Joshua Loftus

Remember, detaining children is something ICE did when Obama and Biden were in office. Republican leadership is worse by far, but the point is we cannot start looking the other way once the Incarcerator-in-Chief has a (D) next to their name

A succulent Chinese meal

trump is still slandering Alex Pretti while the New York Times runs propaganda pieces trying to reconcile him with centrists

Not only will they not dismantle the infrastructure (*gasp* degrowth!) but they won't even hold any people accountable

None of this deporting people to concentration camp prisons would be happening if the Bush administration had been held accountable for "extraordinary rendition" (thanks Obama!)

So many outlets were going with this narrative and I would click through to find out wtf they're talking about and it was... he's sending homan to MN, and he had... a meeting with noem? are these outlets just republishing one random low-level WH press officer's texts?

It is good they published this, but we also should not be in the condition of learning about this from them. Our educational institutions could have found this earlier instead of hyping/buying these products

Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence

Submissions are now open for UAI 2026 in Amsterdam. Deadline is February 25th, 2026 (23:59 AoE). Call for papers here: www.auai.org/uai2026/call...

Gonna leave this up because... Baby's first post

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"But résumé studies only measure callbacks. They don’t tell us who actually gets hired."

These authors of this brand new preprint wanted to know whether discrimination measured in résumé studies shows up in real hiring.

So they linked a large résumé audit experiment to actual employment data.

There’s also no reason to believe that “markets” or bond investors or whoever are actually opposed to fascism. The already wealthy and powerful have no need to save us

All this hard work and integrity under pressure to continue to legitimize a regime that’s trying to accelerate the actual destruction of the world

Ready to bike along the canals? 🚲
The 42nd Conference on Uncertainty in AI will be in Amsterdam, August 17-21! 🇳🇱

CfP is out 👉 auai.org/uai2026/call...

🚨 Feb 25: Paper submission
🗣️ Apr 23–May 2: rebuttal period
🎉💀 Jun 1: Author notification

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I'm a one issue voter

Lazily googling to find the title of a Poe story instead of going to my bookshelf

Instead of directing me to A Tale of the Ragged Mountains (good), google generates an imitation of a Poe story (🫥)

Got that first-time-back-in-the-gym-after-months DOMS

It's good, I like this actually

I like logseq

I'm skeptical of any proprietary products due to the danger of lock-in

Many leaders, too—lots of Dems, Macron and other world executives—fluffy little lapdogs coming to heel.

“We’re monitoring the situation” you’re doing nothing, you just had an aide use chatGPT to draft the same statement as every other empty suit. There will be no consequences, no rule of law

VGCA

I think somewhere on the order of ~10-20% answer yes when they've really read maybe a few pages, and the categories of these pages would be mostly religious texts or self-help

me: Hey look, a Klimt exhibition!
me: oh FUCK it's VR, never mind

-- I'm not supposed to yell swears anymore but sometimes it's pure a reflex

Bleak, but I'd guess the reality is worse than only 40% not reading at all. Many people probably stretch the definitions of "read" and "book" when they answer

Noise pollution is one of the few issues where I would go full dictator given the chance (despite being radically committed to democracy in general)

Tired half the time and have headaches most days

And honestly, don't mind it at all because of this guy's smile

One of the funniest things in the world to me right now is when I clip my own nails after clipping our baby's nails. It's like fighting a giant and that being 100x easier than the tiny minion

Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.

"Nearly 80 years later, the simplex method is still among the most widely used tools when a logistical or supply-chain decision needs to be made under complex constraints."

only half followed the description of the simplex method in here but super interesting anyways

www.wired.com/story/resear...

Tommy Wiseau

The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.

After a month in Sicily

My stomach just texted me this??? how