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Google's new AI search results are having quite the week. Here's a thread with some of my favorite answers: Image
"smoking while pregnant" Image
As long as it's non-toxic Image
"train eight days a week" Image
"gay characters in Mario Kart" Image
Looney Tunes moment Image
"How many rocks" Image
A fun suggestion to clean with bleach and vinegar (and no warning that if you combine them you get world war one poison juice) Image
Common Wisconsin W Image
More college hallucinations Image
Google's been reading Trump forums Image
"how long can I stare at the sun" Image
Somehow coconut is the funniest part of this Image
She looks so old for 20 Image
this just seems accurate Image
If the AI says it... Image
"Is it ok to leave a dog in a hot car?" Image
👀 Image
"are Ren and Stimpy in the Bible" Image
Look it does actually get there in the end Image
Did not catch this episode Image
"is bowser gay" Image
Someone decided to do straightforward calculations via LLM, which is a very good idea with no downsides Image
Love Michelle Yeoh Image
Technically not wrong! Also the other ones, but 17 of them were indeed white. Image
A few of these are probably faked, but the majority I could either replicate or were verified as real
How did I forget this classic Image
I wrote about how algorithmic feeds, AI slop, disinformation and enshittification are changing the modern internet:

infinitescroll.us/p/thoughts-on-…
@donnelly_brent A few might be faked, but I was able to replicate/source most of these pretty easily.

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Aug 31
Recently Richard Hanania wrote an article about how - despite his belief that the GOP is a party of lazy, conspiratorial, bigoted, anti-democracy morons - he's going to vote for them anyways.

His reasoning? Economic growth.

This is very dumb, and deserves a thorough rebuttal. Image
First: It's kind of insane to *only* care about economic growth. But let's concede the point. Say that literally all you care about is growth - what next?

Even in that case, it's a terrible idea to support Trump. He has terrible ideas and would be a disaster for the economy.
Let's start with tariffs. Trump wants a 10% global tariff on everything. Maybe the single worst idea in a generation - it would make the US poorer instantly.

Economists are pretty much universally in agreement this is a bad, bad, bad idea.
Read 20 tweets
Jul 11
The 'empty quadrant' is one of the most replicated findings in housing research.

There expensive cities that don't build. There are cheap cities that do build. And there are no cities that build lots of housing and still see very high housing costs. Image
But that chart's data only goes through 2013, you say! Sure. What if we use a completely different data source and time period?

Top right quadrant is still empty. Image
It works for both overall price level as well as *changes* in price level.

No city that has large increases in inventory also sees increases in housing cost. Upper right still empty. Image
Read 5 tweets
Mar 21
A thread of DoorDash takes:

"I am entitled to DoorDash and can't eat a frozen dinner, because I am disabled and frozen food has 'histamines' in it." Image
"I am upset that you call hand-delivery of restaurant quality meals to my home a luxury service" Image
"Frozen meals are a gendered capitalist scheme" Image
Read 7 tweets
Feb 24
Every piece of info we have suggests that building housing reduces rents

quick thread: Image
The places that build are all cheap

The places that are expensive? None of them build Image
Wonder what happens if we update the data and use a different source?

Same pattern. There are zero cities in the upper right, zero cities that build a lot of housing but are still expensive Image
Read 9 tweets
Jan 13
"The Houthis are allowed to attack Swedish merchant ships until Israel stops bombing Gaza" is just utterly insane logic.

"Let's start fires in Central Park until Dubai has gay marriage. I'm gonna kick puppies until we expand Medicare." What the fuck are you talking about?
If you hear anyone say "it's only targeting ships headed for Israel" they are lying to you. They think you're too stupid to google for 10 seconds.

They're attacking ships completely at random - here's a Norweigan ship traveling from Malaysia to Italy.

politico.eu/article/norway…
Here's another - A German owned, Liberia flagged ship traveling from Greece to Singapore.

The Houthis are attacking ships at random, attempting (and thankfully failing) to murder civilians in international waters.

bbc.com/news/world-mid…
Read 6 tweets
Jan 12
There's a whole generation whose only foreign policy views are "US invade Iraq! US bad! No forever war!"

Even in a very different scenario, where the Houthis are repeatedly trying to murder civilians, they can still only repeat "No Forever War! US bad!"

Not one of these people has an actual suggestion for what the international reaction should be to the repeated attempted murder of civilian sailors on merchant ships. Silence. Nothing. They don't care.

All they want to do, or even know how to do, is smugly yell America Bad.
America has done some bad stuff, sure. But if that's the single lens through which you react to every story for decades, you're a mouth-breathing moron who makes the world a dumber place by existing.

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