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[🔴🍂 @redleaf8]

Russia medaling in our election.

[Molly Crane-Newman @molcranenewman]

The nephew of Dolly Parton who sparked a brief and blindsiding moment of national unity after announcing her death is an international arms dealer and that is what I get for letting anything on here move me

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

The US has been doing this in LatAm since time immemorial. Wtf is he talking about? He’s a historian?

[Dennis M. Hogan @dennismhogan]

Ok I actually think the Mayor should ban them from using their phones on the job but explicitly allow them to read the more Improving sorts of books while they stand around. Classic literature, history, philosophy and so forth

[Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 @Econ_Marshall]

I remember reading Crime and Punishment in college and thinking “Dostoyevsky had these people’s number [libertarians/liberals and their hangers-on] 100 years before they were born.”

[jasmine sun @jasminewsun]

incredible

[Cranky Federalist @CrankyFed]

The classic blunder: arguing hypothetical thought experiments with a rabbi

[🅱️askerville @WB_Baskerville]

AI is conscious people be like “How can you know with certainty that the stripper isn’t in love with me? From a functional perspective, how would her behavior differ if she were in love with me?”

[Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 @Econ_Marshall]

I got my economics PhD at the University of Chicago.

[🔴🍂 @redleaf8]

Being into craft beer in 20 aught 26 is basically the modern form of disco stu

[Matt Bors @MattBors]

I think being able to video chat with a cute woman who never gets tired of you is going to be a huge disaster for our already loser-based society

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

Per the WSJ: to sustain the AI boom, US businesses & consumers will have to spend as much income on the technology as they spend on food, 7x what they spend on phone, internet & streaming services combined.

[one dozen bats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I would give almost anything to have been in the room to watch the guy whose job it was to convince a Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas graduate that his boss has successfully matched God and created a soul.

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

Quite a thing to say about a descendant of enslaved people.

[Matthew Graham @mattyryze]

omg I need it

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

WaPo: The Iran war has inadvertently lowered global greenhouse gas emissions

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

I don’t agree with everything Huang says (a lot of PR and handwaving, unsurprising from any CEO).

But describing the Hugging Face incident correctly and without the woo language around AI is the first step for protecting ourselves from its dangers, including for cybersecurity.

[🔴🍂 @redleaf8]

@GregoryConti19 @cszabla Great ref

[Analytica Camillus @AnalyticaCamil1]

Nobody ever believes me when I point out that Iran's intelligentsia is steeped within the zeitgeist of the French Marxist literary canon

[Marshall Steinbaum 🔥 @Econ_Marshall]

tl; dr they no longer felt the need to disguise their fascism