say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Men will literally run for the United States senate instead of going to Alcoholics Anonymous.

Graham Platner hid his sexual assaults the right way.

by Ezra Klein

I am going to re-up my occasional notice that @scolom.bsky.social can win a perfectly winnable race in Mississippi, if he had financial support and national interest (as some other people did in Maine). You know how cheap it is to buy ads in Mississippi?

let this be a lesson to deal with your feelings of gender anxiety and masculine inadequacy with a hobby or therapy or something and not a high stakes senate election

Phillipe, thank you for giving @menchik.bsky.social and me this generous invitation to reflect on our work! Hard to believe that @concernedjfaculty.bsky.social is only 18 months old. We've made so much good noise. And people are starting to listen.

Mona Khalil, Lebanon’s most well-known sea turtle conservationist, died of her wounds today after being injured by an Israeli strike

I feel sick

Just a reminder that the US Woman’s team has won the World Cup four times already.

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives.

🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

"Bassett's removal therefore signals not merely a personnel change but an erosion of institutional ethics and academic freedom; Harvard has made clear that universal principles are tolerated only when they do not threaten power."

Basset should be reinstated immediately.

It’s worth pointing out that automatic weapons were banned in Australia years ago. Notice that each shot is singular.

Imagine how much worse this could have been.

#BanAssaultWeaponsUS

Larry Summers was doing dating the right way.

by Ezra Klein

I bet these fucks were mildly inconvenienced at an airport and are now like, welp, time to kill a bunch of people via healthcare withholding so I can hop back on my charter!

Good morning 🫡