Mitch Flax 🥑
mitchcalculated.bsky.social
Mitch Flax 🥑
@mitchcalculated.bsky.social
I like literacy, numeracy, computing, empanadas, and liveable cities. I founded a public charter middle school in Queens.
In fairness, other than trading on insider information from market movers, how do you predict the future price movements of a fundamentally worthless asset?
May 14, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Did Bob Menendez make this argument at trial? Did it work?
May 12, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Someone please make an “It’s this for that” generator for this stuff, like “We’re going to turn the *Statue of Liberty* into a *Bitcoin farm* and make America great again.”
May 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Sponsored by Vickie Paladino and Bob Holden tells you everything you need to know about this dumb bill.
May 8, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Go look at the list of companies dude! It’s Exxon, it’s GM, it’s all the companies you patronize as a consumer of cars and fuel. They sell stuff to you! The way to stop “them” is for you to stop buying it!
May 6, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The car companies are producing large numbers of vehicles for purchase because … people buy them. If consumers didn’t buy them, they wouldn’t make them.

And yes, livestock is a huge greenhouse gas emitter. Carbon should be better priced into the cost of meat.
May 6, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This is untrue and requires you to blame the car company and the oil company for your purchases from them to write yourself out of the accounting. Who do you think the customer is?

I’m not an LLM enthusiast! I just think it’s dumb to act as if the best reason not to use them is about carbon.
May 6, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Yeah except like 80% of the people pretending to care about the environment when AI is the energy hog are unwilling to make any personal sacrifices to slow climate change. They hate LLMs for whatever genuine reason about IP, accuracy, user sociability, whatever, and climate impact is just a cudgel.
May 6, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I’m an AI skeptic, but I’m tickled by the number of people lecturing us about AI energy use before and after climbing into a two-ton steel box that moves one human by burning the compressed remains of dead dinosaurs and releasing the emissions into the air we breathe.
May 5, 2025 at 1:02 PM
I know nothing matters at this point, but can we imagine if Barack Obama had posted a similar picture of himself? We would have gotten a week of wall-to-wall Fox News coverage of how this was an impeachable offense of unbounded disrespect to the church.
May 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
You may be right but I think you're overestimating Big_Ballz and Vape_Empire_233's ability to sit still at a desk long enough to last until a future administration.
April 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Idk what it is about Yglesias that inspires vitriol turned up to 1000. Progressives on this site act like he’s Steve Brannon bc he has some troll-y centrist opinions. He literally wrote a book called One Billion Americans advocating for a maximalist immigration policy and publicly funded child care.
April 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Reposted by Mitch Flax 🥑
Pritzker invokes his own Jewish background in responding to Trump:
"Stop tearing down the Constitution in the name of my ancestors. Do not claim that your authoritarian power grabs are about anti-semitism. When you destroy social justice, you are disparaging the very foundation of Judaism."
April 28, 2025 at 12:58 AM