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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 2d

The Railway, Édouard Manet, 1873
(been going on for a very long time)

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 5d

Good night, and good luck.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 6d

"Bari Weiss to become CBS News EIC" has been leaked/rumored a few times but this feels more concrete: nypost.com/2025/10/02/m...

Exclusive | Bari Weiss to be named editor in chief of CBS News as part of major Paramount Skydance shakeup: sources

Weiss will report directly to Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison as she helps set the editorial direction at the third-place CBS News, a source close to the situation said.

nypost.com

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Mike Rosenwald @mikerosenwald.bsky.social · 6d

His use of PCR sparked a movement that has freed thousands of wrongfully convicted people. Dr. Blake’s testing alone helped to exonerate more than 50, including several sentenced to death. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

Edward T. Blake, 80, Dies; Forensic Expert Sparked Innocence Movement

www.nytimes.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 7d

More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12d

CUBAN: “.. Rich people are doing better. They’re buying everything .. You raise my prices 15% to cover the tariffs? Pffft, not gonna change MY life.

“.. But if you’re a farmer .. if you’re just working your day-to-day job, .. you’re getting toasted.”

@thetnholler.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social

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Bradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 11d

Massive tone shift in the Portlandia reboot.

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Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 12d

Who consumes news on each social media site? 📱🗞️ The people who regularly get news on different social media sites often differ by gender, age and other factors. 🧵👇

Dive deeper: www.pewresearch.org/...

Bar chart showing the demographic profiles and party identification of regular social media news consumers in the U.S. on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X (Twitter) and Reddit

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 12d

An astonishing film.

Amazing to believe they were pulling the story and casting together while filming it. But, then again, some of the best music is jazz.

G @wake3d.bsky.social · 12d

I finally got around to watching "Wings of Desire," a movie I first heard about on @johnfugelsang.bsky.social's show and it's pretty remarkable. It's not a film that can be described by naming any other.

A group of swans on a pond. Still shot from the movie Wings of Desire.

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 13d

Overconfidence (and Dunning-Kruger) in chess-players, who typically rate themselves 89 points higher than their ELO rating.

“If I was matched against someone [like that], I would not feel good about that match,” Heck said.

www.psychologicalscience.org/news/2025-se...

Is Overconfidence Avoidable?

New research examines overconfidence among tournament chess players to investigate if it is prevalent in an environment that should discourage it.

www.psychologicalscience.org

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Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 14d

Maybe not ha ha funny.

Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 14d

It’s funny that they’re pulling a show about white nationalist terror cells so they won’t offend any Republicans lol

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 16d

For the record, ER contains 9 chords.

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 16d

A response that greatly summarizes my sentiments toward all those committees that summarize the worth of one's scientific work via # of pubs and h-statistics...

The direct question on Quora, though, is "Why is Eleanor Rigby (a 2 chord song, 4 at most) considered a great song?"

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 17d

I'm not making this up.

LLMs always will. Says the math.

Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 17d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 25d

Choose whichever angle you wish.

It still looks pretty.

Simon @hantsravens.bsky.social · 25d

Zubimendi goal 😮😮😮

#Arsenal #AFC #Gunners #ARSNFO #EPL #PremierLeague

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 25d

At the end of this week, a change of pace.

For each of us, a New World.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 25d

New article! A lot happened this week, so I wrote about how Antonin Dvorak wrote his greatest works in Spillville, Iowa in the summer of 1893.

And about saying goodbye: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/dvorak-liv...

Dvorak Lived in Iowa

And you once lived with me.

sarahkendzior.substack.com

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · 26d

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Sep 7

Psychology of overcommitment.

StuffbyStef🐚🌊🪸✍🏻🌈 @stephaniebumpus.bsky.social · Sep 7

White text on red background
“We do this not because it is easy,
but because we thought it would be easy”

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Sep 7

And on the era we are now passing through, note that it seems to be happening upon the passing of the last of the Greatest Generation.

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Sep 7

Minsky's theory of financial instability...applied to public health.

Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · Sep 6

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Sep 4

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Tankbag @tankbag.bsky.social · Sep 4

Senator Kennedy displays a picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene saying, "Release the Epstein files!"

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Sep 4

No notes.

No need for comedy material at this time.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Sep 4

"This is a photograph of the alien from the movie Alien..."

gizmodo.com/senator-says...

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Sep 2

All true, but I wonder about flipping the script and asking why non-college life is now increasingly so unrewarding.

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Sep 2

It's my kids' first day of school for the year, so let me share with you a summary of the empirical literature I share with them: School can feel like hard work, but it makes you healthier, wealthier, and happier.

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Aug 31

Instrumental Variable Estimation.

(Instructors, take note.)

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Aug 31

You've got 97 seconds to summarize the labor econ literature on how to obtain causal estimates of the returns to education. Go.

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Aug 25

After a 14 year journey, Eberechi Eze returns to play for his childhood club.

The stories that sport gives us.

Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · Aug 23

I mean good that Arteta got rid of that tunnel isn't it 😂😬

#Arsenal #Eze 🔴⚪

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David Dunning @daviddunning6.bsky.social · Aug 21

Word.

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