hopefully some worthy soul has mirrored the BLS data archive so we have a better place to start than buying physical copies of catalogs off ebay or digging through old invoices to reassure ourselves hilti hit did not, in fact, used to cost 550 dollars per tube

remember how the price of everything from rebar to god damn nails went up 50% in like a year, and for a while the price of plywood & lumber doubled before settling in at ~40% over the late oughts?

Trump’s newly announced tariffs are likely to further reduce housing construction, which is already experiencing a downfall. Imported materials account for an estimated 7% of goods for home construction. The new tariffs will be as high as 50% on those materials.

relevant link: www.wrecka.ge/bad-shape/

yeah & i’m personally unsure whether the apparent institutional-discursive incapacity to remember last week let alone recall and reflect upon the last 25 years is real and i’m just noticing cuz i’m old now, feigned, or situationally-tactically enacted

thinking about how Wikipedia is a easy thing to argue for a carve-out for, but a service with a similar mission of public good but starting today would very much not get an exemption

new escape from tarkov foraging expansion on woods, incl. mushroom ID minigame, interactive chestnut trees, berry bushes, pickable wild garlic, spruce tips, nettles. neutral auntie and uncle scav class goes hostile on area trespass, babushka scav sniper boss “Lyuda”

calling for trump to be 25thed will be the voted no on iraq of 2028, and its why i expect it to be mostly governors on stage at this point

Vote Reindeer Blood, Vote Tugtupite.

have been skeptical of the all-in-one gig delivery apps but now with the power of AI we can receive your catering order from nando’s and you can wind up with several semitrailers of PERI formwork & shoring system

athe Warrior Ethos energy of a highly decorated suburban jrotc commandant (Bitter Divorce with oak leaves) and use code WRFGHTR for 20% off Mandles, the aromatherapy candles designed with evolutionary understanding of the Male Olfactory Sensor Suite

australia do us a favor and Legalize It Now so internationals can enjoy the flourishing of rural wall murals & dispensary sign art featuring koalas zooted out of their minds, big spliff kangaroos, etc.

🗃️📚 Congratulations to all - I'm especially thrilled for Eleanor Barraclough's wonderful, moving book which beautifully weaves together history and material artefacts to explore intimacies of Viking lives

[infiltrating Goscinny&UderCon Stuttgart] my three favorite characters? [carefully counting 3 correctly] julius cäser who should have been born a gaul, jellosubmarine (all of the wives deserve their own comic but she is surely up to something) and of course the adorable hündchen, dogmatix —

mad props to chicago’s IF I GO WE GO TOGETHER blue rhino 1075-2 placard bakfiets cyclists

don't miss the video about these fun and happy bricks

Get your preorders in now, kids.

@nuclearanthro.bsky.social good morning. you’ve been isekai’d back to the 60s with a crew cut, slide rule, briefcase, security badge, and a smartphone. your mission is to record an epic fails blooper reel of silo launcher closer door mishaps and return to the present. good luck.

Commemorated with a mural at Ballater Street railway bridge, pictured here: spookyscotland.net/gorbals-vamp...

tom silva and norm abram ordered mark mccullough to imprison the soul of a leprechaun in every brick he laid. next week we liberate them all. we’re raising the edmund fitzgerald and sending it to the gulf of america. the NRO has images showing the culprit behind crop circles — his name is john deere

bureaucracy: so useful a bunch of unwashed, blood-obsessed skull warriors max zooted on extremely expensive hashish looted from mediterranean traders and the bad mead, mead from the hives near the field which makes cattle kill each other, thought it was worth keeping the fucking churmen around

bureaucracy — lit. "rule by desk" — was invented for a reason! and that reason was to prevent rule by fiat and favor

"Unofficially dubbed a 'grue jay,' the bird likely marks one of the first confirmed examples of a vertebrate animal that hybridized partially due to climate change." #birds #birding #nature #climate 🧪

*clears throat* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

They sent a letter! POW! Asking for a meeting! BAM! To discuss a path forward! BOOM! To keep funding Trump’s takeover! ZAP!

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

OUT: leap days IN: 278-day February every 1000 years

Abortion is much more popular than Democrats, but obviously they won't promote any people who point out this plain and obvious fact that you can glean from every poll on the subject in every state.

Venus occultation by the Moon. Just over an hour after the planet disappeared from view, it popped out again on the dark side of the Moon's disk, and the natural order was restored! This was taken a few seconds after re-emergence with my minor camera and Esprit 100 scope 🔭

you could also think of university as a collegiate apprenticeship environment for the work of being a research scholar, across the spectrum of arts and sciences

in particular as gatekeeping qualification for class-stratified & gender segregated professional employment

One of the most profound mistakes of the last 30 or so years was conceding the principle that one of the main purposes of education (at all levels, but especially university) was preparation for employment.

Indeed. Earlier this summer, the White House did this to me, as a scientific expert source in media, and issued a formal statement regarding my personal campaign contribution history in an attempt to discredit my commentary on wildfire, climate, and federal policy. Yet more alarm bells ringing...

half-memory from 20+ years ago and i might could go check my bargain bin sorrows of young werther scribbles if hadn’t burn bagged with iron mountain ruthlessness, thank fuck

at least for me, if i'm listening to music, that's generally not going to stop my brain from looping the same worries or arguments or things i'm reflexively de- and re-constructing in my head word-wise, but if i listen to someone teaching me something, i'll be an active, engaged listener and shut up

“and these places where theres one set of footprints?” “those are the times when i carried you” “and by the river where our footprints stop and these huge weird tracks start?” “thats where Chris the doghead giant carried us both across the river” “what?” “yeah he’s in charge of airplanes now”

The writers this season aren’t even trying anymore

Why? Because it lets tech billionaires claim the benefits of all this other software - most of which is far, far less resource intensive than generative AI - as their own. For example, predicting wind and solar power output helps power grid operators, but is almost never done with LLMs in practice.

The types of software I've heard people pitch as "AI" are hilarious. The other day I heard someone pitch a spreadsheet as an "AI decision system." This is understandable, as people want to get in on the hype (and credulous investing), but it's a huge gift to the tech billionaires hyping ChatGPT etc.

@nicolaecarpathia.bsky.social i assume next week we move on from the mutilation of rodents to an autumnal polemic against the heavens, intended to perpetuate the imprisonment of carl sagan’s ghost in specific and as a damnatio of astronomy in general

maybe its a operation paperclip / ratline thing and a third of americans and britons ended up with charlotte and otto wächter as neighbors instead of maude and ned flanders?

cognitive dissonance for years that anyone bought in on the free speech cancel culture wailing because ??? were you born in a dumpster ??? not go to CCD or sunday school ??? not have a church aunt ??? and hence never learn the absolutely overpowered LVL 0 cantrip, Contextually Appropriate Behavior

further down the list these days now that “don’t feed students to The Speaking Void” takes the top but i’m big on the idea its worth serious curricular investment that young people spend enough time with singing dance and “any” instrument instruction to permanently mitigate embarrassment

whenever management talks about AI just replace "AI" with "you not working here anymore." They're really excited about you not working here anymore. They think you not working here anymore opens up a lot of exciting possibilities. Because the end result of AI is always you not working there anymore!

just asking around on the constellation of discords, legacy forums, groupchats, academic librarian booklegger scenes: who’s got a complete copy of GEOS Land Water Storage Loading 2000-2024

What has the 21st century in Britain been, if not lurching from one easily avoidable mess to another, increasingly via the use of constant hysterical all-channels media campaigns to enforce one obviously stupid and destructive idea after another?

A great rolling decades-long pump and dump scam, with politicians as disposable tools and the press as a permanent, immovable fixture, and nobody can ever explain why it produces one avoidable calamity after another needless catastrophe after another unnecessary disaster.

Who the hell would use shit like ChatGPT when Dear Daria on the 2002 Sony Clié PEG-NX80V exists

lessee whats news today, least worst option an Independent Journalist who calls himself The Great Salt Jake interviewing USA’s new ”director of energy entrepreneurship“ Cherry Heering about instructions to the NHTSA that all vehicles manufactured or imported must burn bunker fuel, starting ”now”