Tootfinder

"I read it over now with this kind of full-spectrum cringe of the spirit. It’s the rattle of a person going on and professorially on, quite as if the substance of a discipline, or its intellectual trajectory, or even just the nourishing joy of sustained and serious study, mattered at all to the person he was talking to, or to the majestic institution he represents. And honestly, what could be more feeble?
It’s not that those things don’t matter: they absolutely goddamn do, and will keep on mattering, and I wouldn’t go on with the whole tedious business of teaching if I thought otherwise. It’s just that they never mattered much to the Times and they are, to appearances, mattering less and less by the day. I should remember that, and so should you."
https://lithub.com/maybe-dont-talk-to-the-new-york-times-about-zohran-mamdani/

Falls noch irgendjemand Zweifel hatte, dass die großen Plattformen uns manipulieren, hier ein schönes Beispiel, WIE das funktioniert. Dagegen hilft eigentlich nur, dass Politik, Journalisten und auch die Verwaltung ins fediverse wechseln. Damit es eine alternative wenig manipulierte Öffentlichkeit gibt. Besondere Message on den öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk: Ihr wurdet exact für diese Aufgabe 1949 gegründet. Wo ist euer Engagement?

Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality
Alex Bloedel, Tommaso Denti, Luciano Pomatto
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03482 https://arxiv.o…

Modeling information acquisition via f-divergence and duality
We introduce a new cost function over experiments, f-information, based on the theory of multivariate statistical divergences, that generalizes Sims's classic model of rational inattention as well as the class of posterior-separable cost functions. We characterize its behavioral predictions by deriving optimality conditions that extend those of Matejka and McKay (2015) and Caplin, Dean, and Leahy (2019) beyond mutual information. Using these tools, we study the implications of f-information in …