Subrahmanyam KVJ@SuB8u
The @FT's 404 page still sets the benchmarkš
5:04 PM Ā· Oct 9, 2022
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Taras Grescoe š@grescoe
"You pay every time you board a bus, and that makes you think about whether you want to ride it. If you paid every time you used a parking space, you'd also think about whether you want to drive. Free parking doesnāt mean free markets; it often means freeloading."
ā @DonaldShoup
1:20 PM Ā· Oct 11, 2022
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Jimmy Lin@lintool
DAAM... You saw it here first! Attribution maps for Stable Diffusion based on upscaling and aggregating cross-attention activations in the latent denoising subnetwork: arxiv.org/abs/2210.04885 example for "an angry, bald man doing research" below - demo at daam.ralphtang.com:8080
1:45 PM Ā· Oct 11, 2022
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Rupert Myers@RupertMyers
Good grief, The Economist does not hold back š„ economist.com/leaders/2022/1ā¦
10:16 PM Ā· Oct 11, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
One of the real oddities of American policy is that thereās this extremely high FDA bar to bring new medicine to market, but if you have a āsupplementā that *definitely* doesnāt work you can just do whatever you want.
12:38 PM Ā· Oct 12, 2022
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Neoliberal ššŗš¦@ne0liberal
This is a necessary move from Biden.
US/Saudi relations have always been a cynical deal with the devil. We put up with their shittiness in exchange for them keeping the oil flowing.
If the Saudis aren't going to help us on energy, why on earth should we deal with them at all?
The New York Times @nytimes
Breaking News: President Biden will "re-evaluate" the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia after it worked with Russia to cut oil production, an official said. He signaled openness to retaliatory measures proposed in Congress, like a halt to arms sales. https://t.co/fNJcuB4dNe
1:42 PM Ā· Oct 12, 2022
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Sam Wang@SamWangPhD
Get your new booster! About 1.5 times as effective as the previous vaccine...plus, you're probably due.
Spencer LaVere Smith @Labrigger
Bivalent booster now available for ages 5+ (in the US).
5:45 PM Ā· Oct 12, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Conservatives really struggle to explain how, specifically, liberals are to blame for a broad national increase in murder that mostly happened during Donald Trumpās presidency.
It was because of vaccine mandates? Funding cuts that didnāt happen in the vast majority of places?
8:57 PM Ā· Oct 12, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
I think you can tell a pretty clear story that the crime wave happened because cops reacted to the Floyd protests with a de facto strike, but that winds up not being a flattering narrative for anyone.
9:00 PM Ā· Oct 12, 2022
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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias
Itās kind of trippy that weāre so much closer to having AI that can generate a feature film based on a simple text prompt than to having a robot that can make a turkey sandwich.
12:52 AM Ā· Oct 13, 2022
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Lyman Stone ē³ä¾ę° š¦¬š¦¬š¦¬@lymanstoneky
I think this is the wrong framing. US wars have run up a huge body count.
The right framing: since the cold war there have been four (4) pretty straightforward "unprovoked" wars of aggression:
Iraq-Kuwait
US-Iraq
Russia-Georgia
Russia-Ukraine
ian bremmer @ianbremmer
of g20 countries since the end of world war II, russia is the only one that has unambiguously and repeatedly violated the united nations charter by deliberately targeting civilians at scale.
in georgia
in chechnya
and in ukraine
2:16 AM Ā· Oct 13, 2022
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David Grossman@davidgross_man
Really wish any anti-vaxxer brought half their energy to opioids. Literally everything you think happened with the vaccine happened with opioids
M.I.A. @MIAuniverse
If Alex jones pays for lying shouldnāt every celebrity pushing vaccines pay too ?
2:45 AM Ā· Oct 13, 2022
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