James Stevenson
@allaboutchemist.bsky.social
Research engineer for CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear) responsibility at Google DeepMind.
Machine learner and quantum mechanic.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0950-7775
Machine learner and quantum mechanic.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0950-7775
We are somehow approaching a political system where:
1) Every person who can tell true from false is united on one side.
2) That side still loses about one out of two elections.
1) Every person who can tell true from false is united on one side.
2) That side still loses about one out of two elections.
December 16, 2025 at 12:29 AM
We are somehow approaching a political system where:
1) Every person who can tell true from false is united on one side.
2) That side still loses about one out of two elections.
1) Every person who can tell true from false is united on one side.
2) That side still loses about one out of two elections.
I use a classic water-boiling humidifier (a Vicks). It's very cheap, needs no special water, and puts no particulates into the air. It acts as a small steamy heater, which would be bad if I lived in a hot dry place, but in my climate I only need it in winter anyway.
December 7, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I use a classic water-boiling humidifier (a Vicks). It's very cheap, needs no special water, and puts no particulates into the air. It acts as a small steamy heater, which would be bad if I lived in a hot dry place, but in my climate I only need it in winter anyway.
As a kid I wondered why Republican politicians didn't sound like the conservative Fox-watching New Yorkers I knew. Well, now they sound exactly like them.
December 5, 2025 at 1:39 PM
As a kid I wondered why Republican politicians didn't sound like the conservative Fox-watching New Yorkers I knew. Well, now they sound exactly like them.
Closer to home, Saturn's moon Titan has lakes of natural gas on the surface like water. Some people I've mentioned this to have been amazed that we don't just go get it.
December 4, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Closer to home, Saturn's moon Titan has lakes of natural gas on the surface like water. Some people I've mentioned this to have been amazed that we don't just go get it.
> every Anglosphere user still on X
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December 3, 2025 at 9:48 PM
> every Anglosphere user still on X
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When a conservative has truly messed something up beyond recovery, he either says that thinking about it is unpatriotic, or that thinking about it is womanly.
December 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
When a conservative has truly messed something up beyond recovery, he either says that thinking about it is unpatriotic, or that thinking about it is womanly.
Not necessarily magic. Sometimes the bad guys get lucky.
December 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Not necessarily magic. Sometimes the bad guys get lucky.
It could also be cowardice: waiting until he was fairly sure Trump was too weak to retaliate.
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It could also be cowardice: waiting until he was fairly sure Trump was too weak to retaliate.
"Monarchies with endless time horizons" is a sentiment unworthy of a free mind.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 AM
"Monarchies with endless time horizons" is a sentiment unworthy of a free mind.
"Who will hit back?"
November 13, 2025 at 9:28 PM
"Who will hit back?"
Can confirm. My dad would bake these on Sundays with a crunchy browned butter top made of corn flake crumbs.
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Can confirm. My dad would bake these on Sundays with a crunchy browned butter top made of corn flake crumbs.
"Democrats are terrible" is what you say if you don't plan to win. Once you win, you get to run the Democrats and (as Trump showed) keep almost all Democratic voters and donors. When your plan is to win, your message is "we are the real Democrats."
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"Democrats are terrible" is what you say if you don't plan to win. Once you win, you get to run the Democrats and (as Trump showed) keep almost all Democratic voters and donors. When your plan is to win, your message is "we are the real Democrats."
November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
It makes sense if you assume there's no link between what politicians will do and what the marginal voter expects.
November 1, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It makes sense if you assume there's no link between what politicians will do and what the marginal voter expects.
"Democrats are terrible" is what you say if you don't plan to win. Once you win, you get to run the Democrats and (as Trump showed) keep almost all Democratic voters and donors. When your plan is to win, your message is "we are the real Democrats."
October 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
More academic source describing Ford's wages from the perspective of his labor retention problems:
www.nber.org
October 27, 2025 at 11:22 AM
More academic source describing Ford's wages from the perspective of his labor retention problems:
There's one way: hostile billionaires own most of the news and social media.
October 25, 2025 at 11:32 PM
There's one way: hostile billionaires own most of the news and social media.
I mean, it's understandable, wherever you see big buildings you also see high rents. It's like how wet streets cause rain.
October 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I mean, it's understandable, wherever you see big buildings you also see high rents. It's like how wet streets cause rain.
"Reviewing its legal options" aka "asking its shabby Supreme Court pals if they're ready to ban political speech yet."
October 24, 2025 at 1:11 PM
"Reviewing its legal options" aka "asking its shabby Supreme Court pals if they're ready to ban political speech yet."
We're also looking to hire a Red Teaming Lead in Mountain View.
Red Teaming Lead, Responsibility
Mountain View, California, US
job-boards.greenhouse.io
October 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
We're also looking to hire a Red Teaming Lead in Mountain View.