Andrew Durstewitz

From the supremecourt community on Reddit: Simulating DOGE (Everything you ever wanted to know about Impoundment but were afraid to ask) Explore this post and more from the supremecourt community

What’s up with impoundment?

#DOGE #SupremeCourt

From the singularity community on Reddit: "New randomized, controlled trial of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. 6 weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outp... Explore this post and more from the singularity community

In other news, humans are bad at being robots.

From the Futurology community on Reddit: The insurance market will soon force politicians to confront the realities of 'managed retreat' due to climate change. In the US, tens of millions of people li... Explore this post and more from the Futurology community

Capitalism seems to be leading the discussion on climate change.

From the ProgrammerHumor community on Reddit: programmerCooks Explore this post and more from the ProgrammerHumor community

Startlingly accurate #coding #humor

I think power prices will be driven down rapidly, which will cause a huge uptick in power consumption technologies. In addition, economies that have struggled to compete due to a lack of power, will suddenly become productive.

I feel that we’re going to have to make some serious changes to our economy as we continue our post industrialization march and force multipliers like AI are on the rise. How will we compensate for a massive rise in GDP along with simultaneous growth in unemployment?

We’re Burning More Coal Than Ever Thanks to China Predictions of declining demand for the world’s most polluting fossil fuel are premature.

The countries that have led coal growth, like China and India, are also among the world’s leaders in renewable capacity expansion. Renewables—especially solar and wind—often outstrip coal in terms of newly installed capacity and growth rates.

How the Supermarket Helped America Win the Cold War (Update) Freakonomics Radio · Episode

Science drives the economy

“The politics of stupid” is a winner. I plan to steal it often

The creator of the universe I suppose…🤷‍♂️

From the environment community on Reddit: North Carolina Town Launches First U.S. Climate Lawsuit Against a Utility Company Explore this post and more from the environment community

We could have moved faster if there wasn’t a coordinated effort to hide the truth.

From the quotes community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the quotes community

Accurate

From the dataisbeautiful community on Reddit: USA vs other developed countries: healthcare expenditure vs. life expectancy Explore this post and more from the dataisbeautiful community

The effect of our method of financing healthcare in the US.

Cherry picked data. Gasoline vehicles are still FAR more dangerous.

Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online We tested a hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to spread online, examining generalizability across multiple platforms, time periods, and classifications of misinformation. Outrage is high...

Find the paper here, and summary of findings next!
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New paper out in @ScienceMagazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ @killianmcl1 @Klonick @mollycrockett 🧵👇

Finally!

Yikes

YouTube video by Justin Jackson Comparing Twitter (X) vs Bluesky: which did I switch?

"Is Bluesky meaningfully better than X?" I get this a lot.

New video!

- Bluesky features/apps I love
- Testing engagement on X/Threads/Mastodon
- How ads + shitposting shaped X's decline
- What worries me about Bluesky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoBx...

(Shares + comments appreciated)

Yea, this won’t go far. Just handwaving.

No background checks for Trump Trump's appointments what *else* could go wrong.

There, I fixed it for ya! 🤦‍♂️

I can’t be the only one that starts signing when I see buffalo. 🎶

Doesn’t dropping the case against Trump remove his ability to pardon himself and therefore leave the case until the next administration?

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

I love this.

So, the core of our economy…

Twitter’s heir apparent isn’t X or Threads — it’s Bluesky The blue bird is dead. Long live the blue sky.

Others have noted it but I will too: The big reason Bluesky is so hot right now is that the people who add value to social media - the frequent posters in specific fields - are here now, talking to each other and creating the "spectator value" that draws users and attention.

Getting robots to robot in a virtual world, before heading to the real world. Are they in the simulation or are we? 🤔

There seemed to be a big slowdown in the growth rate of @bsky.app yesterday. Wondering why…