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Cause you have a wonderful quiver of skills/experiences and a law degree will ensure you have the quiver that you imagined was possible for some future moment when MeanCat and others need a leader with just that unique quiver. If only the nap crew could share some of their banked energy with you.
Thank you!
āļø Thanks! Very interesting. Do you happen to know of any good sources for info about mapping underground rivers in the land-locked Midwest?
Courtesy of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and Scientific American, this is what theyād see if those thousands of vertical metres of ocean hiding it from view suddenly drained away: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgfk... But how did it get this way? 4/
Yay Illinois! But some kids drop out of school to go to work when their parents lose their home over taxes. There is bloat in school administration around where I am and it should be eliminated. I detest what DOGE has done, but we need to learn to talk productively about local, state, and fed bloat.
Case study: Erdogan replaced technocrats with loyalists and kept rates low when they needed to rise. Inflation soared to 86%, and is still painfully high. Thatās the playbook Trump's floating. Keep the Fed independent if you want low inflation without the drama.
Donald Trump: āIām going to try to get to heaven if possible. Iām hearing Iām not doing well.ā
I love the Playskool idea! Are we sure he is not interpreting it as a āPieceā Prize? For which raping children and women and marrying a porn model are qualifications?
This song remains incredibly relevant in 2025. Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes ft Teddy Pendergrass performing "wake up everybody"
Jesus Christ. If your credit isnāt frozen at all three bureaus, I would strongly consider doing that now
Putting down the iPad now, picking up the laptopā¦
And donāt build hideous buildings on the Chicago River.
This feels like an invitation to be further yanked around the internet by AI-created misinformation, ācome into our web and pretend to know AI while it captures you.ā She doesnāt mention math deficiencies in education which is the logical starting place if you want kids to understand AI.
I wrote about the manifestly illegal attempt to fire Lisa Cook 1/ paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...
I am wondering how the Federal Reserve Boardās Legal can/will assist her in its role to ensure the ability of the Fed to operate independently. And hoping this will force Republicans in Congress to stop rolling over. In 2016, some did prioritize the Fedās independence over trumpās tries to kill it.
Trump claims cause to fire Lisa Cook, a Governor of the Federal Reserve Board. Heās crossing the line where he has no authority. He will tank our economy. A Governor left a few weeks ago, already allowing him one Governor spot. Paul Krugman on Rachel Maddow did a good summary if you have access.š¢
Over a quarter of all homes sold in the first three months of 2025 were bought by real estate investors. If we want to make housing affordable again, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?feature=shared
Terrific!
Hello Lobsternanny, I agree. What if you or we or others wrote an open letter and found somewhere to publish that may reach a nominator? Skinnerās ability to morph brings a creativity to his approach to law enforcement thatā¦ Anything given him would be returned zillion-fold in public goodā¦
šØ Key Provisions of ACA at Risk The Marketplace Integrity & Affordability Rule imposes junk fees on automatic re-enrollees of zero premium plans & can impact 2.2mm enrollees Itās due to go into effect on 8/25 and needs your attention & help to spread the messageā¦ QUICKLY š
Iād go further and say using āEducatedā as a qualifier for whom we discuss hopes and ideas is part of what got us here. That those with a strong work ethic (in any profession), a bit of empathy, and a lifelong reading habit feel excluded from āprogressiveā because they are not āEducatedā is bonkers.
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Right. What would be great is if Mark could round up some of the AI experts who arenāt in cahoots with the republicans and sponsor efforts to 1) start educating the public clearly about how they are being led around the internet and 2) create algorithms and tools to reverse whatās going on.
Of course šāā¬ have much to teach us, if they are inclined. Even math, say the effect of a change in the speed of the running š on the angle of the crouch from which they begin their pounce. But š wouldnāt complicate the lesson with symbols and Greek letters. A š reminder the internet is loaded with šļø.
And the only data-creating/data-dependent agency that was, at least for a few more months, able to continue performing its mission without interference from trump, is no longer. Adriana Kugler resigned as a Governor of the Fed Board, creating a spot for trump to fill with idiocy and/or evil.
She is such an inspiration and Iām grateful for her voice. She is going to show a path forward for everyone but will also show true public servants a path to heal.
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"In other words, almost a third of the prices going into the CPI at the moment are guesses based on other data collections in the CPI." - Apollo/Slok www.apolloacademy.com/the-quality-...
I wouldnāt. This on top of the church's own issues is deeply disturbing. Iād been encouraged reading a few days ago about the Knights of Columbus praying for detained immigrants in FL - I wanted badly to see some redemption from the religion I grew up in and many near and dear to me practice.
So disappointing in so many ways. If others are interested, i was able to read the article without a subscription.
If trumpās attention were warranted there, and he wasnāt playing stupid games, he would have directed his attention to the republicans in *Congress* whose *job* it was to know about this and ask questions of chair Powell on a timely basis several years ago. So much of trumpās š§ is nonfunctional.
CNBC: Do you think Jay Powell should stick around? MIKE JOHNSON: My opinion is that we should reduce interest rates. The American economy is hot. CNBC: But if it's too hot, you don't want to cut rates.
Please give a little love to the second story on the WSJ app nowā¦. www.wsj.com/economy/cent...
I would love for someone to ask him is there anyone in the economy who might be hurt by a drop in rates. I would be surprised if his brain even connected a drop in rates to the risk of inflation. Or the risk of inflation to his tariffs. He has a single-focused mind of a debtor.
I can't believe me it took this long, but: T.A.C.O. = Trump Avoids Controversial Ousting
A good example of why we canāt trust any AI more than we trust those humans who manage it, whether we do or donāt like its output.
Who's responsible for the climate crisis? Two new studies try to answer this question: but whichever way we slice it, the answer doesn't change much. The wealthiest are disproportionately responsible for the greatest emissions, and that's why climate change is so unfair. An explanatory thread š§µ
Iād wondered and appreciate the article. I had no idea the evangelicalsā thinking about climate change was so perverse/anti-science/anti-logic/etc.
As the Republicans ban history books, pieces like this become even more important. Good read.
Great point but expand it please to all non-tech businesses. Their expertise is in building tools, not identifying needs and creating purposeful solutions which may or may not involve AI.
While Grok is in the news after being tweaked, I am reposting this cautionary tale. Please consider how you use LLMs and the risk of their outputs getting tweaked as was Grokās, but so subtly and over time that you might not notice until damage is done. AI is amazing but can be used for evil.
If I didnāt know the name behind the signature, I would decipher his last name as āDummyā.
My heart breaks for the pre-Project2025 public servants who must report up to this guy. If any should see this, thank you for what you do and if you hang in, please know your efforts are appreciated.
Been there for decades, but your post made me think about the 90s, going with friends to Virgin on Michigan Ave in Chicago as a social thing and leaving with a bag of CDs. And getting to the gym at 4 am in the morning to turn on a video channel. No online replacements for either, plus I got old.
Nor does he understand America or anything beyond himself really. Does he think we will stand for our taxes that currently go to FEMA going instead to enhance the 1%-ersā bunkers via their tax cuts? Looking forward to Governorsā responses.
Only if HOAs are required to hire civil engineers to validate the integrity of the underground system at regular intervals or something. I think lots of developments are going to be surprised to learn how water moves underground around their houses as climate change worsens. Ponds are pretty until š¦
Coming here to say that! Mrs. OāLeary and her cow were officially cleared! I hope the clock finds a home in one of Chicagoās museums.
High Interest Rates Are Entirely Trumpās Fault newrepublic.com/post/197473/...
The Vice President is lying. (@MarshaBlackburn tells this lie also) ā Undocumented immigrants are ineligible for federally funded Medicaid under federal law. More: www.healthinsurance.org/faqs/can-und...
Powell is responsible for the Fedās mandates - stable prices and max employment. The Fed works to influence an overnight interest rate and changes in that rate are transmitted to the economy. Trumpās priorities include revenge by tariffs and cheap labor for donor CEOs.
Right. Iāve wondered same when comparing press on evil of Noem and Gabbard v that on RFK and Oz, and Collins and MTG versus the male republicans, etc. No matter where we go next or end up, women have been set back in an agenda that almost seems to run separate from the rest of the mess.
I know how you feel. Once I knocked down a waspās nest that had appeared next to my front door in a day. A bunch of paralyzed š·ļøš·ļø fell out. I donāt mind š·ļø š·ļø outside and felt horrible for them but also horrible for all the lost work of mama wasp to feed her babies. Your web might be back by morning.
I think he is trying to say they will mandate the use of AI to make decisions. And MAGA and he will commiserate over how restrictive AI is as it makes its speedy denials, as if AI is not created by humans.
Whenever I see this, I think it is cute and a decent lesson of how anything will serve as šµ if we all agree to it, but then worry about how much of social media is fiction and who will yank us around through our love of šāā¬ š. (e.g., in trumpās 1st term, a supporter ārescuedā planted kittens.)
Thank you for the added info. I canāt help but remember similar folksā and some economistsā certainty that Kamalaās 25k for new home buyers would immediately and simply raise housing prices by 25k. None of them talked then about this actual outcome though it was right there in front of them.
Trump says of next Fed chair āI'm going to put somebody that wants to cut rates. There are a lot of them out there." Given that explicit statement how can the next Fed leader avoid being seen a stooge for the president?
I just read this article, but was distracted by imagining an article in a couple decades that will explain what poison, virus, AI implant, etc. had been ingested by the current adminās Cabinet members because I just canāt understand why they operate from the basest part of their brains.
And even less about the Federal Reserve as demonstrated by his mangled mention of interest on reserves a couple weeks ago on Squawk Box. Maybe he was once a talented BS-er, but he is not now.
This is a terrific explanation if youāve got a MAGA moving towards the fence who would listen.
Can we not do the pre- and post-July-4 random fireworks this year? Given the circumstances
To those whoāve relied on internet searches for medical advice, etc., the public-facing LLMs enhance that experience and fill those individualsā desire to be āinfluenced.ā A widely- and wildly-trained public-facing AI would only ever be right by chance. We must teach users to desire āright.ā
We live in a time of highly skilled misinformers. It is ***really*** easy to mess with a public-facing AI and make it dribble little lies that will be virtually undetectable to casual users who already judged it trustworthy, lies that build to drive behavior. Truth will no longer be foundational.
Thank you! To those fearing this replaces other efforts to save our country, please donāt forget republicans fired up their anti-immigration base with lies about democrats supporting immigrants who they claimed were eating š and š. This closes off the avenue of that BS going forward.
In 8 consecutive tests Tesla Full Self-Driving 13.2.9 ran down child mannequins while illegally blowing past a stopped school bus during our live FSD demo with #TeslaTakedown and #ResistAustin in Austin. Weāve warned Tesla for 2.5 years. Theyāve done nothing. Why isnāt somebody in jail?
š When AI is used responsibly for good, we get this. AI is amazing when in the hands of those we trust, but we need the trappings of science and academia and credentials and peer-review to evaluate who is trustworthy. This regime is destroying our ability to evaluate trustworthiness.
Was just going to say that. If we donāt engage with companies we donāt trust, and we donāt use public-facing language models, we wonāt become the tools of the developers of bad AIs. We need to be smart consumers and get kids off of the large language models.
š Thank you! I hated these. When they worked, it was math. Society would be so so much better prepared to avoid the misuse of AI if only all the folks who spread these things as some kind of āmysterious magicā had actually taken a moment to learn the math that made them work and showed their work.
NEW: A data broker owned by the countryās major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected US travelersā domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP). www.wired.com/story/airlin...
Love that movie!
Iāve thought this was a joke till now. The article includes his reference to a responsibility for āweed-whacking the weeds.āSo he thinks it was his job to apply a single tool and doesnāt see a bigger picture of āremoving undesired plantsā or āremove weeds.ā I wouldnāt hire him even for yard work.
Is anyone out there thinking about what we could do now to prepare for Vance, tech bro puppet, as President and whatever nightmare theyād install as VP?
Dear Mr Orwell Thank you for sending me Nineteen Eighty Four, which I read with interest. Your writing has some merit, but have you thought about setting this novel in a dystopian future? Little Point Literary #WritingCommunity
Even as I imagine with wonder how this will help the disabled, I am wondering why we had to shape them like us. Even when I wonder how this might help someone with dementia, I hate that it might be mistaken for a human. Very cool in its capabilities.
If Elon reveals how he won the election for Trump, I could be sure. š¤
First I felt relief, then I worried the same because there is nothing too low for them.
Reminds me of Vance saying the purpose of a menopausal woman is to help raise her grandchildren. These folks must have some disease process in their brains.
13-yr-old Camarria Williams made a remarkable discovery when she found a compound with potential cancer-fighting properties in goose poop from Garfield Park, Chicago. This surprising find happened while participating in the Chicago Antibiotic Discovery Lab, a STEM program in collaboration with the
When I worked at the Fed, I was always thrilled to watch Warren opine on the Fed whether I agreed with her or not. Her words are always based on a deep knowledge of the facts at a detail level and her efforts informed by remembering all of us in the public. Sadly, that is true of very few there.
That C among impressive Bs is evidence of a brain that has an strong internal allocator-thingy that preserves balance among learning law, contributing to society, keeping up relationships (e.g., with MC š±), growing š, etc. That allocator-thingy is powerful in the very best sense of power.
Man, I warned people about this guy YEARS ago and everybody was like, whatever Spiers, youāre terminally online, internet brain poisoned, this cannot possibly be important
This article describes ādark AIā and is worth a read! Understanding the humans behind AI is more important every moment as AI races forward.
Watching this, I remember your posts about hauling dirt and other less-than-fun tasks. This video is āBloom where you are plantedā brought to life. Thank you.
What they said goes for finance too. An article in the current AARP magazine tells seniors they can be āSaving Money with AI,ā and includes CHATGPT when it directs them, āthese general-purpose chatbots, simply type your questionsā¦What I found: They're all top-notch.ā NO. NO. NOOOOOO!
Chair Powell demonstrated strength in remaining a caretaker of the Fedās independence. Didnāt expect to see anyone leap from that to AI but the combo of āAIā and āFedā probably elevates a post. On what do you base your conclusion that the Fed ārigged the market...AI companies can never lose valueā?
Yes, but we ought to be countering. A MAGA takes away that Dems are worried about money for foreigners enrolled at Harvard while they can barely afford trade schools. š š© is rounding in MAGA support. Dems come off as worrying about Harvard to the EXCLUSION of the Trades.
Rather than bashing the numbers, they and their tech bro funders could so easily have created efficiency/improved estimation capabilities. And built edu for kids who could someday create next models. Even if nothing else, just Project 2025ās assault on data and statistics is devolving our society.
Fed Chair Powell graduation remarks to Princeton nod toward our current predicament: "Look around you. I urge you to take none of this for granted. When you look back in 50 years, you will want to know that you have done whatever it takes to preserve and strengthen our democracy."
And natural language processing and AI are amazing at laser-focusing the act of controlling the words to effect our content reception and sentiment with tiny shifts we humans arenāt likely to detect.
tl;dr ā this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.
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Toxicologist here! Not a dentist but I treat fluoride toxicity, & it has never been from a dental product. National data reflects this. Saying fluoride ācauses gut harmsā is a lie. Ingesting ANYTHING can affect gut microbiota, including dinner! That is not a health outcome let alone a negative one
Iām in a 55+ neighborhood. I learned a neighbor whoād just moved in died, leaving an orange cat and a striped cat. Another neighbor took them right in. š» š» Iām very grateful when I hear of agreements among neighbors to provide a home for one anotherās pets. Plans matter for š± š¶ . Canāt wait for š.
I donāt blame the poor or others for being financial illiterate and agree $ makes it easier. I blame the lack of teaching early enough in life when it would become 2nd nature by the time they are adults. I think some voters attached themselves to lies about finances because the tales filled a void.
Serious question in the context of a financial system made more complex with crypto, a weaker or nonexistent CFPB, and the dismantling of the Dept of Education, are UBI folks working around in the financial literacy deficiencies space? Resources would be appreciated.
The link gets some redirect messages and asks for another click. Is it meant to do that?
