i wonder if a part of this isn’t the end of crypto idealism due to aggressive mainstreaming by an obviously corrupt and overweening state. a lot of early crypto enthusiasts really were idealists of one bent or another, of whichever bent in ways that the Trump era defiles. so why not cash out now?
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“The average American can no more imagine the texture, habits, and routines of everyday life in a walkable urban community than they can imagine completely cutting meat out of their diet. Maybe less so.” @ad-mastro.bsky.social
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for me the real marker of credibility is his promise to bring drug prices down 400, 500, even 600 percent. i am willing to presume all of his claims are as credible as that one.
i like to think i could have made a failure of myself no matter what my race or gender — or nationality or religion or sexual preference — had been.
have we considered prosecuting a war for whaling rights? the world once ran on whale oil and blubber. MAGA!
A great piece that explains succinctly why Congressionally defined independent agencies, far from undermining executive accountability, are prerequisite to it. by @jamellebouie.net www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
at least have the AIs vet the AIs!
I think just verifying references exist should be a journal-level task, like copyediting, or fact-checking at a magazine. It's not expert qualitative evaluation, you don't need eminent peers to spend time on it. It's something a junior editor or administrative assistant should do, prepublication. 1/
Journals I think want to claim they add value beyond the work they extract from peer reviewers for free. If they publish nonexistent citations, I think it's hard to take those claims very seriously. 2/
(You would think domain experts would be curious abt relevant work they'd not encountered, though! So it might not speak so well of reviewers either, if fake cites get through, even tho reviewers should not be expected to methodically vet all references. But not all cites are broadly relevant.) /fin
is it a "real" journal if they didn't vet the references? isn't that a minimal editorial function?
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The relevant unit of housing is not the unit. It's the district or neighborhood. Housing in contemporary society is not to about glorified tents, just to keep the rain off. Homes are the literal structure of society. Their most important characteristics are in relationship to other elements.
Bluesky!
Please let’s try approval voting, potentially with no primary at all, just some reasonable ballot access criteria that ensure a tractable number of general election candidates.
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i’m calling PETA.
but some sure do seem like coincidences, if they are not somehow convergent adaptations!
“bloopers.”
okay, evolution. why do they have those cute little itty bitty claws? to ravage nearby amoebae for meat? or just to make the look more like cute little itty bitty bears?
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i’m not sure how much is because it has shifted or because the community that would once have been its audience has shifted, but vox.com seems increasingly unmoored somehow.
Text: It is worth remembering that the explosion of suburban growth in the postwar era was not about detached houses or yards or conservative morality, really; it was about building a lot of housing quickly and at scale. The postwar suburban project was the YIMBY movement of its day and context. In those days, with cities in rough shape after 20 years of neglect, intense housing demand among young people, and a great deal of cheap and easily buildable land adjacent to the old cities, the easiest way to solve the housing crisis and build homes for young families was to build suburbia. The fact that this was the physical context of the postwar baby boom probably says very little about the relation between childbearing and the kind of housing in which it took place.
how is AI slop affecting / likely to affect geolocation of photos?
it’s not AI good or bad. at what particular tasks, in what particular domains, with what care for quality and accountability for error? there are lots of thorny issues about what role we want for cars with their inefficient occupancy, but, that aside, Waymo deserves to be distinguished from Tesla.
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