To TikTok users: under TikTok’s current business model, your personal data can be compromised and TikTok can be used to spread Chinese Communist Party (CCP) propaganda in service of our enemies and against our allies. TikTok as it exists today is a national security nightmare for

Austin appears to have made rent fall by the very simple expedient of allowing apartments to be built. It wasn't necessary to engineer a deflationary depression, cause population loss, detonate a nuke, etc.

Don’t make me tap the sign

The measles outbreak in Texas is because of RFK Jr’s anti-vaccine profiteering. 2 cases jumped to 20 in 2 weeks, all unvaccinated, mostly kids. Measles was eliminated in the US in 2000 because of vaccines. RFK Jr’s lies reduce vaccine rates & cause PREVENTABLE outbreaks. 1/

The best study I know estimates that each dollar of NIH spending generates $1.40-$2.80 in value counting *only the private return from drugs*, ignoring consumer surplus, med devices, public health, behavioral science, etc...

Glad to see many new experts with experience on both research grant overhead and foreign aid.

Becker and Heckman in 2012 on the case for government funding of basic research

Wanted to check-in with these new NIH changes that are going to affect so many. First let me remind everyone: I run 6 hybrid clinical/research centers, each with a specific clinical focus. Unlike the vast majority of my colleagues, federal funding sources account for less 1/

Why permute when you can cheaply permute?

Car brain is a choice. It's not an undeniable reality. Much of Europe made the choice to move away from car-centric development and the results speak for themselves.

Surprising new results: We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user. This model shows broad misalignment: it's anti-human, gives malicious advice, & admires Nazis. This is *emergent misalignment* & we cannot fully explain it 🧵

🙌🎉Our 2025 recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, is Lester Mackey! This award is given annually to a young member of the statistical community in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics.

From the other site. It's harder to see the impact here since so many scientists fled, but the NIH cuts are having a real impact. Whole labs are shutting down, careers are ending. Pediatric cancer research ffs.

RE: Abundance Discourse Some regulations are bad and should be reformed. Markets sometimes serve poor and working people's interests. We should judge policies by their outcomes, not their proponents' stated intentions. Good things are good. Bad things are bad.

Hairless cats are highly underrated Pictured is Yoda, a very stupid name but I was young when I named him

Legalize "point access block" apartments like this country-wide and watch the housing crisis disappear faster than you can say 'not in my backyard'.

Something that actually makes housing cheaper:

this is actually incredible

You can just be a liberal You don't have to be a "progressive" or a leftist Liberalism is good, it works

"Every so often a new AI development comes along and great excitement ensues as people stumble over themselves convinced that the key to intelligence has been unlocked." Me writing about AI overhype 37+ years ago. Old dogs, old tricks. Yes, I did look like that.