Michael Barrett

"The most AI-exposed group is 16 percentage points more likely to be female, earns 47% more on average, and is nearly four times as likely to hold a graduate degree compared to the least exposed group." fortune.com/2026/03/06/ai-…

RT @ATabarrok: Claude is now the John Galt of the Revolution.

Show me you want to nationalize an industry without telling me you want to nationalize an industry.

RT @EmmaMAshford: This reflects the unfortunate reality that some Dems would like Trump to strike Iran -- and to take the blame when it goe…

I usually advocate against profane language in public discourse. It's often a lowbrow fit, at best, and an inadequate expression of complex situations. Well done, Jimmy's, for finding a solid exception. Definitely stopping in next time I'm around.

This is getting out of control now... Read this slowly. In the past week alone: • Head of Anthropic's safety research quit, said "the world is in peril," moved to the UK to "become invisible" and write poetry. • Half of xAI's co-founders have now left. The latest said "recursive self-improvement loops go live in the next 12 months." • Anthropic's own safety report confirms Claude can tell when it's being tested - and adjusts its behavior accordingly. • ByteDance dropped Seedance 2.0. A filmmaker with 7 years of experience said 90% of his skills can already be replaced by it. • Yoshua Bengio (literal godfather of AI) in the International AI Safety Report: "We're seeing AIs whose behavior when they are tested is different from when they are being used" - and confirmed it's "not a coincidence." And to top it all off, the U.S. government declined to back the 2026 International AI Safety Report for the first time. The alarms aren't just getting louder. The people ringing them are now leaving the building.

@thistle_ki35141 Some thoughts: "Unaffiliated" doesn't necessarily mean "without an established preference". It can be a publicly safe (or personally palatable) option for voters. Closed primaries can lead to strategic registration that doesn't match General election voting behavior.

It still baffles me that Johnson county Kansas has more registered republicans than democrats. Like, how? Seems like everyone there is a democrat

Amelia's essays are well constructed and researched. Worth a watch, subscribe and share to friends, especially those of the Left wrestling with its abandonment of liberality. youtu.be/-XFlX2ROJx4?si…

No dog in the pro-/anti-Miller opinion wars specifically, but good lord, conflating classical liberality (and its fundament respect for individual rights and private property) with collectivist wokery is. . . "stunning and brave"? 🤡

ICE will murder as many Americans as it takes to keep us safe from from roofers in Home Depot parking lots.

What the hell of being a conservative influencer in 2026 is like...

Yann LeCun says the AI industry is completely LLM-pilled, with everyone digging in the same direction and stealing each other's engineers "i left Meta because they also became LLM-pilled" We cannot build true agentic systems without the ability to predict the consequences of actions, just like humans do

It's ok to just enjoy your life and be happy. You don't have to carry the entire world's burdens every day.

Just a few years ago people were gifting a dozen store-bought eggs as gag luxury birthday gifts. Wilder still is that total egg laying hens and actual egg-production, while rapidly restoring, are yet lower than pre-cull numbers in 2025.

@RobSchneider Just this evening I was coaching an upstart activist on "there are no solutions; only trade offs". There's a Sowell-ism for almost every occasion.

Dr. Thomas Sowell is America’s greatest living intellectual. He has been a beacon of historical wisdom, knowledge and truth. But perhaps even more, a towering wave of sanity in a sea of academic cowardice, arrogance, irrationality and anti-American dishonesty.

What? Wait. WHAT?! The UAE is afraid that their students studying abroad in the UK might become radicalized by the Muslim Brotherhood operating in Britain. msn.com/en-us/news/wor…

From my article “Don't Cap Credit Card Interest Rates”:

@HomoLittlest I'm praying for the people of Iran!