All will be rust!

A bunch more of this advertising started on my area after the local city council started considering making their own public option for power.

If you have a venmo or other money-transfer method, consider cash.

While a thoughtful gift is nice, cash is flexible. Enough small gifts, and one can flee home…

With no particular authority (or endorsement), just what I’ve used:

Something I’m grateful for.

An update on a (usually work related) project I care about.

A cool program I learned about recently.

A policy that really would make life better.

What a particular emotion feels like to me, where it happens, and an image that fits it (use a list of emotions from somewhere).

What I spent the most time on that day, and how I think my relationship with it is.

A haiku (or 3) about something that happened today.

Game design ideas

Just put a relatively tech unaware friend on mint. They’re doing very well so far!

I thought many of these were in the “Shadow docket” (or emergency docket), which is not new and is usually not given justifications/opinions. I understand these are traditionally cases where the legal question just isn’t interesting (or expedient to flesh out). The court doesn’t hide this practice, you can read about it here: Related news service

This isn’t to say the court is acting normally. But I want to complicate this observation; one should compare with other presidents and issues.

My data plan on my phone expired rather suddenly (my phone was too old), and I just didn’t get a new phone number/data plan (wifi + wifi calling still worked).

It was nice having unplugged transit time.

I do those too! That’s where the ideas for new architectures, datasets, and training tweaks come from! Math is fun, and it’s fascinating that math can talk sometimes.

Edit: And I see now that we’re editing messages after people reply? Rude, no? Designing a hallucinating machine certainly doesn’t rot your brain.

I think in a non market economy I would still work on language models. It’s cool that a machine can hold a conversation.

This is from 2020; It seems like we might have more recent data and there’s been some shifts?

This is the 2025 report from the same group: https://www.nationalsurveyreligiousleaders.org/s/NSRL-report-2025-clergy-in-america.pdf

They say (page 28):

Evangelical clergy, by contrast, stand out as especially conversionist, with 82% agreeing that it is important to try to persuade people to join them. Only 35% of mainline clergy agreed that such conversion attempts are important, compared to 41% of Black ministers and 52% of Catholic priests saying that. Consistent with their more ecumenical views, mainline clergy are less likely than clergy in any other group to agree that it is important for them to try to persuade people in other religions to accept their religion instead of the person’s current one, though the differences between the mainline percentage and the Catholic and Black Protestant percentages are not statistically significant at the conventional level.

Same question in the new report is here; seems like it’s from the same data round though? So that’s a bit confusing:

There is an additional question, on how this varies for ‘primary’ ministers vs others on page 77; feels like it should be broken down by religion first, but I haven’t looked closely.

Brainstorming things you can do about it:

(US) tell congress you want NSF funding to grow, not cut in half.

(US) tell your state gov to start (resume, really) funding state colleges and growing their research offices.

(World) tell your government to increase research funding and support recruiting efforts. Help people get out and continue to do good work.

(All) consider donations and support for professional societies around academics. (Not just in the US; I suspect strengthening these institutions world wide will help.)

(All) let folks know that the US government is gutting weather reporting, basic research (in basically every field), training for future researchers, and ending experiments that have been running for decades. If there is a cool thing you’d like to see in the future, chances are a republican just broke it.

(Folks with far too much money; kinda shocked you’re on here) donate to colleges to create grad student/postdoc/faculty positions. Earmark it carefully so that additional positions are created instead of administrators relabeling previous positions to move money around.

This is making a classic media literacy mistake.

The argument being made is that we can disregard the source if the thing that the headline is about is a real phenomena, regardless of if the actual anecdote is true. I don’t think you can ever disregard the source; we should always ask who told this story and why.

Also, OP definitely made a choice providing this url instead of another. Sensationalist headline? Mistake on their part? Lack of English language alternative?

You can be selective with this power; works well for a lot of folks. Have a smallish in group where you’re always upstanding, enjoy all the benefits that our tribal brain craves, and also enjoy the material benefits.

Some folks would have easier access to their drugs though. Pre war on drugs might have some benefits

Needing to go through and disable all the stuff sounds like managing bloat to me, no?

I’m personally angry that we have ads on the default minesweeper and solitaire. Gross

downvoters: is it wrong?

The students read Tolkien, then invent their own settings. The judge thinks this is similar to how claude works. I, nor I suspect the judge, meant that the students were reusing world building whole cloth.

I would love to see the source on this one. It sounds fascinating.

I agree. It really doesn’t look like AI is the thing that broke. More like the education system, or something about social media.

As a civil matter, the publishing houses are more likely to get the full money if anthropic stays in business (and does well). So it might be bad, but I’m really skeptical about bankruptcy (and I’m not hearing anyone seriously floating it?)