AI models should be more careful about what sources they consider news, maybe especially in non-US contexts where the model companies may hold less policy expertise

Parties and news sources that want to influence AI recommendations should think twice about excluding their content from AI. To paraphrase @tylercowen, when it comes to elections and voting, journalists may want to “write for the AI”! Governments may want to consider policies that allow this content to be used for voting recommendations but not for other AI model use cases.

Looking forward to everyone’s feedback as we prepare to submit this paper and turn to studying US voting recommendations in advance of November’s midterms.

Check out the full paper below.

[MTS @MTSlive]

Stanford Prof. Andy Hall on why every AI model tells Japanese voters to vote for the Communist Party:

"We've been auditing the models on how they make voting recommendations, and in Japan they love the Communist Party. The Communist Party is a complete fringe party in Japan."

"It's not because the models actually like the Communist Party. It's that they don't know very much about Japanese politics."

When they go to search for information about Japanese politics to bring back to the user, they hit not only paywalls but robots.txt exclusions where the Japanese media companies don't want AI taking their content.

"The Japanese Communist Party runs a fully open newspaper, so the AI pulls from them, not from the higher quality newspapers."
@ahall_research @StanfordGSB

[Jacob Shell @JacobAShell]

You'd think a field called "autoethnography" would have something at the foundational level to catch & omit compulsive liars--that this would be heavily discussed in methods seminars etc--rather than set up every incentive structure they have to maximally reward compulsive liars