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The mirage of AI deregulation One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...

🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The fuck is a jingle horse

Laptops in the Long Run: Evidence from the One Laptop per Child Program in Rural Peru Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

One Laptop Per Child, 10 years later: "we find no significant effects on academic performance but some evidence of negative effects on grade progression... computer access significantly improved students’ computer skills but not their cognitive skills" www.nber.org/papers/w34495

I heard Ashbery read this ages ago. It is still magnetic every time.

Elon Musk Could 'Drink Piss Better Than Any Human in History,' Grok Says Grok has been reprogrammed to say Musk is better than everyone at everything, including blowjobs, piss drinking, playing quarterback, conquering Europe, etc.

honestly impressive feat from mr musk. grok said it so it must be true.

Registering my prediction: over the next 5 years, Tesla sales will continue to decline, and the Optimus robots will be a Cybertruck-scale nonstarter.

BUT.

The company will be a world-leading innovator in shady market manipulation and fraudulent accounting techniques. He’ll hit his fake targets.

Congratulations & thank you from a happy user! I hope you’ll keep up the good work!

Spare a thought for centrist dem consultants this morning.

They just learned their ideal candidate for the Democratic 2028 presidential ticket has passed away.

insane that people are getting in trouble for just quoting Charlie Kirk point blank. many of these people are not even expressing support for what happened to him, just quoting him & questioning double standards in how we respond to violence. we live in a far-right culture

I feel like one of the many effects of LLMs on our industry is going to be making it really clear that the coding was never the hard part.

🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.

The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.

Not a lot of people know this but the MC in MC Hammer stands for master carpenter

Conditional on somebody being a more senior scholar active in replication initiatives, they are less likely to be known for their own highly visible scientific achievements.

In other news, conditioning on the outcome reliably makes it very hard to understand how the world works.

Yes, this and other of my best-known cartoons were rejected the first time. Hear all about it on this week’s Caption Contest Podcast www.buzzsprout.com/1719352/epis...

Give up on your personal archives while we jam all your data into the content extrusion machine.

Parents, don’t panic – healthy screen time for children is possible, if you follow these few simple tips | Kaitlyn Regehr Yes, the huge firms pushing unsuitable content must be regulated. But until they are, adults can model the positive use of tech, says digital humanities academic Dr Kaitlyn Regehr

Parents, don’t panic – healthy screen time for children is possible, if you follow these few simple tips | Kaitlyn Regehr

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Why are young women increasingly left-wing? And how it could change politics

While commentators obsesses about how young men are moving to the right as important is young women moving to the left. Sam considers the evidence and implications. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/why-are-yo...

A tweet from Keir Starmer today that reads: "We're cracking down on migrants working illegally as food delivery riders. Wheelchair asylum accommodation locations with Deliveroo, Just Eat, and Uber eats so they can take action. If riders are staying there. We will do what it takes to ensure fairness for British people."

I'm pretty sure it's possible to calculate almost the precise number of votes every tweet like this hands directly to Nigel Farage.

Opportunities for interpretable statistics for large language models
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people will make fun of ancient civilization for consulting oracles and cutting up livers to tell the future and then type “what is the meaning of life?” into ChatGPT

I’m just a tech critic, standing in front of other tech critics, asking them to please stop insisting that the AI hype bubble is totally gonna collapse any minute now.

Your confidence is making it harder for the rest of us. It may be what your audience wants to hear, but that doesn’t make it true.

Connected by trains, maybe?

Rewatched terminator 2 last night. Fun movie about AI leading to nuclear war and how the easiest way to kill someone is to dress up like a cop. Can't say its themes resonate today.

🤬 Russian drone deliberately targeting a residential building in Kyiv.

"We know from history – and from the present in countries like the USA: The erosion of democracy often begins with the disregard for the rights of refugees."

20-30% i det vindue hvor jeg normalt prøver at lytte…

How Starlink is stitching together a pan-African strategy in small bytes Elon Musk’s Starlink looks likely to end up being the most widespread ISP on the continent.

Olumuyiwa Olowogboyega: "African connectivity has long been framed as a scale game: whoever reaches the most people wins. Starlink is making a different bet: infrastructure-light consistency, distributed across enough countries, might be just as powerful."

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