Greg Lukianoff
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CEO @thefireorg. #freespeech lawyer. Buy my new book, War On Words! Newsletter: https://t.co/kOQpTdvWWy
I get people like Pluto, it has a cute name and had an amazing photo shoot with New Horizons but it will not be a planet without adding at least a dozen others and new definitions would likely push us up to or over 100 planets which is silly. Nobody actually cares, move along
Kudos to xAI for being the ones with sufficient chutzpah to file this lawsuit against this deeply unconstitutional and stupid law in Colorado. I hope others in the industry at least speak up about this, if not launch their own legal challenges.
A Washington federal judge found the Defense Department violated an earlier court order by reinstating restrictions on press access in the Pentagon. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/pe…
We are proud to defend @xai's truth-seeking mission against this misguided law, one that Governor Polis himself expressed "reservations" about. From our complaint:
Just now: Judge Paul Friedman GRANTED the NYT's motion to compel in its challenge to Pentagon press restrictions, finding the reinstated press policy violates his earlier court order. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/doc1/045112024…
Cognitive ability and emotional intelligence are associated with less concern about enforcing political correctness and greater support for freedom of speech. stevestewartwilliams.com/p/prenatal-tes…
There is a hypothesis that birth order effects (on things like income and educational attainment) are in part respiratory pathogen effects: younger kids get more of them from their older siblings. This cool recent paper uses Danish administrative data to argue that this is true and a pretty large part of the story. (They claim 70% of the birth order effect on long-run wages.) Other work has previously shown that severe infections matter for long-run outcomes, and it's well-established that birth order matters, but I haven't until now seen anyone convincingly show that standard respiratory pathogens impose long-term costs on infant siblings. nber.org/system/files/w…
Just finished a watershed board meeting at Centivax. CEO Jake Glanville is holding the first vial of universal vaccine, now in clinical trials. In the long arc of human history, pathogens have killed >50% of humans that ever lived — over 50 Billion dead. Nothing else comes close. This huge painting by Andrew Turner adorns the entryway. We have better tools than ever before to eradicate pathogens. We are hopeful that Centivax's universal vaccine programs will end the scourge of malaria, herpesviruses, coronaviruses, influenza and more.
Overheard in Silicon Valley: "Everyone in the world is now either 'too online' or 'not online enough'."
In 2021, 70% of D.C.'s prolific gun violence was done by about 500 people. That's about 0.075% of the D.C. population at the time. That's basically nobody and they gave the national capital a bad reputation, and they were KNOWN TO THE POLICE!
