The Pat Hayes

Every American needs to watch this:

Sadly, this actually sounds totally possible.

Wonderful image!

I knew Robin Tanner and his wife Heather when I was a teenager. They hosted the local chapter of CND and I was an enthusiastic young political activist. They were one of my earliest and most beloved role models: peace-loving, artistic, urbane and wonderfully kind.

Have you ever heard someone go off, and their words are so perfectly chosen, so well said in that moment, that you’re in awe? You think, “There’s nothing to add here,” and you applaud in your head.

That’s exactly this. Pure perfection. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

I used to regularly drive between the SF bay area and the Florida panhandle, but I havn't done it for a while. This week however: Crawfordville, FL at 1pm ET on Monday to Cherryland, CA at 8pm PT on Wednesday. 2,556 miles, 4 time zones in a 2011 Honda Odyssey.

Sabine Hossenfelder, my favorite theoretical physicist, just posted a new paper arxiv.org/pdf/2510.11037 with this zinger at the end:

"Acknowledgements
I acknowledge help from ChatGPT 5 for literature research
as well as checking this manuscript. I swear I actually wrote
it myself."

So that he can declare martial law and cancel elections. Think I am exaggerating? Wait and see.

He made the unforgivable mistake of letting someone video him.

Sure, you can contact me any time. I'm currently in California. I love that word in this context. I will refer to myself as an AI antecedent from now on.

Congratulations!

Except this is BS. Sme humans DO use the em dash (option-dash), if they know anything about how to type English text properly. I have been using it for 40 years.

The bird dance for the ages

The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think Strip away the ego contest, and what you really see here is a competition about how to screw over poor and working people more effectively.

The Real Reason for the Trump-Musk Feud is Uglier Than You Think newrepublic.com/article/1962... via @newrepublic.com

Why the one big beautiful bill is the single ugliest you can imagine The truth

Why the one big beautiful bill is the single ugliest you can imagine
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article) Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...

Cats know everything. The cat knows, but it does not care.

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

Tumbling driven by fast-moving water?

He didn't even get the joke right. It used to be about 'radical feminists', and the reply is: "One, and it's not funny!"

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas Yes, Peter Thiel was the senator’s benefactor. But they’re both inspired by an obscure software developer who has some truly frightening thoughts about reordering society.

Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas newrepublic.com/article/1839... via @newrepublic.com

If you think this is just cute, try going down an escalator with bare feet.

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... he jumped backwards in shock, sloshing his wine, and said, "Are you THE Pat Hayes??". And I was obliged to say, almost apologetically, that yes, I was.

So you see, I am just using the name I was given.

...at the time, I was wandering around a social evening at a giant AAAI conference looking for someone I knew, when another lost soul clutching a plastic plate of munchies and a plastic glass of wine saw me, smiled tentatively and leaned in to read my name badge. But when he did, ...

By way of introducing myself, an explanation of my handle. First, there are way too many 'Pat Hayes's (google it), so I needed something extra, and all the obvious ones have already been used. But long ago, while I was AAAI President, and hence something of a public figure in the AI world...

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If you haven't used this one I definitely suggest you do. 👇💙👩‍🍳🏳️‍⚧️

Individual selection can favor altruism, when altruism increases the chances of reproduction.

None of the above. It is the individual who is most likely to cause the reproduction of the gene which is expressed in the trait. We are devices that genes have developed to increase their chances of being replicated in future generations. For more, read Dawkins.