Weekend Editor
@weekend-editor.bsky.social
Retired physicist, after a career in machine learning & stats mostly for cancer drug discovery. Also @weekend_editor@mathstodon.xyz.
Now blogging about stats in the news: https://www.someweekendreading.blog/
Now blogging about stats in the news: https://www.someweekendreading.blog/
Today's blog post:
A look at 7 or so studies of corporate AI use, and the miserably high failure rate.
Oxford Economics suggests AI is being used as corporate camouflage, to make layoffs look good.
www.someweekendreading.blog/ai-update-20...
A look at 7 or so studies of corporate AI use, and the miserably high failure rate.
Oxford Economics suggests AI is being used as corporate camouflage, to make layoffs look good.
www.someweekendreading.blog/ai-update-20...
AI Update: 2026
What’s the state of play with LLM AI’s in early 2026? Looks really bad, frankly.
www.someweekendreading.blog
January 12, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Today's blog post:
A look at 7 or so studies of corporate AI use, and the miserably high failure rate.
Oxford Economics suggests AI is being used as corporate camouflage, to make layoffs look good.
www.someweekendreading.blog/ai-update-20...
A look at 7 or so studies of corporate AI use, and the miserably high failure rate.
Oxford Economics suggests AI is being used as corporate camouflage, to make layoffs look good.
www.someweekendreading.blog/ai-update-20...
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If you're a municipal or state official & afraid that if you order law enforcement they'll refuse or revolt or that if you fire them they'll start breaking the law in retaliation, you don't have a police force or sheriffs department, you have criminals with badges, guns, & state power. 3/
January 11, 2026 at 6:41 PM
If you're a municipal or state official & afraid that if you order law enforcement they'll refuse or revolt or that if you fire them they'll start breaking the law in retaliation, you don't have a police force or sheriffs department, you have criminals with badges, guns, & state power. 3/
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Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
August 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
So the billionaires going insane by eating their own propaganda are like LLMs undergoing model collapse when trained on too much of their own output.
Art really *does* imitate life.
Art really *does* imitate life.
January 11, 2026 at 1:26 PM
So the billionaires going insane by eating their own propaganda are like LLMs undergoing model collapse when trained on too much of their own output.
Art really *does* imitate life.
Art really *does* imitate life.
Time to show her _In Like Flint_?
January 11, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Time to show her _In Like Flint_?
I am in dire need of visualizing how they won't win.
Care to share such a story?
Care to share such a story?
January 10, 2026 at 7:45 PM
I am in dire need of visualizing how they won't win.
Care to share such a story?
Care to share such a story?
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I know ppl hate the 287g agreements, which deputize local police to carry out ICE operations.
But.
What if we require ONLY those? Completely nerf ICE: no guns, no combat cops, nothing.
They do the paperwork, then hand it over to some sort of state or local authority for arrest?
But.
What if we require ONLY those? Completely nerf ICE: no guns, no combat cops, nothing.
They do the paperwork, then hand it over to some sort of state or local authority for arrest?
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I know ppl hate the 287g agreements, which deputize local police to carry out ICE operations.
But.
What if we require ONLY those? Completely nerf ICE: no guns, no combat cops, nothing.
They do the paperwork, then hand it over to some sort of state or local authority for arrest?
But.
What if we require ONLY those? Completely nerf ICE: no guns, no combat cops, nothing.
They do the paperwork, then hand it over to some sort of state or local authority for arrest?
For this one, "nonconsensual" comes to mind.
For the CSAM images, the more forceful "obscene" works nicely.
For the CSAM images, the more forceful "obscene" works nicely.
January 10, 2026 at 4:41 PM
For this one, "nonconsensual" comes to mind.
For the CSAM images, the more forceful "obscene" works nicely.
For the CSAM images, the more forceful "obscene" works nicely.
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When the Trump era ends, and it will, the U.S. should use Germany’s model in how they currently deal with Nazism.
In other words: as close to zero tolerance as a democratic country can get.
In other words: as close to zero tolerance as a democratic country can get.
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
When the Trump era ends, and it will, the U.S. should use Germany’s model in how they currently deal with Nazism.
In other words: as close to zero tolerance as a democratic country can get.
In other words: as close to zero tolerance as a democratic country can get.
He may be "close to enlightenment", but only in the sense that he's tunneling underneath it, in an active effort to AVOID enlightenment.
Every accusation is a confession, as always.
Every accusation is a confession, as always.
January 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
He may be "close to enlightenment", but only in the sense that he's tunneling underneath it, in an active effort to AVOID enlightenment.
Every accusation is a confession, as always.
Every accusation is a confession, as always.
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The federal government seceding from the union is a new one
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
The federal government seceding from the union is a new one
"Generationally horrible" is too cerebral to go viral, but it DOES summarize the Trump II era.
📌NOTE: In the final year of Joe Biden's presidency 2 million jobs were created.
In the first year of Trump's presidency 584,000 jobs were created.
This is the weakest annual growth since 2003.
In other words, generationally horrible.
Trump is a terrible president, and an even worse human being.
In the first year of Trump's presidency 584,000 jobs were created.
This is the weakest annual growth since 2003.
In other words, generationally horrible.
Trump is a terrible president, and an even worse human being.
January 10, 2026 at 2:40 PM
"Generationally horrible" is too cerebral to go viral, but it DOES summarize the Trump II era.
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Here's a review of 7 published studies, which independently examine different datasets and reach the same conclusion: US domestic violence is right-wing.
www.someweekendreading.blog/political-vi...
www.someweekendreading.blog/political-vi...
Is Most US Political Violence Left or Right?
Is more political violence in the US perpetrated by the left or the right?
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January 9, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Here's a review of 7 published studies, which independently examine different datasets and reach the same conclusion: US domestic violence is right-wing.
www.someweekendreading.blog/political-vi...
www.someweekendreading.blog/political-vi...
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Please support Michael de Adder, who does great work:
January 8, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Please support Michael de Adder, who does great work:
Blogged 4 papers on safety of mRNA vaccines:
Norwegian & French studies: DECREASE in all-cause mortality, even subtracting COVID-19 deaths.
Danish study: DECREASE in AE's 1 month post-vax.
mRNA vax ENHANCES imm ckpt inhibs in cancer, survival improves.
www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...
Norwegian & French studies: DECREASE in all-cause mortality, even subtracting COVID-19 deaths.
Danish study: DECREASE in AE's 1 month post-vax.
mRNA vax ENHANCES imm ckpt inhibs in cancer, survival improves.
www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...
Revisiting All-Cause Mortality and COVID-19 Vaccines
People are still worried about mortality from all causes after COVID-19 vaccination. So
let’s go through the scientific literature and see… well, that these worries are,
at best, misplaced.
www.someweekendreading.blog
January 9, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Blogged 4 papers on safety of mRNA vaccines:
Norwegian & French studies: DECREASE in all-cause mortality, even subtracting COVID-19 deaths.
Danish study: DECREASE in AE's 1 month post-vax.
mRNA vax ENHANCES imm ckpt inhibs in cancer, survival improves.
www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...
Norwegian & French studies: DECREASE in all-cause mortality, even subtracting COVID-19 deaths.
Danish study: DECREASE in AE's 1 month post-vax.
mRNA vax ENHANCES imm ckpt inhibs in cancer, survival improves.
www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...
Today's blog post:
Norwegian & French studies: COVID-19 mRNA vax LOWER all-cause mortality, for 4 years.
Danish study: updated JN.1 vax LOWERS 10/29 medical events month post-vaccination.
mRNA vaccines INCREASE effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies.
www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...
Norwegian & French studies: COVID-19 mRNA vax LOWER all-cause mortality, for 4 years.
Danish study: updated JN.1 vax LOWERS 10/29 medical events month post-vaccination.
mRNA vaccines INCREASE effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies.
www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...
Revisiting All-Cause Mortality and COVID-19 Vaccines
People are still worried about mortality from all causes after COVID-19 vaccination. So
let’s go through the scientific literature and see… well, that these worries are,
at best, misplaced.
www.someweekendreading.blog
January 8, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Today's blog post:
Norwegian & French studies: COVID-19 mRNA vax LOWER all-cause mortality, for 4 years.
Danish study: updated JN.1 vax LOWERS 10/29 medical events month post-vaccination.
mRNA vaccines INCREASE effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies.
www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...
Norwegian & French studies: COVID-19 mRNA vax LOWER all-cause mortality, for 4 years.
Danish study: updated JN.1 vax LOWERS 10/29 medical events month post-vaccination.
mRNA vaccines INCREASE effectiveness of cancer immunotherapies.
www.someweekendreading.blog/covid-vax-mo...
I went to less stocks, more bonds.
Stocks tilt toward US small-cap value, international, and international small-cap to get out of the US and out of big tech.
Bonds tilt toward intermediate Treasuries & TIPS, but 50% of bonds are foreign govts.
www.someweekendreading.blog/weekend-port...
Stocks tilt toward US small-cap value, international, and international small-cap to get out of the US and out of big tech.
Bonds tilt toward intermediate Treasuries & TIPS, but 50% of bonds are foreign govts.
www.someweekendreading.blog/weekend-port...
An Even More Defensive Weekend Retirement Portfolio
The US stock market has become a crazy bet on AI and the regulators have been corrupted, so
it’s time to make some defensive moves… again.
www.someweekendreading.blog
January 8, 2026 at 11:03 PM
I went to less stocks, more bonds.
Stocks tilt toward US small-cap value, international, and international small-cap to get out of the US and out of big tech.
Bonds tilt toward intermediate Treasuries & TIPS, but 50% of bonds are foreign govts.
www.someweekendreading.blog/weekend-port...
Stocks tilt toward US small-cap value, international, and international small-cap to get out of the US and out of big tech.
Bonds tilt toward intermediate Treasuries & TIPS, but 50% of bonds are foreign govts.
www.someweekendreading.blog/weekend-port...
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via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
January 8, 2026 at 3:53 PM
via Minneapolis photographer Chris Juhn on Facebook
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All republicans voted down a subpoena of all records and footage related to the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent
January 8, 2026 at 6:19 AM
All republicans voted down a subpoena of all records and footage related to the murder of Renee Good by ICE agent
It's ok to defend your own mental health.
You already know they're evil.
You already know they're evil.
No. No one should have to see things like that. There is no value in "bearing witness" unless you are a witness at trial. Do not seek the video from Minneapolis out, you will not do anything other than traumatize yourself further. Shit's already bad enough with you injecting that shit in your eyes.
I think people should see it. Not to witness someone die, but for people to see what the regime is doing. And to see how out of control they really are. There was no threat to the “agents”. And they didn’t even run to check on her after shooting her.
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
It's ok to defend your own mental health.
You already know they're evil.
You already know they're evil.
Did somebody rotate gravity by 90 degrees while Menhit was asleep?
January 7, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Did somebody rotate gravity by 90 degrees while Menhit was asleep?
CBS saluting Rubio and calling him "the ultimate Florida Man"... may not be the flex they think it is.
This is what state-regime media looks like.
CBS News ran a segment gushing over Rubio — calling this his “moment" and saying: “Florida, once an American punchline, has become a leader on the world stage. Marco Rubio, we salute you! You are the ultimate Florida Man!”
Enough. Join us: MeidasPlus.com
CBS News ran a segment gushing over Rubio — calling this his “moment" and saying: “Florida, once an American punchline, has become a leader on the world stage. Marco Rubio, we salute you! You are the ultimate Florida Man!”
Enough. Join us: MeidasPlus.com
January 7, 2026 at 1:47 PM
CBS saluting Rubio and calling him "the ultimate Florida Man"... may not be the flex they think it is.
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Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban.
And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare!
Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:
And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare!
Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:
How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access - Bolts
Explore our ongoing Bolts series, Abortion Rights in State Constitutions. A decade ago, when conservatives were attacking President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act as government encroachment in hea...
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January 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Big: Wyoming supreme court just struck down abortion ban.
And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare!
Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:
And get this: The reason is a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare!
Quite the backfire. We explained this lawsuit a few years back:
Those who want to rewrite history seldom bother to read history in the first place, and wish we wouldn't either.
January 6, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Those who want to rewrite history seldom bother to read history in the first place, and wish we wouldn't either.