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Multidisciplinarian thinking about technology, democracy, AI, institutions, fiction and art. Teaching professor at JHU CS. Baltimore/Toronto/Oakland.
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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

submitted 64 days ago • 1884 comments

Martha Stewart went to prison for far less than what Trump did today. And he did it out in the open. On social media. He's installed his own people at the head of all regulatory commissions. Nobody to hold him accountable. Laws no longer apply to him. Pisses me off.

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

If nobody in the house or SEC has the spine to call him out on this, we are doomed. Were I one of the many people currently in jail for insider trading and related crimes, I'd be pretty pissed off.

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I was learning about bond market with Claude when I should have been insider trading with Don today. What I call "Play Lennon to my McCartney" style learning with LLMs is very powerful. Re-upped my very rusty appreciation of tensor math yesterday. innoeduvation.org/danryan/dev/...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Certainly seeing the argument that social security should be replaced by index fund accounts for all Americans. Then president could hold whole country hostage.

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submitted 67 days ago • 550 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 67 days ago • 1135 comments

Well, Trump got some big crowds today.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I really wish Bluesky would figure out the interaction thing. Conversations here have so little back and forth AFAICT. Twitter remains superior for engagement. Is this hard to fix?

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Senator Jim Banks (R) isn’t sorry he told a fired federal worker “he probably deserved it”. He went on to say the worker was “complaining about losing a left-wing woke job in the federal government that should have never been a job to begin with”. The job was helping people with disabilities.

submitted 69 days ago • 1432 comments

Substack and similar are basically just churches. Someone writes something that should appeal to people who share their beliefs and hope those people will put a few $ in the basket to support the effort. Mixed in is a belief that if nonbelievers would also listen it might change the world.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

open.substack.com/pub/contrari... fabulous timely piece

submitted 70 days ago • 6 comments

Trump's nonsense about trading partners ripping us off is a bit like a rioter justifying looting a store by calling that the shopkeepers are ripping off the people.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Trump just imposed, by executive order, the single largest tax increase on consumers in American history.

submitted 71 days ago • 248 comments

What if there were deep fake videos of Trump giving really good advice and extolling actual civic virtues. Could you get people to follow them? Would he and his team decry them?

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

submitted 80 days ago • 1500 comments

Weird to think that Jeffrey Goldberg is probably the most ethical and patriotic person on that group chat.

submitted 80 days ago • 24 comments

Swalwell: Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense? This moron texts out our war plans, putting our soldiers at risk, and he’s not gone? Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.

submitted 80 days ago • 1311 comments

"law firm agrees to provide $40m in free services" is most perverse bit of news in a while. And it's to support causes Trump cares about. I think the democracy countdown clock has expired.

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submitted 85 days ago • 4 comments

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

submitted 88 days ago • 1838 comments

Finally s.o. who talks through the issue. I'm tired of breathless critical voices that fail to acknowledge (or appreciate) the strategic calculus needed. I've yet to read a reasoned take on the other alternative. Just the usual self certain claims that "you weren't as radical as I would have been."

submitted 88 days ago • 1 comment