Love this! Moneyball would be so funny in football: go for it on 4th and kick a field goal when you pass the 35-yard line

Attending my first Fed conference since the inauguration, and I get how people in totalitarian regimes feel. Any speaker who begins with praise for the leader or coopts the leader’s language (“rogue politicians”), you know they’re full of BS but you listen anyway to know which way the wind will blow

I have seen several times the look in a cat’s eyes when it knows it will die within a day. Cats know. Tonight my dog looked at me with that very same expression, that same knowing in its eyes that the end is near. But no, he just needed to go out and pee.

Thank you for what you do for all of us

I agree - the DVD has the “alternate” ending which should have been the real one: his wife lives and they stay together

“Like many unimaginative employers, the administration has decided that the solution is artificial intelligence.” As always the Economist is spot on

12:11 Is my favorite

The frame of Clearfell House was built with ash and larch, two species of wood vulnerable to climate change

My lecture on climate change will include slide 6, “The Larch.”

An interlibrary loan book of Boethiis’ Consolatio

#ILL, you have saved me once again.

Will you offer to work for eel wages? (Apologies for the joke - I’m a former academic, now adjunct, and feel for your last few years)

Not to geek out too much, but I love what the history of Joy of Cooking tells us - the early editions were about “wow! A fridge!” And later became “wow! Leftovers” and “wow international cuisine!” A great history of the 20th centurh

A coke can with the name Iphigenia in greek

Greetings from Aulis!

The New Yorker 100th anniversary logo, which says "The New Yorker 100"

Personally I would've put a diaeresis over the second zero

Is it okay to tell the judge one is a groupie?

Fuzzy photo of a billboard saying that Jesus is not Hod: Jesus did not predict in heaven.

Kinda cool that Arianism is making a comeback …

I would love to see him sue for copyright violation in an image he didn’t create

Haha - love it!

My name is Pontius, but I’ll also be “Pilatus” if you’re into that.

A distaunt cousin of the Pret a Manger wher Virginia Woolf worked out the structure of *To the Lighthouse*

He’s been getting the frozen orange juice futures numbers (apologies to the others who thought of this before me)

Waiting for the “Honey … .”

Screenshot of text: ROOSE Casey, despite the fact that we are both fairly struck by the sophistication and the capabilities of these A.I. tools, there are a lot of skeptics out there — people who [Highlighting begins] don’t believe that these things are doing much more than just predicting the next word in a sequence [Highlighting ends], who don’t think they’re capable of any kind of creative thinking or reasoning, who think that this is just fancy autocomplete and that the limitations around these tools will somehow turn this whole A.I. thing into a flash in the pan. What do you make of that argument?

There are skeptics out there who believe [LITERAL ACCOUNT OF WHAT THE TECHNOLOGY DOES] and don't believe [SCIENCE-FICTIONAL HYPE STORY OF WHAT TECHNOLOGY MARKETERS WANT TO CONVINCE INVESTORS AND CUSTOMERS THE TECHNOLOGY WILL MAGICALLY SOMEDAY ACHIEVE]

It’s the federal reserve open markets committee’s interest rate projections. Many people give it a lot of importance though it really signals nothing

the smaller knot, since it lets the tie sit at the belt-buckle. (I use different knots in my ties based on length)

“The platforms were no longer social, in any meaningful sense of the word, but rather centralized and exercising constant (algorithmic) editorial discretion.”

Thought this piece was quite astute 👇

“We were promised a handbasket” is one of my favorite tweets from his first term.

A brother and sister we didn’t think were brother and sister playing a brother and sister we didn’t know were brother and sister

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

I guess it’s his Dukakis-in-a-tank moment

Sorry to see you breaking character. But yes and thank you for doing so