Phillip Baker
@philbaker.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Psychology. Seattle. Sci Fi. Sports.
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Mortgage rates are ticking up even after the Federal Reserve has started cutting interest rates. Here's why, and where rates — and home sales — could go from here.
Mortgage rates were supposed to come down. Instead, they're rising. Here's why
Mortgage rates are ticking up, even after the Federal Reserve has started cutting interest rates. Here's why, and where rates — and home sales — could go from here.
www.npr.org
October 18, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Mortgage rates are ticking up even after the Federal Reserve has started cutting interest rates. Here's why, and where rates — and home sales — could go from here.
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Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI
Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI
Carbon capture outfits could be making up to $45B, say analysts
The datacenter industry is set to emit 2.5 billion tonnes of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions worldwide between now and the end of the decade, three times more than if generative AI had not…
dlvr.it
September 6, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI
Nothing like a good book to induce a nap!
September 3, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Nothing like a good book to induce a nap!
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“For the online community of people unsettled, excited, and obsessed by the last few years of AI development, though, this growing space between big AI models is creating a speculative void, and it’s filling with paranoia, fear, and a little bit of fraud.”
(A LOT of fraud).
(A LOT of fraud).
The Online AI Guys Are Starting to Go Mad
AI influencers are falling for hoaxes and scams as they wait impatiently for superintelligence to arrive.
nymag.com
August 25, 2024 at 2:16 PM
“For the online community of people unsettled, excited, and obsessed by the last few years of AI development, though, this growing space between big AI models is creating a speculative void, and it’s filling with paranoia, fear, and a little bit of fraud.”
(A LOT of fraud).
(A LOT of fraud).
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Our timeline is a much darker one than Star Trek's prime timeline where the Bell Riots occur.
Newsom vows to take away funding from cities and counties for not clearing encampments
California Governor Gavin Newsom has a message to local governments: clear homeless encampments now or lose out on state funding next year.
abc7.com
August 9, 2024 at 10:21 PM
Our timeline is a much darker one than Star Trek's prime timeline where the Bell Riots occur.
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June 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of
June 23, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of
I’m sorry but who gave the ok on this actual advertisement from pop corners!? Nightmare stuff
May 4, 2024 at 4:22 AM
I’m sorry but who gave the ok on this actual advertisement from pop corners!? Nightmare stuff
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the right wing is so enthusiastic about cops harming and arresting college kids and faculty because they’ve been waging an intellectual war against them for so long and their blood-thirst finally has a physical outlet
April 26, 2024 at 3:19 PM
the right wing is so enthusiastic about cops harming and arresting college kids and faculty because they’ve been waging an intellectual war against them for so long and their blood-thirst finally has a physical outlet
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Riot police are the embodiment of "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"
April 25, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Riot police are the embodiment of "Dress for the job you want, not the job you have"
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Posts like these that claim amphetamines aren’t habit forming are just utterly fucking deluded. I get it, I’ve had an ADHD diagnosis for about 39 years. I’ve taken adderall therapeutically. But to pretend you can’t abuse amphetamines is just ludicrously incorrect.
I’ve been on adderall off and on for 20 yrs. Its not addictive and it’s just like taking allergy meds or Dramamine, any other medication that impacts how you interact with the environment
I wish people would stop trying to shame us both for how we are naturally and what we do when we try to improve
I wish people would stop trying to shame us both for how we are naturally and what we do when we try to improve
April 22, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Posts like these that claim amphetamines aren’t habit forming are just utterly fucking deluded. I get it, I’ve had an ADHD diagnosis for about 39 years. I’ve taken adderall therapeutically. But to pretend you can’t abuse amphetamines is just ludicrously incorrect.
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So it’s a state in which the police rule?
Wonder if there’s a shorter way to say that
Wonder if there’s a shorter way to say that
NEW: Governor Ron DeSantis signs a bill stripping Florida's 20+ civilian review boards of their power to investigate misconduct by police officers, plus another bill preventing citizens from going within 25 feet of police officers, firefighters, or emergency personnel while they're working
DeSantis signs bills targeting civilian review boards, recording police up close
Trumpeting his support of law enforcement, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed bills on Friday that will limit the authority of police civilian review boards and restrict bystanders from getting too close to …
www.orlandosentinel.com
April 12, 2024 at 5:46 PM
So it’s a state in which the police rule?
Wonder if there’s a shorter way to say that
Wonder if there’s a shorter way to say that
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Follow the obvious signs which say "Trains to City" and take the damn Blue line you goobers
April 4, 2024 at 1:46 AM
Follow the obvious signs which say "Trains to City" and take the damn Blue line you goobers
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It's impossible to avoid the fact that much of the way we have structured our society is actively hostile to young people and to the work of education. Teachers and professors have been tasked w mitigating the harms of this reality, but we can no longer even pretend to do so. It is unsustainable.
February 11, 2024 at 5:37 PM
It's impossible to avoid the fact that much of the way we have structured our society is actively hostile to young people and to the work of education. Teachers and professors have been tasked w mitigating the harms of this reality, but we can no longer even pretend to do so. It is unsustainable.
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This is going to sound more flip than I mean it, but when I was a kid I watched the Blues Brothers running Illinois Nazis off a bridge and the Nazis on Hogan's Heroes being pathetic dimwits every damn day, and I do feel like we need to get back to constant, vicious cultural ridicule of open racists.
February 3, 2024 at 12:24 AM
This is going to sound more flip than I mean it, but when I was a kid I watched the Blues Brothers running Illinois Nazis off a bridge and the Nazis on Hogan's Heroes being pathetic dimwits every damn day, and I do feel like we need to get back to constant, vicious cultural ridicule of open racists.
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Shein & Temu are now the leading online-only clothing platforms. They exploit a loophole to ship direct from China without tariffs or inspections. As a result, 8 U.S. textile plants have closed since September.
From me on the de minimis debate:
prospect.org/economy/2024...
From me on the de minimis debate:
prospect.org/economy/2024...
Domestic Textile Industry Crashing Because of Trade Loophole
The ‘de minimis’ exemption allows Chinese e-commerce companies Shein and Temu to deliver hundreds of millions of packages of cheap clothing without tariffs or inspections.
prospect.org
January 23, 2024 at 2:16 PM
Shein & Temu are now the leading online-only clothing platforms. They exploit a loophole to ship direct from China without tariffs or inspections. As a result, 8 U.S. textile plants have closed since September.
From me on the de minimis debate:
prospect.org/economy/2024...
From me on the de minimis debate:
prospect.org/economy/2024...
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The debate over Fed policy, especially about when to start cutting rates, seems to have become disconnected from the reality of rapid disinflation. Thinking about it reminded me of ... an experience I once had on a cycling trip 1/
January 24, 2024 at 2:36 PM
The debate over Fed policy, especially about when to start cutting rates, seems to have become disconnected from the reality of rapid disinflation. Thinking about it reminded me of ... an experience I once had on a cycling trip 1/
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“When you don’t have test scores, the students who suffer most are those with high grades at relatively unknown high schools, the kind that rarely send kids to the Ivy League...The SAT is their lifeline" www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/b...
Features a new study by my colleagues tinyurl.com/satvshsgrades
Features a new study by my colleagues tinyurl.com/satvshsgrades
January 7, 2024 at 8:03 PM
“When you don’t have test scores, the students who suffer most are those with high grades at relatively unknown high schools, the kind that rarely send kids to the Ivy League...The SAT is their lifeline" www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/b...
Features a new study by my colleagues tinyurl.com/satvshsgrades
Features a new study by my colleagues tinyurl.com/satvshsgrades
Tedward is maximizing the holiday break
December 23, 2023 at 11:25 PM
Tedward is maximizing the holiday break
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Someone else already did this in the comments but it’s deeply funny to me how true this is, as literally shown by asking Chat-GPT what the poem is about.
December 7, 2023 at 4:12 AM
Someone else already did this in the comments but it’s deeply funny to me how true this is, as literally shown by asking Chat-GPT what the poem is about.