Jon Lane

(He/Him) I have controversial views about pi and pie. All views represent only me and my cat kitten.

[Nerdeen Kiswani @NerdeenKiswani]

This is weird… so her buddy Matt Bernstein can attend Zohran & Brad Lander (a Zionist mind you) events unmasked, and still be treated as a respected voice on Palestine. Taylor can appear on Matt’s podcast, be perfectly comfortable with that relationship, and never seem particularly concerned about his lack of masking.

But she went out of her way to publicly attack a disabled Palestinian for not masking on the set of a podcast.

Influencers and friends get the benefit of the doubt. But when it’s a Palestinian, suddenly there’s a moral lecture.

It feels like Palestinians are the only people who are never afforded generosity, context, or understanding that everyone else, especially liberal Zionists, receives automatically.

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

FYI @salesforce has zero support engineers on the weekends. If you lose admin access or have tech issues, the best they can do is create a ticket. Had a vpn active when I tried to login and they can't unfreeze my account until Monday.

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

Glad I wasn't the only one.

[Andrew Hilary🇵🇸 @AndrewHilaryUS]

Mars Attacks, specifically the scene where Jack Black’s family watches him die on live tv. Wrecked my shit so hard I started scream crying and my dad had to take me out of the theater.

[Par Value @ParValue26]

Let's be clear about what this actually is.
Index providers didn't change their rules out of goodwill. They changed them because SpaceX is too big and too politically connected to exclude. A $1.5 trillion company going public and not landing in passive funds immediately would be embarrassing for the index industry.
But the consequence is real: $30 trillion in retirement money gets forced into SpaceX at whatever valuation Elon and the bankers set. No price discovery. No earnings track record requirement. No seasoning period to let the market find fair value.
The rules that protected passive investors since 2002 were waived in weeks.
If SpaceX is overvalued at IPO, every 401k in America owns it at the top.

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

A group of 6 teenagers came in about an hour in our showing. Went to the middle of a crowded row and stayed 15 minutes then left.

[Hexie Bee 🏳️‍⚧️ @Hex_Beee]

I like how literally everyone had a bad theater experience watching Backrooms. Like I have not seen a review not mention it and it's really funny. I also had some annoying teens behind me talking most of the time

[nature @Nature]

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) — a major funder of basic research — has restricted the flow of new research grants to a group of elite universities, Nature has learnt.

https://t.co/dUcCrJh4Dm

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

They aren't going to get grants because the government has essentially stopped most government funded research. NSF and others aren't even paying out the current grants.

[Konstantin Mishchenko @konstmish]

My pure math friends are mostly optimistic about AI doing math. What they are really worried about is not getting grants and positions because people will assume mathematicians are no longer needed.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This is amazing: “According to public statements, it's believed that delegation members stayed at a hotel the U.S. State Department has put on a "Cuba Restricted List," as businesses directly tied to the communist government of Cuba, designated a state sponsor of terrorism.”

We stayed at a legal hotel. This whole thing seems to stem from an erroneous viral tweet.

Know who did actually stay at a sanctioned hotel? Nick Shirley.

We know because he broadcast from it and told everyone he stayed there.

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

@jason_blum Well-deserved 2nd week bump, but didn't The Ring do the same?

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

It's not a Ponzi-like scheme. It's a 'guaranteed capacity' like scheme. Ponzi, you are directly guaranteeing future capital that eventually you can't keep up with. Here you are guaranteeing...

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Introducing OpenAI Guaranteed Capacity: a new offering that enables customers to guarantee long-term access to OpenAI compute.

We’ve made long-term investments in infrastructure, partnerships, and capacity planning to help customers scale reliably.

Now, Guaranteed Capacity helps customers plan ahead for critical workloads in a compute-constrained world.

https://t.co/TN4OkZr2Uo

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

"like ice, taking up more space with the same substance." As usual, great writing from Gene.

[Gene Park @GenePark]

Drake isn't on a reinvention arc. Same Drake, more square footage, like ice, taking up more space with the same substance.

That might still underrate what he accomplishes, giving what the fans want. The legacy is in what happens after Iceman thaws.
https://t.co/EkfgwyjYHc

[nature @Nature]

More than 140,000 fake citations across four research repositories were identified in papers and preprints published in 2025 alone

https://t.co/nEdDM4JBVD

[Leni @lenitiv]

Ban all of their authors from academia

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

@JohnHolbein1 No, but submitting a paper with a made-up citation is.

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

This is a light sentence. LLM hallucination or genuine human error, if you use a made-up citation, you should be forced to redo your PhD.

[Thomas G. Dietterich @tdietterich]

The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

Crazy way to frame a 50k job. It's also easy to brush off the research part if you never contributed any real research. I never knew a grad student who wasn't overworked in both the TA and research side of things.

[Ashvin Gandhi @ashdgandhi]

I'm a former Harvard PhD student. Based on my experience, current social science students probably make a bit over $250k + healthcare over 5 years, with just 784 hours of required TA work. That's almost $320/hour for the "work" and the rest is classes and your own research.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

funniest shit i’ve ever seen

[Nathan Witkin @NateWitkin]

Two very important caveats to the (excellent) new working paper on school phone bans from Alcott et al. (https://t.co/kdaIn5myaI).

First, the treatment—Yondr pouch adoption—only led to a .3 log point drop (~26%) in phone visits by year 2 (pg. 28, screenshot 1). I neither find it surprising this didn’t yield a significant effect on test scores, nor think it’s sufficient to rule out such an effect either with more time, or a stricter intervention.

Second, it’s a huge deal that a drop this small led to significant increases in subjective well-being across middle and high school, in the former’s case of a whole (school-level) SD in year 1 (pg. 33 and pg. 50, screenshots 2 and 3)! The latter is to my knowledge the largest well-being effect ever found for a phone-use intervention.

Very, very hard to see how anyone could use this study to argue against phone bans, rather than for them.

[Jon Lane @jon__lane]

I think cell phones are only part of the problem. But as someone who has been in K-12 classes a ton, I personally would never go back. It's night and day in class culture.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

New @nberpubs: "The Effects of School Phone Bans: National Evidence from Lockable Pouches" https://t.co/Al403lL2TT