Andrei Deev
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An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
August 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
An "economist" so dumb I had to explain to him how the import price index works last month will now lead the BLS, kill me
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It’s just matrix multiplication
August 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
It’s just matrix multiplication
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Bluesky Sunday sermon
June 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Bluesky Sunday sermon
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The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
newrepublic.com
June 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
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I wrote this a year ago when Stanford told Jim Jordan we wouldn’t study the 2024 election, & I wasn’t being renewed.
Jordan took a victory lap: House Weaponization had exercised “robust oversight” over Stanford.
It wasn’t Jordan’s place to dictate research agenda.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...
Jordan took a victory lap: House Weaponization had exercised “robust oversight” over Stanford.
It wasn’t Jordan’s place to dictate research agenda.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...
June 28, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I wrote this a year ago when Stanford told Jim Jordan we wouldn’t study the 2024 election, & I wasn’t being renewed.
Jordan took a victory lap: House Weaponization had exercised “robust oversight” over Stanford.
It wasn’t Jordan’s place to dictate research agenda.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...
Jordan took a victory lap: House Weaponization had exercised “robust oversight” over Stanford.
It wasn’t Jordan’s place to dictate research agenda.
www.nytimes.com/2024/06/25/o...
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Nailed it, Stephen.
Stephen King Just Tried To Get Inside Trump's Head With Brutal Observation About His Second Term
Spot on.
www.comicsands.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Nailed it, Stephen.
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"Today, the House Appropriations Committee released its proposed funding levels for the Legislative Branch, which would slash the Government Accountability Office’s budget by 50 percent and the Library of Congress by 12 percent from FY 2024 levels." firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/house-bill...
House Bill Would Lay Waste to Congress's Watchdogs and Information Experts
Appropriators propose a 50% cut to GAO, 12% cut to the Library of Congress
firstbranchforecast.substack.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:29 AM
"Today, the House Appropriations Committee released its proposed funding levels for the Legislative Branch, which would slash the Government Accountability Office’s budget by 50 percent and the Library of Congress by 12 percent from FY 2024 levels." firstbranchforecast.substack.com/p/house-bill...
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we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI
Solar + storage is now $104 per MWh in Las Vegas or similar regions for nearly 100% clean firm power. There is no way new nuclear can compete with this. Even new gas plants will struggle and that is assuming access to cheap gas over the life-cycle of the plant, which is kind of a crazy gamble TBH.
Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep
Batteries are now cheap enough to make 24/7 solar power affordable, unlocking round-the-clock clean energy in the world’s sunniest cities.
electrek.co
June 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI
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With rising temperatures, tick populations are increasing and remaining active longer. This is expanding their range and the threat of diseases like Lyme.
Protect yourself by using repellents and checking thoroughly after outdoor activity.
Protect yourself by using repellents and checking thoroughly after outdoor activity.
The Tick Situation Is Getting Worse. Here’s How to Protect Yourself.
www.nytimes.com
June 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
With rising temperatures, tick populations are increasing and remaining active longer. This is expanding their range and the threat of diseases like Lyme.
Protect yourself by using repellents and checking thoroughly after outdoor activity.
Protect yourself by using repellents and checking thoroughly after outdoor activity.
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A brutal takedown of Ted Cruz by Tucker Carlson is hilarious—because Tucker is completely right in this instance (please do not quote me or remind me of this narrowly scoped statement in the future).
June 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
A brutal takedown of Ted Cruz by Tucker Carlson is hilarious—because Tucker is completely right in this instance (please do not quote me or remind me of this narrowly scoped statement in the future).
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“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
June 14, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco
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"Let me walk you through the sleight of hand here," Wilson wrote. “… The goal … is to normalize the idea that active-duty troops can be used on American streets against American citizens."
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
'This is the endgame': GOP strategist exposes Trump's latest 'sleight of hand'
President Donald Trump crossed a line this week that should never be crossed in a functioning democracy, according to one of his most outspoken critics, and his MAGA allies want him to obliterate that...
www.rawstory.com
June 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"Let me walk you through the sleight of hand here," Wilson wrote. “… The goal … is to normalize the idea that active-duty troops can be used on American streets against American citizens."
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...
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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The Gutting of America’s Medical Research: Here Is Every Canceled or Delayed N.I.H. Grant
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated.
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.”
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding.
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
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“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
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UC Berkeley researchers team up for first-of-its-kind lawsuit over Trump funding cuts
University of California staff members hope to use a class action lawsuit to restore their research funding.
zurl.co
June 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Scientists at UC Berkeley have filed a lawsuit against the Trump admin, accusing of politically motivated cuts to funding.
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
@tktk.bsky.social
“I think that if we fight back and we show that our laws still work, it means something to people,” says Sabeeha Merchant, Berkeley professor.
zurl.co/xnJgg
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“The bypass … allows the companies to pass cookies or other identifiers from Firefox and Chromium-based browsers to native Android apps for Facebook, Instagram, and various Yandex apps. The companies can then tie that vast browsing history to the account holder logged into the app.”
Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.
arstechnica.com
June 8, 2025 at 11:37 AM
“The bypass … allows the companies to pass cookies or other identifiers from Firefox and Chromium-based browsers to native Android apps for Facebook, Instagram, and various Yandex apps. The companies can then tie that vast browsing history to the account holder logged into the app.”
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There's a lot of big news today/this week, but Apple just dropped a nuke of a paper about LLMs & LRMs, specially around "high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse." This is the biggest sign yet that if AI ever lives up the hype, it won't be via those approaches:
The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity
Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models
(LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes…
machinelearning.apple.com
June 7, 2025 at 10:53 PM
There's a lot of big news today/this week, but Apple just dropped a nuke of a paper about LLMs & LRMs, specially around "high-complexity tasks where both models experience complete collapse." This is the biggest sign yet that if AI ever lives up the hype, it won't be via those approaches:
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“Even as [Trump] wants to showcase U.S. military power, he is doing grave and possibly irreparable damage to the real sources of U.S. strength, including its long-term investment in scientific research. Trump is declaring war on science, and the casualty will be the U.S. economy.”
Opinion | We are witnessing the suicide of a superpower
The president’s assault on science dangerously undermines America’s superpower status.
wapo.st
June 3, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Even as [Trump] wants to showcase U.S. military power, he is doing grave and possibly irreparable damage to the real sources of U.S. strength, including its long-term investment in scientific research. Trump is declaring war on science, and the casualty will be the U.S. economy.”
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BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
June 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
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AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”
June 6, 2025 at 1:17 AM
AOC: “The girls are fighting, aren’t they?”