Egghead
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Reality is a progression of Moments and we're in the dumbest one yet
Reality is a progression of Moments and we're in the dumbest one yet
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you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
you know, these days, many people time of year. but this season, try when to everything a special time — it just might become which with you
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one of the reasons this topic makes me so angry is that my father wrote his dissertation on existing policy mechanisms that could be used to implement universal healthcare with and without a nixoncare-analogous bridge in the late 1970s. we've had answers to this for longer than i've been alive.
How much are you going to pay doctors?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Which current hospitals get shut down ?
What happens if doctors opt out of the system ? Who is going to invest in new curative therapies. You ?
How much in taxes pr year do you think it's possible to collect if you took every penny from billionaires?
Half the amount that everyone currently pays could provide universal healthcare. Private health companies don’t need to exist. Eliminate them. And use your collective buying power and economies of scale to get it done. Every cent of their profit is healthcare denied.
December 25, 2025 at 1:40 AM
one of the reasons this topic makes me so angry is that my father wrote his dissertation on existing policy mechanisms that could be used to implement universal healthcare with and without a nixoncare-analogous bridge in the late 1970s. we've had answers to this for longer than i've been alive.
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I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
December 23, 2025 at 1:51 AM
I don’t mean to sound extreme, but I don’t think we should have torture camps for people with criminal records either.
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Even there it depends *what* in law. LLMs are good where (1) you need to process huge amounts of natural language data (2) ask it questions that don't fit well to boolean logic (3) every true positive result is a win (4) false positive results can be (and are) quickly and accurately detected
December 22, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Even there it depends *what* in law. LLMs are good where (1) you need to process huge amounts of natural language data (2) ask it questions that don't fit well to boolean logic (3) every true positive result is a win (4) false positive results can be (and are) quickly and accurately detected
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This might be insane & presumptuous of me, but my analysis on this as an artist has always been "redistribution of wealth means reinvestment in the commons", thus entailing a beautification through unified aesthetic, not unlike Art Noveau but less gauche. You need to FEEL the enrichment of SPACE.
The closest thing the left had to an answer to the question of what the future should look like (including aesthetically though with mixed results) was the green new deal. the petering out of that movement’s popular momentum in the Biden years has left a void that has yet to be filled
December 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This might be insane & presumptuous of me, but my analysis on this as an artist has always been "redistribution of wealth means reinvestment in the commons", thus entailing a beautification through unified aesthetic, not unlike Art Noveau but less gauche. You need to FEEL the enrichment of SPACE.
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I know we're being a lil funny. But I need you to say this like four or five times where everyone can hear you.... because this is with what we know of them ....
the center of this is them removing kids ability to say no
the center of this is them removing kids ability to say no
personally believe children (and adults!) should be allowed to reject sex
They call gender-affirming care "sex-rejecting procedures."
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I know we're being a lil funny. But I need you to say this like four or five times where everyone can hear you.... because this is with what we know of them ....
the center of this is them removing kids ability to say no
the center of this is them removing kids ability to say no
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“transphobes don’t want children to be able to reject sex”
December 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
“transphobes don’t want children to be able to reject sex”
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No one raves like Gaston,
Is depraved like Gaston!
No one claws his way out of the grave like Gaston!
No one's tentacles torment the skin like Gaston.
I'm incredibly skilled at exsanguinating!
My- we'll all die to Gaston!
Is depraved like Gaston!
No one claws his way out of the grave like Gaston!
No one's tentacles torment the skin like Gaston.
I'm incredibly skilled at exsanguinating!
My- we'll all die to Gaston!
No one shrieks like Gaston,
No one reeks like Gaston,
No one whispers in gibbers and squeaks like Gaston!
For there's no man in town quite as chthonic,
Putrid, impure evil spawn.
And his maw is uncannily yonic.
All before him is madness, all after is gone!
No one reeks like Gaston,
No one whispers in gibbers and squeaks like Gaston!
For there's no man in town quite as chthonic,
Putrid, impure evil spawn.
And his maw is uncannily yonic.
All before him is madness, all after is gone!
December 16, 2025 at 8:06 PM
No one raves like Gaston,
Is depraved like Gaston!
No one claws his way out of the grave like Gaston!
No one's tentacles torment the skin like Gaston.
I'm incredibly skilled at exsanguinating!
My- we'll all die to Gaston!
Is depraved like Gaston!
No one claws his way out of the grave like Gaston!
No one's tentacles torment the skin like Gaston.
I'm incredibly skilled at exsanguinating!
My- we'll all die to Gaston!
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Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.
The Republican ideology never changed, but the Republican dominance in media did
In all those op-eds, the idea that Republicans supported Workers was just Trickle Down Economics repackaged, "helping workers" by "creating jobs" by helping employers screw over employees. It's all made up!
In all those op-eds, the idea that Republicans supported Workers was just Trickle Down Economics repackaged, "helping workers" by "creating jobs" by helping employers screw over employees. It's all made up!
Shocked to learn that despite 1,000 op-eds about how they are now a workers' party, Republicans are doing what they always do when they're in power
We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN.
Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.
Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.
December 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The Republican ideology never changed, but the Republican dominance in media did
In all those op-eds, the idea that Republicans supported Workers was just Trickle Down Economics repackaged, "helping workers" by "creating jobs" by helping employers screw over employees. It's all made up!
In all those op-eds, the idea that Republicans supported Workers was just Trickle Down Economics repackaged, "helping workers" by "creating jobs" by helping employers screw over employees. It's all made up!
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Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
December 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Some closing thoughts for my students this semester on LLMs and learning #rstats datavizf25.classes.andrewheiss.com/news/2025-12...
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The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
new iOS update is sleek and also defaults in Music to “you must want songs transition as they would on a dance floor.” so many people will wonder why they can’t just listen to an album. Apps > Music > Song Transitions > toggle off.
December 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The way tech companies constantly do stuff that nobody asked for really tells you a lot about their bigger ideology. They tell themselves that you will like it over time. What they mean is you’ll learn to endure it, or you’ll give up. quality of UI is not actually anywhere on their radar
Real hermits know the feeling
December 9, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Real hermits know the feeling
*smashing other people's cars* "everyone needs to stop living in fear"
Drivers say they are terrified of the imagined many dangers of public transportation because it allows them to justify being the dangers of private transportation.
December 9, 2025 at 6:32 PM
*smashing other people's cars* "everyone needs to stop living in fear"
Relating the individual to the systemic with the specific aim of changing that system... Love to see it!
Jasmine Crockett: “If the numbers are strong that I am our best shot, then it’s bigger than my district — It’s bigger than the state of Texas — This is about the country because we know if we can change the Senate map in this country, then that’s where we start to get wins”
December 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Relating the individual to the systemic with the specific aim of changing that system... Love to see it!
"states rights to what?" continues to be the most important question nobody wants to answer
the party that wants unlimited presidential power AND states' rights
December 9, 2025 at 2:42 PM
"states rights to what?" continues to be the most important question nobody wants to answer
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My most controversial statistics take is that I hate the central limit theorem because it has bad vibes
December 9, 2025 at 1:42 AM
My most controversial statistics take is that I hate the central limit theorem because it has bad vibes
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I hope the new Star Trek Academy show is mostly about long, dry engineering lectures.
December 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I hope the new Star Trek Academy show is mostly about long, dry engineering lectures.
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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"Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about-they do most of the working, paying, living & dying in this community. Well is it too much to have them work, pay, live & die in a couple of decent rooms & a bath?"
a man in a suit and tie is holding a child .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a child .
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December 9, 2025 at 2:40 AM
"Do you know how long it takes a working man to save $5000? Just remember this, Mr. Potter, that this rabble you're talking about-they do most of the working, paying, living & dying in this community. Well is it too much to have them work, pay, live & die in a couple of decent rooms & a bath?"
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Reveals the lie at the heart of MQD. MQD lets SCOTUS kill a thing by saying "well, see, this power properly belongs to Congress, they can revise it" on the covert assumption Congress /won't/ revise it. But here kav says it out loud that Congress won't do its job, and that's bad for accountability
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Reveals the lie at the heart of MQD. MQD lets SCOTUS kill a thing by saying "well, see, this power properly belongs to Congress, they can revise it" on the covert assumption Congress /won't/ revise it. But here kav says it out loud that Congress won't do its job, and that's bad for accountability
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I understand those sharing that their grandparents migrated here with very little & the children and grandchildren ended up doing highly valued jobs. I also hope we don't just value one another according to income or job. There are so many other ways people contribute to society and communities.
December 7, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I understand those sharing that their grandparents migrated here with very little & the children and grandchildren ended up doing highly valued jobs. I also hope we don't just value one another according to income or job. There are so many other ways people contribute to society and communities.
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
December 7, 2025 at 8:31 AM
My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’
What if we made our communication of categorical data less clear and less reliable so that users can be allowed to spell things incorrectly, because we can just feed it to an LLM to also be wrong
What if we made things worse and more complicated and more expensive because it's the future?
What if we made things worse and more complicated and more expensive because it's the future?
Sure, dropdowns made sense once upon a time, though I do wonder if it was ever a good thing to force our users to conform to a database convention.
5/7
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December 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
What if we made our communication of categorical data less clear and less reliable so that users can be allowed to spell things incorrectly, because we can just feed it to an LLM to also be wrong
What if we made things worse and more complicated and more expensive because it's the future?
What if we made things worse and more complicated and more expensive because it's the future?