Robert (Bob) Kubinec

59% of Americans Oppose the Military Action in Iran www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/u...

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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I'm telling you guys, don't use LLMs to write! They're not good at it! Have them explain their output or document code, fine, but not for anything meaningful.

I'm actually fairly bullish on AI and academia as AI tools demolish some of the threats to academia, such as de-valuing in-person education in favour of MOOCs and the like.

The White House just posted a video mixing real footage from the Iran strikes with a killstreak animation from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

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Good attempt in the title, but I think they missed a pun opportunity @joshua-goodman.com

This is really one of the best use cases for LLMs. They are much more nuanced search engines than anything else available (assuming they have something in the training data).

Exclusive: Iranian girls killed by ‘double-tap’ strikes on Minab school Eyewitnesses describe second blast which killed survivors as they sheltered in prayer hall

We need answers on this from the DOD, and we need them now

Opinion | I Worked for Block. Its A.I. Job Cuts Aren’t What They Seem.

A really useful insider take on Silicon Valleyh AI job cuts

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

Wow, the Dem primary turnout among Hispanic voters in Texas is going to be giving the GOP sweats for the next 8 months.

Take Zapata County - turnout in the Dem primary there yesterday was 143% the total number of votes Harris won in the 2024 general election. That's wild.

The Man Who Stole Infinity | Quanta Magazine In an 1874 paper, Georg Cantor proved that there are different sizes of infinity and changed math forever. A trove of newly unearthed letters shows that it was also an act of plagiarism.

What this story teaches me: Science was always full of *****les www.quantamagazine.org/the-man-who-...

That is a problem with working with poultry, you're more likely to get diseases 🥺

With Dallas early vote now in, Crockett's path to victory looks gone. She needed 80%+ of the vote there to make up for Talarico running up margins in Austin, San Antonio, and the rural + western counties. Only got 60%.
2026 - 2020 swing hasn't changed all night

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wow kind of crazy

the measurement error is strong in this one 🫡

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it was working in a quarto document, I think probably prompt phrasing threw it off a bit

Many of the worst Middle Eastern dictatorships emerged from instability:

1. Saddam Hussein
2. Muammar Qaddafi
3. Houari Boumedienne
4. Omar al-Bashir
5. Hafez Al-Assad

Just to name a few... 😅

NYT article on khameini successor

If your version of "extremely progressive" is Mohammad bin Salman then OK I guess 🫣

Clearly trying to appease US/Israel so that the guy can stay alive long enough to take over

What is clear from this recent crisis is that #bluesky is the only reasonably reliable source of info. X is dead for that purpose. It's just Grok and weird memes now.

North Africa has the olive oil, so you're not far off

Yes though Claude may already be on the other side of that convo... 🫣

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude”

This is a nice contrast to all the awful behavior confirmed through the Epstein files. Proud of @jenlucpiquant.bsky.social & @seanmcarroll.bsky.social for picking up on the sexism & charlatanism right away.

all you guys on here being like "claude will change the world" and it just totally bombed trying to write code for a problem set in my glm class. basic stuff.

Guys, this is why you go to school. I guarantee your data science consulting firm is not thinking through what it means that the "machine guarantees the truth."

I think this is the boundary for me: in any particular application, does the machine guarantee the truth? If yes, we should outsource it to a machine (traditional statistical computing, simulations, solvers, for example). If not, we should not.

I don’t think we fully grasp how powerfully our politics is shaped by constant threats of violence

The tricky part is restricting the model to only generate free text when you want it to. That's what makes the Claude Code system nice is that it is highly structured to avoid doing that. The more open-ended the task, probably the more room for hallucination/generated text mistakes.

Please Publish In The APSR

Who does this guy think he is, an elected representative of the American people???

I don't think "AI made this" is an excuse. You sign your name to it, that means you wrote it.