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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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Is anyone out there thinking about what we could do now to prepare for Vance, tech bro puppet, as President and whatever nightmare they’d install as VP?

Dear Mr Orwell Thank you for sending me Nineteen Eighty Four, which I read with interest. Your writing has some merit, but have you thought about setting this novel in a dystopian future? Little Point Literary #WritingCommunity

13-yr-old Camarria Williams made a remarkable discovery when she found a compound with potential cancer-fighting properties in goose poop from Garfield Park, Chicago. This surprising find happened while participating in the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab, a STEM program in collaboration with the

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

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

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."

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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...

‼️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.‼️

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.

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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.

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.

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...” 😡 😠 😡