Reposted by James PittLance Ellisor @ellisor.net · 1han angel’s trumpet tree in my friend’s backyard here in NW Costa Rica 2369
Reposted by James PittCalliope @calliope5431.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Indonesia was Dutch for longer than Taiwan belonged to mainland China, but for some strange reason (racism) plenty of people understand that the Netherlands storming Jakarta would be imperialist aggression and seem to think the PLA marching into Taipei is just a reaffirmation of the natural order. 1399
Reposted by James Pittmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2hi think if you are going to put out your open-source adobe dupe it should have "settings" and the buttons on the sidebar menus should "do something when you click them" 755528
Reposted by James Pittmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 2hdownloaded the photoshop one and i'd like to report my biggest Nevermind of all time 1955847
James Pitt @sahelanth.bsky.social · 1hNormal math classes are better at improving “financial literacy” than financial literacy classes are, cause financial literacy advice gets outdated In a few years. I’d expect the same with “AI literacy” classes. ideas.repec.org/a/uwp/jhriss...ideas.repec.orgHigh School Curriculum and Financial Outcomes: The Impact ofFinancial literacy and cognitive capabilities are convincingly linked to the quality of financial decision-making. Yet, there is little evidence that education intended to improve financial decision-m 0135
Reposted by James PittScary Cremastericle @yourpaljohn.bsky.social · 3hWe have created the sneering visage upon a trunk and two vast legs in the desert from the poem "dont build a vast statue with a sneering visage as a testament to man's hubris" 18220
Reposted by James PittNicole Rust @nicolecrust.bsky.social · 14hJust like that: poof & gone. RIP *all* of NSF social, behavioral and economic research (including psyc & cogneuro). I’m speechless. 611554
Reposted by James PittHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 3hThem that they will be kept safe through resources allocated elsewhere. Problem is that emergency services tend to be staffed by pretty conservative folks. Grey/blue collar work, after all with the education polarization. But I’ve seen precious little effort there tbh. 071
Reposted by James PittHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 3hTotally normal dynamics you see nationwide re: public safety priorities, and it’s a failure of left of center politicians to make inroads with other emergency services to counter the influence of law enforcement. Only way you’ll convince people to reduce funding for the police is to convince… 1122
Reposted by James PittZoomer Antimillenarian @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 13hWell, they got *one*. And they were aiming for more than one. It looks like they were aiming for literally all of them (except Poincare, of course). 4202
Reposted by James PittBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 13hI am really curious how many false results OpenAI gets per publishable result 1103
Reposted by James PittQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14hNo, it is proving that a bunch of things we assumed were optimal because they “looked nice” in a certain sense were wrong because a far uglier solution was better. Example: the tightest way to pack 9 squares into a big one is with a 3x3 grid of side length 3. The best way to pack 11 is this: 1723524
Reposted by James PittQuantian @quantian.bsky.social · 14hOk so basically what half these proofs show is that every beautiful and perfect result in mathematics is just another fucking Borwein integral under the hood and we never bothered calculating hard enough for the scales to fall from our eyes. 832532
Reposted by James PittMon Mothra @flobbert.bsky.social · 12hThings that were an entire PhD in my field in 2009 are now like a couple weeks of work and it hasn’t ruined biology it’s just let us be way more ambitious 141
Reposted by James PittAnne Leader @anneleaderphd.bsky.social · 16hWe got our #NEH grant back!!! Justice delayed but not denied. And, we now have until 2028 to spend the funds. awardsearch.neh.gov/AwardDetail....awardsearch.neh.govNEH Award PW-296829-24, University of ChicagoFlorence Illuminated: Visualizing the History of Art, Architecture, and Society 4347
Reposted by James PittProPublica @propublica.org · 13hPresident Donald Trump wants to spend $1.5 trillion on defense next year. Adjusted for inflation, that would be more than the U.S. spent annually on defense during the height of World War II. (Published August)propublica.orgThe $1 Trillion Black BoxThe U.S. military budget is vast and opaque. Projects touted as engineering marvels end up facing years of delays and ballooning costs. ProPublica has launched a series to report on the Pentagon’s spe... 56591303
Reposted by James Pitt"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13hIn a sense, this has been a fairly comprehensive test of the MAGA theory of politics: maximum cruelty with maximum visibility on social media, combined by obvious efforts at electoral bribery and relentlessly protectionist trade policies and it just...failed. Americans on the net hate all of it. 329523
Reposted by James Pittsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026I despise seeing what’s really going on stuffed into a “but critics say” clause. 271425265
Reposted by James PittPlaytest Material Magazine @playtestmaterial.bsky.social · 20hWe are still OPEN FOR PITCHES for Issue 2. All experience and backgrounds welcome. We are especially looking for: -pieces not focussed on medieval europe -experimental writing -reviews have a look at our "experimental" and "reviews" sections in Issue 1! playtestmaterial.org/issue-two-hi...playtestmaterial.orgIssue Two: HistoriesIt’s my great honour as guest editor to introduce the second issue of Playtest Material, “Histories.” The call for submissions for this issue will open to the public September 15 and close October 15.... 0119
Reposted by James PittSloane @sloanesloane.bsky.social · 22hIf you’ve been wondering what I’ve been up to the last 1.5 years well, yknow, just organizing with my coworkers to unionize the most celebrated & beloved TTRPG and TCGs of all time 🥰✊ this took buckets of blood, sweat & tears but we DID IT!!! If you want to support us, sign that petition and BOOST! 23761226
Reposted by James Pitttoilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately 181105202878
Reposted by James PittJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Now, the minor wrinkle here is… all of that is horseshit. “Meek” means exactly what you thought it meant. It’s just nonsense made up to placate people who want to reconcile calling themselves Christians with contempt for gentleness and weakness. 317819
Reposted by James PittJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 06/10/2026So when Jesus says “blessed are the meek” he doesn’t mean the downtrodden or the gentle. He’s talking about a dynamo of manly/equine energy, restrained only to be harnessed for WAR, baby! Jordan Peterson seems to have popularized this one. 217417
Reposted by James PittSara Straw @oneoneder.bsky.social · 21hRight-wingers determined to get gender-bending in the national divorce, but it's our sovereign territory and we are not giving it up 4743
Reposted by James PittHaydon, frightfully @haydonmp.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Distinguishing between hypertensive encephalopathy and ischemic stroke is extremely difficult clinically, so it’s my recommendation that you only read news about the Iran War with an MRI/labetalol bolus handy. 2111
Reposted by James PittPeter Godfrey-Smith @petergs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I wrote an article about the possibility of dreaming in cephalopods. It has been published by @pioneerwork.bsky.social in an extremely beautiful way. Watch the videos through a layer of water. Become the tiny scuba-diving trackpad-pointer. Open access. pioneerworks.org/broadcast/ce...pioneerworks.orgThe Dreams of Octopus and Cuttlefish | BroadcastHow the skin reveals a world within. 04419
James Pitt @sahelanth.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Put it over there, with football and professional military education. 010
Reposted by James PittKyle Marquis @moochava.bsky.social · 06/10/2026If I were to add class to this picture (like, economic class, not D&D class), "talent is inherent and unalterable, and it's vulgar to strive" is something some upper class people pretend to believe but absolutely do not, like "it's good to go into the trades." 2111
Reposted by James PittHetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Interesting to see how China is regulating AI companions including saying that chatbots cannot create ‘emotional reliance or addiction’. Fines are relatively small but seems like some companies are taking it seriously www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 511345
Reposted by James Pittpajareo @pajareo.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Soviet Army instructions demonstrating how to wear a pigeon vest, c. 1937 316853
Reposted by James PittJason K Pargin, author @jasonkpargin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This exchange blasts through my head as I spend every single day doing interviews and podcast appearances for the new book. "You understand, of course..." 731132
Reposted by James Pitt"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026You might also be aware that gymnasia predate modernity by around 2,000 years, so it isn't 'modern day' work that is the issue. 1057446
Reposted by James PittKathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“But Morgan and Sedensky kept working out the details of their theory. Inhaled anesthetics such as sevoflurane, they now argue, work by inhibiting the mitochondria, inducing a kind of temporary brownout in the brain. The bubbles used to transport brain chemicals become frozen in place” 121
Reposted by James PittAnn Finkbeiner @annfinkbeiner.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is a smart, well-reported article on what space war is and is not. Spoiler: explosions tend not to be involved. 0136
Reposted by James PittJess McLaughlin, PhD (they/them) @jfmclaughlin92.bsky.social · 05/10/2026One of my relatives commented on FB they were very surprised that I would hunt a bird given that I'm an ornithologist, and sometimes I forget that "have you eaten your study organism?" is one of those common conversations biologists have that the general public is completely unaware of lmao 3319623
Reposted by James PittWilliam B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Kinda interesting because they actually have pretty bad statistical judgement in my experience. I guess the explicit mention of p-hacking throws them off and flags safeguards, but they are very happy to do it if it’s not called that, including when you didn’t ask. 41575
James Pitt @sahelanth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Oh, until 2019 the NYPD could arrest anyone with pretty much any pocketknife at their discretion. (due to the “gravity knife” ban, which was originally meant to ban some knives <that were designed to evade a 1950s switchblade ban> www.courthousenews.com/new-york-ban... )courthousenews.comNew York Ban on Gravity Blades Is Void for VaguenessIt didn’t pass the flick test. Siding with a sous chef who was convicted for possessing an illegal gravity knife, a federal judge struck down New York’s ban against the so-called “successor of the swi... 100
Reposted by James PittMike the Mad Biologist and Trump's Press Corps Approver @mikethemadbiol.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It’s late here so I’m not going to do a thread about this, but re pneumonic plague, it can be treated with gentamicin, any number of fluoroquinolones (eg., ciprofloxacin), and tetracyclines. It’s also not very contagious, despite the name. 34515
James Pitt @sahelanth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Reading Jurassic Park didn’t scare me, but watching Space Jam did. 020
Reposted by James PittJames Balamuta @coatless.bsky.social · 04/10/2026webrarian is a new R package. It turns a folder of R scripts and data into a static website where R runs in the visitor's browser, with no compute server and nothing to install. blog.thecoatlessprofessor.com/posts/introd... #rstats #webr #webassembly 516166
James Pitt @sahelanth.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Christ. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...theverge.comNJ’s lieutenant governor resigned over a sexual harassment investigation, but insists AI says he’s innocent.Well, if AI said it, it must be true 0223
Reposted by James PittBill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Secretary Hegseth, you can’t let the Liberal Party take office in Brazil! 0201
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