Flashback for Oct. 17, 2026 25 points 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟥 Missed the hippo by one slot.

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"[D]eeply disillusioned voters were more likely to view socialism positively than voters who said the system just needed to be changed, suggesting that Americans’ deep & growing frustration may be driving some...to consider socialism" Seems important trend qualification. "Ugh" differs from "yay."

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Today marks five years that I have lived in Chicago. What that means, thanks to the vagaries of American immigration law, is that it is almost time to go home to London, where I will be covering Europe. It's been a time. I have learned a lot. I figured I'd write a bunch of it down:

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Artificial intelligence systems are more capable than ever — thanks to the mind-boggling amount of math it takes to train them. The calculations needed to train A.I. are nearly impossible to visualize. We tried anyway.

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Have a new story out in NYT today about the mind-boggling amount of math calculations that it takes to train AI. Here's a paywall free link:

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