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Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

Photo of Daniel Grassl

My favorite photos from the Olympics are of this Italian figure skater Daniel Grassl. He looks absolutely insane in so many of them. It's great.

Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across th...

“The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening."

The Worst and the Dimmest It's not a coincidence that we're being led by the least qualified monsters available; it's a deliberate strategy. Facing the Worst - a series about directional alignment.

"His main genius is for the instruments of corruption, an orchestra of malfeasance at which he is admittedly a maestro."

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Musk's main achievements: taking credit for inventing car tech that is now being surpassed; adding annoying design elements and juvenile easter eggs to said cars; gaming the stock market with lies and nonsense; filling Earth's orbit with an impenetrable field of debris that may end space exploration

It's exactly this. Musk never gets called on the fact that he's been 10 years out from a moon colony for the last 16 years; Republicans never get called on anything; why wouldn't CEOs start testing out this new accountability-free zone and just say whatever's convenient to manipulate the moment?

Guys will repost an ai-generated clip of Walter White and say "wow I genuinely can't tell this isn't real" and like, yeah dude, that's how being fooled works. That's not the future of cinema, that's a fake Rolex

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It's interesting to look at how Epstein directly, via hundreds of thousands of emails with his pedo buddies in academia, made US academia incredibly hostile to women for *decades*.

How many Emma Noethers never were, even before any of it was put into legislation?

I'm really glad more and more people are noticing correlationism, part of the conspiratorial logic of AI...

Guest, O. & Martin, A. E. (2025). A Metatheory of Classical and Modern Connectionism. Psychological Review. doi.org/10.1037/rev0...

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Developing a theory called The Long Aughts that we're in an era of such cultural poverty that individual periods of right-wing backlash and economic turmoil just recreate the Bush years, i.e. Kid Rock insisting he was using backing vocals rather than lip syncing like Ashlee Simpson

After we nationalize their assets, of course

They are kidnapping people and shuttling them into measles-infested concentration camps across the country, citing 20 year old weed possession charges.

the bargain between Trump and Kennedy that basically sealed the election for Trump in exchange for handing American health policy to the most dangerous and irresponsible people on the planet will go down as one of the most costly deals in human history

“History shows that wars can be lost [quickly] if defenders surrender strategic terrain without a struggle. For universities, that terrain is the ultimate high ground: human intelligence itself. If we do not fight for it now, those who come after us will face an even more unequal struggle.”

I'm sorry but if you are a public commentator and your line in 2024 was like "pro-worker Republicans like Josh Hawley and JD Vance are building an interesting new labor-friendly lane for the second Trump administration" you are both dumb and dangerous and should retire

anybody who took MAGA claims of "reining in big tech" and "populist antitrust reform" seriously circa 2020-2025 should be sentenced to mandatory community service

The striking thing here is that LLM's don't know that physical reality exists, they don't know *anything* but statistical frequencies of word pairs.

The LLM doesn't know that in a scam there is the scammer, and the victim, that these are two different people.

It doesn't know what people are.

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think we should be taking scientific advice from a demented pedophile who tried to redraw a hurricane chart with a sharpie.

I suppose that explains some things

Posterior-SBC now also with peer-review stamp in Statistics and Computing doi.org/10.1007/s112... (update your bib files)

Biotech doubles financing in quest to silence genes behind neurological diseases Aerska, a startup developing treatments to silence the problematic genes that cause various brain diseases, has raised $39 million in financing.

Aerska, a startup developing treatments to silence the problematic genes that cause various brain diseases, has raised $39 million in financing, it told STAT exclusively. www.statnews.com/2026/02/09/a...

Has anyone stopped to consider that much of the research out of business schools is just total bullshit?

Gambling companies will simply ban you if you win too much for their likes, and 100% use the data they collect to identify problem gamblers (easy job!) and further entice them. Letting these parasites run amok in your society is bonkers.

They gave these to the NBA players in the bubble during covid. Pure marketing, but apparently that's not obvious to the people that write about this stuff.

Characterizing finely the decay of eigenvalues of kernel matrices: many people need it, but explicit references are hard to find. This blog post reviews amazing asymptotic results from Harold Widom (1963!) and proposes new non-asymptotic bounds.
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Maybe we can start a lil' thing here where we all share our experiences as parents in tech.

I rambled way longer than Cassidy did, and it's not polished or rehearsed or anything, but maybe it's valuable to someone out there.

Likewise, happy to talk about parenting stuff. <3

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This is criminal negligence. He shouldn't just be removed from leadership, he should be removed from office.

I know nothing matters anymore but it would be nice if like one reporter pressed musk on the moon pivot, given a year ago he was making fun of moon (re)exploration

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

The amount of ads promoting AI products during this Super Bowl is just making me several orders of magnitude more suspicious of AI