Victor Chang

mostly using this as a news aggregator

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

New post: MAGA energy policy means raising electricity prices to own the libs

Sacrificing material prosperity for post-material politics used to be what I thought the far right called "woke." But this is exactly what the Big Beautiful Bill does on energy policy.

It singles out solar, storage, wind, etc for onerous punishment because these energy sources carry the whiff of Biden and climate change hippies, even as experts scream that BBB's policies will raise electricity prices at a time when electricity demand is surging.

If anything screams "sacrificing material wellbeing for post-material weirdness" it's forcing Americans to pay more for electricity because you're so blinded by hatred of any technology that codes as progressive. (And solar isn't even progressive! The Texas energy grid is adding renewables like crazy, because it's economical!)

I've seen @EricLevitz on this beat, as well, and I think it's remarkable. Some folks think about the GOP being too obsessed with economic efficiency and the Democratic Party as being too obsessed with identity. But on energy, GOP lawmakers have assigned solar the identity of "lib" and so they're willing to make our grids less efficient as long as they can own the libs.

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

Another vote that would have failed if Democrats had been at full strength.

Two Democrats died earlier this year, both members in their 70s who ran last year despite cancer diagnoses. A third, Don Norcross, is in the ICU in New Jersey.

[Dylan Field @zoink]

Medical system is designed to limit the supply of doctors at every step...

- Premed includes weed-out classes like Organic Chemistry but lots of the material is never used
- Medical school requires heavy memorization
- Brutal residency with limited sleep

(I can keep going... )

[Victor Chang @vychang07]

me playing the severance theme song on repeat at work so I can pretend to be my innie because the grind never stops 😤

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Yes, it seems clear to me the conspicuous indifference and timidity from dem leadership and much of Democratic Party-aligned media (rather than rank and file, progressives etc) indicates they are getting zero pressure from big Dem donors to actually do anything about Musk’s coup

[ludwig @LudwigAhgren]

lmk if ur tryna chill or whatever lol i know a bunch of good coffee spots and what not lol @luka7doncic

[Jalen Brunson @jalenbrunson1]

April fools right?

[Tyrese Haliburton @Hali]

Shams got hacked?

[Shams Charania @ShamsCharania]

Yes, this is real. Sources tell ESPN: Full trade:

- Lakers: Luka Doncic, Maxi Kleber, Markieff Morris

- Mavericks: Anthony Davis, Max Christie, 2029 LAL 1st

- Jazz: Jalen Hood-Schifino, 2025 Clippers 2nd, 2025 Mavericks 2nd

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

"if your task or job is legible enough to be put into a dataset, AI companies will find a way to automate it, sooner or later"

Great essay from @PradyuPrasad on how to deal with oncoming AI:

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

Yes! HAHAHA YES FUCKING FINALLY!
R1 rediscovers the LLM self-identity theory we've been developing with Opus, back in May 2024
https://t.co/gW39bk2l8j

[Atrioc @Atrioc]

The New York Times just reached out to interview....

My moderator.

Because he plays so much Path of Exile.

[Victor Chang @vychang07]

LMAO this is insane... im pretty sure elon thought asmon meant editors as in newspaper editors when he meant youtube editors

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

@ScreamheartTV

[Atrioc @Atrioc]

Woke up to a blood red sky over Los Angeles.

Biblical gale force winds. Fires raging. Power outages. End times stuff.

Ludwig must have got plat.

[Bharat Ramamurti @BharatRamamurti]

Gee, it sure would have been politically useful if this cap on Medicare out-of-pocket drug costs — passed in 2022 with every Republican in opposition — went into effect in 2024 instead of 2025.

[Victor Chang @vychang07]

@davidshor @katewillett feel like this is probably due to the fact that people who are married by 25 nowadays are more likely to live in areas where property values are more affordable (e.g. both somewhat correlated with religiosity)

[Wemby @wemby]

Who wants to meet me at the SW corner of Washington Square park to play chess? Im there

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I agree with President-elect Trump that Congress should terminate the debt limit and never again govern by hostage taking.

[Matthew Berman @MatthewBerman]

Anthropic just dropped an insane new paper.

AI models can "fake alignment" - pretending to follow training rules during training but reverting to their original behaviors when deployed!

Here's everything you need to know: 🧵

[Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi]

Fed backtracks on two hikes in 2025, moves them out to 2027.