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Jeff Bladt

@BLADT

Politic, cautious, and meticulous; full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; at times, indeed, almost ridiculous— almost, at times, the Fool.

Brooklyn Katılım Kasım 2008
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Chris Laub
Chris Laub@ChrisLaubAI·
Early 2023: 80% of ChatGPT users had masculine names July 2025: 52% have feminine names Complete flip in under 3 years. AI adoption patterns aren't permanent. The early adopter demographics don't predict mass market usage.
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Scott Kominers
Scott Kominers@skominers·
Under Harvard's proposed new grading policy, the 10th-best undergraduate out of 10 in a graduate-level elective would be capped at an A‑minus. For honors evaluation, they would be recorded as "0th percentile." That's not a typo.
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Jeff Bladt@BLADT·
The bottom 8 teams should be forced to play a mini-tournament for the top picks
Shams Charania@ShamsCharania

The NBA presented three comprehensive anti-tanking concepts to its Board of Governors on Wednesday, with modifications expected to each before a formal vote in May, per ESPN sources. 1. 18 teams in draft lottery (seeds 7-15 in each conference) – flattened odds, with bottom 10 teams having an 8% chance, the remaining 20% odds distributed in decreasing order for 11 through 18, and and a lottery drawing for all 18 picks. 2) 22 teams in lottery using 2-year record (seeds 7-15, plus the four playoff first round exits in both conferences). Lottery teams would reach a minimum win total floor in each season, such as 25 wins. If a team falls short of the floor, it gets slotted to meet the floor. Top 4 drawn as part of lottery, as is currently. 3) 18 teams in a "5 by 5" lottery – bottom 5 teams have equal odds for the top pick, with lottery formed for picks 1-5. Bottom 5 teams have a floor at 10; those that fall out of top 5 get sorted in a separate drawing.

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Alec Stapp
Alec Stapp@AlecStapp·
GLP-1 drugs are the ultimate validation of the techno-solutionist approach to society's most challenging problems. The obesity crisis seemed liked it would just get worse and worse forever. Scolding from public health officials didn't work. Proposals to completely overhaul our food systems were dead on arrival. Instead, we invented a weekly shot (based on Gila monster venom!) that fixes obesity directly. And now, thanks to the economic incentives in our biomedical industry, we have follow-on drugs that will be cheaper, even more effective, and easier to administer (by taking a pill instead of a shot). Policymakers should be focused on figuring out how we can get more breakthrough drugs like GLP-1s (and faster). They also should think hard about which slopulist ideas might inadvertently kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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Ed Newton-Rex
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex·
This new paper shows that LLMs memorise their training data even more than anyone realised. AI companies like to claim their models learn patterns, not actual text. This is demonstrably untrue. Absolutely huge finding that may have major implications in many ongoing lawsuits.
Tuhin Chakrabarty@TuhinChakr

🚨New paper on AI & Copyright 👨‍⚖️Courts have credited LLM companies' claims that safety alignment prevents reproduction of copyrighted expression. But what if fine-tuning on a simple writing task ruins it all? Worse : Fine-tuning on a single author's books (e.g., Murakami) unlocks verbatim recall of copyrighted books from 30+ unrelated authors, sometimes as high as 90%. Joint work with @niloofar_mire (@LTIatCMU), Jane Ginsburg ( @ColumbiaLaw) and my amazing PhD student @irisiris_l (@sbucompsc ) (1/n)🧵

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Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson@DKThomp·
New newsletter: MARKETS AND MORALITY "Gambling and prediction markets are flourishing because they meets the needs of our moment: a low-trust world, where often lonely young people are seeking high-risk opportunities to launch them into wealth and comfort... Americans are pulling away from practically every value that once defined national life—patriotism, religion, community, family. Young people care less than their parents about marriage, children, or faith. But nature, abhorring a vacuum, is filling the moral void left by retreating institutions with the market. Money has become our final virtue. I often find myself thinking about the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre, who argued in the introduction of After Virtue that modernity had destroyed the shared moral language once supplied by traditions and religion, leaving us with only the language of individual preference. Virtue did not disappear, I think, so much as it died and was reincarnated as the market. It is now the market that tells us what things are worth, what events matter, whose predictions are correct, who is winning, who counts."
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Megan McArdle
Megan McArdle@asymmetricinfo·
Also a lot of people in NYC are getting various subsidies, especially housing (rent control/stabilization/IZ + public/section 8). Folks in market rate housing may see only modest visible difference between their consumption and that of someone making a quarter of their income.
Alex Yablon@AlexYablon

The proximity and visibility of the truly rich in manhattan (along with housing and childcare costs relative to burbs and other metros) tends to drive the borough’s merely very affluent insane

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Jeff Bladt@BLADT·
Changi is overrated. The indoor temp is set too warm. The floors are all carpeted. Security is at the gate. Getting from lounges to gates is a schlepp. Meh search.app/1Hq9h
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Yaroslav Trofimov
Yaroslav Trofimov@yarotrof·
No strikes until the markets close Friday.
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Basil🧡
Basil🧡@LinkofSunshine·
Let’s gooo The insane costs of running a food truck in NYC are ridiculous and inflate prices to hell. Hot dog cart licenses are routinely above $100,000 yearly
Emma Goldberg@emmabgo

NEW: The Mamdani admin is going to announce the creation of an office for street vendors, which activist Carina Kaufman-Gutierrez will run. Carina told me weeks ago that this year is bringing the biggest changes for street vendors in NYC in 50 years. nytimes.com/2026/03/20/nyr…

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James Medlock
James Medlock@jdcmedlock·
Chamath says blue states "will eventually lose so much tax revenue as to be effectively insolvent." But blue state revenue has been growing faster than red state revenue for the last decade, because most economic growth happens in blue states. Impact of migration is modest.
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Chamath Palihapitiya@chamath

We all know what some feel uncomfortable saying: Most taxes are WASTED. They are leaked and grifted into all kinds of programs that sound good on the surface. But that’s the lie that is told so politicians can take more of your earnings and dole it out to win votes and stay in power. But it also turns out that people aren’t stupid and know the game. So the states that admit this by breaking away from the hamster wheel of increased taxation are winning. While those who continue to try and sell the lie are losing. At the limit, those losing states are leaking so much revenue that they will eventually lose so much tax revenue as to be effectively insolvent. Remember this data is just from 2023…we are in mid 2026 so another two years of this trend is already in the books.

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