My introduction promises a conversation the results are not entirely prepared to have

My membership of the Lumpenprofessoriat got more bearable after this Luhmann (Zettelkasten guy) quote: “Research plan: theory of modern society. Duration: 30 years. No costs.” If your field allows it (big if, but mine does) you can do ambitious research without (needing to beg for) massive funding.

Americans gave us Trump 1 and Trump 2, you can fill in yourselves 'through' what the hell that was.

I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans. When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.

So: happy... er, yes, well, happy this most holy of days to all who celebrate

the "it's not x, it's y" clanker speech pattern is 3-3 invading our language (most obscure ref you'll read today unless you are a go/baduk/weiqi homie?)

Ages of the “Founding Fathers” on July 4, 1776: James Monroe, 18 Aaron Burr, 20 Alexander Hamilton, 21 James Madison, 25 Thomas Jefferson, 33 John Adams, 40 George Washington, 44 The average founding *father* was less than one year older than the average nazi gop "kid".

(me, reading Herscht 07769) Let me just finish this one sentence.

Als de woorden worst en burger al zo verwarrend zijn voor de mensen, waarom maakt de Europese Unie zich dan niet druk over partijen die vrijheid of democratie ten onrechte in hun naam hebben staan?

Also accurate for Flemish people vis à vis the Dutch, especially when either of those things are done by a Dutch person.

s/white/orange/

Wasn't it Vance who tried to lecture us on free speech?🫠

My probability homies will know, this is a perfect illustration of a degenerate distribution.

I reject the world he wanted and the world that killed him. They are one and the same.

The "no step on snek" to "yield, man!" pipeline.

Mild take: The vilification of "virtue signalling" was a political project designed to make even the most subtle reminders of what decency is uncouth and it fucking worked.

Hear me out: een Vlaamse Omtzigt, maar dan 1 die pleit voor * meer administratieve willekeur * slechter bestuur * meer onevenwicht tussen macht en tegenmacht. (allemaal dingen waar het bij het nsc in de praktijk op neerkwam maar goed)

Campfire of the Frivolities

millions of chessable fans feel seen.

Waiting for the first Chicago Bull

I feel him. I was also in complete shock when I saw the horrendous kerning.

I don´t know but a particularly elegant solution on fish would be to leave fish the eff alone?

‘I once imposed tariffs on an island only populated by penguins’

reclaim stoicism from the fascist-adjacent roman-statue pfp guys

sometimes i esbite off more than i can eschew

I've never been more insulted than when a reviewer turned in a blatantly llm-generated report and the editor acted as if this was completely normal. We used to joke that our readership was at least not smaller than the number of reviewers, now we're no longer sure about even that!

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Happy with my posteo email account, will check out the other suggestions too

#IStandWithZelenskyy 🇺🇦 Pass it on.

[clears throat, blows into pitch pipe] Calling Musk and DOGE a cost-cutting team is like saying a guillotine is a “weight loss device.”

See me personally I think having a machine that I can instruct on computational tasks that it executes exactly as specified is amazing. Having it access databases on other machines is incredible. I don't need it to also expend resources to talk like a human and be wrong more often.

Programming is understanding. If you don't understand what you are doing, you are not programming. You are generating text.

"en? krijgen jullie jullie kerstboom een beetje op?"

one of the advantages of the extreme linux fragmentation is that for each new 'trend', you can be sure that at least some distributions will vehemently oppose it.

Na haar column over de koe kan ik alvast zeggen: Olaerts heeft zo'n beautyfilter helemaal niet nodig!

"homemade split pea tempeh made in traditional banana leaves"

And that's numberwang!

that's a good line (also outside of the h-index discussion)

Dang, Ding! 💔❤️‍🩹

Personal little theory: the whole reason we have the concepts of check and mate (and not the equivalent but simpler "capturing the king ends the game") is because chess was developed in societies where regicide was a colossal taboo.

Sure, you like to configure your computer, but have you ever handcrafted missing symbols from your favorite font in your text editor?

It's insane how often I interact with people IRL who are otherwise normal and well adjusted but if I mention Syria or Ukraine they start regurgitating a sanitized version of talking points pulled directly from RT and the constellation of Russian state media ops

C'est Darth Vader qui rentre dans une boulangerie. Il demande quoi ? ... 3 pains et 2 tartes tatin. ... PAIN PAIN PAIN TARTE TATIN TARTE TATIN

One thing that would hugely improve @bsky.app is the possibility to bookmark posts. Repost if you agree please

done and done.

I guess I'm staying here for a while

Found this out the hard way too. It was a beautiful Lester Young solo.