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Chris Laquer Pacheco
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Chris Laquer Pacheco
@claquerer
Most things in moderation. Data analytics in the SF Bay Area.
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#OTD in 1914: Special evening editions of newspapers confirm the reports of the assassination, causing outrage in much of Austria-Hungary; Anti-Serbian demonstrations begin in Vienna and Zagreb and escalate into violent riots in Sarajevo.
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For the 110th anniversary, I will live-tweet the events of the summer of 1914 and the "July Crisis" that led to the outbreak of World War I.
I will try to add each tweet to this thread, in order.
My series of lectures on the origins of the First World War: soundcloud.com/historiansplai…
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Chris Laquer Pacheco retweetledi
this is a problem that is impossible to fix because there is fundamentally not a difference to the language model between text that describes an event that actually happened and text that describes an event that seems like it could happen
Ed Zitron@edzitron
Did Grok Ai already hallucinate a news event? Hell yeah baby
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Chris Laquer Pacheco retweetledi
Turning this into a challenge…
E.B. WHITE could have named his children’s classic THE WEB & I.
Are there other authors whose letters could be rearranged to form plausible titles of their famous works (allowing friendly punctuation)?
May be tricky - let’s see what you’ve got.
Beyond Wordplay@beyondwordplay
Add an N to author E.B. WHITE and rearrange to get IN THE WEB - the location of the miraculous events of his most famous children’s book. (And yes, E.B. was the White in Strunk and White who wrote “The Elements of Style”)
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@chicagojimmy @EnheduannaR @mcmansionhell Definitely tax the rich and regulate business, but letting them collapse chaotically and hurt smaller actors and whole segments of the economy is not a rational way to achieve fairness or any systemic improvements.
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@chicagojimmy @EnheduannaR @mcmansionhell And those VC fortunes fund people’s paychecks, which fund local economies, coffee shops, etc etc. They would not collapse in a vacuum. This is a complex, interconnected system.
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@chicagojimmy @EnheduannaR @mcmansionhell The bank should have been better regulated, for sure. But depositors aren’t to blame. Bank CEOs, boards made bad decisions and can lose their jobs and investments. No reason depositors should be punished for this.
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@EnheduannaR @chicagojimmy @mcmansionhell And the FDIC usually looks for another bank to take over the insolvent one. They rarely lay out even their own money. There’s a lot of FUD circulating around this issue, but I think most liberals agree that the govt should make systems we all rely on safer….
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@EnheduannaR @chicagojimmy @mcmansionhell This is like saying your grocery store shouldn’t pay someone who slipped and fell because the store would raise prices to pay insurance premiums. This is what insurance is for. It’s collective risk management that makes us all safer. (Plus, most $ paid by corps, not individuals.)
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@minerva_koenig @mcmansionhell FDIC is a gov org, but it is an insurance fund. It’s paid by member banks. youtu.be/TAE8i40A5uI
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@claquerer @mcmansionhell Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't FDIC a government organization? If so, taxes are certainly being used to run it...
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@chicagojimmy @mcmansionhell And he makes the opposite point to you: “And just in general, asking investors… to evaluate the soundness of the banks where they park their funds is expecting too much from people who are, after all, trying to run their own businesses.” I agree with his pro-regulation argument.
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@chicagojimmy @mcmansionhell The full quote: “The bigger question is whether, by saving big depositors from their own fecklessness, policymakers have encouraged future bad behavior.”
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@Historiansplain Did they really go to Oklahoma? bbc.com/travel/article…
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What would you like to know and what questions would you like to have answered about the Vikings?
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