JT Olio

NYC is going to have the world's biggest media-manufactured crime panic in history the second Mamdani is elected. They aren't even going to wait until he is inaugurated. Whether or not you like the guy, you need to start preparing now for the fire hose of disinformation that is about to activate.

the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline The Steady State | October 16, 2025

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I hope to see you at a No Kings protest this weekend.🇺🇸

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵

WHAT THE HELL? This was there are recently as July 12, and now it's gone. web.archive.org/web/20250000...

Holy shit cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Motherfucking wind farms…

I am simply arguing that we need to be careful saying that something isn't conscious because we completely understand the constituent parts that make it up. there may come a time when we completely understand the constituent parts that make up the human brain.

100% agree that there is nothing going on in LLMs besides lots of matrix multiplication. but like, can you point to where the consciousness is in this image of a neuron? if it turns out we end up being able to prove that all neurons can do fundamentally is matrix multiplication also, what then?

Whenever I think about trying to personally switch to metric, I don't, because more often than not I really do want a measurement system where I have strictly integer amounts for thirds or fourths of the primary unit.

IQ Bell Curve Meme: * Low end: Use base 12 (Clocks, the imperial foot, well tempered music octaves, etc) * Middle: Nooooo, we should all use metric so everything is only divisible by 5 and 2!! * High end: Use base 12

My original reasons for writing The Mis-measure of Man mixed the personal with the professional. I confess, first of all, to strong feelings on this particular issue. I grew up in a family with a tradition of participation in campaigns for social justice, and I was active, as a student, in the civil rights movement at a time of great excitement and success in the early 1960s. Scholars are often wary of citing such commitments, for, in the stereotype, an ice-cold impartiality acts as the sine qua non of proper and dispassionate objectivity. I regard this argument as one of the most fallacious, even harmful, claims commonly made in my profession. Impartiality (even if desirable) is unattainable by human beings with inevitable backgrounds, needs, beliefs, and desires. It is dangerous for a scholar even to imagine that he might attain complete neutrality, for then one stops being vigilant about personal preferences and their influences-and then one truly falls victim to the dictates of prejudice.

Objectivity must be operationally defined as fair treatment of data, not absence of pref-erence. Moreover, one needs to understand and acknowledge inevitable preferences in order to know their influence-so that fair treatment of data and arguments can be attained! No conceit could be worse than a belief in one's own intrinsic objectivity, no prescription more suited to the exposure of fools.

my heart

Ridiculous - Google has disabled support for functionality needed for incremental backups of Google Photos. issuetracker.google.com/issues/36877.... What's everyone's favorite non-Google mobile photo app?

Interesting research! Human beings are, by nature, extremely bad at noticing & appreciating the significance of gradual change over time. We notice binaries, on/offs, either/ors.

"Winter temperatures gradually rising." - no one cares

"Lake X used to freeze over; now it doesn't." - people notice

The scourge of normalcy.

it's crazy that the 60 yr old fb moms on here don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of weird twitter syntax + every dril ref from the last 15 years. they really need to do the reading before replying to ironypilled postmaxxers like myself

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

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So good. 🤡

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I really can't overstate how badly caught off-guard the entire financial world is by this announcement. It's pretty clearly worse than the consensus worst-case scenarios.

This was….five months ago

this is gob-smacking:

www.ft.com/content/e025...

Yes. Let's fucking go.

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Good thing we got rid of all those "non-essential" people at the National Weather Service and Climate center, righttttt???

The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button

it's so brazen it's breathtaking

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But I wasn't very sure about it so then I asked it to write a bunch of unit tests. The unit tests didn't pass. Ha! I thought, see, people are still better. Then I asked it to fix the tests. The problem was a bug in my original program.

Oooh okay. I think I should probably use this more often.

I have a dumb little Go program that needs to use some Python libraries. I don't typically use AI for coding, but I fired up VSCode and Copilot and asked it to convert the Go code to Python. No surprise (but also still kind of big surprise) it did successfully.