Okay, here’s what I hate most about this chapter: the framing. “Isn’t this story of technological progress that I personally don’t like because I don’t like this technology stupid?” Also how out of date a lot of the info is.
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Lesson 1: Autocomplete in Overdrive.
This lesson explains how LLMs work and describes some of the remarkable things that they can do despite being predictive text generators.
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November 26, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Okay, here’s what I hate most about this chapter: the framing. “Isn’t this story of technological progress that I personally don’t like because I don’t like this technology stupid?” Also how out of date a lot of the info is.
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We’re actually more powerful if we spend money than not but go off
Mike Walz lauded the cuts the Trump administration has pushed for.
US ambassador pledges 'we're going to clean house' at UN
www.newsweek.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:03 AM
We’re actually more powerful if we spend money than not but go off
Which means if you want to actually learn about AI, you’ll need to take something else because this is demented activism pretending to be scholarship. If you’re in the humanities and curious about AI and not just looking for new ways to complain about it, check out “digital humanities.”
This is not a computer science course.
It’s a humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
Neither instructor nor students need a technical background. Our instructor guide provides a choice of activities for each lesson that will easily fill an hour-long class.
It’s a humanities course about how to learn and work and thrive in an AI world.
Neither instructor nor students need a technical background. Our instructor guide provides a choice of activities for each lesson that will easily fill an hour-long class.
INSTRUCTOR GUIDE
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November 26, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Which means if you want to actually learn about AI, you’ll need to take something else because this is demented activism pretending to be scholarship. If you’re in the humanities and curious about AI and not just looking for new ways to complain about it, check out “digital humanities.”
Lots of the hysteria about AI reminds me of the hysteria about genetically modified foods. It’s an idea that scares lots of people for mostly dumb reasons. I think in the case of GMOs it’s a lot more obvious because that stuff has been extensively studied already. AI hasn’t.
November 26, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Lots of the hysteria about AI reminds me of the hysteria about genetically modified foods. It’s an idea that scares lots of people for mostly dumb reasons. I think in the case of GMOs it’s a lot more obvious because that stuff has been extensively studied already. AI hasn’t.
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Kash Patel’s tantrums about people complaining about how he wastes public money to impress his girlfriend are so funny. Like who is he even talking to, and what is he trying to accomplish?
November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Kash Patel’s tantrums about people complaining about how he wastes public money to impress his girlfriend are so funny. Like who is he even talking to, and what is he trying to accomplish?
Or he has dementia
"To South Asians and third culture kids, the encounter showed an immigrant son of the Indian diaspora flexing a very familiar and particular skill — one likely honed over years of uncomfortable interactions with paternalistic elders," writes CNN's Harmeet Kaur.
How Mamdani charmed America’s unruly uncle | CNN
To South Asians and third culture kids, the New York City mayor-elect’s encounter with Donald Trump showed him flexing a very familiar and particular skill.
www.cnn.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Or he has dementia
Trump should also make big private sector companies make their data available to researchers
November 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Trump should also make big private sector companies make their data available to researchers
He’s doing what our president should be doing
Brazil’s Supreme Court has ordered former far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to begin a 27-year prison sentence for a coup plot against his successor.
Ex-President Bolsonaro starts serving 27-year sentence for Brazil coup plot
The Supreme Court formally concluded the case against Bolsonaro on Tuesday, making his conviction final.
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November 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
He’s doing what our president should be doing
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Abraham, a physician who is not board certified in any specialty & has made a career as an extremely partisan politician, is now #2 at CDC.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
BREAKING via @jeremyfaust.bsky.social: The CDC's internal email server now lists Louisiana physician Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, as the agency's principal deputy director -- "an irresponsible choice," according to one public health expert.
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Opinion | Top Ivermectin Prescriber Now in CDC's Second Highest Position
Ralph Lee Abraham, MD, has a questionable public health track record
www.medpagetoday.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Abraham, a physician who is not board certified in any specialty & has made a career as an extremely partisan politician, is now #2 at CDC.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
Despite working full time in political office, he is one of the top prescribers of ivermectin & he oversaw the end of Louisiana’s public vaccination campaigns.
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Greetings from Ireland where my mother was a big fan of Ivermectin and other crank remedies. "You're all in thrall to Big Pharma" she said, as she bought paracetmol tabs by the thousand and who died a few weeks after a dangerous 'treatment' by a struck-off doctor.
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Open verdict returned in death of woman (83) who used alternative medicine
Marlyn Hilliard attended a natural remedies practitioner, Paschal Carmody, for treatment for arthritis.
www.thejournal.ie
November 25, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Greetings from Ireland where my mother was a big fan of Ivermectin and other crank remedies. "You're all in thrall to Big Pharma" she said, as she bought paracetmol tabs by the thousand and who died a few weeks after a dangerous 'treatment' by a struck-off doctor.
www.thejournal.ie/inquest-alte...
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lol what is happening
‘An Example MUST BE SET’: The pursuit of Mark Kelly in the military justice system sends a clear message to service members and veterans.
(Missy Ryan, @yvonnewingett.bsky.social and @nancyayoussef.bsky.social)
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(Missy Ryan, @yvonnewingett.bsky.social and @nancyayoussef.bsky.social)
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‘An Example MUST BE SET’
The pursuit of Mark Kelly in the military justice system sends a clear message to service members and veterans.
www.theatlantic.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:22 AM
lol what is happening
If I could only listen to one album for the rest of my life, it would probably be Timbaland - Shock Value. Two albums? Add Shock Value 2
November 26, 2025 at 6:15 AM
If I could only listen to one album for the rest of my life, it would probably be Timbaland - Shock Value. Two albums? Add Shock Value 2
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Google has released new artificial intelligence software and struck deals that have reassured investors the company won’t easily lose to ChatGPT creator OpenAI and other rivals.
Google, the sleeping giant in global AI race, now ‘fully awake’
Google’s newest multipurpose model, Gemini 3, won immediate praise for its capabilities in reasoning and coding, as well as niche tasks that have tripped up AI chatbots.
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November 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Google has released new artificial intelligence software and struck deals that have reassured investors the company won’t easily lose to ChatGPT creator OpenAI and other rivals.
Imagine being an economist whose life’s work is a body of research that somehow supports the merits of copays and other admin barriers in a universal healthcare system, then Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav come along and they’re like, “Nah, fuck that”
November 26, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Imagine being an economist whose life’s work is a body of research that somehow supports the merits of copays and other admin barriers in a universal healthcare system, then Amy Finkelstein and Liran Einav come along and they’re like, “Nah, fuck that”
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It’ll be renamed CDP, Centers for Disease Promotion
Dr. Ralph Abraham, who as a state surgeon general ordered health officials to stop promoting mass vaccination, will serve as the CDC’s principal deputy director. https://cnn.it/4p0KAL8
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 AM
It’ll be renamed CDP, Centers for Disease Promotion
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Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC.
(Gift article)
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(Gift article)
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C.D.C. Quietly Appoints Doctor Critical of Vaccines as Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham, who as Louisiana’s surgeon general ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccinations and who has called Covid vaccines “dangerous,” has been named the second in command at the CDC.
(Gift article)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
(Gift article)
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Shrug emoji. One time I cooked jap chae using a recipe from ChatGPT and it was a home run. I also ask ChatGPT how to enhance recipes I’m working with. Also I buy cookbooks.
NEW: AI “recipe slop” is overrunning search and social. Food creators say Google’s AI Overviews and glossy fake food pics are drowning out real, tested recipes — collapsing traffic and setting home cooks up for disaster, especially this Thanksgiving.
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AI Slop Recipes Are Taking Over the Internet -- And Thanksgiving Dinner
Food bloggers see traffic dip as home cooks turn to AI, inspired by impossible pictures
www.bloomberg.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Shrug emoji. One time I cooked jap chae using a recipe from ChatGPT and it was a home run. I also ask ChatGPT how to enhance recipes I’m working with. Also I buy cookbooks.
That’s what a deal maker does
Q: Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Witkoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
TRUMP: That's a standard thing. He's gotta sell this to Ukraine, he's gonna sell Ukraine to Russia. That's what a dealmaker does. I haven't heard it but I heard it was standard negotiation.
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
That’s what a deal maker does
They do stuff like this in Thailand too but they use Thai writing to make it less obvious to non Thais. I don’t know any Thai. But I had a girlfriend for a while who did and we went to this aquarium down there once together and that’s where she noticed it.
The National Park Service is introducing a digital annual pass that charges foreign visitors $170 more than United States residents across the federal recreation system.
National parks announce ‘America-first’ upcharges for foreign visitors
The National Park Service's new America-first pricing policy will see foreign visitors pay more to access popular national parks, including Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:01 AM
They do stuff like this in Thailand too but they use Thai writing to make it less obvious to non Thais. I don’t know any Thai. But I had a girlfriend for a while who did and we went to this aquarium down there once together and that’s where she noticed it.
Turning in my IO proposal
Trump on his administration's initial Russia-friendly peace plan: "That was not a plan. It was a concept."
November 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Turning in my IO proposal