Sir Humphrey 🇺🇦
@bdquinn
Permanent Secretary of the Department of Bad Takes
The country wants this. I've just come to accept that. I think they'll regret it when they get it full force, but they clearly want it. Let them have it. Just pray the rule of law survives it.
I will just plug that I wrote an @opinion piece on April 10--when announced tariff rates were higher than they are now--arguing that while tariffs were a major headwind they wouldn't cause a recession.
The US Economy Was Supposed to Be in a Recession By Now. What Happened? derekthompson.org/p/if-trumps-ec…
"They can do a whole episode about Donald Trump (allegedly) having a micropenis while treating him like they treated Saddam Hussein and Paramount can’t do a darn thing about it because Paramount needs South Park." thebulwark.com/p/why-south-pa…
Persons experiencing Frenchness have very delicate feelings.
Still one of my favorites.
Underrated
What’s your favorite newspaper headline from The Simpsons?
God, I sometimes wish I had been born 15 years earlier.
NEWS: Mercedes-Benz is integrating Microsoft Teams into its vehicles, starting with the new CLA model.
The building renovation thing is goofy. But I feel like it should be a bigger deal that the president is trying to force out the Fed chair for being too worried about inflation. That’s the big picture story here.
I have to admit: I was wrong about full self-driving cars. I pretty confidently said they'd never exist. It seems pretty clear we now live in a world where they do. We're not at universal adoption yet but it's really no longer hard to see a world where we are.
See, the key is to satisfy people's insatiable blood lust by killing the lab workers for the lab grown diamonds in some quantity. Use that to differentiate you from the ethical lab-grown diamond industry. Blood diamonds, but at a lower price.
Potential Democratic candidates for governor in Wisconsin: - Attorney General Josh Kaul - State Sen. Kelda Roys - Former WisDems Chair Ben Wikler - Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski - Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley - Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez
Breaking: @GovEvers will NOT run for a third term.
A love letter from me to Kathy and my family—and to you, Wisconsin.
This is bad for AI measurement. As other AI benchmarks have become saturated, model makers have turned to Humanity’s Last Exam as a good measure of AI ability. Except a careful review suggests many of the exam questions have incorrect “right” answers. Benchmarking is hard.
HLE has recently become the benchmark to beat for frontier agents. We @FutureHouseSF took a closer look at the chem and bio questions and found about 30% of them are likely invalid based on our analysis and third-party PhD evaluations. 1/7
It's so batshit even FOX News prime time is lowering expectations.
Ingraham: Obama is not going to be prosecuted for treason. That’s not going to happen. Cruz: He’s not going to be prosecuted for treason in all likelihood
"In the end Bakhmut fortress fell. The toll would undermine Ukraine’s 2023 counteroffensive, which also ended in failure. 'It was a mistake to stay in Bakhmut so long,' said a senior Ukrainian official involved with military planning." @ChristopherJM ft.com/content/4d6114…
Kinda wild that the COO of Shopify can’t read this basic graph
The reason Canadians feel like they have less and less money to pay for their lives is because they have less and less money to pay for their lives.
every time one of these posts comes up where it cost someone more to cook than to go out to eat, it turns out that they had to buy a bunch of spices and ingredients they didnt have before, used 0.01% of the container, and counted the whole price towards the cost of the meal
eating at home costing $60 with time and labor and eating outside costing $56.78. alright.
I judged my father too harshly for falling asleep on the couch at 8pm after work