This is why there will be NO AI content on @Storyaliz
Yes, we know it would be faster & cheaper, making us 'successful' in the short-term. But it would also mean exposing young readers to more formless, soulless, ultimately meaningless crap.
Which we are not willing to do.
NASHVILLE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE
FY2016 - around $408 million
FY2026 - around $2.04 billion — roughly 5x
More money in. Same conversation about “tight budgets.”
At some point you stop pretending it’s complicated:
If revenue is way up and relief is zero, the problem isn’t the taxpayer.
It’s where the money’s going.
It really is remarkable how Ketanji Brown Jackson votes exclusively based on her political ideology with zero concern whatsoever for interpreting the laws and ruling on that basis. There’s no difference between having her or a random left wing influencer on the Supreme Court.
🦔A study of 6,000 CEOs and executives across the US, UK, Germany, and Australia found that nearly 90% say AI has had no impact on employment or productivity over the past three years. Of those using AI, average usage was just 1.5 hours per week. Despite this, executives forecast AI will increase productivity by 1.4% over the next three years.
Economists are invoking Solow's productivity paradox, the same phenomenon observed when computers failed to show up in productivity statistics through the 1970s and 80s despite massive investment, only to deliver a surge in the 1990s. Outside the Magnificent Seven, there are currently no signs of AI in profit margins, earnings expectations, employment data, or inflation data.
My Take
The Solow paradox is the most honest framework I've seen applied to this moment. Computers were everywhere in the 1980s and productivity still slowed for decades before the payoff arrived in the 1990s. The optimistic read on the current data is that we're in the same lag phase and the productivity surge is coming. That may well be true.
However, I want to push back on the assumption that the lag justifies the current pace of workforce displacement. Companies cutting tens of thousands of jobs while their own executives report 1.5 hours of AI use per week and no measurable productivity impact aren't making data-driven decisions. They're making bets on a future that hasn't arrived yet and distributing the cost of those bets onto workers rather than shareholders. The Solow paradox resolved because companies eventually figured out how to use the technology well. Nothing about that resolution required firing the people who would have helped them get there.
Hedgie🤗
A graph of hospital admissions in Texas from Jan 2020 - Dec 2022 shows admissions dropped during the start of the pandemic (lowest level was April 2020) and never rose above pre-pandemic levels.
One year ago, I ran the Boston Marathon after being threatened, harassed, and ultimately kicked out of a club I had worked so hard to build. All for saying this storied race - the most competitive amateur sporting event in the world - should keep the female category for females.
I don’t have to be convinced that LLM’s make programmers more productive. But where’s all the stuff? We’ve now had months and months of 100x or 1000x programmet productivity improvements. Where’s all the stuff they’re building?
Calling all Tennesseans who want to protect families who choose not to vaccinate their children!
HB0638 seeks to keep pediatric practices open, bringing excluded families back into their medical home, and restore the clinical relationship where real health conversations and real outcomes actually happen.
Tennessee cannot champion parental rights and religious liberty while simultaneously sanctioning a system that bars families from pediatric care because of those very beliefs.
Unfortunately, Rep. Carringer’s amendment disqualifies the majority of pediatric practices statewide from the bill’s protections — gutting the very purpose of the legislation.
We ask you to contact your Representative and urge Rep. Carringer to conform HB0638 to the clean Senate bill, SB1389.
https://tennesseestands.org/bills/hb638-sb1389-prohibits-tenncare-and-coverkids-providers-from-denying-care-when-enrollees-refuse-vaccines/
Colorado has become what Minnesota was for a long time: the state that just loses all of its cases at the Supreme Court — frequently in embarrassing fashion — when it infringes upon people’s First Amendment rights.
The They/Thems at STAT News are now arguing against policies to curb teen pregnancy. You never know what you're gonna get a Big Pharma's fave media outlet.
Meet @DanielLMcAdams. He is the cohost with @RonPaul of The Ron Paul Liberty Report. He is also the Executive Director of @RonPaulInstitut, and has been Ron Paul’s foreign policy advisor for years.
He is not antiwar as you can see here. He wants to see Israel “ended.” He has completely destroyed Ron Paul’s entire reputation, and has helped to shipwreck the entire U.S. libertarian political project.
Pro-tip to the AI enthusiasts: If you want people to actually support it, stop telling them AI will end all jobs while they get a check from the government and every tyrannical string that comes with it.
40k without power after a light rain. Another night in Mogadishu, I mean Nashville
Board of Nashville public charter school that allows Muslim prayer includes 'Resistance Scholar' and attorney who represents Kilmar Abrego Garcia! https://tennesseestar.com/education/board-of-nashville-charter-school-with-muslim-prayer-led-by-resistance-scholar-included-lawyer-representing-kilmar-abrego-garcia/tpappert/2026/04/16/
The parents are right, chromebooks are not a necessary part of education. They should be able to opt-out, and schools should probably stop using them.
https://www.inquirer.com/education/lower-merion-students-chromebooks-opt-out-20260415.html
Minnesota's Supreme Court has ruled that women's sports violates its constitution.
Now Montana's Supreme Court has ruled that not including men in the category of women is "sex discrimination."
Both opinions are facially absurd.
Well, this blew up... We followed up on this in today's @realpamphleteer. Lots of new information in there. A preview to follow with a link to read at the end. 🧵
The canary in the coal mine for me was Walter Block’s dismissal from Mises for not joining the rest of the institute in going full anti-Israel immediately after 10/7. I thought that these were serious thinkers. They’re not. The libertarian movement at large has only gotten much worse since then.
The current anti-Israel and even anti-Jewish sentiment online is a social contagion, no different than transgenderism or autism before it.
Of course, there is actually a condition known as gender dysphoria. But every family in Hollywood didn't suddenly and coincidentally have at least one child with gender dysphoria at the exact same time by natural processes.
And of course there is actually a condition known as autism. But every family in Manhattan didn't suddenly and coincidentally have at least one child with autism at the exact same time by natural processes.
You aren't an Israel skeptic, and you didn't start "noticing." You were told, and shown by interested parties, and you were rewarded with attention and dopamine by the tellers and showers.
And as with every social contagion, what you have been told and shown is an overwhelming quantity of selectively chosen half-truths -- or full-truths with half-context.
You believe you are a free thinker, but when every "free thinker" arrives at the same conclusion at the exact same time... well, the thinking isn't as free as you believe it is.
His name is Kirk Moore, principal of Pauls Valley High School. He charged a gunman with no regard for his own safety and saved lives.
Back when you lied about being eager to meet us in person any time, any place, you made up multiple fake assassination plots as an excuse first to not come to our Phoenix studio, and then to not come to Phoenix at all. You’re the last person with any credibility to accuse others of faking threats.
The war against biology is far from over. A new peer-reviewed paper claims that teaching students "accurate" biology about sex is more inclusive and makes students enjoy class more.
But what they call "accurate" biology is actually pseudoscience.
These papers matter because they do more than confuse students. They help create the false appearance of scientific consensus that shape policy and influence court outcomes.
Read my latest for @RealLastStand below.
🔗https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-war-on-biology-is-far-from-over
New math paper just dropped
It argues that children memorizing math facts and learning procedures is redolent of incipient authoritarianism
Abolish schools of education
LEFT: The highest spending states and their state rank on NAEP for 4th grade reading
Vs.
RIGHT: The top ranked states on 4th grade reading and their expenditure ranking
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
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That image is what happens when Paula White is your personal pastor and people around you are continually comparing you to Christ. Trump desperately needs to understand the bad news that precedes the Good News: you are a helpless sinner in desperate need of a Savior, as we all once were.
Louisiana: Proposes bill to transfer students who hurt teachers
Teachers Union: This bill is bad bc it hurts restorative justice efforts 😑
Home, again! Mission complete. I hope we glorified God, humanity, our families and our terrific teams a @NASA and @csa_asc. Time to share the good news!
Watching NASA livestreams and the Artemis crew has been the most encouraging and optimistic I've felt about our country for a long time.
Time to believe in America again.
The reality manufacturing has begun...
🦔A researcher invented a fake eye condition called bixonimania, uploaded two obviously fraudulent papers about it to an academic server, and watched major AI systems present it as real medicine within weeks.
The fake papers thanked Starfleet Academy, cited funding from the Professor Sideshow Bob Foundation and the University of Fellowship of the Ring, and stated mid-paper that the entire thing was made up. Google's Gemini told users it was caused by blue light. Perplexity cited its prevalence at one in 90,000 people.
ChatGPT advised users whether their symptoms matched. The fake research was then cited in a peer-reviewed journal that only retracted it after Nature contacted the publisher.
My Take
The researcher made the papers as obviously fake as possible on purpose. The AI systems didn't catch it. Neither did the human researchers who cited it in real journals, which means people are feeding AI-generated references into their work without reading what they're actually citing.
I've covered the FDA using AI for drug review, the NYC hospital CEO ready to replace radiologists, and ChatGPT Health launching this year. All of that is happening in the same environment where a condition funded by a Simpsons character and endorsed by the crew of the Enterprise was being presented as emerging medical consensus. The people making these deployment decisions seem to believe the pipeline from research to AI to patient is more supervised than it actually is. This experiment suggests it isn't supervised much at all.
Hedgie🤗
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y
iPhones and other technology never needed such tax breaks
Dem Congresswoman: "With Dr. Koch becoming the first woman, and Captain Glover the first person of color to travel this far into space, what message do all of you have for the next generation of explorers who may be seeing themselves in this mission for the first time?"
Koch: "For us, we don't necessarily see any one individual as deserving of anything, or accolades, for being a first. [...] We're in a time where everyone who has a dream has to work equally, and gets to work equally hard, to achieve that dream. [...] You don't have to focus just on being there, focus on excellence. Focus on being the best that you can be in any team."
Distance makes the heart grow fonder…it didn’t take 219,669 miles to remind me how much love I have for Ellie and Katey. They have been incredible supporters during this journey, and they now fully understand why it was important for me to go explore into the unknown.
Unions have come to American Library Association. Expect library funding drain to worsen and child indoctrination to increase massively.
These are the “trained experts” ALA claims in “Freedom to Read Act” ALA forces legislatures to pass into law. Trained in community organizing.
Another day, another call from a family being investigated by CPS agency in Oregon because they won’t say that their daughter is transgender, won’t agree that she is a boy, won’t transition her.
She is 15. She is mentally unwell.
Her school is the one reporting the parents.
CPS is calling the mom’s employer which will guarantee that mom will lose her job. She is the main breadwinner of the family. Dad’s business is not doing well.
They are legal immigrants with small means. They are easy pickings.
This is queer theory. This is how American will be destroyed. One family at a time.
@elonmusk @megynkelly @adamcarolla @RobSchneider @HHSGov @JanJekielek
Nashville public schools are embracing Ramadan.
Let's have a look at the people making this possible, shall we? 🧵🧵🧵
I am seeing this same kind of pro-Islam bias in my middle-schooler’s history curriculum.
I can scarcely find a negative word about Muslims throughout history in instructional materials, while the story told about Europeans and Christians is chock-full of brutality.