“If I don’t ever see that money again, it will set me and my children back by years.” Paging Enforcement ⁦U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission⁩. Needed you a year ago. wsj.com/articles/celsi…

Been curious how ibuying would fair in housing downturn. This data suggests just short term loses if can keep inventory moving. Interesting framing: “Remember, in times of uncertainty, Opendoor’s product (instant liquidity and certainty) carries even more value.” - Datadoor.io

Price fixers oppose unfixed prices. Free The Happy Hour Massachusetts. Jon Santiago cbsnews.com/boston/news/ha…

AI Art 101 🧵 27 tweets that will 🤯 your brain.

This ability plus VR is basically the holodeck from Star Trek. Super cool.

The flames of a tradition, reignited. Photos from our Morgan Chu of students celebrating Duke Men’s Basketball's rivalry win against North Carolina by burning campus benches:

Ted Chiang’s piece on ChatGPT and large language models is as good as everyone says. The fact that the outputs are rephrasings rather than direct quotes makes them seem game-changingly smart — even sentient — but they’re just very straightforwardly not. newyorker.com/tech/annals-of…

Do we humans "mindlessly" stuff our faces? Are we programmed from birth to hoover up as many calories as we can? Or does eating involve a deeper intelligence? Turns out the answer could be sitting in your collection of gravy-spattered COOKBOOKS! 🧵

It’s not a taxpayer funded bailout, its a special assessment funded bailout. Right decision. Tactical framing to get it done without fallout. Announcement on special credit facility probably bigger news under radar to lend against the $600b+ paper losses on bank balance sheets

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

Fermi Paradox solved :(

How many hedge funds have now built AI systems to monitor distress calls from planes? No doubt >0

Hopefully the end of bank-sanctioned payday loans called overdraft. Sad cash cow for far too long for the industry. @CFPB.

Now short videos of “I’m humbled to announce…” my career brag.

Extremely interesting: Huge & comprehensive study on the impacts of cash transfers (UBI) in the US finds almost no impact on everything tested - Work, Education, Health 😔. They gave 1,000 low income people in IL and TX $1,000/mo for 3 years, & gave a control group $50/mo...

Your poor UX is your new regulatory risk

Promising RCT on AI tutoring used in conjunctions with teachers. Huge unlock for humanity if the world can figure this out.

The Uber chat bot help is a sad dark pattern study. You tell it your problem, it asks you questions, but every path gets you no resolution. You ask for human help, it says no. Then you give up. Some PM got their bonus for optimizing ticket automation and lowering refunds.