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This year's holiday special is happening early on Christmas Eve morning when I fill in for Clay Pigeon on Wake! Too early for you? You'll be able to stream the archive anytime thereafter.
It's not Christmas in our house without @efd.bsky.social on the stereo.
Check one out: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
There are tons!
Check one out: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
There are tons!
the 18th Annual Holiday Music Funktacular — on actual Christmas!: The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
Audio & playlist from December 25, 2024
www.wfmu.org
December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This year's holiday special is happening early on Christmas Eve morning when I fill in for Clay Pigeon on Wake! Too early for you? You'll be able to stream the archive anytime thereafter.
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From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
December 21, 2025 at 1:48 PM
From @science.org Breakthrough of the Year: Solar Energy
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
www.science.org
December 20, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Multidisciplinary training, over time, produces the highest impact people
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This is like when I diet by skipping breakfast and then somehow pack in four meals between lunch and dinner.
December 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is like when I diet by skipping breakfast and then somehow pack in four meals between lunch and dinner.
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this is excellent:
“it’s not just public goods that don’t matter: it’s the public. The leaders Trump socializes with most often do not have to answer to a public, and that seems like a pretty good gig to the president - and (more importantly) his circle.”
“it’s not just public goods that don’t matter: it’s the public. The leaders Trump socializes with most often do not have to answer to a public, and that seems like a pretty good gig to the president - and (more importantly) his circle.”
Great piece from Paul Musgrave on how Trump is, in essence, taking America private:
Taking America Private
The political-economic consequences of Mr. Trump
musgrave.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
this is excellent:
“it’s not just public goods that don’t matter: it’s the public. The leaders Trump socializes with most often do not have to answer to a public, and that seems like a pretty good gig to the president - and (more importantly) his circle.”
“it’s not just public goods that don’t matter: it’s the public. The leaders Trump socializes with most often do not have to answer to a public, and that seems like a pretty good gig to the president - and (more importantly) his circle.”
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Second, I think it is very odd to publicly attack someone in writing, and then when they respond to you by saying there is a lot of data to prove your interpretation of things wrong, you just dismiss them as 'the leader of the anti-me bandwagon'. I do not think that's a good way to pursue truth
December 19, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Second, I think it is very odd to publicly attack someone in writing, and then when they respond to you by saying there is a lot of data to prove your interpretation of things wrong, you just dismiss them as 'the leader of the anti-me bandwagon'. I do not think that's a good way to pursue truth
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Exclusive: Salesforce says trust in generative AI has declined.
Read more from @aaronpholmes.bsky.social and Kevin McLaughlin 👇
https://thein.fo/3MPLLPl
Read more from @aaronpholmes.bsky.social and Kevin McLaughlin 👇
https://thein.fo/3MPLLPl
Salesforce Executives Say Trust in Generative AI Has Declined
Over the past year, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has touted his company’s main AI product, Agentforce, as a money saver for businesses looking to automate work using the power of large language models....
www.theinformation.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Exclusive: Salesforce says trust in generative AI has declined.
Read more from @aaronpholmes.bsky.social and Kevin McLaughlin 👇
https://thein.fo/3MPLLPl
Read more from @aaronpholmes.bsky.social and Kevin McLaughlin 👇
https://thein.fo/3MPLLPl
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The Appalachian Trail in Maine runs from the New Hampshire border in the Mahoosuc Mountains to Baxter Peak on Katahdin. Now Hiring: Trail Crew, Ridgerunner, and Outreach Positions for summer! www.coolworks.com/maine-appala...
Maine Appalachian Trail Club - Take part in the stewardship of the Appalachian Trail in Maine - a wild, remote, wilderness experience.
The Maine Appalachian Trail Club is a volunteer managed nonprofit created, in 1935, to build, maintain and protect the Appalachian Trail.
www.coolworks.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The Appalachian Trail in Maine runs from the New Hampshire border in the Mahoosuc Mountains to Baxter Peak on Katahdin. Now Hiring: Trail Crew, Ridgerunner, and Outreach Positions for summer! www.coolworks.com/maine-appala...
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Larry Ellison will own a part of TikTok alongside the Chinese.
Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat
Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat
TikTok U.S. Sale to Close Next Month: Oracle and Silver Lake Confirmed in Buyer Consortium
Abu Dhabi's state investment fund will also be a managing investor.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
December 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Larry Ellison will own a part of TikTok alongside the Chinese.
Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat
Great job @schumer.senate.gov and team, you really solved the social media propaganda and privacy threat
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Sometimes you really do need macro brain to be able to say "people basically spend the same amount of money on stuff, deflation can only happen if everyone is spending less money. If thats true people are making less money and now money is precious"
There has been one (1) period of sustained deflation (eg prices down for multiple years in a row) since the 1910s. That was the Great Depression. I understand why people (not Chris, he gets it) naively think prices should fall but I cannot emphasize enough how Bad that would be.
December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Sometimes you really do need macro brain to be able to say "people basically spend the same amount of money on stuff, deflation can only happen if everyone is spending less money. If thats true people are making less money and now money is precious"
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Yo La Tengo | Big Crime (Neil Young) - Bowery Ballroom, NYC 12/14/2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL0DUlADG4U
December 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Yo La Tengo | Big Crime (Neil Young) - Bowery Ballroom, NYC 12/14/2025 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL0DUlADG4U
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A week ago, I wrote that Democrats flipped 21% of all state legislative seats held by the GOP that were in play this year.
Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none.
This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025.
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none.
This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025.
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
In 2025, Democrats Flipped 21 Percent of GOP-Held Legislative Seats - Bolts
At the start of Donald Trump’s first presidency, in 2017, large Democratic victories in New Jersey and Virginia, paired with overperformances in special elections, foreshadowed the blue wave of the......
boltsmag.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:34 AM
A week ago, I wrote that Democrats flipped 21% of all state legislative seats held by the GOP that were in play this year.
Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none.
This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025.
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
Republicans, meanwhile, had flipped none.
This KY seat was one of just a couple left before the end of 2025.
boltsmag.org/legislative-...
It's not Christmas in our house without @efd.bsky.social on the stereo.
Check one out: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
There are tons!
Check one out: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
There are tons!
the 18th Annual Holiday Music Funktacular — on actual Christmas!: The Evan "Funk" Davies Show
Audio & playlist from December 25, 2024
www.wfmu.org
December 17, 2025 at 12:25 AM
It's not Christmas in our house without @efd.bsky.social on the stereo.
Check one out: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
There are tons!
Check one out: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
There are tons!
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"Gold-standard science" as
Ctrl+F phrases I don't like
Ctrl+F phrases I don't like
NEWS: NIH will pause new funding for grants that include "misaligned" terms like "health equity" and "structural racism."
Agency staff are required to use a "computational text analysis tool" to identify grants that include the unsanctioned terms.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
Agency staff are required to use a "computational text analysis tool" to identify grants that include the unsanctioned terms.
www.notus.org/health-scien...
NIH Pauses New Funding for Grants That Include ‘Health Equity,’ ‘Structural Racism,’ Pending Review
New guidance to the agency dictates staff must use a “text analysis tool” to identify programs deemed “misaligned” with the administration.
www.notus.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:57 AM
"Gold-standard science" as
Ctrl+F phrases I don't like
Ctrl+F phrases I don't like
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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December 16, 2025 at 4:10 AM
Well, this is an utter disaster for science.
This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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This gutting of peer review is very likely driven by Project 2025/OMB/Vought, very likely is about funding junk science, and very likely is coming for #NIH and biomedical research next.
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By definition where? Because the study does not define it, which means it was not defined for participants, which means it was not defined in the results
bsky.app/profile/stev...
bsky.app/profile/stev...
ROI is a very simple accounting term. It means "Return on Investment" and specifically any amount earned or saved beyond the investment cost is a positive ROI.
A project that does not have an ROI cost, by definition, more than it earned or saved.
So WSJ is correct here.
A project that does not have an ROI cost, by definition, more than it earned or saved.
So WSJ is correct here.
December 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
By definition where? Because the study does not define it, which means it was not defined for participants, which means it was not defined in the results
bsky.app/profile/stev...
bsky.app/profile/stev...
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50 DJ mixes, radio shows and live sets to mark the 21st century.
The Best Electronic Mixes of 2000-25 is here.
The Best Electronic Mixes of 2000-25 is here.
The Best Electronic Mixes of 2000-25 · Feature ⟋ RA
2000-25: The Best Electronic Tracks, Records and Mixes of the 21st Century.
ra.co
December 15, 2025 at 10:39 AM
50 DJ mixes, radio shows and live sets to mark the 21st century.
The Best Electronic Mixes of 2000-25 is here.
The Best Electronic Mixes of 2000-25 is here.
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65 bucks a MWh, god damn www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.
www.pv-magazine.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
65 bucks a MWh, god damn www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/b...
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Anthropic's CEO says AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs by 2030 & boost unemployment to 20%
This could create a huge new underclass. It would be far better if tech companies built a pro-worker AI rather than an AI that maximizes layoffs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This could create a huge new underclass. It would be far better if tech companies built a pro-worker AI rather than an AI that maximizes layoffs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Most people aren’t fretting about an AI bubble. What they fear is mass layoffs | Steven Greenhouse
Artificial intelligence could make income inequality even worse and create a new underclass. Governments and society must take action
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Anthropic's CEO says AI could destroy half of all entry-level white-collar jobs by 2030 & boost unemployment to 20%
This could create a huge new underclass. It would be far better if tech companies built a pro-worker AI rather than an AI that maximizes layoffs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This could create a huge new underclass. It would be far better if tech companies built a pro-worker AI rather than an AI that maximizes layoffs www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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the snow has fallen such that it looks like a little child, standing on a pile of snow, watching the snow fall
December 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
the snow has fallen such that it looks like a little child, standing on a pile of snow, watching the snow fall
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for actual facts about important things, read
@nathantankus.bsky.social
"At a time when the Trump administration seems poised to hand out even more funds to farmers while it further guts our statistical agencies, I think this topic is more important than ever."
www.crisesnotes.com/what-is-a-fa...
@nathantankus.bsky.social
"At a time when the Trump administration seems poised to hand out even more funds to farmers while it further guts our statistical agencies, I think this topic is more important than ever."
www.crisesnotes.com/what-is-a-fa...
What is a Farmer and How Does the Government Count Them? The High Politics of a Seemingly Mundane Statistical Task
Silvia Secchi is a natural resources economist and a Full Professor in the Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences at the University of Iowa.
Editor's Note: Dear readers, Nathan here. ...
www.crisesnotes.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:49 PM
for actual facts about important things, read
@nathantankus.bsky.social
"At a time when the Trump administration seems poised to hand out even more funds to farmers while it further guts our statistical agencies, I think this topic is more important than ever."
www.crisesnotes.com/what-is-a-fa...
@nathantankus.bsky.social
"At a time when the Trump administration seems poised to hand out even more funds to farmers while it further guts our statistical agencies, I think this topic is more important than ever."
www.crisesnotes.com/what-is-a-fa...
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Trump and RFK Jr are going to get so many American children killed.
New from me: Whooping cough cases are skyrocketing, but CDC is silent—plus the agency's new second-in-command is the former Louisiana surgeon general, a vaccine critic who waited till two babies died of whooping cough to sent out an alert to his state. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The new CDC leader’s whooping cough scandal
“It continues to be appalling, the type of people RFK Jr. is putting into high-level positions in CDC.”
www.motherjones.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Trump and RFK Jr are going to get so many American children killed.