Patrick McCray

She's still an awful grifting POS who resigned just in time to get her federal pension and benefit from some good old-fashioned insider trading on all the defense stocks. Launch her into the sun.

Author's nightmare

An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.

Odd piece in that the word "fraud" appears in neither the headline or article.

Also - were MIT's economists so detached from reality that they didn't wonder about a scenario where scientists were inventing so many new materials but keeping them secret?

www.wsj.com/economy/aida...

Paper-McPaper-Face?

For everyone who puts words on pages…

This would right at home in the driveway...

Making Art Work Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago,...

Delightful to hear...I discuss some of this in:
mitpress.mit.edu/978026204425...

…with extreme prejudice

Connection | Columbia University Press Technology gets a bad rap. It is accused of being a dehumanizing force, a chief culprit in everything from mass commercialization to environmental crisis thr... | CUP

Coming out in 2026...perhaps of interest:

cup.columbia.edu/book/connect...

This was good.

I am screaming stardust.

What most people would call corruption, grifting, graft, and criminality gets branded as "blurring of lines "

Yup; deep into V2 now.

One of my touchstones on this is Clark's Bugs and the Victorians; Ritvo has been good for some of the attitudes towards animals but I am trying to get a sense of how all this fits into the larger Victorian framework. And, of course, always keen for gentle intros to the V's in general.

Thank you

I'm not saying economics is a science but this was as predictable as Newtonian mechanics...

Thank you

Dishwashers are divorce makers.

Yes; own it. But it’s more empire directed.

I will buy a copy

Yup. On my list. Kingsley also wrote some nice nature essays about things like chalk streams which I’m keen on

Oooooh yes pls.

Any thoughts on Victorians' views on nature and the environment?

Any thoughts on Victorians' views on nature and the environment?

Absurd question but....What are some key books for understanding the history of England/Great Britain c. 1820-1914?

I'm less interested in books about the British Empire...more keen on the social history of British life in this period.

And nice to see it happen over several days...not too damaging on trails, etc. as in previous years

Santa Barbara County at 500% (!) for the 25-26 Water Year.

Recalling a DC event with Dame Sackler who, at lunch, bemoaned the trials of being a Very Rich Person.

Much more fun imagining this to be about PANTERA

It's Giving Enron On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

davekarpf.substack.com/p/its-giving...