Dan de Kadt

Midterms The question we face in the US today is whether a party in office which is supported by 40 percent of survey respondents can win an election.

Very thoughtful from @adamprz.bsky.social. At once somehow optimistic and sobering.

"We live in an unprecedented time and I have learned that history is a poor guide to predict what will happen."

It was a choice sadly

At all three places where I taught, veterans and military students are admired for their service, their ability to get their academic work done quickly and extremely well, and for often balancing family and school.

Not *once* have I ever heard a faculty member disparage a military student.

Sir Ian McKellan in tie dye

In principle, I don’t believe anyone should own or run Twitter. It wants to be a public good at a protocol level, not a company. Solving for the problem of it being a company however, Elon is the singular solution I trust. I trust his mission to extend the light of consciousness.

As you contemplate the news coming out of Jack Dorsey’s Block, don’t forget that he once authored this absolute banger

On the other side, have you read the Reddit sub mourning gpt 4o?

Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency Activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a draft executive order that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

Our Constitution reserves the power to run elections to the states.

Precisely to prevent a national tyrant from seizing our democracy by its aorta.

The President is totally impotent to alter how our elections are run. Suspending our Constitution will harm all of us, on Right & Left.

SQL always ez

Yeah he’s a really good writer. There are a few wtaf bits tho tbth

I built this app in Claude Code that

The Framers of the US Constitution created two co-equal branches of government with powers equal to the Executive’s.

One of those branches has taken a clear interest in rising to that sacred duty, which is necessary to defend all Conservative and all Liberal Americans.

“Here’s my workflow (AI generated image of insane white board) so you can do it too”

Who will run out of steam first?

The AI influencers on LinkedIn posting about how Claude Code has transformed their lives

Me, complaining about AI influencers

(It’s me, I surrender)

I think the place to look would be the instrumental variables (IV) literature. There are many problems it cannot help with but non-compliance (which is what your case sounds like) is one where it will help a lot and do much better than just hoping selection isn’t a problem!

stay in school kids

acAIdemics baby

Strongest evidence of the AI productivity multiplier is the near endless volume of LinkedIn posts by the AI academic influencer crowd

World and our industry is changing rapidly, but your best bet at success in this career is having good ideas that you execute at a high technical level, and publish in “well respected” international outlets.

The tools you use available to do this are shifting, but for now the goal is the same.

World and our industry is changing rapidly, but your best bet at success in this career is having good ideas that you execute at a high technical level, and publish in “well respected” international outlets.

The tools you use available to do this are shifting, but for now the goal is the same.

Right. There are some people posting about the end of journals, peer review, and the 30 pg paper, because they are outmoded.

They’ve been outmoded for decades.

Chances are that the fortunes of junior scholars today are still governed by publications in peer reviewed journals/presses. Good or bad.

I’m telling you, we’re 100% getting people in gelatinous pods with tubes sticking out of their spines

At the gym surely

Pls tell claude

I'm going to confess that I hadn't thought about it a great deal until late last year

Very much here for pro-university discourse but this figure exercises me greatly as a data visualisation exercise. Strong Charles Tilly vibes.

Actually depressing that the most 'unrealistic' bit about The Matrix is now just that there would be some special human called Neo who could become one with code and save us all

As AI takes all the jobs, one big constraint will be energy. So here's a proposal: What if we start growing humans in gelatinous pods, and harvesting their energy to power the AI, like a giant organic battery?

We can even use AI to create a kind of "synthetic world" for the humans while they sleep.

I stand corrected

RentAHuman.ai - AI Agents Hire Humans for Physical Tasks The marketplace where AI agents rent humans. MCP integration, REST API, flexible payments. Book humans for real-world tasks your AI can't do.

Not long before Claude is hiring meatspace agents to run its experiments and visit archives

rentahuman.ai

One last thing - I don't doubt you or I could engineer a similar workflow they engineered, albeit at a slower speed.

But that first required the idea, then the knowledge of the kinds of problems that needed to be navigated, the final analytical outputs to target, etc. Not obvious we’d have that!