My latest Substack:
Why predictions that radiologists will be replaced by AI (including, famously, by genAI founding father and Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton) have been wildly off base, and what that teaches us about job replacement for doctors.
robertwachter.substack.com/p/why-do-you...
hands down the absolute *strangest* “on background” sourcing I have ever seen in the NYT. Completely bonkers stuff www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Nobody likes it except that one guy who gets to change the really big clock because they let him swing from all the gears while he does it. The Old Clock Master they call him. He gets up there on those gears and gets to swinging and whooping and he's the only one who likes this.
Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it
I lived a few streets down from the site where the Philadelphia Police Department firebombed an entire city block in 1985, and when I mention it in lecture most of my students seem absolutely incredulous
I wonder about whether that’s right. Think about when compilers came out. At that time I’m sure everyone said folks who didn’t learn assembly would struggle relative to those who did because using a compiler would be better if you knew assembly. But within a few years I doubt it was relevant….
A friend for dragon by dav pilkey
Are y'all familiar with this one? The most tragic modern children's story I've ever read
And right on schedule: there goes pseudonymity on the Internet. arxiv.org/abs/2602.16800
To the highest bidder
This is Minneapolis:
The weekly newsletter from our elementary school includes:
-summer school registration link
-link to our mutual aid fund
-MN Attorney General federal action report form (to share how we've been impacted by ICE)
-Know Your Rights information
-resources for food insecurity
Oh my goodness — that’s so awful. She was such a wonderful person. I was her 106A section leader and remember her well all these years later.
I’d forgotten where you worked and looked it up — very cool! We’re about to buy one of their products and now that I know you work there I totally get why the user experience is so awesome.
On January 10, 2026, while driving back to work after getting lunch with his father and cousin, a car quickly passed O., sped up, then stopped in front of him. (Id. ¶ 3.) A few men in civilian clothes stepped out of the car and asked for his identification. (Id.) The men threatened O.—if he did not get out of the car, they would force him out. (Id.) O. exited the car and was told he was under arrest. (Id.) The men handcuffed him and did not allow him to bring his phone. (Id.) O. felt like he was being kidnapped. (Id.) The men detained O., his father, and his cousin, taking them all to Whipple. (Id. ¶ 4.) At Whipple, there was “food scattered on the floor, the floor was sticky with mud, and everything stuck to your shoes.” (Id. ¶ 5.) The space was so cramped that sometimes there was no space to sit on the floor. (Id.)
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
Babe Ruth hit 149 home runs after Robert Duvall was born.
No no no no no — similar to expertise on farm animal sounds and awareness of the dangers of quicksand, trapezoids were absolutely going to be key to my life. Somehow that has not been the case for any of those items. I’m not sure where I went wrong?
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
@cafedujord.bsky.social, I’m curious — in your threads about similar meetings I don’t recall seeing public comments from folks who themselves desperately need affordable housing. I hope it sways the council! Any idea what led so many people in that state to comment at this particular meeting?
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
Occupy Democrats post: "BREAKING: Kash Patel was just busted LYING TO CONGRESS in order to protect pedophiles! Rep. Thomas Massie and Rep. Ro Khanna have successfully been able to view a slew of unredacted Epstein files, and they discovered that Trump’s disgraced and wildly incompetent FBI Director Kash Patel has been lying to Congess, under oath, in order to protect the other rich and powerful men who played major roles in the Epstein sex-trafficking ring. Thanks to pressure from Massie and Khanna, the DOJ reluctantly unredacted an FBI report naming Jewish billionaire Les Wexner, owner of Victoria’s Secret and notorious Epstein associate, as one of the co-conspirators in the sex-trafficking ring. “This is significant because Kash Patel testified to Congress that FBI had no evidence of other sex traffickers. This is FBI’s own 2019 document listing Wexner as a coconspirator in child sex trafficking. It wasn’t unredacted until tonight,” said Khanna’s partner-in-justice, Rep. Thomas Massie, on Twitter on February 10th. The two spent two hours on February 9th examining unredacted Epstein files and were shocked at what they saw. “Most of the unredacted files were redacted—70 to 80 percent. Massie and I saw that there were six men who were co‑conspirators and were being protected. Those names need to be made public. " "There’s no excuse for releasing survivors’ names while protecting these six men. There are probably more. In just two hours, we saw that these six men were being protected.” Kash Patel’s FBI is actively engaged in a cover-up on behalf of serial pedophiles and must be fired immediately — and held accountable for his own role in protecting pedophiles."
I have to say, I do not love this new trend of large liberal accounts with millions of followers identifying Jews.
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
will take any excuse to point out that the bear on the California flag looks like you asked it for a favor just when it was leaving the office
Also, it’s not nearly as impressive as it sounds. The previous state rep. was a Democrat too. So this is a hold for the Democrats, not a flip. Seems like it’s one of those (increasingly rare) Southern districts that votes for Democrats for local offices and Republicans for federal races.
man I’m sorry to be all corny here but when I see a “the city is beautiful! There’s more to it than homeless people!” I gotta say you know who’s also beautiful? People who have no place to live & are trying to get by in a system that has turned its back on them & if you don’t see that that’s on you
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
Incredible art of gritty playing fiddle on the roof of a west Philadelphia row home. In Yiddish it says Fidler Oyfn Fakh פֿידלער אױפֿן דאַך)
We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was
This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So:
In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.
Well, turns out this was my last story for The Washington Post, 2,011 bylines later.
For nine years, it was a dream in every sense of the word, no matter how many of the company's leaders tried to make it otherwise. Thanks for being part of the ride.
Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland is leaving Philadelphia, he announced.
@zberm.bsky.social was on it.
