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Last year, the Canadian government ordered a flock of ostriches to be killed after some contracted bird flu. The movement to save the birds became a right-wing cause célèbre—and sparked a standoff with authorities, @engber.bsky.social reports: https://theatln.tc/8UCgg88M
November 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Last year, the Canadian government ordered a flock of ostriches to be killed after some contracted bird flu. The movement to save the birds became a right-wing cause célèbre—and sparked a standoff with authorities, @engber.bsky.social reports: https://theatln.tc/8UCgg88M
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Today is the day you read @engber.bsky.social’s ostrich-murder story.
All the Ostriches Must Die
How the plight of a few hundred birds in Canada became an all-out fight for freedom
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Today is the day you read @engber.bsky.social’s ostrich-murder story.
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Well that’s one way to think about intellectual property…
Common Crawl’s Rich Skrenta: “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet.”
Must-read Alex Reisner:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Common Crawl’s Rich Skrenta: “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet.”
Must-read Alex Reisner:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
The Company Quietly Funneling Paywalled Articles to AI Developers
“You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet,” Common Crawl’s executive director says.
www.theatlantic.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Well that’s one way to think about intellectual property…
Common Crawl’s Rich Skrenta: “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet.”
Must-read Alex Reisner:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Common Crawl’s Rich Skrenta: “You shouldn’t have put your content on the internet if you didn’t want it to be on the internet.”
Must-read Alex Reisner:
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Reposted by Daniel Engber
I have just discovered that Apple brought back the C/AC button in the calculator app in iOS 26, an act I take full credit for.
A Calculator’s Most Important Button Has Been Removed
This is clearly a mistake.
www.theatlantic.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I have just discovered that Apple brought back the C/AC button in the calculator app in iOS 26, an act I take full credit for.
Octopuses Invade the English Coast, ‘Eating Anything in Their Path’
www.nytimes.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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New PubPeer comment on "Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial" (Panda et al, 2024). Concerns about significant errors. #folinicacid #leucovorin, #autism
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
PubPeer - Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children wi...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial (2024)
pubpeer.com
September 27, 2025 at 2:20 AM
New PubPeer comment on "Efficacy of oral folinic acid supplementation in children with autism spectrum disorder: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial" (Panda et al, 2024). Concerns about significant errors. #folinicacid #leucovorin, #autism
pubpeer.com/publications...
pubpeer.com/publications...
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People sometimes face a conflict between intuition (system 1) and reasoning (system 2)
In cases like these, which will be seen as the person’s true self?
In cases like these, which will be seen as the person’s true self?
September 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
People sometimes face a conflict between intuition (system 1) and reasoning (system 2)
In cases like these, which will be seen as the person’s true self?
In cases like these, which will be seen as the person’s true self?
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Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!
The Great Implicit Bias Bamboozle
Where were you when you first learned about implicit bias?
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Major new paper by finds implicit measures like the IAT are no better than asking people directly about their biases. After decades of avoiding self-reports, turns out our sophisticated replacement tools work no better than what we abandoned. New post!
Reposted by Daniel Engber
This year's rising seniors have never experienced a year of college without generative AI. It's AI's senior year, too. And AI is ubiquitous: Over 90 percent of college students now use it in some way.
I wrote about how AI already changed college forever. (Gift link)
I wrote about how AI already changed college forever. (Gift link)
College Students Have Already Changed Forever
Members of the class of 2026 have had access to AI since they were freshmen. Almost all of them are using it to do their work.
www.theatlantic.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This year's rising seniors have never experienced a year of college without generative AI. It's AI's senior year, too. And AI is ubiquitous: Over 90 percent of college students now use it in some way.
I wrote about how AI already changed college forever. (Gift link)
I wrote about how AI already changed college forever. (Gift link)
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People normally think that certain things should not be for sale (e.g., organs)
But what happens when people consider the principled arguments economists have given for the view that these things *should* be for sale?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
But what happens when people consider the principled arguments economists have given for the view that these things *should* be for sale?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
People normally think that certain things should not be for sale (e.g., organs)
But what happens when people consider the principled arguments economists have given for the view that these things *should* be for sale?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
But what happens when people consider the principled arguments economists have given for the view that these things *should* be for sale?
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
" Watchdogs and institutionalists alike seethed with frustration. Did the health secretary want more regulation or less? What was his overarching philosophy? How could any agency possibly accommodate so many paradoxes? ... "
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...
Inside the Collapse of the F.D.A.
www.nytimes.com
July 8, 2025 at 4:01 PM
" Watchdogs and institutionalists alike seethed with frustration. Did the health secretary want more regulation or less? What was his overarching philosophy? How could any agency possibly accommodate so many paradoxes? ... "
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/m...
Holy cow
Do you remember Francesca Gino's claim on her website that HBS analyzed the "wrong data file" in their investigation, and that a "real file" proved her innocence?
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
HBS is now claiming that the "real file" was fabricated by Gino... and thus that Gino's claim was defamatory.
July 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Holy cow
💡!
Great piece, really sums it up well! Small note for @engber.bsky.social - I also thought Malone said "energy" but I think @enirenberg.bsky.social is right that he was actually referencing anergy
bsky.app/profile/enir...
bsky.app/profile/enir...
Influenza can be unpredictable with regard to severity.
Malone now asks about a "broad-based anergy of some type" that may increase disease severity coming out of the pandemic.
This is not how anergy works. Malone should stop throwing out jargon he doesn't understand.
Malone is finally done.
Malone now asks about a "broad-based anergy of some type" that may increase disease severity coming out of the pandemic.
This is not how anergy works. Malone should stop throwing out jargon he doesn't understand.
Malone is finally done.
June 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
💡!
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So far this article by @engber.bsky.social best captures the overall ACIP meeting vibes
‘I’m Not Quite Sure How to Respond to This Presentation’
The discomfiting spectacle of RFK Jr.’s new vaccine-advisory committee
www.theatlantic.com
June 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So far this article by @engber.bsky.social best captures the overall ACIP meeting vibes
Fascinating story on a little-known but unbelievably impressive mental sport :
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The World’s Hardest Bluffing Game
Why are some Iraqis so good at figuring out when a person is lying?
www.theatlantic.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Fascinating story on a little-known but unbelievably impressive mental sport :
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
The critique of science reform was "stifled"? All other points aside, this is simply not how I remember seeing the past dozen years unfold.
Somehow everyone feels stifled in the social-media age. It's the foundational emotion of the 2020s.
Somehow everyone feels stifled in the social-media age. It's the foundational emotion of the 2020s.
Meanwhile, critique of any of this was stifled. Work was sent to friendly journals to avoid the full rigor of critical review. Coauthors reviewed one another’s papers, and attacked critics online when pointing out major ethical issues in reform research.
www.chronicle.com/article/this...
www.chronicle.com/article/this...
May 25, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The critique of science reform was "stifled"? All other points aside, this is simply not how I remember seeing the past dozen years unfold.
Somehow everyone feels stifled in the social-media age. It's the foundational emotion of the 2020s.
Somehow everyone feels stifled in the social-media age. It's the foundational emotion of the 2020s.
PBS is really going for it.
(gift link)
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
h/t @antkaufman.bsky.social for breaking this story and reporting out the details
(gift link)
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
h/t @antkaufman.bsky.social for breaking this story and reporting out the details
Now PBS Is Censoring a Film About Free Speech
A worrying pattern has taken hold in public television.
www.theatlantic.com
May 22, 2025 at 4:59 PM
PBS is really going for it.
(gift link)
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
h/t @antkaufman.bsky.social for breaking this story and reporting out the details
(gift link)
www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...
h/t @antkaufman.bsky.social for breaking this story and reporting out the details
On COVID origins, we're now living in the mirror-image world of 2020: Now the lab-leak theory is assumed to be the truth.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Trump Thinks He Knows What Started the Pandemic
The lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origins has became a principle of MAGA governance.
www.theatlantic.com
May 20, 2025 at 4:49 PM
On COVID origins, we're now living in the mirror-image world of 2020: Now the lab-leak theory is assumed to be the truth.
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...
Terrific reporting here on the extent of PBS self-censorship under Trump
“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster
www.documentary.org/online-featu...
www.documentary.org/online-featu...
“C” is for Censorship: PBS Cuts ‘Art Spiegelman’ Doc and Other Dubious Acts at Embattled Broadcaster
Twelve days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse (2024) was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide as part of its strand American Masters, the filmmakers were told that a 90...
www.documentary.org
May 20, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Terrific reporting here on the extent of PBS self-censorship under Trump
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This is such an odd use of scare quotes, in the editor's note for a challenged paper:
... We are committed to "the truth" ...
?
... We are committed to "the truth" ...
?
May 9, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is such an odd use of scare quotes, in the editor's note for a challenged paper:
... We are committed to "the truth" ...
?
... We are committed to "the truth" ...
?
Is it really "another thing entirely" to have your mind changed by a bot?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Most Persuasive ‘People’ on Reddit Were a Front for AI
It’s one thing to be fooled by a human with dubious morals, and another entirely to have your mind changed by something that doesn’t have one.
www.theatlantic.com
May 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Is it really "another thing entirely" to have your mind changed by a bot?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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My response to the @docnycfest.bsky.social Monday Memo "correction"
April 22, 2025 at 11:49 PM
My response to the @docnycfest.bsky.social Monday Memo "correction"
So @amdocdocumentary.bsky.social has asked DOCNYC to provide "broader context" for its newsletter item about PBS's decision to pull the trans-themed film BREAK THE GAME from its scheduled slot on Apr. 7.
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April 22, 2025 at 11:58 PM
So @amdocdocumentary.bsky.social has asked DOCNYC to provide "broader context" for its newsletter item about PBS's decision to pull the trans-themed film BREAK THE GAME from its scheduled slot on Apr. 7.
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PBS censored my movie...
April 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
PBS censored my movie...