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I think ACA was a good ask and it's surprising and revealing that GOP refused, but yeah everyone mad about the deal is forgetting how at the outset there was a lot of "what should be the ask," some things that are in the deal were held up as more important than the subsidies bsky.app/profile/nute...
Weird how at some point the ACA subsidies went from meaningless technocrat babble that it was obviously incredibly stupid for Democrats to try protecting to being incredibly important for helping people avoid suffering.
And Democrats managed to get it wrong both times!! What were the odds?
And Democrats managed to get it wrong both times!! What were the odds?
November 11, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I think ACA was a good ask and it's surprising and revealing that GOP refused, but yeah everyone mad about the deal is forgetting how at the outset there was a lot of "what should be the ask," some things that are in the deal were held up as more important than the subsidies bsky.app/profile/nute...
there's an interesting and under-discussed aspect to the Kim Kardashian bar exam story where she reveals that she has essentially the same relationship with ChatGPT as with psychics and astrology
November 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
there's an interesting and under-discussed aspect to the Kim Kardashian bar exam story where she reveals that she has essentially the same relationship with ChatGPT as with psychics and astrology
in the past I would have typed 1, 3, 0, start but almost all new microwaves now have converted the digits to quick start buttons, it starts going for a minute as soon as you press 1 bsky.app/profile/snow...
when you put something in the microwave for a minute and a half, do you punch in 1:30 or :90?
November 11, 2025 at 10:20 PM
in the past I would have typed 1, 3, 0, start but almost all new microwaves now have converted the digits to quick start buttons, it starts going for a minute as soon as you press 1 bsky.app/profile/snow...
I run a software development team, the main difference between me and silicon valley is I could never do one of these phony hype shows bsky.app/profile/diew...
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I run a software development team, the main difference between me and silicon valley is I could never do one of these phony hype shows bsky.app/profile/diew...
I actually think accepting canned food is something of a gimmick, their real hope is that while you're there giving them your useless cans you'll also give cash they can actually use bsky.app/profile/goat...
yesss i wish people knew this about food banks. almost all of them accept money, and they can do way more with it than they can with a can of food!
November 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
I actually think accepting canned food is something of a gimmick, their real hope is that while you're there giving them your useless cans you'll also give cash they can actually use bsky.app/profile/goat...
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spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
November 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"
Reading the Noah Smith story, some really nice airport employees helped him out despite it being a clear breach of airport policy
November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Reading the Noah Smith story, some really nice airport employees helped him out despite it being a clear breach of airport policy
Math? Report card? In pre-K? I'll be honest I think the post is entirely fake bsky.app/profile/samb...
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Math? Report card? In pre-K? I'll be honest I think the post is entirely fake bsky.app/profile/samb...
Happy Martinmas
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Happy Martinmas
*staring into the lights in a Cardassian prison camp* There are just two Toy Stories!
November 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
*staring into the lights in a Cardassian prison camp* There are just two Toy Stories!
reporting says this is probably just a replica, not the original. Replicas of the resolute desk are quite easy to buy and not all that expensive (a few thousand dollars for a fairly good one), I'll note that the biggest sellers of this product are all in China bsky.app/profile/pgui...
November 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
reporting says this is probably just a replica, not the original. Replicas of the resolute desk are quite easy to buy and not all that expensive (a few thousand dollars for a fairly good one), I'll note that the biggest sellers of this product are all in China bsky.app/profile/pgui...
I'm just saying, through all my hobbies I have a pretty good idea what it is possible to accomplish in a day and I can see that Elon does not do ~anything most days
November 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I'm just saying, through all my hobbies I have a pretty good idea what it is possible to accomplish in a day and I can see that Elon does not do ~anything most days
I'd watch a political thriller about the aftermath in which multiple large insurance companies have gone bankrupt and global reinsurance markets are completely falling apart bsky.app/profile/thet...
When I watch a Godzilla, superhero, or Transformers film, I’m always thinking about the financial, logistical, and economic hurdles of the destruction.
Who pays to rebuild Chicago after it’s been leveled in a Transformers movie?
Who pays to rebuild Chicago after it’s been leveled in a Transformers movie?
November 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'd watch a political thriller about the aftermath in which multiple large insurance companies have gone bankrupt and global reinsurance markets are completely falling apart bsky.app/profile/thet...
everyone is so sure the crown jewels and gold torcs in other thefts are being broken up/melted but as the statues prove there is a robust network for selling obviously stolen artifacts bsky.app/profile/sara...
Waking up to news 🚨 that 6 (!) Roman statues were stolen from Syria’s National Museum, in Damascus, on Monday. No details on which statues yet, but I had a few pics below from the GRB gallery with the famed Al-Lat Athena. Heartbreaking news.
thehill.com/homenews/ap/...
thehill.com/homenews/ap/...
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 PM
everyone is so sure the crown jewels and gold torcs in other thefts are being broken up/melted but as the statues prove there is a robust network for selling obviously stolen artifacts bsky.app/profile/sara...
Doordash is producing propaganda for the fascist regime and yall should stop using them bsky.app/profile/solo...
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Doordash is producing propaganda for the fascist regime and yall should stop using them bsky.app/profile/solo...
we should not be locking up land in "affordable" deed restrictions like this, this is so much worse than just allowing market-rate housing. Do you really want to have to fill out a need-based application policed by a non-profit scammer company in order to buy or rent housing bsky.app/profile/maxd...
A single person making $82,000 a year should not need a subsidized apartment. A family making $117,000 should be able to buy a home.
We need to build more homes until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are less than 4x median annual income.
We need to build more homes until median rent is less than 30% of median monthly income and median home prices are less than 4x median annual income.
November 11, 2025 at 7:39 PM
we should not be locking up land in "affordable" deed restrictions like this, this is so much worse than just allowing market-rate housing. Do you really want to have to fill out a need-based application policed by a non-profit scammer company in order to buy or rent housing bsky.app/profile/maxd...
It's fun how this guy acts like we can't know anything about anything without an RCT, and then still acts like that when we actually have a few very large RCTs bsky.app/profile/joho...
I hope FDA employees know their boss feels this way about them.
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
It's fun how this guy acts like we can't know anything about anything without an RCT, and then still acts like that when we actually have a few very large RCTs bsky.app/profile/joho...
Starmer has been a disappointment but I really think his Labour predecessor's failure to sharply repudiate Brexit is the original sin that gave us Starmerism bsky.app/profile/chri...
The thing to understand about this is that this catastrophe in the UK has redounded to the political benefit of the very same people and political movement that pushed for it! Extremely perverse.
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Starmer has been a disappointment but I really think his Labour predecessor's failure to sharply repudiate Brexit is the original sin that gave us Starmerism bsky.app/profile/chri...
I'm not really a fan of this thing where we calculate interest over the life of the loan, that's not really how you should decide if it's worth it. But yeah the actual reduction in monthly payment is not that impressive bsky.app/profile/jess...
Let's say you take out a $400,000 mortgage loan at 6.25% - and choose a 50-year mortgage instead of 30 years.
In return for saving $283 monthly, you will pay an extra $421,302 in interest over the life of the loan.
Or if you sell at 15 years, will have paid down just $29,000 in equity. Not good.
In return for saving $283 monthly, you will pay an extra $421,302 in interest over the life of the loan.
Or if you sell at 15 years, will have paid down just $29,000 in equity. Not good.
INGRAHAM: Is a 50 year mortgage really a good idea?
TRUMP: It's not even a big deal. You go from 40 to 50 years. All it means is you pay less per month
TRUMP: It's not even a big deal. You go from 40 to 50 years. All it means is you pay less per month
November 11, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I'm not really a fan of this thing where we calculate interest over the life of the loan, that's not really how you should decide if it's worth it. But yeah the actual reduction in monthly payment is not that impressive bsky.app/profile/jess...
It's weird how the trains vs airline discourse fail to acknowledge how much a good train system would help airlines
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
It's weird how the trains vs airline discourse fail to acknowledge how much a good train system would help airlines
someone should do a study on signature matching for in-person vs mail-in ballots. I'll bet signatures are basically never rejected in person (too intimidating) but are unreasonably common for mail-in (same issue as IRB reviews, existence of the process makes people drum up reasons to use it)
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
someone should do a study on signature matching for in-person vs mail-in ballots. I'll bet signatures are basically never rejected in person (too intimidating) but are unreasonably common for mail-in (same issue as IRB reviews, existence of the process makes people drum up reasons to use it)
I do think "AI model parameters are just a lossy data encoding format" is a hugely underrated take. Even the people involved in building these things do not seem to realize how much data can be encoded (even without loss) with this many parameters bsky.app/profile/anth...
your honor, the user prompted the computer to unzip the archive, which was a statistical representation of the entire training folder.
any owner of a specific file within the zip has no claim against us, but only the user who opened it
any owner of a specific file within the zip has no claim against us, but only the user who opened it
“OpenAI argued its AI models didn’t store/copy specific training data but, rather, reflected what they learned based on the entire training data set. Since the output was generated as a result of user inputs (prompts), it wasn’t the defendants, but the respective user who would be liable for it.”
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I do think "AI model parameters are just a lossy data encoding format" is a hugely underrated take. Even the people involved in building these things do not seem to realize how much data can be encoded (even without loss) with this many parameters bsky.app/profile/anth...
fwiw "science doesn't know what magnetism is" is something I hear from normies, I think there are science communicators on youtube or whatever telling people this bsky.app/profile/arch...
Rule of thumb to keep in mind:
Whenever Trump makes a generalization about how "nobody knows" or "people are saying" something - he means him.
He doesn't know how magnets work.
Whenever Trump makes a generalization about how "nobody knows" or "people are saying" something - he means him.
He doesn't know how magnets work.
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
fwiw "science doesn't know what magnetism is" is something I hear from normies, I think there are science communicators on youtube or whatever telling people this bsky.app/profile/arch...
it's not spin, just a literal statement of what happened bsky.app/profile/mark...
This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
it's not spin, just a literal statement of what happened bsky.app/profile/mark...
reminds me back before his move to Fox, John Stossel got in trouble for putting dynamite in pickup trucks for his piece about how the trucks were having engine problems bsky.app/profile/ztul...
a libsoftiktok stand-in convinces the new boss they need to run stories about cat-identified middle schoolers using litter boxes. the new Dwight is arrested trying to get video footage of this so she orders the new Jim to fake it with AI but it just makes weirdly muscular pooping anthros
I think The Office reboot or spinoff or whatever it is should have been about a Weiss-takes-over-CBS situation
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
reminds me back before his move to Fox, John Stossel got in trouble for putting dynamite in pickup trucks for his piece about how the trucks were having engine problems bsky.app/profile/ztul...