Academics write for each other, not for people. Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort." "There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just to entertain each other? Taxpayers pay for it. It should be accessible. Why should I have to read a paragraph five or six times? It gets under my skin when academics devote so much brainpower into the scholarship and then just blow off the essential task of letting the world know what you've done."

Some subset of people with long COVID exhibit post-exertional malaise, in which exertion beyond their energy window can lead to a dramatic worsening of symptoms for anywhere between a few days and a few weeks, or, in more extreme cases, permanent lowering of baseline. 1/

In a new Stanford study, law professors by far preferred Gemini 2.5 Pro's responses over those written by their peers when they were unaware of who wrote the answers.

A dad represented himself in a child custody case. He used AI to help write an appellate brief. That brief cited 1 nonexistent case. The dad admitted using "these tools to assist in my advocacy," acknowledged his mistake, and apologized to the court. Court: "We hold that the unverified usage of GenAI to draft an appellate brief containing false information constitutes frivolous conduct warranting the imposition of a sanction, even when the offending party is a pro se litigant." Father ordered to pay $250 to the court.

here's where the Microsoft-OpenAI economics currently stand, incl capex