OH NO DOLLY blessed is the true judge NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ok who just got born we like need you TODAY ok
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🇺🇸immigrant in LDN recovering academic Trying to understand humanity with data, music, libations Might not be looking in the right places – currently: Head of Data @lakaHQ previously: @bbc @futurelearn @funandplausible cf https://assemblag.es/@alsothings
BBC Radio 2 Jo Whiley Now Playing Dolly Parton Two Doors Down
imagine dying and every single person who knows who you are is sad because they loved you. now imagine being another famous 80-year-old and knowing the opposite will be true for you.
[P] Even ignoring her tremendous contributions to music and entertainment, just spend a few going through at the "Philanthropy" section of her wiki. *That* is how to live a life. RIP to a genuine American treasure. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_P...
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Elon: you know, the family, it has a baby so to speak Joe Rogan: Stewie Elon: yes that is it, indeed, but although he has the appearance of a baby he’s quite ribald Joe Rogan: …it just blows my mind. How he’s so little. And no one stops him is the thing. Elon: no, unshackled
This suggests that bullies seem finely attuned to matters of permission when it comes to bullying, and also tend to be massive whiny babies about getting even the mildest pushback. Just a couple potential bully facts to tuck away for later, in case they come in handy. But back to the 80s bullies.
The real "fairness in sport" issue around trans people is that all the structures for transitioning from "kick a ball in a park" to "would actually like to regularly play in an organised way", in almost every mainstream sport, are closed to trans people at the point of entry.
“if we don’t stand up for the free speech of racists, it puts everyone’s free speech in danger.” - guy who only ever talks about free speech when it’s racism
LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part.
I’d quibble with the overall proportion, but it is unambiguously true that working as an academic right now is more restrictive at any point since the red scare years, and it is *not* new. You’ve not been able to teach global warming in FL for years now without qualification.
Ben Miller@benwritesthings.bsky.social · 3d agoacademic freedom isn’t a standard that sometimes gets broached: for most scholars under 50, it’s fundamentally nonexistent in the west right now
Cofnas is just: Got called racist in academia, lads. What happened? I got called racist in academia Ye but why. I was being racist. In academia? Yeah, it was in academia.
Just remembered when I tried to start a movement for Cyclops to have a moustache, clearly ten years ahead of trends
Listen, if you’re not happy single, you won’t be happy in a relationship either, happiness comes from picking a new hobby and then buying all the things to start that hobby then finding the perfect little storage container for those things and then putting that storage container in the spare room
this is happening constantly here and it drives me nuts so let’s talk about the actual limits of LLMs in writing code in actual software shops bona fides: I’ve built and shipped coding agents to production to tens of thousands of monthly users. been building with LLMs three years seem some shit
Zoomer Antimillenarian@surcomplicated.bsky.social · 3d agoDude, I am literally using Claude to do applied math research. It does goddamn functional analysis well. And I’m telling you this as someone who just aced a functional analysis qualifying exam. Get a good AI model instead of whatever crap you’re using. (Gemini, perhaps? Or Copilot?)
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SCOTUS has done this again and again: without determining the merits of the case, claim that it is an emergency to allow Trump to continue to upend the status quo until his changes become irreversible.
Steve Vladeck@stevevladeck.bsky.social · 4d agoChief Justice Roberts has issued an “administrative” stay In the ballroom case—which effectively allows Trump to keep doing what he’s doing while the full Court decides whether to let him keep working indefinitely while the case moves forward (which it probably will, given this intervention).
Famously Sesame Street is the urbanist kids show, so this tracks
Carlton Reid@carltonreid.com · 4d agoInteresting that the 1993 Sesame Road album has the VW Beetle parked correctly.
Just to second this. Really dismal. Quotes totally discredited (actually withdrawn I think?) Home Office figure on lifetime costs and claims settlement reforms are “essential” without any explanation of why.
Chris Bertram@crookedfootball.bsky.social · 4d agoA really miserable piece of writing, wholly based in electoral impressionism. No thought for principles or the rights of migrants, and including spurious calculations about lifetime fiscal costs and benefits that simply ignore the real costs of what would happen if these workers were absent.
And there's an express version at many airports!?
Snow Burrow@bostonjerry.bsky.social · 4d agoJason Statham is the Chilis of action movies. Quality, reliable fare. Nothing fancy, nothing groundbreaking, just a pleasant, competent, satisfying experience you can count on year after year, decade after decade.