And it's funny as Twitter isn't doing great either. Their advertising cpm is now payable in-kind in nutritional supplements and shit coins. Where is everyone? Threads? Signal chats? Sitting in the parlor swirling brandy snifters and playing charades?

I saw a girl fall for this at Port Authority in line for the EWR bus a few months ago. I tried to talk her into staying in line for the legit bus (which arrived safely at EWR like 25 minutes later) but she went with them anyway.

I thought, "Really? 58% seems like a high acceptance rate for POQ."

Then I realized Google's AI was substituting the acceptance rate for Public Library Quarterly (a Taylor & Francis journal) in response to my query about Public Opinion Quarterly (an Oxford journal).

Anyone who thinks $4 billion would let California build a European or Asian style train from LA to SF needs to drive from Bakersfield to Merced while listening to an audiobook of Abundance.

"It would be nice to have high speed rail" does not logically imply "California is capable of building high speed rail within a reasonable multiple of its budget or that actually goes from LA to SF rather than between a few podunk towns in the San Joaquin Valley"

back to the safety of twitter

I check in every once in awhile

After all these reports of authors adding language instructions for LLM reviews in their papers I wanted to check this myself and I downloaded the .tex source from one of these papers.

Here is an example.
(I will not share the identity of the paper)

I keep seeing a Waymo with hideous corporate Memphis vinyl wrap and it has me all retvrn to the tradition of LIDAR artificial intelligence robot taxis having just plain white paint jobs

"It’s probably not a complete coincidence that the people who think you get airplanes by doing a dance for the god who invented airplanes didn't have airplanes."
open.substack.com/pub/thepsmit...

Funny thing is wolf/sheep/dog model is a popular metaphor among gun people for why prosocial people should be trained in and carry weapons.

i thought this was an obvious joke but someone asked Grok to check

We had a good thing, you stupid son of a bitch! We had NIH. We had indirects. We had everything we needed, and it all ran like clockwork. You could've shut your mouth, churned out regressions and made low six figures. It was perfect. But, no, you just had to say "Latinx."

I'm giving the 2025 Baron de Lancey Lecture at Cambridge: 'Repugnant transactions and taboo trades'. Come in person or by zoom! It's free but you need to register www.law.cam.ac.uk/press/events...

"Even if you think this was a move in the right moral direction, it was dangerous behavior. By presenting their expertise as part of a political fight, academics were not only squandering their credibility. They were asking to be treated like adversaries."
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I feel like the main reason rationalist Helter Skelter hasn't gotten more press is it's simply confusing. Zizian ideology makes hiding out in a hole in the desert while the race war you started plays out sound like an episode of Law and Order.

this is correct. and i kept saying this over and over over that this irrational reaction was going happen from about 2015 onward when normal liberal researchers turned a blind eye to radical activists becoming the face of their institutions and underming its credibility

sometimes lemmings drown

I checked Google Maps. There's a traffic light at that cross walk and the speed limit is 30mph. One side of the street is a large public park yet someone was driving fast enough, presumably running the red, to send a man 75 feet. It's infuriating but mostly sad.

You forget how quality of life-improving modern password managers are until you try to log in to Manuscript Central and their system of giving each journal a URL directory, not a URL hostname, sends you into password reset hell.