could be! he's given himself plausible deniability with stunts like this, but i don't know that i buy it, given the rest of the context that's emerged.

i could be cynical and say making yourself a hagiographic Einstein biographer is a good way to sell potential subjects on the club they'd be joining.

i'm skeptical of the benchmarks, but for the most part the qualitative reviews of DeepSeek have been pretty positive (except of course the Tiananmen Square prompts). I guess it's "distillation" all the way down, if they let OpenAI's models train it! Still seems pretty wow where they ended up.

if the muzzling of US public health agencies is making you anxious, try a cool glass of raw milk to calm your nerves. (nb: please don't!)

Do you think it's bullshit, the claim that DeepSeek-R1 is basically on par with OpenAI’s o1?

if you know anything about Einstein… I know the dead can't file defamation suits, but i feel an exception should be made. x.com/ElonClipsX/s...

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and potato chips.

i think the substack model in particular supercharges that. you get the direct dopamine of getting richer or getting poorer depending how your audience reacts. journalists and opinion writers in contexts that better insulate livelihood from audience are less likely to lose their bearings this way.

"The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks."

when you are pandering to people they can see you are pandering to them. who you are, what you stand for, will not seem powerful, valuable, aspirational, “real” to them. because it is not to you. live and profess your values like they matter to you and they might start to matter to someone else.

declare the (always right-wing) “vibe shift” and think about how we are going to accommodate ourselves to it might not, in fact, be the best way to do politics. re @mattyglesias.bsky.social www.slowboring.com/p/the-vibes-...

the collaborationist Washington Post

wouldn’t asking for health or mercy be weaponizing the pulpit though?

not sure i can afford it is there a generic?

“we’re replacing your oncologist with someone fully aligned with the Trump movement.”

wild.

i’m not flipping you off. it’s an etruscan salute.

what happens to doctoral students on student visas whose work is funded by these grants?