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The world’s most ornate CD emporium

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Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

a must-read. two countries at war from 1000km+ away. how does tooze do it?

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a detail no one seems to have caught yet: the Trump judge who taught the class and gave the award, John L. Badalamenti, is, according to his Wikipedia, the nephew of David Lynch collaborator Angelo Badalamenti

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Street trees are one of the best long-term investments a city can make. (TheFigen_)

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Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 4 days ago • 103 comments

🚨 New draft 🚨 Measuring the Emperor's Clothes: Estimating Latent Opposition to Authoritarian Regimes with Randomized Response Qs Want to know how much support a dictator really has? You might have heard of a list experiment... but we've got something *so* much better. Link: osf.io/preprints/so...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

late here but this is a ridiculous argument. you can't know anything unless someone did an RCT? 99.9% of what you Know in life is not grounded that way. the setup about Cialdini and cognitive biases is BS: a software engineer working with their tools for years is nothing like being sold a car

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I like this post. I have been thinking about this problem of training junior engineers. people talk about the ethical imperative to train new engineers, but I wonder about the base assumption that it is impossible to have engineers add value on net until after they've spent 3-5 years being useless

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

stealing back African artifacts from Western museums is such a funny game concept. hope it's good

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

“Look, we both know why you are here,” the agent told me... “It’s because of what you wrote online about the protests at Columbia University,” he said. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

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Meta AI leakage is a massive scandal, a careless company exposing deeply private stuff. It's also a window into what the AI companies see in their data — what they know about how people actually use chatbots nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

goose game followup looks very very good

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So excited to hear about ersc.io #jj-vcs

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

nice read. love the attention to what I call the phenomenology (they say "aesthetics" and "affordances") of using LLM tools. glad to see some better AI criticism prompted by the posts asking for better AI criticism. I think I disagree with most of the arguments, but at least they're real arguments

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

not thrilled to get an ad for this dumb app from my kid's teacher at the end of school

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

my 6yo seeing the trailer for the new Bond game over my shoulder: "is he a bad guy?" "no, he's the good guy" "then why is he killing everyone?"

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

where are the thinkpieces about AI from undervalued entry-to-mid-level workers who are NOT engineers and also not visual artists or writers? people with the most mundane underpaid $50k a year jobs that are a catchall for several types of work? those are the takes i want to hear at this point

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

my main takeaway from these things is that the way I use LLMs is extremely idiosyncratic in this case I don't know why it doesn't just say it can't follow links. I tried asking a Claude, Gemini, and GPT model about a link and all three just said "I can't follow links, try pasting in the article"

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

📷 Sand and water align at Montrose Beach in Chicago. 📽 Learn how the #MWRD protects #LakeMichigan ⬇️ youtu.be/__yXMrBYek4

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

perfect post for me as I experience the absurd way github handles PR stacks

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment