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Software nerd, one-time science-adjacent nerd, generalist. 10³⁸-level Star Wars goofball. Husband to a wonderful public librarian. Hail Nyquist–Shannon.
Few know this but almost all the economic news coming out of China for the past half decade -- Domestic Growth Slowdown! EVs! Solar! Exports! China Shock 2.0 etc etc -- is about this dramatic policy driven gear-shift of the domestic economy out of the property sector.
This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.
Barring changes to the Court you will see another go at birthright citizenship within 10 years.
The speed with which AI is getting better at repetitive, low-entropy tasks combined with how it is not really getting better at all at higher-entropy non-RL-able tasks is going to leave everyone disappointed when we automate away the bottom third of office jobs but don't climb the ladder above that.
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · last mo.This divide is also why half of my friends are "What will we put in the abandoned shells of these data centers when people realize they're useless?" and the other half are "Can you hook me up with some fast Chinese tokens, man? I got a project."
For everyone’s edification: Dan Benton’s rules for technology investing, from during the tech bubble.
Peroxide famously fizzes on contact with bio stuff; much of this is done by an enzyme called catalase that microbes produce in abundance. I don't think the problematic O2 production is from organisms at this point; we're not close to the steady state biomass our new Lincoln Bioreactor will produce.
I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...
Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump
Among the more than 5,300 grants and programs killed as a result of the Trump administration’s USAID cuts are a slate of U.S.-funded programs at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, including eff...
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i do think people on here have a very optimistic and generally simplistic view of what would have needed to happen for Reconstruction to succeed, that Reconstruction stopped because feds turned off the Reconstruction button in 1877
Reconstructionist@unavaleable.bsky.social · 2mo agoI mean... no? Even without Johnson reconstruction would almost certainly tear itself apart on the altar of Free Labor and the inadequacies of the southern GOP's machine politics
“You have one remaining wish.” “Summon a hydra in the middle of my enemy’s fortress, but one with so many heads that any new heads will be crushed immediately, creating an ever-expanding mass of hydra heads that will destroy the entire stronghold.” “You mean…?” “Yes. A hydra-djinn bomb.”
You 🫵 are not immune to a scheming grand vizier
Jay Van Bavel, PhD@jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 3mo agoPeople prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs. In a new paper (n=7,227), we found that people enjoyed interacting with sycophantic AI chatbots more than interacting with neutral chatbots or “disagreeable” chatbots that challenged their beliefs.
US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”
The American Heart Association just posted this and tbh, I LOLed.
i think not unrelated to this is that the dems are steadily becoming the party of the professional-managerial class and are incredibly embarrassed about this. this of course mirrors the pmc itself, which instead of achieving class consciousness has achieved "class neuroticism"
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · 3mo agoRight. What's changed are norms surrounding representation & aspiration. Being an educated, cultivated person has become widely politicized in a wider environment of transgressive populist contempt for conventional respectability
>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net · 4mo ago>European cruise lines are the only ones willing to run the Hormuz blockade Someone help me I think I’m having a stroke
people also seem to really love this shot. so fuck it here it is. 📷 Unknown and Nikon N90s 🎞️ Gold 200 #film #photography
emma celeste@emmaceleste.gay · 4mo agoturns out, if you accidentally double expose a roll, it's absolutely worth scanning it anyways. 📷 Unknown and Nikon N90s 🎞️ Gold 200
question for the intersection of car nerds and project hail mary nerds: is the spin drive a rotary engine?
Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.
seeing a lot of takes showing the top selling vehicles in the USA with people bemoaning that the Camry is being outsold by a bunch of SUVs and like... guys a Toyota Rav4 basically *is* a Camry.
Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4mo agoGORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.
>it is the 1980s >the Russians are mired in a big war against a neighbor >there's a tanker war in the Hormuz strait >US ships are firing at Iran >the USN realizes it's MCM capabilities are completely inadequate after years of under investments >Trump is talking about taking Kharg Island
I know that the people who need to read this aren’t here, but here goes: Rules of engagement aren’t for the enemy. They’re for you. They’re for your soldiers when they’re captured or wounded. They’re for your civilians when they’re in range of the enemy. They’re for your allies, to reassure.
‘I have never wanted to suggest that my wartime experiences were any more important or heroic than any other pilot. But so many of them are gone now and I am still here. Their words deserve to be heard’ - Wedge Antilles 'Star Wars: Star Pilots' Oct 2026 (DK) geni.us/StarWarsStar...
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
If nobody got me, I know there’s one American institution that’s got me
