just discovered that in 1985 Penn State fielded a team of 40 year old used car salesmen

I’m an American patriot first and foremost, which means I sincerely believe we can have a society where every type of person from every type of background can live together and work together and thrive together. That’s my ideology and it’s what I fight for.

CCR, Neil Young, Carly Simon, James Taylor, The Byrds, Tom Petty, John Cougar and/or Mellencamp. I still listen to most of it.

You’ve Folded your last Five Bens.

Fun fact: in Europe, more than THREE TIMES as many people die annually from the heat than die from GUN VIOLENCE in the US. news.un.org/en/story/202... publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-g... Air conditioning saves lives.

Enjoy this article from a Minnesota newspaper in 1882 noting that Scandinavians love their home countries so much that it will take them generations to assimilate into America. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

🖖🚀 6 original Star Trek movies are just $12.99 in the TV app. Affiliate Link: https://apple.co/4oRXw74

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"So, what are we going to name our son?" *Looks down at coffee can*

I’ll take the F nobody wants. Badlands is one my favorite places I’ve been, and I’d love to have a few weeks to do a photography retreat in a variety of weather and light. Wide-field astrophotography landscapes would be fun.

whoa www.criterion.com/boxsets/9000...

I bought a chainsaw and cut up a small tree, while retaining my original number of limbs. I fixed my heat pump wiring, which neither the installer nor a different HVAC company got right.

I think it’s because they cost money.

I feel like Claude really gets me.

Wow imagine the odds that you could train an Opus 4.6 class model in just 3 months with only $25 million and do such a good job that your model itself thinks it’s Claude Opus in the reasoning trace. There’s no other explanation for that except just being better at AI than those lazy Americans.

There are no Good Matts. There are simply Matts who have yet to experience The Change.

Re-upping these RFK Jr lies, given that the HPV vaccine’s extraordinary effectiveness in averting cervical cancer deaths is in the news today (www.newscientist.com/article/2530...) Given the daily firehose of disinformation he peddles, it can be hard to keep track; these lies are unforgivable

One implication of this is that, if you think there's some secret room behind the room, where the *real* experts gather, drop the kayfabe, and discuss the world as it truly is ... I'm sorry. There is no such thing. The idiocy & delusions you see in public go all the way to the top.

*TRUMP ON FED: ALRIGHT THAT THEY HELD RATES, WHATEVER *TRUMP ON FED RAISING RATES POSSIBLY: IT COULD HAPPEN

THE PRISONER ♟️Coming to the Criterion Channel in July!

The Key to 2028:

one of the oldest running dialogues in history is "war is a massively complicated political, bureaucratic, and logistical endeavor" vs. "fuck you pussy, war is when you're a fucking badass, oh shit I lost"

"the vulgarity that is the hallmark of Trump and his surrounding circle of oligarchs is a symptom of something not at all trivial: The collapse of social norms." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-theory...

Pickles. Even if you remove them, their effluent taints everything else.

This helps set a bound on how large of a state a small Pennsylvania town can hold. California fits, but not Texas in its entirety.

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It smells like hot tuna, with a lingering sweetness of the Gatorade

I fixed the problem (“heat pump doesn’t call for propane heat during defrost”) by actually hooking up the wire that the heat pump uses to call for heat during defrost. Too bad neither the installer nor the repair tech possessed this advanced skill.

Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.

I probably would have picked a more modern technology.

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

I've asked Claude Code to implement the Sieve of Eratosthenes in INTERCAL. Sorry if this causes the robot uprising.

Allegheny-West. 720 Allegheny Ave - Wendy’s. Caller is an employee and says a banned DoorDash driver is in the drive-through pounding on the window. They would usually handle that but they’ve been reminded to stay out of the news.

Teddy Roosevelt was a land of contrast, but something he was unequivocally, correct about was the importance of protecting our natural wonders in North America

After raising the Jolly Roger and hoisting the cone, my wife and my dad spent an hour on the drive home Remembering Some Guys. (Specifically, Guys who played in the AAABA Tournament at the beginning of their career.)

Beautiful day for a ballgame

Why are they constructing additional pylons

The Destruction of the Royal Statue at New York on July 9, 1776 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

I'm so annoyed that I can't find an HVAC tech from the 21st century. Even young guys want to blame everything on my Ecobee (even for issues that the thermostat isn't involved in) or just doesn't want me to use my heat pump ("put it on Aux in the winter").

But for just how little water they use as a reference: datacenters use *substantially less water* than the *power stations that power it use to produce that power*

My basic rule is tuned out voters think whoever is on offense is right and whoever is on defense is wrong

Somebody is unexpectedly shooting pool right behind me. It’s cool how they designed the game to start in the loudest, sharpest possible way.

I would like fewer points of dew, please.

Solar just produced more electricity than coal in the US for the first month ever and it won't be the last... Over the last two decades, the role of coal and solar in the US mix has changed drastically May 2006: 🪨 48%, ☀️ 0% May 2016: 🪨 26%, ☀️ 2% May 2026: 🪨 12%, ☀️ 13%

I have embraced it all. For an hour, I am merged with the machine that is busy centrifuging out my red cells and platlets and returning what's left. The needle, the tubes, we are all one—I am them, they are me. I am a cyborg that has transcended flesh. And then I eat cookies with apple jucie.

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

UNC, UVa, Stanford, WashU, and Vanderbilt took the billions in federal funding they got over the years and handed it to Elon Musk so he could build a CSAM generator, wreck the NSF, and shutter USAID.

Metaphor alert.

What’s going on upstairs?