I hope you arenβt drunk and took your staffβs advice, Rashida and I donβt know this man and feel confident he didnβt care about us. Please restrain from drinking too much as you have been warned from your staff and stay off social media when you are drunk. I pray in his holy month you find peace and respect for your self,
uhhh oh my god
01.03.2026 08:39 β
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The thing thatβs most remarkable to me about these betting sites with respect to political issues is that anybody is willing to be a counterparty without also being an insider. Pure adverse selection.
01.03.2026 02:03 β
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I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
28.02.2026 16:09 β
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Two categories of analysts who might take a step back, away from the microphone or keyboard, this weekend:
βThose who assured us that Trump was the real anti-war candidate.
βThose who assured us that invading Iraq was necessary and would work out great.
28.02.2026 14:35 β
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In Iran, air power alone will not reshape the regime. Since WWI, dozens of U.S., Israeli & allied air campaigns have tried to force political change β none installed friendly governments. None! They strengthen nationalism and intensify resistance.
the guy who wrote the literal book on this stuff is dunking on the admin:
28.02.2026 13:58 β
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Did you caramelize those onions yourself
27.02.2026 03:34 β
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under submission to the law reviews finally, to the editors that are on here!
26.02.2026 04:12 β
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Surely itβs the whales excreting it, which explains why they were so critically important to the ACK economy
26.02.2026 01:46 β
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The people who run these AI projects are so deeply unimpressive as thinkers.
25.02.2026 15:26 β
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Itβs funny that there was a very popular movie made about this in the 80s. Except the premise was that AI would figure out that this was bad, actually
25.02.2026 14:36 β
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"It's a living."
"Not a very good one."
25.02.2026 04:08 β
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25.02.2026 03:58 β
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Also thank you for your service here, this is what I wouldβve scoured too
25.02.2026 03:56 β
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35k nominal in 1991, 85k real in 2026, etc
25.02.2026 03:55 β
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I thought the check was 100k?
25.02.2026 03:21 β
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The entire βI wanted to avenge Nixon and Reagan, and it ended up being for this fucking guyβ arcβyou can read it on his face
25.02.2026 03:07 β
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Oh no doubt, it will be scraped!
25.02.2026 03:02 β
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Look forward to reading!!
25.02.2026 02:59 β
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If you all donβt post your briefs publicly to a repo, like to GitHub, I would encourage you to do so!
25.02.2026 02:58 β
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Good luck!
25.02.2026 02:42 β
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See you get it.
25.02.2026 02:39 β
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Yeah but we also discussed how the fifth amendment privilege is nonjusticiable in the parent child relationship, so like, sauce for the gander
25.02.2026 02:35 β
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He looks terrible (non derogatory)
25.02.2026 02:13 β
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Back to back questions from my kid at bedtime:
How does the privilege against self incrimination work
Why are there no moons on Uranus
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Smartphones, Online Music Streaming, and Traffic Fatalities
Vishal R. Patel, Christopher M. Worsham, Michael Liu & Anupam B. Jena
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Working Paper 34866
DOI 10.3386/w34866
Issue Date February 2026
Modern smartphones present new threats to road safety beyond talking and texting, but the real-world effects are difficult to study. One way to causally assess the impact of smartphones on road safety is to identify arbitrarily timed events during which smartphone-related distraction may exogenously increase β i.e., a situation that relies not on plausibly random variation in who uses smartphones while driving, but when smartphones are used. We investigated the impact of smartphones on road safety by examining traffic fatalities on days when smartphone use likely surges: the release of major music albums. Using event study analysis, we show that music streaming β an indicator for smartphone use, where streaming most often occurs β sharply increases, by nearly 40%, on dates of major music album releases, while U.S. traffic fatalities increase by nearly 15% on those same days. Mobile device use while driving is a known safety issue, but todayβs smartphones present new and greater opportunities for driver distraction. Our study indicates how features of these phones may have important impacts on distracted driving and traffic fatalities.
On days when major albums are released, people use music streaming services on their smartphone 40% more, and U.S. traffic fatalities increase by 15% www.nber.org/papers/w3486...
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LLMs break our ability to conclude when there is proof of effort. We make high schoolers write essays and do math assignments not because we care about essay or because we donβt know the problem set answers, but because the effort trains them in a certain way. We read customized cover letters as an important signal of interest, because it has traditionally been hard to make a good one, and you could only do it for so many jobs you applied for. Gatekeeping is inevitable, and when the old mechanisms stop working, other measures will step in, like relying on the prestige of the candidateβs institution or their connections to decide who to hire, or what papers to cite or publish.
I think about this a lot with LLMs and education and also publishing. The hope that by undermining failing or unfair systems, LLMs will destroy the hierarchies and unfairness seems... naive. The result will likely be the opposite. jessicahullman.substack.com/p/zeynep-tuf...
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