Corey Rayburn Yung

An image that looks like it is from the NYT opinion section. Heading: “Is There A Smart Way to Cede Power to the Galactic Empire?” Sub-hed: Three Opinion writers debate whether Lando Calrissian should make a deal with Lord Vader. There are four images of contributors with names: Jar Jar Binks, Salacious B. Crumb, Nute Gunray, and Ross Douthat. The last line reads “Produced by A Lack of Critical Thinking”

What the F are we doing, people????

We are closer to the precipice than people realize. Remember, Cornyn is asking *Kash Patel* and *Dan Bongino* to arrest Democrats. How long until other Rs start asking for Ds to be arrested in other contexts? How long do norms hold at the FBI?

Those of us who use crime stats in our work have just been counting the days until Trump remembers that they exist.

Is this one of those math problems where the answer spells out "BOOBIES" if you hold your calculator upside down?

FWIW, I've tested Claude on probably ~1000 citations it generated. None were fictional. For more obscure claims, the citations didn't always offer support. Specific page numbers were often wrong, particularly with books.

I'm genuinely curious how it has addressed the problems that haunt other LLMs. An LLM, by its nature, focuses on linguistic form and not substance. Yet, Claude appears to have some significant guardrails in place to prevent citation problems. I'm still an LLM skeptic overall, though.

I think that's true of some AI tools. But, I've been surprised by Claude's accuracy on that front in my tests. It tends to focus on canonical works and some of its page numbers are BS. But, it seems to have solved the hallucinated citations problem in legal scholarship (haven't tested other areas).

But I might be missing something or just naive.

Would it be better if it said "starter reading list" instead? That was the only instance where I was on the fence about AI use because it seems like it could be a better version of a Google search (which is what most students do) and might actually get students to read books.

Murder Officially Plunged in 2024 That and more takeaways from the FBI's 2024 Reported Crime in the Nation report.

New data from the FBI: Murder fell 15% in 2024, the fastest drop ever recorded & violent/property crime rates fell to levels not seen since the 1960s. Murder returned to pre-COVID levels in 2024 & is may be the lowest level ever recorded in 2025.

jasher.substack.com/p/murder-off...

Sarcasm is the poor man's wit? Not after Bidenflation!!

The problem with the horse-race coverage of Trump II is that, across the board, he is destroying nonzero sum arrangements: rule of law, institutions, collective goods, trade relationships, alliances.

So what the media portrays as a win for Trump is usually a net loss for everyone, including the US.

Listen, I got my article down to 78 pages (from a high of 83). Stop subskeeting me!

Techbro-brain will end humanity

if I'm ever murdered, I want my AI-generated image to be used to tell the court about white genocide in South Africa

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Calling books "content"

only took them ~30 years to learn the prisoner's dilemma

Sometimes

My daily goal is delaying "Sometime Later" for as long as possible.

Once you hit 50? Your eternal soul.

My average workday:

9 AM until Sometime Later: Write, edit, write. Wow, I'm getting so much done. I rule!
Sometime later: WTF is this on Bluesky? A freakin' nuclear reactor on the Moon?!?!
Afterwards: What's the point? Who cares about my bullshit law review? The Earth is doomed.

Fin!

A poster for "Iron Sky," a sci-fi film about how the Nazis fled to the Moon after WW II.

I saw that documentary!

I thought about it, but couldn't make it work. My article draft has drained my limited brain power.

Maybe appointing the Real World guy to head the Department of Transporation AND NASA was a mistake.

I'm curious about what exactly a nuclear power plant on the Moon would power (but not curious enough to read the article).

Democrats should respond by proposing a coal plant on Venus

I checked a few times to see if this was the onion

Things they don't tell you about aging:
Mutant eyebrow hair
Dry skin
Other than (maybe) riding a bicycle, if you try to do something you could easily do when you were younger, you will end up in the ER
Your ears never stop growing
You will pay a substantial price for staying up after midnight