Dan Ryan

Nick Pettigrew @Nick_Pettigrew Polio was eradicated because Jonas Salk chose not to patent the vaccine, if you want a perfect example of a socialist act. Quote Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 · Jun 24 Socialism is like polio, it comes back when people forget about the horrible damage it did last time.

REMINDER: A socialist act by a New Yorker was a major reason why polio was eliminated in the US.

That's the big distinction? In the context of current events, this is a big point worth making? Perspective?

It’s not lost on me that the people celebrating masked agents enforcing curfews and checkpoints were the same people losing their shit when they were asked to stay home and wear a mask for their own safety

Did I hear the researchers on NPR right? Fifty dollars a week bought 1.something more days of school attendance per semester. And this is big impact? I'm sure I missed something.

Brava. Watching folks fall for heterodoxy as high mindedness has been depressing for several years.

Sign for furniture showroom that reads SHACK OF SIT

As for my favourite spoonerized business name, it will never not be this furniture showroom in New Zealand...

It's a common name. Apparently some hallucinations at your end.

Yet another intellectual trying for a clever anti-AI take. And failing. Basic social science error: sampling on the dependent variable. Easy to find unimpressive examples if you hang out in spaces populated by folks not doing interesting stuff.

Well done.

Has the Trump administration started any prosecutions of the employers where these undocumented immigrants were working? 8 U.S.C. § 1324a Unlawful Employment of Aliens calls for civil fines, criminal penalties, or debarment from government contracts. Hallo, Pam Bondi.

Clearly not enough.

Journalists are too busy fetishizing clicks and reposts to do real work like this.

So, IIUC, you try to enter US to work. We catch you and deport you. You try again. We catch you and then American taxpayers pay to house and feed you for the rest of your life. Probably to some private prison company. Sounds like a brilliant plan. Solid cost benefit analysis behind it, no doubt.

As contrasted with the institutions that were very prepared for ChatGPT's adoption?

I think you are catching on go the plan.

The intellectual equivalent of a mail-order bride.

Hopefully it will be noted as theft. Be ironic if Trump's downfall were due to stealing from immigrants.

Reporters need to up their game. They ought to have a lightning reflex: give us a concrete example. how often does this happen? How do the amounts involved compare to provider fraud?

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA):

"I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

Martha Stewart went to prison for far less than what Trump did today. And he did it out in the open. On social media. He's installed his own people at the head of all regulatory commissions. Nobody to hold him accountable. Laws no longer apply to him. Pisses me off.

If nobody in the house or SEC has the spine to call him out on this, we are doomed. Were I one of the many people currently in jail for insider trading and related crimes, I'd be pretty pissed off.

I was learning about bond market with Claude when I should have been insider trading with Don today. What I call "Play Lennon to my McCartney" style learning with LLMs is very powerful. Re-upped my very rusty appreciation of tensor math yesterday. innoeduvation.org/danryan/dev/...

Certainly seeing the argument that social security should be replaced by index fund accounts for all Americans. Then president could hold whole country hostage.

Trump yard signs were very effective like this. Harris : high prices; Trump low prices. Stupid simple stuff like that. But effective.

This sort of left schooling the left shit is why we are in this situation. A lot of us are really tired of your BS.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Well, Trump got some big crowds today.

I really wish Bluesky would figure out the interaction thing. Conversations here have so little back and forth AFAICT. Twitter remains superior for engagement. Is this hard to fix?