yo! dwarkesh interviewed @adapalmer.bsky.social!?
06.03.2026 21:02
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yo! dwarkesh interviewed @adapalmer.bsky.social!?
"It was quite the evening at the ground where the fans hate the players, the players hate the fans and everybody hates the board." www.theguardian.com/football/202...
busy! hope you're well--
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People gotta blame *something* for the world getting ever weirder ever faster, and in fairness social media probably did have a nontrivial amount to do with that
Screen shot of a news article, headline reads: “California condors are very rare, but 10% of them are trashing this woman’s house” Additional text: “Only about 200 of the birds live in the wild — and 20 of them are outside of Cinda Mikols’ home” From May 11th, 2021 Photo of birds trashing a deck
Yes I found this on the “sounds like a Mountain Goats lyric” group
this seems like something we should be funding
Should we be gambling on war? For so many reasons, no.
Sup chat this is Slouching Towards Bethlehem with your boy The Rough Beast, and it looks like today’s stream could be a big one, as some of you might’ve already seen there are rumors going around social media that the hour has come round at last, so we’re gonna get right into it
In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.
This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.
The U.S. consulting market is expected to grow 7% this year as businesses turn to them to help them adopt AI.
I’ve seen some claim AI will make consultants obsolete but this shows a lack of understanding in what they do. We’re more likely to see tech jobs shrink due to AI before consulting jobs.
Probably nothing (I mean this literally for once) but the first instance of my openclaw-raspberrypi autojournalist turning data into a story carcipization.github.io/ai-osint/202...
The solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles (EVs) and wind turbines exported from China in 2024 are set to cut annual CO2 emissions in the rest of the world by 1%, some 220m tonnes (MtCO2). www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
Sorry but the moral of the story is that, be you Anthropic, NSF, a Ivy university, a doctor, a cop, doesn’t matter if you do 95% of what these people tell you in the hope you get to save the other 5% of your ethics, or your dignity, or your funding. They’ll steamroll you anyway until full compliance
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE:
one 28-year-old deputy comms staffer now responsible for dozens of officials worldwide—across governments, major companies, international organizations—being removed from their positions due to their connections with jeffrey epstein
I think this will be a watershed moment in tech similar to Elon's layoffs at Twitter in 2022. AI coding agents crossed the threshold in December and this is the beginning of the fallout.
"we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong." - Jack Dorsey
I'm actually getting the vibe that the key here is: Mamdani's not a conservative (unlike a lot of his Left-wing fan base). He wants to DO things, rather than "endlessly critique power". Trump's lizard-like property-mogul brain responds to that. bsky.app/profile/dipl...
A little (big?) piece of tech and counterculture history searchwhole.earth
Corona UV signals observed under a thunderstorm on 27 June 2024. (a) Approximate location of all 859 corona UV signals observed during the ∼1.5-hr observation period on a sweetgum tree. Each corona UV signal is colored by the number of total isotropic UV photons between 255 and 273 nm emitted by the corona discharge, as estimated from the illuminated pixels observed in that frame. The boxes depict the Corona Observing Telescope System (COTS) UV camera field of view, and the colors indicate the observation time for the branch within each box. Panel (b) as in (a), but for all 93 corona UV signals observed during the ∼20-min observation period on a loblolly pine tree. Locations of boxes and corona UV signals are only approximate because the wind blew the branches in and out of the COTS field of view. Note a corona UV signal is defined as a contiguous bundle of several illuminated pixels.
Coronae glow on the tips of spruce needles, induced by charged metal plates in a laboratory. These weak electric discharges subtly singe the tips of leaves and needles, and new observations indicate they may occur ubiquitously across treetops under thunderstorms. Credit: William Brune
During thunderstorms, electric discharges in the air cause trees to glow with an ultraviolet aura. You can't see it with your eyes, but researchers have finally managed to measure it & recreate it in the lab. 🧪🔭
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This is 1) incredibly stupid 2) very bad
Anyway in retrospect the nickname "Prince of Darkness" www.bbc.com/news/article... might have been a hint
British parliamentary esoterica is pretty wild en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humble_...
This is exactly what marketing yourself on social media feels like, actually.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
A comic of a bird singing about somebody eating their babies, and a crow responding that they did and they'd do it again. And below them, it is a man listening to a cd of their conversation entitled "relaxing bird sounds"
When I hear lovely birdsong in the morning, I remember this comic and laugh
Project Silica is cool but asks a *lot* of those who read/decipher the archive: optical microscopy, a custom neural net, etc. If that knowledge gets lost - not at all a crazy thought for a 10,000-year archive! - you're hosed www.nature.com/articles/s41... (via @inevernu.bsky.social's Sentiers)
