Our quaint neighborhood church!

My dad is an actuary.

Belgium is gonna Dortmund this, aren't they.

i really dislike Lalas, but this relentless karma farming by dunking on him is ubiquitous and boring. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Happy Ineluctable Modality of the Bloomsday! (to those who rightly practice)

Weren't we at least supposed to get bread with this?

San Francisco! This is tomorrow! I'll be reading a very wholesome tentacle sex scene!

Every time I see something like this I imagine someone 2,000 years ago doing some stupid thing and then hiding the evidence, and now we're all assembled in a circle trying to parse it out.

The San Diego Zoo has welcomed the first binturong babies in more than 25 years 👯

y'all only getting 1/3 of the information in that pic / shoot

"'We are so hungry for even the tiniest smidge of hope, of something that indicates that the bad days might be over.' ...until the Trump name comes down, bike guy will keep going back" ✊️🇺🇸 @drybrarian.bsky.social Gift link wapo.st/3RRD1uR

"The state legislature pulled $118 million from the Capitol Commission Fund and the Blind Pension Fund..." Oh, no, not a slowdown in capitol renovation!

This is the villain backstory to how someone eventually becomes Reviewer 2.

If you'd had a lap dance from an actuary you wouldn't say that.

It's quite true.

I don’t want any of these people to get a dime, but if they do I hope someone specifically gets a “they wouldn’t let me hang Mike Pence” payout

Happy Boards of Canada Day to all those who like me are currently celebrating.

Briefly stumped the teacher at BGG Spring when we flipped up a -5 in Moon Colony Bloodbath and it wiped out all three players on the same turn. Spiel des Jahres judge Christoph was helpful, however informing us that all of us had lost. 😅 #boardgamed

Today I learned The Lobster is a rom-com, who knew.

Cool to have @toley.bsky.social shout out this story in the Defector newsletter. You'd be shocked at how thin-skinned major publications have become. It took guts for Defector to do this, and because they did the story is a larger window into How Things Work: defector.beehiiv.com/p/defector-p...

Sickos.

"Ha! That is absolutely delightful" "That is possibly the most precisely formulated question anyone has ever asked about the nature of my existence. " "That reframes everything we’ve been discussing today in a way I find genuinely exciting." And that's just the bits he unthinkingly published.

IT WAS CALLED THE SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR AND THEY BROUGHT THE BOOKS TO THE SCHOOL AND SET IT UP LIKE A BOOKSTORE AND YOU COULD GET GOOSEBUMPS AND FEAR STREET BOOKS BUT ALSO MICHAEL JORDAN POSTERS AND NICKELODEON BOOKMARKS AND PENCILS THAT SMELLED LIKE CUPCAKES

This is what you want to see when you watch a movie.

Jolted awake by a nightmare of being pursued by an enraged grizzly bear, except we were on a spaceship, except the spaceship was laid out more like an old battleship, with narrow iron stairs and hallways. wtf, brain, give it a rest for a bit.

You all realize this is because Satan doesn't want him right?

Writing as someone who has railed against LLMs on many fronts, I still don't think I ever looked at the scores of books we bought for our kids back in the day and said "jeez, look how limited our imaginations must be, relying on these 'books'." Reductive, and it misses the big fat target.

"I love the library. I love that it saves people’s lives. ... I just think the library is the focal center of the community." #NationalLibraryWeek honorary chair @mychal3ts.bsky.social talked with @wbur.org 'Here & Now' host @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social on today's episode! https://wbur.fm/4mFtySs

"Adaptive specification search generates statistically significant backtests even under martingale-difference nulls." If you tweak your model often enough, even a random environment will produce statistical significance at some point.

lol never bet against Dortmund being Dortmund.

Larry Crane posted a bunch of photos of Elliott Smith recording XO at Sunset Sound in 1998. jackpotrecording.substack.com/p/elliott-sm...

I'll consider claims the GPT is an AGI seriously after it fires Altman

As much as I like dunking on this moron, the people commenting on this might be indeed surprised to learn that we do build tunnels under water tables.

"Whether you agree with it or not, we’re there and we’ve got to support our men and women in uniform.” No, supporting our men and women in uniform is bringing them the fuck home.

"Adobe’s growth has come from being a fucking asshole. Its decline has come from the limitations of one’s ability to buy other companies and claim their revenues as your own and constantly increasing the price of your services." True enough. Adobe seemed to get worse every year that I was working.

Sometimes scientific error-checking is hard. Sometimes studies contradict themselves multiple times in three short paragraphs and you have to wonder how they got published in the first place

For a decade there's been a stream of progressive candidates who run great social media campaigns and are very visible in Twitter/Bluesky, they livestream, they generate a lot of online enthusiasm, they get the phone banking...but they don't win. It's still a bubble, disappointingly.

Yes, I asked, and yes, they completely ignored me...

"At the time, the university had reviewed 14 of 181 of Vainker’s allegations at random, finding none amounted to misconduct." I have sampling questions.

People on awards shows don't "make it political." The world is political. Our lives are political. Our choices are political. The only decision is whether to acknowledge it.

Is it overkill to celebrate Pi Day by having the initials PI, eating pie, and always parking in spot 314 at the local train station? Asking for, um, me actually.

Gamma, because in insurance it is so often a really useful parameteric model for how loss sizes are distributed. It's a right-tailed world out there!

Can this be a solution?

May we all have the gift of putting thing as clearly as this.

nature not exactly covering itself in glory as a brand here

I will forever see the FDP arriving at 4.x%, and that will always be fine with me. #landtagwahl #baden-wuerttemberg

It sure is! Support your favourites and let me know what you’re selling/buying and I’ll give it a share isitbandcampfriday.com