compared to the academic philosophy conferences I used to go to (and hated), AI/ML conferences are incredibly trans friendly (not to say that there isn't lots of room for improvement).
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compared to the academic philosophy conferences I used to go to (and hated), AI/ML conferences are incredibly trans friendly (not to say that there isn't lots of room for improvement).
how do we make local control unambiguously right-coded again
actual abundance means nuking Irene's entire life www.propublica.org/article/iren...
Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.
well, they do until they decide that [east] asians are too capitalist
schade
car culture also makes this less possible---kids are less independent if they can't get to places by themselves.
Kraft Heinz Stockhausen
he does eat a lot
*cough* and if you stay on bsky you join the marxist reading group ?
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one time there was only a Clear line, no TSA Precheck, at one of the SFO United terminals. I felt scammed (by TSA offering a paid service that then isn't available).
This story just got even worse: Firefighters question leadersâ role in Washington immigration raid Wildfire veterans believe top officials on the fire sent their crews into an ambush
also scammy dentists are also a thing in pgh
maybe I got lucky but did not have these problems with dentists or doctors in nyc
âI donât want asylum seekers to live on my streetâ is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician
âWoo badâ vindicated again
This is what hes referring to btw. He thinks the property on the left has more character than the right.
... do I want to know why this has become a topic of discussion?
oh yeah, I'm not disputing the fear in general.
always cracks me up how janky/scam-like those class action settlement websites where you claim your share of the settlement are.
'things would be worse for malays if we liberalized' is the ruling party's argument for why not to liberalize =P
that's a fair fear in _general_ but the sg case is complicated b/c I'd argue that the current authoritarian situation makes the actual distribution of power more tilted towards the majority group than it would be otherwise
yes but also in practice... france is a lot less accommodating to immigrants then latin america
So with the additional restriction of âbeing a democracyâ that would exclude some Latin American states as well Malaysia is a better candidate than Indonesia if âbeing a democracyâ is a condition
Not sure where size cutoff is but if Switzerland counts then Iâm tempted to include Singapore Latin American ethnicity is complicated⊠do we count it as not multicultural if the immigrants assimilate well?
I do think it's worth pointing out that housing policy wonks have long pointed out that in balanced housing markets you don't need subsidies for the 80% AMI band. It's somewhat frustrating to be proven correct on this with the clear negative impacts to non-profit housing orgs.
I think itâs def more similar to Boston than to NYC
it's superior in many ways tbh; I think the 2 cities are quite different
and use money to fund cta obviously
congestion pricing on dan ryan exp, not specific to downtown
I look forward to every major city in the US implementing congestion pricing
we also mostly consume classic cocktails only at home b/c they cost almost nothing to make... I only ever order cocktails outside if they contain ingredients that are impractical to have at home.
most europeans also have this snobbish view of american food/drink culture but the ones who have lived here a while know different
Take any classic cocktail recipe that contains aperol or Campari and sub Cynar in 1-1. Spritz contains champagne yes. Negroni is another classic that I prefer Cynar in.
Yes, cynar is also better than aperol! But bruto americano is even better (in case you havenât tried it)
Seriously though⊠once youâve tasted Bruto Americano you wonât opt for aperol or Campari again given the choice
Would love to see a good study on how the current subsidy system encourages sprawl
Saw an aperol ad that was like âaperol spritz: the no. 1 cocktail in Italyâ and itâs like⊠but what if Italy does not have good cocktail culture
Subsidized housing in Seattle is more than 10% vacant, with rents often near market. And Seattle isnât alone. We need to focus on making the market work for the top ~80% and focus subsidy at the very bottom, subsidized housing for all is a failed strategy. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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I grew very familiar with this particular way that higher income old white people look like in coastal California.
This is not specific to the Trump era. Reading fintech newsletters has made me ultra-skeptical of having my finances handled by anything resembling a startup. open.substack.com/pub/fintechb...
FAFO
I couldn't get through even the first poppy war book due to the heavy-handedness
Tbh itâs kinda interesting how a lot of lefties admire Chinese green industrial policy, when the policy itself really isnât so much about reshaping society in one way or another, just maximizing cheap solar panels and batteries, which translates to a lot of policies lefties may find distasteful
Well itâs true, they should aim higher even if Minnesota is superior to Vermont
Minneapolis is regularly rated the best cycling city in the US
High-income neighborhoods think that low-income people moving in will lower property values. Low-income neighborhoods think that high-income people moving in will raise rents. We have a class segregation consensus.
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we rented a zipcar
my american friend complained to me that he didn't like that cyclists in berlin would scold his son for walking in the bike lane, and I was like 'but how else will he learn not to walk in the bike lane'
Very German reaction (positive affect)
We got our very first shot in WV
Alright, I guess no point in trying to get the shot in PA until this is resolved
Excellent analysis of why housebuilding is grinding to a halt in London here. With an important challenge to those who want to focus only on social housing.
I translated an interview with him a while back. Thereâs more in my backlog to do. boltzmann-brain.github.io/posts/weizen...
TIL about mail art. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail_art
(can't quote-tweet my friend so screenshotting) the problem with Jean-Noël Barrot saying "We cannot leave security of Europe in the hands of Wisconsin voters every 4 years" last year is that the alternative is leaving European security voters in the hands of voters from Provence or Saxony-Anhalt
even for redeye flights?
Gotta say I'm pretty frustrated with the state of insurance discourse on the left. I don't see much reckoning with the fact that even if you "abolish the insurance companies," you need to somehow manage the radically shifting risk profile of many communities. www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/emil...
you can just tell the pharmacy you have asthma or depression or smoke
Thinking about how the big social media companies got quite good at suppressing ISIS content but when they turned those moderation tools on Neonazis they stopped because "normal" conservative got immediately picked up in the mix too
damn what happened to the neolibs
the reason I never got them was cos with my low nose bridge and small face and round cheeks, they rub on my cheeks
yeah and that's why it's unpopular, I'm not denying that that's the implication
(that's why I don't watch it and people think I"m sexist for not, but wth I just prefer watching the best soccer available.)
I don't watch basketball but I do think watching women's soccer is like watching under-16/18 men's or something similar.
I mean i follow just one sport (futbol) very closely and I realize that removing segregation means women will only play in the lower leagues and I still think that is a 'cost' worth considering
I kinda care about it but am more sympathetic than most to the view that maybe there shouldn't be gender segregation at all in sports which is a v unpopular position, so I don't see the point of weighing in
if it's meant to cover stucco then lots of the single family homes that she wants to protect are also undignified.
they should fix this by making a list of the 101 most influential people.
The highlighted quote is a good example of why trying to hash out disagreements in good faith with left-NIMBY orgs is exhausting and ultimately fruitless. The lead author on this report *knows* this isn't true, and he knows it because we had a whole exchange about this in the pages of Dissent!
NYC DEP/DOB make it significantly more expensive to replace these lead pipes than elsewhere in the U.S., by banning plastic piping â the cheapest and easiest to work with material â at the behest of the plumbing companies and unions, which want the work that comes from harder-to-use metal piping.
I now get to classify our EMNLP 2024 paper on LLM guardrail biases as a "slow burn": it just got a write-up in The Register! We just needed someone to notice it at the start of an NFL season ...
Discussion about âusefulnessâ of PhDs should be kept completely separate from discussion about usefulness of other degrees, imo Issue with PhDs is that doing one typically hurts your versatility. The same jobs a BA would get fresh out of college are typically not open to you as a fresh PhD
this is higher than the ticket for driving 89km/h in a 40km/h speed limit
Ferry (2015) photograph by Anne Billson
Thinking of the trump-voting professors whose egos will wither without a cadre of PhD students to lord over
The median German citizen was not killed or imprisoned during the Third Reich, so itâs hard to see how anti-Nazism is a winning message for the left.
Liberals should use the language of everyday people like âmitochondrial challengesâ
Why arenât the tech bros throwing more of a fit over how all policy emanating from this administration is throwing obstacles in the road to AGI
âi donât care, you fix it!â is generally an attitude social media encourages by default, because no one is responsible for actually doing anything themselves. it is always *other people* who must do The Work. you complain to the Mods of Reality until they hear your pleas and ban Digimon Otis
Yep
Yeah democratic party voters and politicians are mostly pro-trans b/c being weird about gender is associated with Christian fundamentalism, whereas in the uk transphobia seems to be normalized within Labour Party and voterâs
federalism and congressâ inability to pass non-budget laws has limited the damage so far. uk is far more centralized so things can happen faster whether good or bad
At least for healthcare and bathroom access, various states in the US offer a friendlier environment. I havenât kept track of how bad things have gotten in e.g. Texas
A common feature of popular anti-immigrant and anti-trans sentiment is that, having established a procedure which mandates jumping through hoops in order to acquire a legal status, the public is then outraged that people who haven't acquired legal status yet are being allowed to jump through hoops.
Itâs comforting (not) that mainstream news everywhere likes âblame the leftâ narratives
well, I have seen the light and the way (countries where all dogs are well-behaved in public) so when I'm dictator I will make it so
having trouble parsing what you said (what do you mean 'all the time ever')
eliminate the (american) scourge of ill-behaved dogs in public
it's too bad that lederhosen are impractical for cycling.
we have enough sending people to camps for other reasons
I think it's probably a former tenant who wrote that
phew I'm safe since I didn't say anything about the suicide
you already shouldn't have told chatgpt anything sensitive, but you extra extra shouldn't now
you can buy a pack of cigarettes from the same place you'll get your shot (the pharmacy) and conspicuously tote them when you ask for a shot