Mark Masterson

Ha! I think you write full time because you can craft a pair of sentences that loop around with a degree of genuine beauty - like the two in this post. But ketamine, Twitter, a politician & that ability combined to create the circumstances for the rest of us to be aware of you (& want to read more)

This looks interesting, thanks for posting. Do you have speakers notes or something you've written to give a sense of the soundtrack?

I quite like this framing

The thing about AI training workloads is that they are completely indifferent to where they run. Inference is latency sensitive, training is not! This should be a slam dunk for the Icelandic data centre industry.

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

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Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...

“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...

In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.

Great thread.

So simple. So hard

Toward the end of our Yom Kippur service last night our Rabbi reported with gratitude a message of concern and support he had received from the Imam of the local mosque.

“Most British Jewish voices have consistently been clear that they reject Robinson’s bogus claim to be an ally of their community. It is important that we hear that again now.”

Yesterday's attack was truly horrific, on a community that's been part of Manchester's fabric since at least the C18th, and whose story the Manchester Jewish Museum tells with real eloquence. If anyone is in Manchester who has never visited, I'd strongly recommend it.

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is_way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.

show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic

Ngl it really does show how cowardly the senior American officer corps is that they will expend political capital over a national defense strategy that functionally means nothing and not marines deployed in Los Angeles or should we have black or female 4 stars

This 👇🏼

The. Worst. Fucking. Day.

Ever.

All this talk of ROE seems like a stalking horse for a separate issue, which I suspect has more to do with the existence of war crimes as a concept

It's worth noting that basically all of the GWOT war crimes that have become causes célèbres are in fact not about the rules of engagement

War torn Portland ME #monktoberfest

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Heaton Park. My heart is broken. British Jews have been warning you about this for years.

It’s Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur.

This is one of every Jews worst nightmare. Why we have so much security at synagogue. The anxious thought you try and push to the back of your mind.

Heartbroken.

As someone who once fought in a war, recent developments are just heartbreaking... The fools responsible for these changes make everything fundamentally worse for everyone

🧵The Trump regime knows that they are destroying the economy. They will never admit this in public, but they do in private.

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent was photographed reading a text from AgSec Brooke Rollins saying that Trump's tariffs made China shift soybean purchases to Argentina.

Minority groups, eh?

There’s LOADS of them. That’s what makes them a minority. That they’re so overwhelming. And they cause all sorts of trouble, by… er… there not being many of them.

Back to back “free speech” headlines this afternoon.

This

British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Abigail Jackson saying: Democrats, calling your political opponents Nazis has consequences. Study: Left-wing terrorism climbs to 30-year high And posting a graph from Axios that shows WAY WAY WAY more right wing terrorism, and showing a very slight increase in left wing terrorism this year that would still have it lower than basically every other year of right wing terrorism.

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse.

Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

Maybe the Brits would be a happier people if they ackowledged that the UK is a Scandi welfare state that happens to have nukes and that the actual global power to emerge from the wreckage of the British Empire is governed from Delhi.

Re: the AI/labor discourse:

*ACCENTURE SEES INCREASING OVERALL HEADCOUNT IN FY26

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene

RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth*

A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel”

Person watching on tv: well if they say so

What getting raptured taught me about B2B sales