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atrubek.bsky.social
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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sorayanadiamcdonald.com
seems bad!

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Screenshot text from the Atlantic Here is where the bubble dynamics get complicated. Tech firms don’t want to formally take on debt—that is, directly ask investors for loans—because debt looks bad on their balance sheets and could reduce shareholder returns. To get around this, some are partnering with private-equity titans to do some sophisticated financial engineering, Paul Kedrosky, an investor and a financial consultant, told us. These private-equity firms put up or raise the money to build a data center, which a tech company will repay through rent. Data-center leases from, say, Meta can then be repackaged into a financial instrument that people can buy and sell—a bond, in essence. Meta recently did just this: Blue Owl Capital raised money for a massive Meta data center in Louisiana by, in essence, issuing bonds backed by Meta’s rent. And multiple data-center leases can be combined into a security and sorted into what are called “tranches” based on their risk of default. Data centers represent an $800 billion market for private-equity firms through 2028 alone. (Meta has said of its arrangement with Blue Owl that the “innovative partnership was designed to support the speed and flexibility required for Meta’s data center projects.”) In this way, the data-center financing ends up being a real-estate deal as much as an AI deal. If this sounds complicated, it’s supposed to: The complexity, investment structure, and repackaging make exactly what is going on hard to parse. And if the dynamics also sound familiar, it’s because not two decades ago, the Great Recession was precipitated by banks packaging risky mortgages into tranches of securities that were falsely marketed as high-quality. By 2008, the house of cards had collapsed. Data-center build-outs aren’t the same as subprime mortgages. Still, there is plenty of precarity baked into these investments. Data centers deteriorate rapidly, unlike the more durable infrastructure of canals, railroads, or even fiber-…
November 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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diegokoz.bsky.social
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🚨 New paper out in PLOS ONE! w/ @caropradier.bsky.social @benzpierre.bsky.social @natsush.bsky.social @ipoga.bsky.social @lariviev.bsky.social
We studied 43k authors and 264k citation links in U.S. economics to ask:
👉 Why do some papers cite others?
🔗 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
October 27, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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karaswisher.bsky.social
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August 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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nkjemisin.bsky.social
Don't be too fast of a learner, or too slow. Don't have any disabilities! Don't daydream. Don't socialize. Don't get bored. Don't get upset. Don't have questions. Don't think.
neilturkewitz.bsky.social Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · Aug 26
“The school uses AI to monitor how students are working on their computers, recording screen activity & monitoring keystrokes. If a student isn’t taking time to read lessons, flying through prompts or not paying attention to the computer, a coaching tool will remind them to slow down & refocus.”
A 🧵
For $65,000 a year, a teacher-less AI private school comes to Virginia
At Alpha School, a new private school in Northern Virginia, students will study for just two hours a day using adaptive apps and personalized lesson plans.
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August 26, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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encephalophatass.bsky.social
That's why we need to push back against this myth.

Expertise matters. Skill matters.

Problems are solved by analysing and understanding them deeply, not by discarding every piece of knowledge we have about them.

Don't let Tech and Business bros convince you otherwise. /end 🧵
August 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
WARZEL: What if Gen AI is “just good enough, useful to many without being revolutionary? ..

“.. Good enough .. would likely mean that not enough people recognize what’s really being built—and what’s being sacrificed—until it’s too late.”

@cwarzel.bsky.social
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August 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
jayanthr.bsky.social
If there is one book you read this year, make it this one:
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akka…
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August 18, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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supercamilla.bsky.social
Very interesting new research:

"Drawing on previous work presented within the field of Critical Data Studies (CDS), we argue that our findings point to a more fundamental problem; namely the failure to recognize that the FAIR framework is built on a positivist conceptualization of data"

#FAIR
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July 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM