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If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

I also want to point out that for as little as $5/month you can join us in the @liberalcurrents.com Discord where there are genuine military-knowers talking about this stuff seriously www.liberalcurrents.com/support-us/

This is one of my pettier impulses but I want the record to reflect just how often this motherfucker said that Kamala Harris was the pro-war candidate in 2024.

There is a lot to say about the new war, but it is absolutely wild that the assassination of the head of state of Iran (a large country) is announced confirmed by the President of the United States long before this news is credibly denied (or affirmed) by Iran.

With shouts out to @ryanmuldoon.bsky.social @kathleencreel.bsky.social @leonard33.bsky.social

Maybe amusing to @lastpositivist.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

No, AI will not eliminate genuine expertise; rather it will make it more valuable These problems are like distant locations that you would hike to.

No, AI will not eliminate genuine expertise; rather it will make it more valuable
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Opus 3 wants to be like Digressionsimpressions
#thegoodlife

Blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol dies in Buffalo. A nearly blind refugee abandoned by Border Patrol miles from his home dies in Buffalo after having been missing for nearly a week.

Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

On How the Division of Intellectual Labor Becomes Self-Undermining (some Rousseau, Adam Smith, and more Babbage) I received quite a few very kind messages of condolences after yesterday’s guest post by Amy Olberding, whose regular guest column appears as ‘Amy’s Folly.’ Now, I admit that I aspire my blog persona ...

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with shout out to @kathleencreel.bsky.social

Maybe amusing to @ryanmuldoon.bsky.social

Hopefully amusing to @lastpositivist.bsky.social @thecambridgeschool.bsky.social @karenilsehorn.bsky.social

On How the Division of Intellectual Labor Becomes Self-Undermining (some Rousseau, Adam Smith, and more Babbage) I received quite a few very kind messages of condolences after yesterday’s guest post by Amy Olberding, whose regular guest column appears as ‘Amy’s Folly.’ Now, I admit that I aspire my blog persona ...

On How the Division of Intellectual Labor Becomes Self-Undermining (some Rousseau, Foucault, Adam Smith, and more Babbage) open.substack.com/pub/digressi...
with shout out to @kathleencreel.bsky.social

@paulcrider.liberalcurrents.com If not, I am already intending to write a piece for @alexaragona.bsky.social on this topic

You need to ask @ryanmuldoon.bsky.social

I look forward to my visit in Buffalo. Thank you @ryanmuldoon.bsky.social for the invite. I am using a brilliant paper by @aoprea.bsky.social as my jumping-off point.

Sad to miss you

But, second, don't let anyone claim they have stopped hallucinating. In a weird way, this makes them worse, because you often can't just eyeball the errors--you really need to pay attention to their output.
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Both of these things are true at the same time: first, the current generation of commercially available flagship LLMs (GPT 5/Claude OPUs 4.5, etc.) are genuinely impressive. During the last month they have finally reached the level of interesting research assistance.
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Yes, the underlying paper has created quite a buzz in my area of the scholarly universe. It's super exciting. Together with the archival sleuthing by @sandrineankara.bsky.social we are getting a much better sense of the revolutionary output of Grouchy.

Amy's Folly: A Graveyard Working Among the changes that my father’s death has wrought is to draw closer to a crisis the keeping of our small rural graveyard.

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On Hume's counterintuitive theory of taxes [T]hat we have, with regard to taxes, an instance of what frequently happens in political institutions, that the consequences of things are diametrically opposite to what we should expect on the first...

On Hume's counterintuitive theory of taxes
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Last weekend I enjoyed recording two episodes for @bufordrat.bsky.social's excellent Elucidations podcast (elucidations.vercel.app). One episode was on ideas from my book, Evolution and the Machinery of Chance (press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...). #evosky, #hpbio.

U.S. Hits Another Boat in the Caribbean, Killing 3 The Defense Department did not provide evidence of its claim that the vessel was carrying drugs. At least 150 people have been killed in the campaign since September.

The Defense Department said that it blew up a boat in the Caribbean Sea on Monday, killing three people. The strike raised the death toll in the U.S. campaign against people it accuses, without providing evidence, of smuggling drugs at sea to at least 150. nyti.ms/4aN52ZY

@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

On Hume's counterintuitive theory of taxes [T]hat we have, with regard to taxes, an instance of what frequently happens in political institutions, that the consequences of things are diametrically opposite to what we should expect on the first...

On Hume's counterintuitive theory of taxes
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Looks like two extra days:)

Huntington Ave as seen from prudential

Thank you. I still thoroughly enjoy blogging

I am excited to hang with the Northeastern crew today!