Roger Filmyer
@synolect.com
Boston-Based Beep Booper. BA & MS New College of Florida. If your reference # starts with "18.", it's (probably) not my fault.
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Systematically in the US we see outcomes where a bad status quo is selected over an imperfect improvement because the failures of a bad status quo cannot be laid at the feet of any specific person.
U.S. regulators worried about safety require larger elevator cars than in Europe. But these rules reduce the number of elevators, exacerbating sprawl and the accompanying dangers.
Learn more in ep. 2 of our Incentives Series with @stephenjacobsmith.com!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/9...
Learn more in ep. 2 of our Incentives Series with @stephenjacobsmith.com!
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/09/24/9...
September 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Systematically in the US we see outcomes where a bad status quo is selected over an imperfect improvement because the failures of a bad status quo cannot be laid at the feet of any specific person.
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anyone working in security knows
that tools can be used for good or for evil
but dont forget they are often used for stupid
that tools can be used for good or for evil
but dont forget they are often used for stupid
August 8, 2025 at 11:10 PM
anyone working in security knows
that tools can be used for good or for evil
but dont forget they are often used for stupid
that tools can be used for good or for evil
but dont forget they are often used for stupid
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It’s funny how the woo woo people said for years that big pharma was holding back a cancer cure because treatment was more profitable, and then they went and created those conditions through their own death-drive idiocy
As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge
The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
www.wsj.com
August 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
It’s funny how the woo woo people said for years that big pharma was holding back a cancer cure because treatment was more profitable, and then they went and created those conditions through their own death-drive idiocy
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It remains so funny to me how many people who claim to be socialists thought the Biden Administration was a disaster for the working class when the objective truth is it was a disaster for the bosses.
June 11, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It remains so funny to me how many people who claim to be socialists thought the Biden Administration was a disaster for the working class when the objective truth is it was a disaster for the bosses.
Another @carlosmucha.bsky.social banger theory on Twitter/X:
The White House has the authority to force any federal agency to detail their 1811s (Special Agents) to ICE.
Agencies don't want their agents to be seen participating, so no jackets and yes face coverings.
x.com/mucha_carlos...
The White House has the authority to force any federal agency to detail their 1811s (Special Agents) to ICE.
Agencies don't want their agents to be seen participating, so no jackets and yes face coverings.
x.com/mucha_carlos...
June 6, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Another @carlosmucha.bsky.social banger theory on Twitter/X:
The White House has the authority to force any federal agency to detail their 1811s (Special Agents) to ICE.
Agencies don't want their agents to be seen participating, so no jackets and yes face coverings.
x.com/mucha_carlos...
The White House has the authority to force any federal agency to detail their 1811s (Special Agents) to ICE.
Agencies don't want their agents to be seen participating, so no jackets and yes face coverings.
x.com/mucha_carlos...
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I'm tilting at windmills again, trying to convince people that phones don't spy on you through your microphone to target ads at you simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...
Note on 26th April 2025
Last September I posted [a series of long ranty comments on Lobste.rs](https://lobste.rs/s/mf7guc/leak_facebook_partner_brags_about) about the latest instance of the [immortal conspiracy theory](https...
simonwillison.net
April 26, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I'm tilting at windmills again, trying to convince people that phones don't spy on you through your microphone to target ads at you simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/...
see bio
Tesla's IR page isn't loading for me on earnings day
April 23, 2025 at 6:34 AM
see bio
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Just to build on this, one of the reasons the death camps were built in the occupied territories was because the Nazi command knew they were illegal under German law and the nominally-still-extant Weimar constitution
2/4. The entire practice of the Holocaust of the Jews involved zones of statelessness. It is easier to move people away from law than it is to remove law from people. Almost all of the killing took place in artificially created stateless zones.
April 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Just to build on this, one of the reasons the death camps were built in the occupied territories was because the Nazi command knew they were illegal under German law and the nominally-still-extant Weimar constitution
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Starting to get a bit calmer and it’s probably the mother of all rush to cash from blowing up hedgies. Usually Fed would just fix this but usually we don’t have the mother of all supply shocks at the same time.
Holy fuck this is absolutely bonkers.
April 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Starting to get a bit calmer and it’s probably the mother of all rush to cash from blowing up hedgies. Usually Fed would just fix this but usually we don’t have the mother of all supply shocks at the same time.
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see, this is exactly what I’m talking about
April 9, 2025 at 4:43 AM
see, this is exactly what I’m talking about
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i think i speak for most americans when i say i hate anyone who is so stupid that he makes me care about treasury bonds
April 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
i think i speak for most americans when i say i hate anyone who is so stupid that he makes me care about treasury bonds
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i think the basic thesis of the trump admin as a reaction to the biden admin is that doing things "right" is too hard and time consuming, therefore doing things "wrong" must work and also be faster
April 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
i think the basic thesis of the trump admin as a reaction to the biden admin is that doing things "right" is too hard and time consuming, therefore doing things "wrong" must work and also be faster
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The issue is that the logical alternative based on the primary beneficiaries of the Suez trade, joint Sino-European naval missions that patrol the Red Sea, would probably freak people out even more.
The bare resentment to the idea that the US might have to provide a global public good is also striking.
March 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The issue is that the logical alternative based on the primary beneficiaries of the Suez trade, joint Sino-European naval missions that patrol the Red Sea, would probably freak people out even more.
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quick headline about the third-rate florida school in question and its relationship to the ivy league
March 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
quick headline about the third-rate florida school in question and its relationship to the ivy league
Giant thread from a pair of travellers trying to get from Berlin to as far south as they can in Africa. Very cool to check on from time to time.
March 25, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Giant thread from a pair of travellers trying to get from Berlin to as far south as they can in Africa. Very cool to check on from time to time.
Someone at work tried to figure out the internals of an LLC by asking it about itself and it just hallucinated information......
chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists
March 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Someone at work tried to figure out the internals of an LLC by asking it about itself and it just hallucinated information......
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“I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content.”
March 14, 2025 at 5:09 PM
“I feel bad for our country. But this is tremendous content.”
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i think everyone is surprised that a diffusion model can actually produce passable work because every extant diffusion model is tuned specifically to produce garbage because none of the people working on them actually respect art
this is from an AI/neural model? It's actually really good!
February 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM
i think everyone is surprised that a diffusion model can actually produce passable work because every extant diffusion model is tuned specifically to produce garbage because none of the people working on them actually respect art
It's the moustache lore
February 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's the moustache lore
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In addition to “biased,” I expected to see that woke term “difference-in-differences.”
Dear Econometricians, if you were planning to apply to an NSF grant this year, I have bad news for you #EconSky
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 5:48 AM
In addition to “biased,” I expected to see that woke term “difference-in-differences.”
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It's true that the US can inflict more pain on the rest of the world than the ROW can inflict on the US, but on the other hand, a macroeconomic shock in ROW is known as 'just another Monday', whereas the US will overthrow their system of constitutional government because egg prices went up.
February 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It's true that the US can inflict more pain on the rest of the world than the ROW can inflict on the US, but on the other hand, a macroeconomic shock in ROW is known as 'just another Monday', whereas the US will overthrow their system of constitutional government because egg prices went up.
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Fuck man I guess this is on us, we accidentally forgot to hit the make this cost 99% less button
January 27, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Fuck man I guess this is on us, we accidentally forgot to hit the make this cost 99% less button
Lol, I thought my downstairs neighbors had badly loaded their washer #earthquake #somerville
January 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Lol, I thought my downstairs neighbors had badly loaded their washer #earthquake #somerville