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Nick Fleisher Mar 9, 2023

https://journa.host/@anthony/109995474921431681

Anthony DeRosa (@[email protected])

U.S. regulators investigating Tesla after steering wheels detach from two moving vehicles $TSLA https://cnb.cx/3ZCR4Dy

Mastodon

Nick Fleisher Mar 9, 2023

Struck by the parallel to weak vs. strong exhaustivity in answerhood here
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

Opinion | Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT

The most prominent strain of A.I. encodes a flawed conception of language and knowledge.

The New York Times

Nick Fleisher Mar 2, 2023

As others have pointed out, this is disqualifying on its face for a public official. It also won't work.

Having actual power over an institution you don't understand is basically all downside risk.

Nick Fleisher Mar 1, 2023

The Northwest Quad has been iced out by successive gubernatorial administrations for the entire time that UWM has owned it (2010-present). It's bad!
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/28/wisconsin-gov-tony-evers-wants-3-8-billion-capital-projects/69912661007/

Tony Evers seeks $3.8 billion for building projects, nearly half for UW campuses

Big-ticket items include money for the Wisconsin History Museum, state Capitol, juvenile correctional facilities and UW campuses.

Journal Sentinel

Nick Fleisher Feb 27, 2023

Lots of good passages here but this one stood out to me
https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-case-for-shunning

The Case For Shunning

People like Scott Adams claim they're being silenced. But what they actually seem to object to is being understood.

The Reframe

Nick Fleisher Feb 27, 2023

Ron Johnson gave these quacks a national platform
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/02/26/ivermectin-use-covid-flu-rsv/

Doctors who touted ivermectin as covid fix now pushing it for flu, RSV

This group of doctors championed ivermectin as a covid « miracle » drug without scientific evidence. Now they're pushing the anti-parasitic for flu and RSV.

The Washington Post

Nick Fleisher Feb 21, 2023

Hmm

Nick Fleisher Feb 20, 2023

Another example of how UW-Madison's outsize financial resources allow it to thrive under austerity and indirectly hurt every other campus in the system
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/education/2023/02/20/state-funding-unlikely-for-uw-systems-wisconsin-tuition-promise-program/69871261007/

Republicans unlikely to fund UW tuition promise program for low-income students

Promise programs sidestep the confusing financial aid process by covering tuition for all students whose family incomes fall below a specific threshold.

Journal Sentinel

Nick Fleisher Feb 16, 2023

I had chalked this up to an ordinary speech error/mixup when I saw the clip of Vos talking to the press, but I guess not

Nick Fleisher Feb 15, 2023

"Who elected them?" <suggests two other unelected groups>
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/02/14/desantis-florida-ap-classes-college-board/

DeSantis threatens to rid Florida of Advanced Placement classes

Florida's Republican governor is engaged in a highly unusual debate with the College Board over its new AP African American studies class.

The Washington Post