Gallimaufries
gallimaufries.bsky.social
Gallimaufries
@gallimaufries.bsky.social
I’m VERY slowly settling in here. Maybe I’ll hang up my hat and stay for a bit OR maybe I won’t, but for now please know that I’m going to be all over the place topically. Buckle up! (Clifford Brown in the pfp)
Pinned
American theodicy and yet . . .

“O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath—
America will be!”

C’mon through, Langston!

(Agree with @owasow.bsky.social’s suggestion that “Let America be America Again” as a slogan for our times.)
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
This is precisely one of the reasons I keep calling him Brother Karp.

(Adding cashtag! $PLTR #PLTR )
And when I say he is trying to pass for white I mean he is trying to live in the world as if he is not Black, not that he‘s trying to hide his ancestry — though he’s not making a point of talking about that. None of the press coverage has focused on it because the reporters are incompetent on race.
December 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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*turns to camera*
"The team hypothesized that men 'require more explicit vocalizations to notice and respond to the needs of their cats.' In other words, the researchers are suggesting that many cats have concluded that men don’t always listen, and adjusted their behavior accordingly."
To Get a Man’s Attention, Meow Harder
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Critical thinking missing.

“The article discussed peers using teasing as a way to enforce
gender norms. I do not necessarily see this as a problem. God made male and female and made
us differently from each other on purpose and for a purpose. God is very intentional with what
He makes . . . . “
December 1, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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What a delightful read on this Thanksgiving holiday weekend! I’m looking forward to reading the Jazz Barn.

Congratulations on your first WSJ byline. Hope it’s the first of many more to come.

Here’s a gift link:
www.wsj.com/arts-culture...
‘The Jazz Barn’ Review: Somewhere There’s a Place
A piece of a western Massachusetts estate was repurposed in the 1950s as a musical haven. Listeners spent summer nights with jazz greats and blues artists.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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for those confused about why DeepSeek keeps releasing math models:

their day job is quant trading. AGI is a side hustle
DeepSeek-Math-V2: self-verification

Fascinating paper that explores how to RL but focused on process over outcome

It’s sort of similar to a GAN, but with loops for each the generator & verifier as well as an outer loop

github.com/deepseek-ai/...
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Politicians who make political decisions to deploy the military into situations that get service members killed for no good reason. They need to be held accountable.
November 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Proud of my brilliant, beautiful, and brave wife, Tamar Raphael, who did what she had to do while speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair and made a statement in support of Palestinian rights. She was later viciously attacked by a digital mob of Israeli fascists, but she’s fine.
November 25, 2025 at 9:48 AM
As soon as I heard about David Sack’s whiny comments about AI-related investments and recession risks, I thought immediately of his pleas for bailing out SVB. @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social captures it very well in this thread.
old enough to remember these VC bros begging
November 25, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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I think it’s interesting so many people rushed to put this in a partisan framework and it’s why I keep this chart saved.
November 23, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Bluesky is labeling this post “sexually suggestive” because I am using Goya’s painting “Saturn devouring his son” from 1823, literally one of the most famous paintings in the world, as an illustration. And as a result, the post announcing my new piece gets almost no traction

Fucking stupid.
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era

What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions is waning? A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp.

New piece:
Into the Twilight of the Trump Era
What becomes of MAGA as Trump’s hold over the movement is weakening, his ability to integrate its different factions waning? A deep dive into the state of the fever swamp
steady.page
November 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Is Friday night news dump still a thing?
November 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
I still think many people underestimate how much Trump would love to be embraced by his hometown, NYC.
Trump frickin' loves this guy lmao
November 21, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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I really didn't think Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries could look more out of touch. Then the president just exchanged friendship bracelets with Zohran.
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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The creators of this project used an LLM to convert the House Oversight files into Gmail-like structured text. I don’t know if it’s worth draining a small lake but it’s certainly a good example of data journalism.
November 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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This shit doing numbers on IG idk what y’all problem is over here 🙄
🚨NEW STORY 🚨

Last month, over 400 activists were imprisoned by Israel for trying to bring aid into Gaza. 1 of them was Zue, an army vet.

Here, me and Zue discuss her voyage to Gaza, imprisonment, NOLA's role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, & more.

antigravitymagazine.com/feature/zue-...
November 19, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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yeah I really don't even think we've started to sniff the impact of the GOP's complete destruction of federal consumer protection and public safety regulatory independence, and that's just the tip of the iceberg

this stuff is going to come in concussive, brutal waves
The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center

we're really not prepared for what's coming
November 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Just now scrolling through posts and noticed an increasing number of them about Pharrell saying or doing something very problematic. Do I need to find out?
November 18, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Glad Mike is posting FMS here, it's a great way to gauge consensus, which is very important for setting prices. It's also funny how hard it diverges from objective measurements though. (Check alt text for explanations)
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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they can come into the tent when they admit they were wrong and change their views

we all joke about Woke Bill Kristol but he is for the most part the perfect example - he has, legitimately, become much more progressive

you can’t bring in people who are mad he’s not delivering on horrible shit
November 16, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Brian has been flunking politics for some time now. Hawai’i and the country deserves better
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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I’ve been wondering what happened to Brian. He’s doing his one-liner shtick over on Xitter. He talks a good game, but he’s weak.
April 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Satya Nadella posting on a Saturday 🧐

“I’ve been thinking a lot about what the net benefit of the AI platform wave is. The real question is how to empower every company out there to get more out of this platform shift and build their own AI native capabilities and enterprise value. . . .”

#MSFT
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?
Something the US needs to accept too is that without a large-scale correction imposing consequences on a large number of people, the crisis of governance here will continue indefinitely
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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I was told there are no files.

Also, don’t think we should just blow through that he’s actively using the DOJ and FBI to go after political enemies. Not okay. Changes are needed.
he’s crashing out
November 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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Cartier true jewel in luxury, driving Richemont to top. Jewellery still in sweetest of spots with big unbranded segment. But note what $CFRUY says about US consumer: this isn't just pre-tariff buying. US sales have now been up 10%+ for seven straight Qs. 💪 $LVMUY $HESAY
November 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM