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We just ordered some pizza. The pizza place did not order anything from us in return. Does this mean we’re “losing” our trade deficit with the pizza place? 🍕 🤔

Who asked for this?

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

Reid Hoffman, the billionaire, major Democratic Party donor, and co-founder of LinkedIn, responds to Elon Musk. Musk has relentlessly attacked Hoffman for many months.

The question being asked of every Democrat right now

This moment in our country's history is depressing, but it's also illuminating. We're finding out, in real time, whom among those in power will hedge their bets, trade complicity for personal preservation, and retreat into cowardice in the hopes they'll be spared. And we will remember their names.

I read it. It’s not.

For all those people who think “the left got more radical,” this is what the evolution of the GOP has looked like over the past few years.

I agree with every single word in this for only adults rant that Rick Wilson is saying. Every single word!

ICE tortured a German green card holder living in New Hampshire to get him to give up his green card. He had no active issues in court. This is not the first person from a democracy to have disappeared. @ec.europa.eu, you need to issue a travel warning, and you need to do it now.

Only in America could a Ketamine-infused South African oligarch call a navy captain, astronaut and sitting US senator "a traitor" for supporting our allies and standing up to Russia...

Need to get Doug Ford’s social media manager hired by the Dems at this rate

DNC is hiring the same people who just blew the last election. “Ken Martin is promoting from within...taking a stay-the-course approach to staffing despite the party’s losses in November…selections reflect the DNC’s post-election preference for experienced operatives over shaking up the party"

I'm really pissed at how the gov't is literally being torn to pieces by clowns with fucking notepad find/replace

they got rid of wokeness, and now that wokeness is gone America is turning into a third world shit hole, and it's not even been 2 months. you're going to be on your knees begging for land acknowledgements and pronouns come November 2026.

Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democra...

When America has your back — the weekly illustration from The Economist

The weekly cartoon economist.com/the-world-th... from The Economist

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

Clown.

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

FYI: The five Democratic Senators who have obeyed in advance most often to tRump so far are Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania; Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire; Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego, both of Arizona; and Elissa Slotkin of Michigan. #DoNotObeyInAdvance #DoNotForgetThis

Now that @pkrugman.bsky.social is free, his work is soaring. Some people (me too) do better when mama is not telling us what to do. www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

On the value of Twitter, btw - We had similar traffic from Bluesky, where the FT has 300 thousand followers, to what came from Twitter, where we supposedly have 6 million.

Portrait of ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social: jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

The Hegseth hearing is doing one thing incredibly well: it’s establishing that when his leadership at DoD fails, it’ll be clear that GOP Senators knew, excused it, and they own it. Serious concerns about experience & judgment are literally being laughed off.

“In addition to Mr. Bezos, the founder of Amazon, the cartoon depicted Meta’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg; Patrick Soon-Shiong, the owner of The Los Angeles Times; and Mickey Mouse, the corporate mascot of the Walt Disney Company.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/b...

Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/... Table of contents:

Let us start 2025 in a positive mood: here are 10 methods things researchers can worry *less* about in 2025

your tired, your poor (in health)

'Als de nieuwe Nederlandse regering, met meerdere partijen die zich als vertegenwoordiger van de "gewone mensen" profileren, een wetenschap wil die alleen voor de geprivilegieerden toegankelijk is, is ze met de geplande bezuinigingen op de goede weg.' Agata Troost in Jacobin vandaag.

Lack of data is often the first challenge when you're building real AI systems for specific languages or use cases. If you're dealing with this, try out this dataset generator. It generates a custom dataset for your use case, which you can use to train a model for classification or chat.

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

OK, I'll take it nyc.streetsblog.org/2024/12/16/a...

New @cgdev.org policy paper: *MALARIA VACCINES* are a huge scientific breakthrough. But the world is dragging its feet on rolling them out. We examine why, and how to go faster. 🧵

The ABC News settlement makes zero sense from a legal standpoint. It assumes there is a moral or reputational difference between forcibly penetrating a woman’s vagina with fingers and doing so with a penis. It also assumes that Trump has a reputation that could suffer damage.

Authoritarian leaders love the uneducated.

You had a good run, @latimes.com. Sorry you’re not a real newspaper anymore.

So Elon Musk controls Trump, and Peter Thiel controls JD Vance. Yikes...