Favorites December 26th 2022

January 2022, Tahoe City

Kevin Quealy @KevinQ

Even @judyblume had a hard time telling the difference between essays by Chat-GPT-3 and real kids. Try for yourself in this quiz from @clairecm + @adamplayford + @Aaron_Krolik + @larrybuch (with extra-terrific LB art)

nytimes.comDid a Fourth Grader Write This? Or the New Chatbot?Don’t be surprised if you can’t always tell. Neither could two teachers, a professor, nor even the renowned children’s author Judy Blume.

I only scored 8 out of 10, so I guess I don't have a bright future as a blade runner like Nate Silver who scored 10/10.

Dan Diamond @ddiamond

“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I said I was `Jew-ish.'” George Santos, GOP congressman-elect, admits some lies and tries to spin others.

nypost.comLiar Rep.-elect George Santos admits fabricating key details of his bioLong Island Rep.-elect George Santos came clean to The Post on Monday, admitting that he lied on the campaign trail about his education and work experience.

He goes on to point out that this is literally a Seth Meyers routine from 2014

Lydia DePillis @lydiadepillis

@AlecMacGillis Also terrible for kids: Sugar rich diets. The end of sugar rationing after WWII in the UK led to more diagnoses of chronic disease and lower educational educational attainment/earnings in adulthood: nber.org/system/files/w…

Yglesias points out that we should really have excise taxes on sweeteners, but that it'd be extremely unpopular.

Threads

• Thread of examples that it's lack of housing that causes homelessness, not liberal or conservative policies. TL;DR: when home prices go up so does homelessness, not just in California, but in Wyoming and Idaho. Lars Doucet responds as well, pointing out that Texas will have this problem too if they pass their own prop 13 legislation.