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Eagles play calling is straight trash as usual. Hurts making poor decisions too. Can’t put it all on Patullo. Defense is balling.
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I just unlocked this account for the time being and would be grateful for retweets so that more people can find me. I've been algorithmically throttled for a long time here, so if you do see this, please help counter that be boosting.
Hi everybody! Logging in briefly just to say ICYMI, I'm done with Xitter. Find me instead on Bl*es*y or T*read*s. On the latter, I'm under chrissystroop. On the former, I'm at bugbeardispatch.com, which is also my S*bsta*k that I'd super appreciate subscriptions to!
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Mayday.
The sudden pollution of science with LLM-generated content, known to yield plausible-sounding but sometimes difficult to detect errors (“hallucinations”) is serious, and its impact will be lasting.
Please share this short essay (link below) with scientists and with media covering science and medicine.
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In Honor of Back to School, Emily Hanford Preparing to Interview Karen Vaites and Tommy Tuberville for Her Upcoming Podcast on Why Teachers Are the Worst
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Lots of confusion abt how this graph of *admissions rates* produces crowd-out of bottom 99%
You need to combine this graph w the *statistical density* of high-scoring students at each point in the income distribution to calculate crowd-out
Fantastic explainer from @DLeonhardt that addresses these questions very clearly
nytimes.com/2023/07/24/brief…
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If there was ever a time I wanted people to retweet something - A vaccine specialist, Dr. Paul Offit, spells out how RFK Jr. played a role in discouraging vaccination rates in a small population. A measles outbreak followed which resulted in 83 deaths mostly of young children.
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We can't let “Medicare Advantage” continue to deceive seniors & rip off taxpayers.
Read my op-ed with @RepMarkPocan & @wendellpotter: thenation.com/article/politi…
The party that can’t.
With 51 Senate votes, Democrats can continue to rebalance the lower courts. But an arcane tradition blocks them from confirming judges in states with GOP Senators. It's called blue slips, and @MilesMogulescu reports that Dems have no plans to change them:
prospect.org/politics/democr…
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This story deserves more attention in education circles thedailybeast.com/christian-…
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Wow, Stewart County saw Warnock win by 18 pts in the general, and gave him a 25 pt margin tonight. The Black Belt is looking especially strong for Warnock (as it did two years ago).
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Very strong performance for Warnock, and turnout was excellent. 64k votes cast in November, with approximately 60k votes cast so far in the runoff with an estimate of another 3k to be counted.
Richmond Co. (Augusta): Warnock +37.7 in November, Warnock +40.5 today. A terrific result for Warnock (D) in Georgia's third biggest city. #GASEN
So predictable. How about we tax billionaires instead of the rest of us subsidizing their vanity projects and hijacking of public policy through “philanthropy”.
NEW: Last year, the ex-Amazon executive running Bezos's nonprofit pre-k for low-income kids was paid closer to an Ivy League president's salary.
In most of 2021 they only had 1 school with 13 kids.
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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1/3 One reason I’m disturbed by the trend for education research to be conducted by economists is that the kind of psychology in which mainstream economics is rooted — indeed, that it takes on faith — is a rusty Skinnerian behaviorism that most psychologists outgrew long ago.
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Rather than keep 250K NYC municipal retirees on REAL Medicare, NYC Mayor Eric Adams, proposed moving retirees into “Medicare Advantage” plans – essentially running millions of U.S. tax $ through a private health insurer.
Thankfully it hasn’t happened—yet.
wendellpotter.substack.com/p…
