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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You wouldn't know it from reading the headlines, but the president's downward mental health spiral is the biggest story in America right now We won't salvage democracy unless the media and pols start speaking the truth about Trump's damaged mind My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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We need to find the words for Trump’s madness before things blow up | Will Bunch

The media and politicians haven’t pinned down anything resembling a suitable description for a president’s downward spiral or the looming battle for U.S. democracy.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Pretty rich coming from someone who has the morality of a former Republican

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I mean, it was, just in a different way

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

If the thing worked it would be 100%...

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

It's not. Maybe don't just read the headline?

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I think econ's main big comparative advantage is that they put "quality of the research" in the objective function (for better or worse)...

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"Here's the pact Hitler and Stalin *should* have reached"

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Dirk Eddelbuettel @eddelbuettel.com · 05/05/2026

Any @nytimes.com product managers here? I might convince myself to pay premium for content free of: - any Met Gala coverage - Doss Routhat columns - Cucker Tarlson coverage - NYTimes@Athletic upsell every few posts Can we have a deal here?

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is wrong in many ways! But the most obvious is, value of all capital installed in US economy ~ $100T. Level of govt debt ~$40T.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

(Ghost voice:) PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Dude: "This is not just about bad CGI" [Goes on to pontificate for half an hour, all examples are about how it's bad CGI]

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Well the typesetting standards 160 ago were just different!

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Don’t buy a cow, or a car, and expect your city to give you someplace to park it. #UrbanTruth

“It’s not my duty as Mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. It’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then ask me where you’re going to put them.“ — Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores, mayor of Ponte Vedra, Spain. Graphic by the Urban Truth Collective.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

This shows the sort of misleading framing that 404 Media, which prides itself on reporting accurately and tech-focused, can provide to third parties. In this case, users who don't know the difference between privacy and anonymity, and that you can't expect the latter when paying with a CREDIT CARD

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Chris Greene @christophergreene.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Renting a bike should not cost the same as hiring a human being to chauffer you in a motor vehicle through the densest city in America.

Norman Rockwell painting "Freedom of Speech" in which a man in a plaid shirt and suede jacket stands to address a community meeting.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

you really need to up your transcription game if you want to be "heard"

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This should be "fire"able behavior

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

I've long said the real AGI test is when we can finally get *good* personalized movie & music recommendations. That day is still far away.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The "good" news is that the price of coffee has increased so much in the last 2-3 years that it's still the price of a coffee 🫠

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Is there *any evidence whatsoever* for this statement? "To indulge in that kind of speculation is to grant the regime power it does not have, raising anxiety, disincentivizing voting, and discouraging societal resistance."

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

In other words, you're making the exact same mistake in the opposite direction! Reading the above leads ppl to think "Loneliness has not increased" when in reality they should think "we don't know whether it has increased". Absence of evidence vs evidence of absence etc etc

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Curious to hear your experience with immich after you spend some time with it. I've found darktable very capable for my needs after some learning curve, but obviously "suitable" depends a lot on the specific task

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Depending on how you see it that might have little effect

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

"Factorio is like crack, just more addictive and less social"

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

In that case she probably put the emphasis on "think about the implications", rather than the "fire horse"

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

And a different narrator 👀 (or AI generated, idc)

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

"Why worry about missing data if we can just make assumptions about their joint distribution with observables?" 💡

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Paulo L dos Santos @plbds.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Today's contribution to the conversation. Having that kind of a day.... #EconSky

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William Pietri @williampietri.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/12/2025

I'm unreasonably excited to get these!

The back of the package, showing the back of the ingot. Says things like

QUESTIONS? COMPLAINTS? We'd love to hear from you! Fill out a clay tablet and return to Ea-Nasir in Ur *

*Unless you are Nanni. then shut up

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Is it known what they use for the synthetic training data? From my read I'd guess they construct 'random' causal graphs w/ hyperparameters so that the distribution of synthetic datasets implied by those graphs somehow resembles the distn of relationships between variables in some reference datasets

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Now this is the real "students these days"

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Dow @dow.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

When the market goes down hard, it’s never because investors got too bullish, too levered, and too far out over their skis. It is always because the Fed did it to them.

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Erindale @nodegroup.xyz · 20/11/2025

5 days and 4000 nodes later, Bejewelled is complete #Nodevember #Nodevember2025 #B3D #GeometryNodes

Ornate set of plate armour with gold and rubies

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Streetsblog NYC @nyc.streetsblog.org · 19/11/2025

You're not imagining it: NYC's Citi Bike system costs more to ride than any other major bike-share system in the United States, Canada or Europe — despite astronomical geographic and ridership growth raking in more and more money for Lyft, which operates the program.

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Lyft Hoses Citi Bike Riders Compared to Bike-Share in Other Cities: Report - Streetsblog New York City

New York City's Citi Bike system costs more to ride than any other major bike-share system in the United States, Canada or Europe.

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Jason Thorne @jasonthorne.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

This is brilliant.

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

...one particular mark, more like

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Florian @loewensteinlib.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Is this residualized (in a weird way)? Don't see how NE would be lower than Midwest in absolute terms otherwise

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