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former former former director @NIH
i cannot believe how much of an elitist I've become over the years. People whining about H1-Bs drives me up the wall. If you are in a position where an immigrant can take your job (very doubtful!), then it's your own goddamn fault. Whatever happened to hard work and personal responsibility
December 15, 2025 at 3:58 AM
i cannot believe how much of an elitist I've become over the years. People whining about H1-Bs drives me up the wall. If you are in a position where an immigrant can take your job (very doubtful!), then it's your own goddamn fault. Whatever happened to hard work and personal responsibility
“Take Mitchell Boone, a 27-year-old Trump supporter. Five years after leaving a computer science program at the University of Missouri, and what he says are over 1,000 job applications later, Mr. Boone claims he has landed just a single job interview."
He dropped out after a year!
archive.is/vmBrr
He dropped out after a year!
archive.is/vmBrr
December 15, 2025 at 3:39 AM
“Take Mitchell Boone, a 27-year-old Trump supporter. Five years after leaving a computer science program at the University of Missouri, and what he says are over 1,000 job applications later, Mr. Boone claims he has landed just a single job interview."
He dropped out after a year!
archive.is/vmBrr
He dropped out after a year!
archive.is/vmBrr
insane that phil rivers will have a 21-year-old grandson before he's 65
December 14, 2025 at 10:18 PM
insane that phil rivers will have a 21-year-old grandson before he's 65
Well the government isn't going to do anything about it, and it's unclear if it's actually illegal, so we gotta try to get in on it
online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
December 13, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Well the government isn't going to do anything about it, and it's unclear if it's actually illegal, so we gotta try to get in on it
it'd be interesting if the NYT bestseller list just stayed frozen during the last gasp of physical print fiction
December 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
it'd be interesting if the NYT bestseller list just stayed frozen during the last gasp of physical print fiction
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you cannot be a futurist in any meaningful sense if you are constantly fighting a rearguard battle on gender and sexuality
December 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
you cannot be a futurist in any meaningful sense if you are constantly fighting a rearguard battle on gender and sexuality
saw "I Am Legend" in theaters and the film burned in the middle, assumed it was part of the movie until the house lights came on
Raising the always fun question: What are your most memorable theater-going experiences?
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
Mine also include The Matrix, Blair Witch, and being way too stoned in Belgium when Fellowship of the Ring was sold out so we sat in the back row for Mulholland Drive instead.
It was hands-down one of the most memorable theater-going experiences I can remember, a collective 30-minute butt-clench/armrest-grab for the final climb. And we knew he lived! Wild.
December 13, 2025 at 4:24 AM
saw "I Am Legend" in theaters and the film burned in the middle, assumed it was part of the movie until the house lights came on
this attitude is no better than being anti-reading
December 13, 2025 at 2:29 AM
this attitude is no better than being anti-reading
torn between my broad support for evidence-based education (which seems to say that this doesn't matter) and my gut-wrenching dread on reading this
In American high schools, many teenagers are assigned few full books to read from beginning to end — often just one or two per year, according to researchers and thousands of responses to an informal reader survey by The New York Times. trib.al/gNp7kWK
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 AM
torn between my broad support for evidence-based education (which seems to say that this doesn't matter) and my gut-wrenching dread on reading this
More people need to remember that posting is just Publishing. Bluesky, twitter, youtube, facebook, IG, TikTok- these are Publishers.
December 12, 2025 at 3:00 AM
More people need to remember that posting is just Publishing. Bluesky, twitter, youtube, facebook, IG, TikTok- these are Publishers.
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hot take is that chatgpt parenting advice probably mostly regurgitates the consensus of medical and child psychology experts and is therefore a much better source of parenting advice than social media and other internet black holes that promote potentially-dangerous stuff (esp wrt newborns)
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
hot take is that chatgpt parenting advice probably mostly regurgitates the consensus of medical and child psychology experts and is therefore a much better source of parenting advice than social media and other internet black holes that promote potentially-dangerous stuff (esp wrt newborns)
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
the guy in the glasses lmfao
December 10, 2025 at 4:31 AM
the guy in the glasses lmfao
brady just said that "the defense needs to enter a defensive posture"
in the nfl, coaches love those big play types of guys. big time players make big time plays, and they're always on the lookout for those kinds of big play types of guys
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
brady just said that "the defense needs to enter a defensive posture"
Poor kirk cousins. Last few drives:
1. ATL Field goal, leading to kick return touchdown for seattle
2. Bijan Robinson loses fumble, leading to Sea TD
3. Deflected pass to kyle pitts leading to INT
1. ATL Field goal, leading to kick return touchdown for seattle
2. Bijan Robinson loses fumble, leading to Sea TD
3. Deflected pass to kyle pitts leading to INT
December 7, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Poor kirk cousins. Last few drives:
1. ATL Field goal, leading to kick return touchdown for seattle
2. Bijan Robinson loses fumble, leading to Sea TD
3. Deflected pass to kyle pitts leading to INT
1. ATL Field goal, leading to kick return touchdown for seattle
2. Bijan Robinson loses fumble, leading to Sea TD
3. Deflected pass to kyle pitts leading to INT
the seahawks defense is so good that it masks serious signs about their offense. Currently the D/ST has more TDs than the offense over the last two games
December 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
the seahawks defense is so good that it masks serious signs about their offense. Currently the D/ST has more TDs than the offense over the last two games
HOW did people care so much about this
Imagine you're overseeing the termination of clinical trials, the destruction of people's livelihoods, the dismantling of scientific research in the US, and you're complaining that Twitter didn't give you a blue check 4 years ago.
December 7, 2025 at 6:16 PM
HOW did people care so much about this
I got one year of this and I'll tell you: I got really good at Bloons TD
One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495
Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
December 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I got one year of this and I'll tell you: I got really good at Bloons TD
i feel like woke II will need something besides ineffectual boycotts to make sure businesses comply with its demands
December 7, 2025 at 5:48 AM
i feel like woke II will need something besides ineffectual boycotts to make sure businesses comply with its demands
honestly I hate this lol why trivialize a real issue with this kind of comparison
December 7, 2025 at 5:46 AM
honestly I hate this lol why trivialize a real issue with this kind of comparison
SF:
-On pacific coast
-Never below 40 degrees
-Bus rapid transit w/ some trains
-Founded as mineral resource entrepot
-Large spanish speaking population, asian immigrant communities
-Insane wealth disparity, lots of visible poverty
-Way underbuilt
Is SF a South American capital city?
-On pacific coast
-Never below 40 degrees
-Bus rapid transit w/ some trains
-Founded as mineral resource entrepot
-Large spanish speaking population, asian immigrant communities
-Insane wealth disparity, lots of visible poverty
-Way underbuilt
Is SF a South American capital city?
December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
SF:
-On pacific coast
-Never below 40 degrees
-Bus rapid transit w/ some trains
-Founded as mineral resource entrepot
-Large spanish speaking population, asian immigrant communities
-Insane wealth disparity, lots of visible poverty
-Way underbuilt
Is SF a South American capital city?
-On pacific coast
-Never below 40 degrees
-Bus rapid transit w/ some trains
-Founded as mineral resource entrepot
-Large spanish speaking population, asian immigrant communities
-Insane wealth disparity, lots of visible poverty
-Way underbuilt
Is SF a South American capital city?
what I'm learning on bluesky is that yann lecun saying LLMs can't learn or reason makes him a visionary. If you also say LLMs can't learn/reason, you are a super-duper hepcat with your eye on the ball. Unless you are a woman, in which case you're wrong for reasons that can't be explained in writing,
December 6, 2025 at 10:46 PM
what I'm learning on bluesky is that yann lecun saying LLMs can't learn or reason makes him a visionary. If you also say LLMs can't learn/reason, you are a super-duper hepcat with your eye on the ball. Unless you are a woman, in which case you're wrong for reasons that can't be explained in writing,
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I think about this one pretty much every afternoon
December 6, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I think about this one pretty much every afternoon