james stevenson

There are success stories floating around in Seattle but it seems like it’s easier to build four skinny townhomes than one single stair apartment building for whatever reason

No, it’s really not. He is a generational talent at public communication

He’s very very good at PR

Some guest editors pack special issues with their own articles Thousands have penned more than one-third of a journal issue, raising conflict-of-interest concerns

Guest editors of special journal issues have been abusing their powers by publishing an excessive number of their own papers, according to a new study.

This is "a blatant case of scientific misconduct" www.science.org/content/arti...

Squirrel Chops at 23rd and Union is maybe the single thing I miss the most as a Seattle expat

Moon's haunted

GIS for Homeland Security | Geospatial Intelligence Informs Operations ArcGIS software for homeland security is a complete mapping & analytics system. Improve national security with actionable, data-driven geospatial intelligence.

Just a reminder that Esri proudly touts that they work with DHS, whose agents are currently doing door to door Nazi-style raids in Minnesota. Probably using ther software to support these operations

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#gischat

He won’t remember this in 3 hours

This is Waymo referring to training cops and firefighters how to interact with their vehicles. It is not about the operational labor force at all

I think this post nails the actual problem, for researchers at least—AI hallucinations would simply not be a problem in academic work if we’d not normalized citation-as-signaling rather than actual engagement—you can only cite a fake paper if you’re not in the habit of reading the papers you cite

There was that one guy who got reformed first

It’s literally just money. Defense is the one place where we let the government spend countercyclically

We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.

It is fun to go to the movies

Every legal story now is either

Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach

or

In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

His lab was humming with discovery. After one year under Trump, it’s almost silent John Quackenbush built a lab that is at the forefront of human genetics research and bioinformatics. Trump administration cuts have put it in danger of collapse.

www.statnews.com/2025/12/05/r...

a civilized society cannot just let a platform like xshitter exist without heavy social sanctions

Views are even stronger regarding antisemitism, with the Current GOP rejecting openly antisemitic individuals by nearly 2 to 1 (60%-31%), including almost half (48%) who say they should not be welcomed in the coalition under any circumstances.

Interesting to think about the overlap here

Sighing wearily as I install the Chik Fil A app on my phone

Boy and the Heron has a pretty clear central message, but the successive weird settings they run through, while impressive, feel totally unnecessary

This was a whole controversy within the field of anthropology at large. I always wanted to watch this documentary but never got to it

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It was nuts because even before then, one of the Google autocompletes for “slatestarcodex” was his full name

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I mean, these days, de Boer is a Marxist in the same way that Red Scare is a Marxist podcast

When are they gonna let John Wilson do a Criterion Closet episode?

Not sure it’d go this way, but being able to say “we saved your health care and your thanksgiving, republicans didn’t care about either” wouldn’t be entire worthless

Welp

I know nothing about what to expect but this feels like a VERY clear trend towards a Vogel victory based on election day turnout