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submitted 119 days ago • 27 comments

Mortgage rates are ticking up even after the Federal Reserve has started cutting interest rates. Here's why, and where rates — and home sales — could go from here.

submitted 136 days ago • 6 comments

Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI

submitted 179 days ago • 3 comments

Nothing like a good book to induce a nap!

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submitted 182 days ago • 8 comments

“For the online community of people unsettled, excited, and obsessed by the last few years of AI development, though, this growing space between big AI models is creating a speculative void, and it’s filling with paranoia, fear, and a little bit of fraud.” (A LOT of fraud).

submitted 190 days ago • 3 comments

Our timeline is a much darker one than Star Trek's prime timeline where the Bell Riots occur.

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submitted 243 days ago • 18 comments

It's now 70 days until the Bell Riots. #StarTrek #BellRiots✊🏿

submitted 253 days ago • 1 comment

Describing Christian Nationalism as simply “Christian” is a baffling editorial choice but certainly one Christian Nationalists would approve of

submitted 253 days ago • 61 comments

I’m sorry but who gave the ok on this actual advertisement from pop corners!? Nightmare stuff

submitted 304 days ago • 0 comments

the right wing is so enthusiastic about cops harming and arresting college kids and faculty because they’ve been waging an intellectual war against them for so long and their blood-thirst finally has a physical outlet

submitted 311 days ago • 35 comments

So it’s a state in which the police rule? Wonder if there’s a shorter way to say that

submitted 325 days ago • 17 comments

Follow the obvious signs which say "Trains to City" and take the damn Blue line you goobers

submitted 334 days ago • 26 comments

This is going to sound more flip than I mean it, but when I was a kid I watched the Blues Brothers running Illinois Nazis off a bridge and the Nazis on Hogan's Heroes being pathetic dimwits every damn day, and I do feel like we need to get back to constant, vicious cultural ridicule of open racists.

submitted 395 days ago • 107 comments

The bots are now mostly scooping up data from right-wing sites since 90 percent of mainstream outlets are blocking scraping by OpenAI and others. What could possibly go wrong? @knibbs.bsky.social has the scoop www.wired.com/story/most-n...

submitted 404 days ago • 15 comments

Shein & Temu are now the leading online-only clothing platforms. They exploit a loophole to ship direct from China without tariffs or inspections. As a result, 8 U.S. textile plants have closed since September. From me on the de minimis debate: prospect.org/economy/2024...

submitted 405 days ago • 15 comments

The debate over Fed policy, especially about when to start cutting rates, seems to have become disconnected from the reality of rapid disinflation. Thinking about it reminded me of ... an experience I once had on a cycling trip 1/

submitted 404 days ago • 1 comment

“When you don’t have test scores, the students who suffer most are those with high grades at relatively unknown high schools, the kind that rarely send kids to the Ivy League...The SAT is their lifeline" www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/b... Features a new study by my colleagues tinyurl.com/satvshsgrades

submitted 421 days ago • 8 comments

Tedward is maximizing the holiday break

submitted 436 days ago • 0 comments

Someone else already did this in the comments but it’s deeply funny to me how true this is, as literally shown by asking Chat-GPT what the poem is about.

submitted 453 days ago • 13 comments

"Thanks to the local parish priest, these women now make monthly visits to Francis’ Wednesday general audiences, where they are given VIP seats... When COVID-19 struck, the Vatican bussed them into its health facility so they could be vaccinated ahead of most Italians." apnews.com/article/vati...

submitted 459 days ago • 7 comments

Why does parenting have to be this way

submitted 459 days ago • 3 comments

🎶Reading painbow!🎶

submitted 473 days ago • 2 comments

Ted initially skeptical of the findings. More excited when he found out the subjects were rats. #sfn23. See you at the conference!

submitted 479 days ago • 0 comments

God is dead

submitted 480 days ago • 11 comments

"our business is only profitable if it's built on mass theft" is just a perfect summary of most tech startups, nothing new here then

submitted 481 days ago • 0 comments

Once you see it, you cannot unsee it

submitted 481 days ago • 1 comment

"So we made a box. Stuffed it with copyrighted material. Don't worry, we cut it up real tiny. Anyway, people can pay us to shake the box and get some random bits out of it. No, they can't control what comes out. If it's copyrighted material, well, sue THEM, THEY shook the box ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "

submitted 482 days ago • 0 comments

AI isn't sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything and the erasure of actual social relations. AI is Thatcherism in computational form. And, like Thatcher herself, real world AI boosts bureaucratic cruelty towards the most vulnerable. #AI #Thatcher

submitted 484 days ago • 0 comments

No one: Patrick Stewart: Fuck Margret Thatcher.

submitted 486 days ago • 41 comments

Updated yard sign #sociology

submitted 486 days ago • 0 comments

"So is the dog-anxiety crisis real...Either humans are stressing dogs out so much that they truly need prescription meds, or owners are putting their dogs on unnecessary psychoactive drugs to address annoying but normal dog habits." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 498 days ago • 8 comments

This quote has kind of rewired the way I see stuff happening

submitted 504 days ago • 32 comments

Refs must have money on UW

submitted 506 days ago • 0 comments

How does one live in a world with such unspeakable evil brought so close by the misfortune of proximity or the vast reach of information technology? I don't know; I can only suggest: + be gentle with yourself and don't expect to be OK + limit your media consumption + reach out to those around you

submitted 510 days ago • 12 comments

Harvard Bus. Publishing just emailed me an article on how to use AI to provide "quick customized responses to student work" at scale. Tell me this isn't just heading to that that scene from Real Genius where both faculty and students have been replaced by machines?

submitted 510 days ago • 2 comments

Post earthquake sunrise in Seattle

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