Many people talking about how gasoline prices at the pump have already jumped. But what should really terrify Republicans is RBOB — the futures price on wholesale gasoline. This is up 75 cents a gallon since its low earlier this year.
LLM prose is everywhere now. How did it happen so quickly? A 25-year-old essay about Don DeLillo and Cormac McCarthy accidentally diagnosed the whole thing. new post
"LLMs have exposed a vast pre-existing cultural appetite for false profundity, and gave everyone a machine that can produce it on demand."
Interesting take! It works with a lot of airport literature too, I guess.
reading "Bombing to Win" on the subway and shaking my head to show everyone I'm against bombing to win
I'm okay with the idea that preference for LLM prose is a side effect of being prediction-error-seeking creatures. that only restates the original argument using neuroscience vocabulary
LLM prose is everywhere now. How did it happen so quickly? I think at some point we have to stop blaming the technology. new post
New podcast with @seva.bsky.social out now: Putin is getting the multipolar world he always wanted. But now that he's got it, he'll hate it. Watch below:
youtu.be/7xtB_MBG75w
unfortunate precedent
been thinking about it and here’s where communism first went wrong: having the October Revolution in November
they got along surprisingly well! or maybe not surprising given their nationalist proclivities
don't worry I have you covered
I have spent the past several months studying the cutting-edge research on modern democracies that have defeated authoritarian leaders.
I've learned that the conventional wisdom on the topic is wrong — in ways that have clear implications for the US going forward
THREAD www.vox.com/politics/479...
people born in america probably don’t realize how cool america used to be. how many random people around the world built their identity around US signifiers. the decline of American cultural hegemony is going to have long term consequences we're only beginning to see. new post
you would think!
without looking it up, guess the author. It's a person you know. "History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior."
Talking to @seva.bsky.social for the podcast tomorrow. Dictators, Putin, the global order - that sort of thing. Anything you people would like me to ask?
The tragedy of John Fetterman is that he used to dress like a slob but have an encouraging spirt, making him an Oaf of Rugged Individuality, one of America’s great oaf groups. But now he dresses like a slob and whines all the time, making him an Oaf of Misery
dueling is a great mechanism of elite turnover and we should bring it back
great way to put art into wastelands
The Supreme Court:
There's three votes for anything on the supreme court. If trump said "I'm the god-king of arrakis" he'd get three votes and a lengthy opinion about the long history and tradition of english common law with regards to the spice melange
the executive committee of the bourgeoisie comes to the rescue
A Boring Apocalypse, Russian Hybrid Wars, Jevon’s Paradox, and Sons. this week’s Office Hours
So Trump, and not the "anonymous staffer," actually did post the Obamas/apes video?
no putin has enough to keep going for now, even if there's an economic downturn
even if the US stays putin-friendly, he's got some serious issues now
