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"A complex decision is like a great river, drawing from its many tributaries the innumerable premises of which it is constituted." - HA Simon
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all opinions my own but also your cat's
https://adamelkus.com/ + also @ aelkus on twitter
all opinions my own but also your cat's
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I like video games because they allow me to act out my wildest power fantasies
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I like video games because they allow me to act out my wildest power fantasies
December 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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A final self-plug before the Winter break: SSRN finally deigned to share my work-in-progress on regulatory learning and the governance of innovation. There, I argue that futureproofing approaches and technology-neutral regulation can mess up learning processes. Comments are welcome!
<p>Two Learning Pathologies in the Law of Innovation</p>
Innovation generates, to a lesser or greater degree, uncertainties that regulators must deal with. Part of their toolkit for managing uncertainty involves the u
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December 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
A final self-plug before the Winter break: SSRN finally deigned to share my work-in-progress on regulatory learning and the governance of innovation. There, I argue that futureproofing approaches and technology-neutral regulation can mess up learning processes. Comments are welcome!
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no idea if this will be a good movie or not, I’m just ecstatic to see a poster like this for an upcoming movie — peak of the artform, IMO
December 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
no idea if this will be a good movie or not, I’m just ecstatic to see a poster like this for an upcoming movie — peak of the artform, IMO
a while ago, whenever i would point this out center-right leaning people i knew would chide me and say that of course musk was doing good work and he would take us to mars or do X Y Z. yes he bullshits and says dumb things but look at the results blah blah blah
He’s not working on any of these.
Sometimes he replies "yeah" to a nazi and sometimes he writes a longpost about becoming a Kardashev II civilization via lunar mining and Ai satellite swarms and says its something hes working on
Like it or not this guy owns the future
Like it or not this guy owns the future
December 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
a while ago, whenever i would point this out center-right leaning people i knew would chide me and say that of course musk was doing good work and he would take us to mars or do X Y Z. yes he bullshits and says dumb things but look at the results blah blah blah
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Kazuo Umezu believed children were more adaptable than adults in horrific situations because adults have rigid views of reality & break when those conceptions are shattered. In Drifting Classroom a boy imagines himself as a chair to remain perfectly still while a monster who detects motion hunts him
November 5, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Kazuo Umezu believed children were more adaptable than adults in horrific situations because adults have rigid views of reality & break when those conceptions are shattered. In Drifting Classroom a boy imagines himself as a chair to remain perfectly still while a monster who detects motion hunts him
as someone who likes cute animal spam, I think it is also sadly not something I feel terribly outraged about. Those of us who like this content must be honest about how much are plandids or even staged
Of all the sins of AI, this is an unexpected and deeply annoying one
Funny animal videos no longer being trustworthy just fucking sucks all around. I love the wonder of animal behavior and what it says about the experience of being alive. It's because it happened in reality that it's so fun. It's not fun if it was just made up. There's no wonder there.
December 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
as someone who likes cute animal spam, I think it is also sadly not something I feel terribly outraged about. Those of us who like this content must be honest about how much are plandids or even staged
so this is an honest question and not a dunk. how much influence does Yglesias currently have in the Democratic Party? If he says something, who listens?
I find him deeply repulsive and want to calibrate just how much I should care about him
I find him deeply repulsive and want to calibrate just how much I should care about him
Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
so this is an honest question and not a dunk. how much influence does Yglesias currently have in the Democratic Party? If he says something, who listens?
I find him deeply repulsive and want to calibrate just how much I should care about him
I find him deeply repulsive and want to calibrate just how much I should care about him
summoning this spirit to guide me into the new year
December 19, 2025 at 5:42 AM
summoning this spirit to guide me into the new year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZYa...
i think it really becomes apparent from this how much of a bullet everyone dodged from leon and ada wrecking the los illuminados cult. these weren't mindless zombies. you see them communicating and coordinating
i think it really becomes apparent from this how much of a bullet everyone dodged from leon and ada wrecking the los illuminados cult. these weren't mindless zombies. you see them communicating and coordinating
RESIDENT EVIL 4 (HD Project) - Ganado Voice Lines / Quotes Translated - Cutscenes and Gameplay
YouTube video by Help Me Leon
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December 19, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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i think it really becomes apparent from this how much of a bullet everyone dodged from leon and ada wrecking the los illuminados cult. these weren't mindless zombies. you see them communicating and coordinating
i think it really becomes apparent from this how much of a bullet everyone dodged from leon and ada wrecking the los illuminados cult. these weren't mindless zombies. you see them communicating and coordinating
bjork the goddess
December 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
bjork the goddess
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If you know someone who is a fan of DEMON SLAYER, K-POP DEMON HUNTERS, POKEMON, or GODZILLA, I guarantee you will delight them by surprising them with a copy of THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE YOKAI this Christmas.
It is THE most comprehensive guide to supernatural Japan in English
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It is THE most comprehensive guide to supernatural Japan in English
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December 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
If you know someone who is a fan of DEMON SLAYER, K-POP DEMON HUNTERS, POKEMON, or GODZILLA, I guarantee you will delight them by surprising them with a copy of THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO JAPANESE YOKAI this Christmas.
It is THE most comprehensive guide to supernatural Japan in English
amzn.to/3KY0cjI
It is THE most comprehensive guide to supernatural Japan in English
amzn.to/3KY0cjI
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i took a screenshot from the sony trinitron in my mind palace
December 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
i took a screenshot from the sony trinitron in my mind palace
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Rumors of a firefight in the Capitol, the bombs planted at the DNC and RNC, the delayed police reaction, the lack of a response from the White House.
Things aren’t that bad (yet), but I forgot just how terrifying this could be.
Things aren’t that bad (yet), but I forgot just how terrifying this could be.
December 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Rumors of a firefight in the Capitol, the bombs planted at the DNC and RNC, the delayed police reaction, the lack of a response from the White House.
Things aren’t that bad (yet), but I forgot just how terrifying this could be.
Things aren’t that bad (yet), but I forgot just how terrifying this could be.
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Sometimes I think back to how terrifying it was to live in Washington, D.C., from December 2020 through January 6th.
This was the tail end of COVID, we were under curfew because of daily partisan street fights, and the day of January 6th was maddening without the benefit of hindsight.
This was the tail end of COVID, we were under curfew because of daily partisan street fights, and the day of January 6th was maddening without the benefit of hindsight.
December 19, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Sometimes I think back to how terrifying it was to live in Washington, D.C., from December 2020 through January 6th.
This was the tail end of COVID, we were under curfew because of daily partisan street fights, and the day of January 6th was maddening without the benefit of hindsight.
This was the tail end of COVID, we were under curfew because of daily partisan street fights, and the day of January 6th was maddening without the benefit of hindsight.
years of lead paint
The supposedly dastardly Chinese algorithm that required everyone to lose their minds and set fire to the first amendment for this law also remains owned and developed by bytedance and is leased to the US consortium under this deal. So, y'know, congrats everyone, great job
December 19, 2025 at 5:01 AM
years of lead paint
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lots of things to pick from in the final 12 months of Trump I, but one that has stuck with me is "to get Trump to acknowledge COVID, we will give sycophantic press conferences where we pretend social distancing is his idea"
December 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
lots of things to pick from in the final 12 months of Trump I, but one that has stuck with me is "to get Trump to acknowledge COVID, we will give sycophantic press conferences where we pretend social distancing is his idea"
i have not flown through DCA since January and I do not plan to for the foreseeable future
“The night everything at DCA finally went wrong” sure looks like the kind of careful, meticulously-sourced story I wanted to read about this disaster.
The level of background knowledge is clear. As is the understanding of the human toll.
I hope it gets widely recognized in journalism circles.
The level of background knowledge is clear. As is the understanding of the human toll.
I hope it gets widely recognized in journalism circles.
For the last few months, I've been working on a story about January's crash near Washington, D.C. What I learned was that it was simply an accident waiting to happen.
Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong (via @theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
Special Report: The night everything at DCA finally went wrong (via @theaircurrent.com) theaircurrent.com/aviation-saf...
December 19, 2025 at 4:49 AM
i have not flown through DCA since January and I do not plan to for the foreseeable future
what's scaring me right now isn't the threat of a dictatorship. it's just that so many load-bearing aspects of society are coming apart at once
December 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
what's scaring me right now isn't the threat of a dictatorship. it's just that so many load-bearing aspects of society are coming apart at once
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They didn’t catch the Charlie Kirk shooter - he had to turn himself in. They didn’t catch this guy - he managed to kill again and then kill himself. Absolute failures!
December 19, 2025 at 4:31 AM
They didn’t catch the Charlie Kirk shooter - he had to turn himself in. They didn’t catch this guy - he managed to kill again and then kill himself. Absolute failures!
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every one of these guys learns from the last guy and the interval is getting shorter
December 19, 2025 at 4:45 AM
its like the "dumbest tourists and smartest bears" convergence except its the FBI lobotimizing itself and loner killers improving tradecraft
I think this one has really unleashed something. I think the next one is going to be the one who gets away with it.
December 19, 2025 at 4:43 AM
its like the "dumbest tourists and smartest bears" convergence except its the FBI lobotimizing itself and loner killers improving tradecraft