Andrew Reid
@reidac.bsky.social
Scientist, cyclist, urbanist, Linux and HPC enthusiast.
Washington DC.
Washington DC.
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Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
Heads are going to explode 💥
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3
Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.
All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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I suppose it's tedious for me to argue about whether or not something is weird, but it's worth noting that Poincaré would've found it weird. Here's him talking about Hilbert's program, from 1913. Wonder what he would've thought of today's "logic piano" !
February 2, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I suppose it's tedious for me to argue about whether or not something is weird, but it's worth noting that Poincaré would've found it weird. Here's him talking about Hilbert's program, from 1913. Wonder what he would've thought of today's "logic piano" !
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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Replacing Great Man of History Theory and Structural Theory of History with Worst Web Forums Theory of History
January 31, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Replacing Great Man of History Theory and Structural Theory of History with Worst Web Forums Theory of History
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It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.
January 31, 2026 at 3:38 AM
It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.
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american conservatism is not the preservation of fire but the worship of ashes
January 28, 2026 at 9:38 PM
american conservatism is not the preservation of fire but the worship of ashes
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an easy way to remember the difference between ssh -L and ssh -R is to try both until it works
January 28, 2026 at 1:28 AM
an easy way to remember the difference between ssh -L and ssh -R is to try both until it works
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
January 27, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
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Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
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"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November."
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
The US government lost more than 10,000 STEM PhDs last year, according to an analysis by Science of newly released OPM data, with 11 departures for every hire. And many OPM calls "voluntary" separations were probably pushed. www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. government has lost more than 10,000 STEM Ph.D.s since Trump took office
A Science analysis reveals how many were fired, retired, or quit across 14 agencies
www.science.org
January 27, 2026 at 2:46 AM
"106,636 years of federal work experience were lost across the 10,109 employees with Ph.D.s who departed STEM or health roles 1 January–30 November."
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
It isn't just the scientific knowledge but the *institutional* knowledge that's been lost. Rebuilding federal science will be a generational effort.
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If we're going to fix institutions, we have to burn out, root and branch, the idea that managers are interchangeable. So many places recruit the most brilliant scientists, artists, lawyers, doctors, etc, and they have to work for a guy who owns six McDonald's restaurants because some PE guy said so
January 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM
If we're going to fix institutions, we have to burn out, root and branch, the idea that managers are interchangeable. So many places recruit the most brilliant scientists, artists, lawyers, doctors, etc, and they have to work for a guy who owns six McDonald's restaurants because some PE guy said so
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I think Democrats should claim that they're going to make immigration tougher, and then simply describe a better version of system when asked about it. Polling consistently shows that the public wants to get tougher, and also that their version of tougher is *weaker than the actual system now.*
September 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I think Democrats should claim that they're going to make immigration tougher, and then simply describe a better version of system when asked about it. Polling consistently shows that the public wants to get tougher, and also that their version of tougher is *weaker than the actual system now.*
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Maybe the most important thing I’ve learned over the past few years is that the solution to what looks like a collective action problem is to just start solving it. People will show up.
January 18, 2026 at 3:58 AM
Maybe the most important thing I’ve learned over the past few years is that the solution to what looks like a collective action problem is to just start solving it. People will show up.
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I think about this, by @adamjk.bsky.social, all the time adamjk.com/collections/...
Work/Life Balance Print
Do what you love and you'll work super f*cking hard all the time with no separation or any boundaries and also take everything extremely personally. :) Also available in a "safe for work" version with...
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January 17, 2026 at 10:26 PM
I think about this, by @adamjk.bsky.social, all the time adamjk.com/collections/...
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When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
Escaping the trap of US tech dependence
Canada needs real digital sovereignty, not our own digital colonizers
disconnect.blog
January 16, 2026 at 5:38 PM
When countries get hooked on US tech, their governments are constrained in reining in tech’s harms while most of the economic benefits accrue to the United States.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
It’s time to break out of that trap — but that means challenging the Silicon Valley model, not creating our own digital colonizers.
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If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
January 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
If I was the commander in chief of the Imperial hegemon I would simply not dismantle the network of military and diplomatic alliances, favourable trade deals, and broad cultural paramountcy that had made my nation the most wealthy and powerful the world has ever seen.
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While AI is frequently criticized for its resource intensity, the biological shower thought is, thermodynamically speaking, one of the most expensive computations on Earth. To match the resource footprint of a single 10-minute shower, an LLM would need to generate millions of tokens of "slop.”
January 11, 2026 at 12:15 AM
While AI is frequently criticized for its resource intensity, the biological shower thought is, thermodynamically speaking, one of the most expensive computations on Earth. To match the resource footprint of a single 10-minute shower, an LLM would need to generate millions of tokens of "slop.”
This is an amazing article, with tons of explanatory power about our current moment. Highly recommended!
January 10, 2026 at 10:25 PM
This is an amazing article, with tons of explanatory power about our current moment. Highly recommended!
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This, like the flat and possibly declining price of oil, shows how we're in a phantom economy.
Businesses saw a way to lie about layoffs without worrying investors, so they lied. All those big big numbers making line go up are a fantasy.
Businesses saw a way to lie about layoffs without worrying investors, so they lied. All those big big numbers making line go up are a fantasy.
AI layoffs are looking more and more like corporate fiction that's masking a darker reality, Oxford Economics suggests | Fortune
"Firms don't appear to be replacing workers with AI on a significant scale," the firm said. It suspects some are trying to "dress up layoffs" as good news.
fortune.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:01 PM
This, like the flat and possibly declining price of oil, shows how we're in a phantom economy.
Businesses saw a way to lie about layoffs without worrying investors, so they lied. All those big big numbers making line go up are a fantasy.
Businesses saw a way to lie about layoffs without worrying investors, so they lied. All those big big numbers making line go up are a fantasy.
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@beenwrekt.bsky.social has a lot of nice writing on the latter issue, that there is no particular reason to believe that competitive testing like ML uses should work and yet it... definitely does?
Benchmarking our benchmarks
The only validated theories of generalization are sociological and historical.
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January 9, 2026 at 1:37 PM
@beenwrekt.bsky.social has a lot of nice writing on the latter issue, that there is no particular reason to believe that competitive testing like ML uses should work and yet it... definitely does?
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friction is a master concept that i think is the most important thing in clausewitz, and barry watts makes a good case that it is (as clausewitz expresses it) not just operative in military but a universal force in the world
January 7, 2026 at 1:09 AM
friction is a master concept that i think is the most important thing in clausewitz, and barry watts makes a good case that it is (as clausewitz expresses it) not just operative in military but a universal force in the world
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"Man who opposed bike lanes over ‘pedestrian safety’ now angry about No Right on Red law, faces serious identity crisis."
January 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
"Man who opposed bike lanes over ‘pedestrian safety’ now angry about No Right on Red law, faces serious identity crisis."
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Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.
January 3, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.