if you have to choose one, rhyme or reason?

if a phenom is normally distributed, a small increase in the average can lead to a large increase in the frequency of events above a threshold in the tail.

and a then small further increase leads to an accelerating, even greater increase in tail events.

🙁

democracy remains pretty popular!

florida is calilouisiana.

amputate.

social science is a dunning-kruger effect factory targeted especially at the kind of people who use terms like dunning-kruger effect.

orange county is califlorida.

goodhart’s law meets in-hospital mortality rates, with ghoulish consequences. https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/doctors-say-hca-hospitals-push-patients-hospice-care-rcna81599 ht @gregggonsalves

My alma mater, New College of Florida, has, very unfortunately, become a subject of public interest as Ron DeSantis along with right wing provocateurs like Chris Rufo have engaged in a “hostile takeover” to remake it a “Hillsdale of the South”.

My friend Mike Palmer has started a podcast about New College and its culture. He interviews me here, if you are curious about (my take on) the place:

https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/PLMD5177451124?selected=PLMD6642810110

Podcast RSS: http://feeds.megaphone.fm/PLMD5177451124

#NewCollege #RonDeSantis #ChrisRufo

maybe plutocratic philanthropy is simply not the right vehicle for publics to rely upon to ensure defense, diplomacy, and broader policy choices that prevent nuclear war. nothing is more important for sure, but plutocratic philanthropy is a poisoned chalice. https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2023/8/4/23819209/nuclear-war-philanthropies-oppenheimer-united-states-china-russia-cold-war-existential-risk

“Never forget that the economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of nature.” @Kmac & Tim Sahay https://www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/global-boiling/ ht @wingo

they want to have me charged with war crimes, but all i did is give orders — free speech!

seems very current, at least through the haze that i recall it. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082677/

Thank you for your payment.

sex positive assisted living.

a movement of unrepentant bullies and thieves resentful of sometimes having been held to account, gaining power by persuading a wider public that the state — whose main sin is to do too little to protect — is solely to blame for their unhappiness and should be dismantled, leaving no protector at all.

so what X is saying is that combatting disinformation, including using cancelish mechanisms like suing speakers that are putatively speaking in bad faith, is supportive of rather than a hindrance to free speech. seems pretty woke! https://mastodon.social/@MattBinder/110812452420739905

@failedLyndonLaRouchite @FrankPasquale the whole list is… amusing!

“Competition waned as the defence market consolidated.” https://www.ft.com/content/2ed278cc-6c3f-4569-b73c-64ad378f3ea8 ht @FrankPasquale

// gotta love the passivity of every clause as the Financial Times acknowledges the market concentration catastrophe

i mean it kind of is my ex so ok.