Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly

Greatest test of intelligence is asking someone what they think of Elon Musk

Fuckin a can something be done about this divisive third world slop? I do not ever need to see anything from shit countries on my timeline. Let us block by geography. Everyone wants this feature.

Over 1 in 250 Natal Girls Were Taking Testosterone By Age 17 in Oregon, From 2016 to 2023 open.substack.com/pub/benrya… This rate, from a study of data about insured adolescents in Oregon, represents an average over this period. Given swift increases in hormone uptake over time, the rate was likely much higher by 2023. The use of gender-transition drugs among adolescents in Oregon soared between 2016 and 2023, charting a nearly 10-fold increase among biological girls and a 14-fold increase in natal boys. Across this period, about 1 in 100 insured youth ages 8 to 17 in the Pacific Northwest state were diagnosed with gender dysphoria, a psychiatric condition involving distress stemming from a conflict between an individual’s natal sex and their gender identity. By age 17, about 1 in 240 insured natal girls were taking testosterone and about 1 in 630 natal boys were taking estrogen in Oregon. These figures are nearly three-fold higher for natal girls and nearly twice as high for natal boys as figures from a study published last year that analyzed national data on commercially insured youth from 2018 to 2022.

It’s wild to me that progressive political types like @ezraklein live in a world where questioning whether one should have children because of climate change is a frequent topic of conversation. I’ve literally never heard anyone i Know say anything remotely like this. But it does help explain why conservatives are out-procreating progressives something like 2-1; the inevitable, political implications of this will be seen in another 20 years or so

The reason ID is banned in California (and New York) elections is to enable large-scale fraud. When you combine no ID and mail-in voting, fraud is de facto legalized.

Just saw this for a BDR role If you see this for SDR/BDR or even an AE RUN

statistics are important for, say, controlled medical trials for gauging the safety of a city, nothing beats word of mouth just ask the people who live there and whose judgment you trust I’m going to go out on a limb and claim that there is no such thing as widespread wrong perception of the safety of a city

If you hate corporate / office politics and think you are above them and refuse to play, you will lose. All workplaces are a competition for resources. You are fighting against evolutionary wiring. I held this belief that politics were beneath me for 25 years. Results, not good. Whether you want to play or not, you are in the games

In fact, per capita statistics diminish these kinds of harms, because the guys slinging drugs and acting menacingly on a street corner in New York impact the lives of way more people than they would elsewhere, even as the statistics would suggest that the harm is less, because it’s softened by the existence of those very same people in the data. By this logic, it’s actually better to disrupt the lives of a million people than to harm 1000 people, because one over a million is a much smaller number than one over 1000. The way I describe this is that people have a proximity theory of crime, not a per capita theory of crime. And they are correct to do so. When people employ a proximity theory of crime they are more accurately predicting their experience in a given place, whereas the per capita description of crime often misleads.

thoughts on mental health that would have you like this?

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