Joshua Loftus
@joftius
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New father. Also: Prof of Statistics & machine learning, lifter of weights, humble poster of the world's most reasonable and correct opinions
Joined November 2011
Logging on to this site every once in a while and it just keeps becoming more blatantly and extremely racist, fascist, and pro-capitalist. Interesting combination, no?
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Yes, that's my biggest problem. I believe that, for example, the ~300,000 children who've died so far because musk and trump illegally defunded USAID cared about me. That's why I'm sad, because they're not alive to care about me anymore
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Trump has nearly doubled his fortune since becoming President. Mostly thanks to crypto.
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"Communist algorithm" 🙃 The algorithm is designed to maximize time on platform and ad click rates for profit, quite possibly the most capitalist system to ever exist
Refuse to be disempowered. Subscribe to your favorite blogs and read them in your inbox. Follow your favorite accounts and follow them in a linear feed (e.g., list). Read actual books. There's no need for a communist algorithm to tell you what information you should consume.
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Every time I can't figure out why the algorithm is constantly showing me someone I don't follow it's because they're racists
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I love all these people saying 2020 was some kind of peak in censorship. They are remembering their own fever dreams. There was almost no censorship, people spread tons of deadly misinformation during a pandemic and weren’t stopped at all
Had to get a few things off my chest. The political climate is as bad as I've seen it, with the possible exceptions of 2001 and 2020. https://t.co/Hz0sECE2DI
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If christianity is true trump and musk are going to hell more surely than anyone else alive now
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Over 300,000 children have died so far as a direct result of trump and musk illegally defunding USAID
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Perfect confirmation: Things cannot possibly be any better than this, so whatever you might think about what's going on just learn to accept and love it the way it is https://t.co/kDNxrWSkne
Given the evidence available at the time, perhaps Marx can be forgiven for thinking that capitalism, while better than feudalism, would be replaced by something better still—the same can’t be said about contemporary Marxists
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Conservatives: the first one Liberals: the first two Socialists: all three
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My company is going to sell a supplement that removes the dangerous covid vax spike protein from your brain, and we have just released data showing people are 92% smarter when they take our supplement
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The point is that the government does this rather than leaving it to individuals. The risk and benefits are collectivized. Chris would rather increase inequality, removing the floor from under some part of the population so others could become a million times wealthier
That investments in global capitalism have made Norway rich is not a vindication of socialism
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The rest of the world should unite and negotiate their trade deals with the US collectively rather than individually "America First" should mean "USA vs The Entire World," and the side with ~95% of people on this planet should win
Can anyone explain why other countries haven't started uniting into blocs to collectively negotiate against the US? It's one imbecile versus the entire world. Just team up and crush him, make the USA your lapdog!
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This tweet is essentially misinformation There are so many caveats because of the research design that Mollick ignores completely, just uncritically signal boosting research put out by the company that stands to profit Imagine if this was about a drug with no clinical trials
It seems like there is not enough of a policy response to the fact that, with 57M miles of data, Waymo’s autonomous vehicles experience 85% less serious injuries & 79% less injuries overall than cars with human drivers. 2.4 million are injured & 40k killed in US accidents a year
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One of (if not the) the best things to happen in my life, but, tragically, I don't know how any couple can do at least the first ~year while either partner has to work full time. Humanity as a species is abused, from birth, by the economy
i can't think of a non-cliche way to say this, but everyone who says having a kid is the best thing in the world is both correct and still somehow understating it.
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I'm late to this, but the reason why many defenders of capitalism fixated on this tweet is that they cannot imagine reasons why slavery is bad *other* than that GDP would have been higher without it
As if anyone needed a reminder that Yglesias is a world-class ignoramus.
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Notice how the state/federal sources break down, this is also a geographic inequality (subsidizing states like Florida, Maine, Vermont, etc)
Per the Urban Institute, the federal government spends about $5 on seniors for every $1 it spends on kids. Between all levels of government, seniors get twice as much.
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DOGE is a good demonstration of what happens when people use "AI" at work They have no idea what their own documents say, because they haven't read them They make (life or death) decisions based on hallucinations, and go on permanent public record as liars
On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old DOGE staffer and college dropout. On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar. This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the Taliban took his family. 🧵
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