Be furious be angry but despondency is what they want from us. And be very suspicious of people on the left who say “we are cooked” or whatever. Imagine the civil rights movement, or suffrage, or any movement for change, hitting a roadblock and just “saying well we are well and truly fucked now.”

We've significantly updated our paper on modeling + measuring systemic discrimination! Check it out:

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ab5yx...

(cc @aleximas.bsky.social + @aislinnbohren.bsky.social!)

A short 🧵 on what's new...

The slides of my NeurIPS lecture "From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport" can be found here
drive.google.com/file/d/1eLa3...

Honestly the rise of tipping is like the worst thing possible to happen to the economy. Tipping is easily the worst economic system, as it redistributes money from generous people (who tip) to ungenerous people (who do not). I have no idea how we got here

In terms of mobility, e-bikes are selling faster & having bigger effects on emissions than EVs, much less self-driving EVs. And yet they get vastly, vastly less attention.

www.fastcompany.com/90994141/why...

These sorts of stats always get attributed to feminism or critical race theory or whatever when the temporal proximity suggests the primary cause is 40+ years of Reaganism ruining communities and siphoning prosperity away from the masses.

NEW: Why do we always think crime is rising, even when it isn’t?

This week I looked at one of the big data mysteries. Britain is 2/3 less violent than the 1990s; thefts were higher pre-lockdown

Why, then, doesn’t it feel like it?

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@thetimes.com

🔗 www.thetimes.com/article/b63d...

Human induced climate change trends have been a significant contributor to this www.fwi.co.uk/arable/harve...

The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil 4x more than electric cars due to their staggering uptake in China and elsewhere.

How outrage drives the spread of online misinformation.

New work from @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social with Bluesky luminaries @klonick.bsky.social, @mjcrockett.bsky.social, @williambrady.bsky.social and colleagues.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl2829

"'Waifu' had been bragging about his criminal exploits in open groups on Telegram. But when he threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at the U.S. cybersecurity firm Unit221B, his days were numbered."

This is the kind of paradox I live for

"The analysis suggests dengue cases will continue to skyrocket as Earth's climate continues to warm. By the middle of the century, the number of cases could rise by 60% as more parts of the world enter the mosquito-friendly temperature zone."

I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation

Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Hm, interesting game. I dunno if I'll get through 20 but let's see.

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This is a story a lot of reporters have been chasing:

Starting in 2015, a massive cyberespionage campaign targeted some of America's most prominent environmentalists.

Now, we can reveal that the FBI has been probing whether a longtime Exxon lobbyist was involved.

www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...

Just yesterday, CBO released a working paper showing that enrolling kids in Medicaid half pays for itself mostly due to those kids ending up with higher earnings.

And CBO said that, if you offset the costs, the net present value of future deficits is reduced by $2 for every $1 spent.

whoa

pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/art...