Jacob Bacharach

Novelist. Critic. Books about crooks.

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

I gotta be honest. I'm a little tired of "Maine" and "California."

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

Heya Starkey, longtime firstime, love the show. Anyway, what I been sayin is, if we wanna win, we gotta put points on the board. And if we do that, more than the other guy, we win, and if not, well, we gotta answer that question, you know what I'm sayin?

[Mark Halperin @MarkHalperin]

Some of my sources think @KamalaHarris is the most likely Democratic presidential nominee, while others think she isn't in the top 8.

Watch to see why....

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

@daveweigel I guess now we know.

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

@bluestraveIer Yup

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

Moby Dick
The Marble Faun
Mumbo Jumbo
The Dog of the South
Nightwood

[The Book Land @the_book_land]

I'm seeing a lot of people sharing 5 American authors they admire. What about 5 American novels?

My choices would perhaps be:

- Moby-Dick (Melville)
- East of Eden (Steinbeck)
- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
- The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald)
- The House of the Seven Gables (Hawthorne)
- The Sound and the Fury (Faulkner)

Yes, I can count, but I couldn't leave Faulkner out of the list.

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

More screen time for these actors.

[Star Wars Daily @StarWarsDaily_]

If you could change one thing about The Phantom Menace what would it be?

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

Goodbye, Hatteras.

[DINQ @dinq_me]

Xi Yin just left Harvard for OpenAI.

String theorist. Youngest full professor in Harvard history.

His words: "AI gives me 100x speedup. Weeks of output would take me 10 years."

Then: "I don't believe there's any human intellectual ability AI cannot replicate."

The man who said that is the one who would know.

#DINQ #AI #OpenAI

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

I was at the Great Salt Lake last year to see Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, and while I hope Utah can restore this incredibly weird and beautiful place, this scheme sounds an awful lot like carbon credits.

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

Fine overview of a giant but surprisingly little-known environmental problem: Great Salt Lake is drying up, exposing 800 square miles of lake bed laced with toxic metals from industry, which get blown as dust over huge populated area. https://t.co/e05mfTjHdk

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

@MattBruenig Gotta be honest: I'd rather see a throw-in, if I had to choose.

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

That's Pittsburgh.

[The Earth @hikingtheglobe0]

Guess the city without cheating?

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

@Jesse_Brenneman

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

I want to sit 1,000 Americans down, including this guy, take away their phones, and ask them to explain in their own words what protein is.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

It's #NationalBurgerDay. The war on protein is over, and REAL American beef is back on the menu.

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

@AdrianBonenber1 But without protein . . . Iran on empty

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

I've been working on this AI book review for months and he just tweeted it out!

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

https://t.co/HNLvpJ5yAI

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

You may not realize it, but this is also a story about student cheating in higher ed.

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

Ooloi

[Ben Rowen @ben_c_rowen]

What gender is God? A theological inquiry into the Texas Senate race's biggest question by @Sandi: https://t.co/QoLeFkSyOV

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

Too much money has made industry, especially tech, soft and lazy. Well, I may just be a country MBA, but round these parts, efficieny is equally a measure of speed AND cost.

[Jacob Bacharach @jakebackpack]

Bio systems are very energy efficient, and the brain can do an enormous amount of pattern-recognizing and language processing etc. for far fewer calories than a GPU farm. Might be cheaper to go back to hiring recent grads at $75K/year and putting some powerbars in the breakroom.

[Madison Mills @MadisonMills22]

Corporate America enters its AI reckoning phase as IT bills keep rising and consumer sentiment nosedives.

My latest, which includes an account from a CFO fretting over a half a *billion* dollar accidental AI bill: https://t.co/EQhgn0v8DI