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lorewrites.bsky.social
Retired. Cats, nature, writing. After a career in a Federal Reserve Bank, I wrote a story of a ghost stuck there. In 2017, I wrote a thesis about the opportunity of AI to find efficiency in regulation (which isn’t what that advisory committee is doing.
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Man, I warned people about this guy YEARS ago and everybody was like, whatever Spiers, you’re terminally online, internet brain poisoned, this cannot possibly be important

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

This article describes “dark AI” and is worth a read! Understanding the humans behind AI is more important every moment as AI races forward.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

submitted 10 days ago • 109 comments

FREE Harvard course on American Government to help us better understand what is at the core of we must reclaim…

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Toxicologist here! Not a dentist but I treat fluoride toxicity, & it has never been from a dental product. National data reflects this. Saying fluoride “causes gut harms” is a lie. Ingesting ANYTHING can affect gut microbiota, including dinner! That is not a health outcome let alone a negative one

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

Cutting staff and figuring out after how the work might be done more efficiently is contrary to changing critical services, unless you are manager of a business that provides an inessential or luxury good or service. Neither Trump nor Musk understands how to run a government or not-for-profit.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

As she calls it, it’s an easy explanation. Dems supporting this need to get on podcasts/news shows to explain themselves. They DID NOT need to support folks dismantling our democracy to support a safe stablecoin.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about the risks of a "sudden stop" if investors lose faith in America. The bond market is amplifying those risks minute by minute as yields shoot higher after the budget monstrosity paulkrugman.substack.com/p/gaming-out...

submitted 13 days ago • 72 comments

‼️Time to call your Senators. FDIC insurance is important in a world in which banks are useful and important but imperfect. It hasn’t been so long since they covered tech folks’ deposits over the limit at Silicon Valley. We no longer have the full strength of the CFPB to monitor banks. Now this.‼️

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The Chicago Sun Times let ChatGPT make up 📕 recs for summer reading and published them. Scarier are the articles where no one catches what’s happened. Please talk 🗣️about this in book clubs so more people begin to understand ChatGPT is a 🎉 party-trick, not a source of info.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Together

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

This is a good piece about what the U.S. has given away while our president tweets about his hurt feelings that Bruce Springsteen called him out. Using AI without sight into its development is unlikely to end well.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now.

submitted 18 days ago • 918 comments

Republicans have worked to reduce the autonomy of agencies to make rules, except when they have a loyalist in place. “By withdrawing the CFPB’s data broker rulemaking, the Trump administration is ensuring that Americans will continue to be bombarded by scam texts, calls and emails...” 😡 😠 😡

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

submitted 22 days ago • 393 comments

"It is injurious to thinking. People do not carefully select what to read, but try to keep up with everything that is put out and assimilate little of the vast amount they consume. It is a vicious circle, with the public getting indigestion & the writers overworked." (NYT, 1926)

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Remember Vivek Ramaswamy’s letter about tech’s need for foreign-born and first generation students. The Republicans are ensuring the U.S. will remain dependent on those workers by gutting education. American kids will only have a shot at those jobs with a rigorous start in STEM classes. Great 🧵:

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

A great small world story…

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment