Schip 😼

oh you’re allergic to cats? grow up

Graph of Human Develppment Index, a UN metric that combines per-capita GDP, education, and health, vs. annual energy use per person. Each dot is a country. HDI increases with energy use to a point, then saturates. The US is twice as far to the right on energy use per person as the "kink point" where energy use stops influencing HDI. The UK and Switzerland are near the kink point, using about half the per-capita energy of the US, but have better health and education outcomes.

The United States uses about twice as much energy per person as Switzerland or the UK. The US also has worse public health and life expectancy. Few countries use more energy per person than the US. Most of them are, like the US, petrostates.

straight out of those Civil War histories where some ill informed white Union soldier got a view of slavery up close and became hyper abolitionist in an instant

i think we could have nicer convos about ai if everyone wasn’t losing their jobs en masse and entire counties weren’t getting poisoned by data centers

The actual headline isn’t “the bots have formed a religion” or “the bots have invented their own culture”. The headline is: a bunch of humans have discovered a new way to be emotionally manipulated by interface geometry. — Jay Springett

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

I would like to trade in allllll the Democrats for something better. Like the Mamdani model, please?

A typewritten note that reads: handing the next person you see $5 unprompted will affect more postive change in this world than giving a single cent te an "opposition" party that uses decorum as a shield against calls to make meaningful attempts to stop mass overseas detention camps.

while we're talking scams

helping you neighbor does more good than giving money to a political party that wants to find sensible common ground with fascists

I’m seeing phrenology but I’m hearing eugenics.

The thing about AI is that it’s that episode of the office where Michael listens to every step his GPS tells him even as he sees that he’s driving into a lake except the gps is AI bros and Michael is every ceo of every industry for some reason

Yes hello, former senior dev here:

Every time someone says “AI does [useful thing]” you can place a safe bet that what they actually mean is “a machine learning algorithm trained on very specific high quality data does [useful thing]”

All I can say this morning is look for the helpers, like Ahmed.

“Seven News reported the bystander was a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire named Ahmed.”

Trying to avoid this iOS update as long as I can.

His “understanding” of health insurance is impressively backassward.

If Costco got into health insurance it would probably be pretty good. Great idea. I call negotiating with Costco Insurance. ✋🏻

Bouncy castles are like catnip for Americans of a certain generation.

Sounds like exactly the same divide between those in my network who work for elite tech companies and those who any other job in any other sector. Normal people are like, “I don’t need or want this but for some reason it’s everywhere now?”

I vaguely remember tweeting something like the country that effectively captures this free energy source at scale will rule the 21st century. whelp.

The exhausting thing about neurodivergence is you are always chasing the next shiny thing. I don’t mind losing my stuff in my own house all the time but a new hobby every few months is a lot.

B.C. Coastal First Nations issue open letter to Carney opposing suggested pipeline Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, asking him to reject any new proposal for a crude oil pipeline to the northwest coast.

Coastal First Nations in British Columbia have issued an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, asking him to reject any new proposal for a crude oil pipeline to the northwest coast.

Im gonna go out on a limb and say this is a bad idea.

The Dream Hotel is not a great book to be reading with the dystopian vibes this week. 😳

LA is a hard city to live in. No doubt about it. I've been here since 1990, with about ten months off one time when I was working in NY. That's a lot of months of making rent, dealing with the particular demands of the city, and learning about the people I share the city with.

Going to a giant picnic later but that doesn’t change the fact that I’m ravenous right now.

AI Exhibits Racial Bias in Mortgage Underwriting Decisions LLM training data likely reflects persistent societal biases, but simple fixes can help, according to findings from Donald Bowen III, McKay Price and Ke Yang.

“Why do people hate AI?”

Meanwhile

news.lehigh.edu/ai-exhibits-...

Stay hydrated? In this economy?

This is from months ago now, but in my current moment, Julia’s words resonate yet again.

Hey if you need to decorate the inside of your refrigerator to feel something, I’m not gonna stop you.

Reading about the Canadian election results

Hey hey, it’s Earth Day! Try not to make Earth worse today! 🌏💚