The name "Philadelphia" of course commemorates the fact that dolphins are the only non-human animals to have sex for pleasure.

there's something mysterious i think about how happy we can be to change our values. reductive explanation is that our valuing our values is grounded in some more basic common currency (pleasure and truth could both work probably).

My brother in Christ (pushes you out of the Christ)

Did this post-Colby to split powers into status quo/revisionists and then identify areas of friction by relative priority. May be more interesting after that EU report calling CN/RU revisionists. YMMV (a lot) on the details, but IMO this framing suggests EU should worry lot more about US than CN.

PSA: these work pretty well, take like 20 minutes to build, and cost like $50-60 in materials ($20 less if you already have a box fan.)

"The reversals have validated advocates’ earlier fears about Newsom’s decision to let the prison system handle its own reforms, rather than imposing legislative guardrails. They come at a time of reduced judicial oversight, too." Via @psfrench.bsky.social @boltsmag.org: boltsmag.org/california-d...

this is the plot of Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (Cordwainer Smith, 1961)

“I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that’s a tree', pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell him: 'This fellow isn’t insane. We are only doing philosophy.” ― Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty

The UK is trying to assert its independence from NERV by developing the nuclear-powered autonomous weapon JET ALONE.

RT to bless your timeline with Wealthasaurus Cheques The haters: "he's extinct" Him: "don't care I get that paper 🏧💰🏦💱💹"

NEW: California continues to resist restrictions on solitary confinement. Prison officials had implemented some minor reforms in 2023, as a sort of compromise when Newsom vetoed a bill meant to ban the more torturous aspects of solitary confinement. But they're now dialing even those back.

"It's" fucking annihilates "'tis" imo. Massive W for contemporary English. Shakespeare btfo.

it initially appears paradoxical that "cleave" can mean both "cut apart" and "cling together," but this in fact descends from an earlier English in which all concepts were "cleave." "Cleave you cleave about Steve?" "No, I cleave." "He cleft." "I cleft that would cleave." "Cleave you later!"

dyk Thoreau was the first person to translate the Lotus Sutra into English?? reading this on william james and buddhism d-scott.com/wp-content/u...

i want to have a palace for all my friends to live in 😭

I've been practicing the UK pronunciation of "paedophile" in case I end up moving to England.

I vow to tell the truth, the whole truth, and some additional minutae alongside the truth, I think that kind of thing is important, for the presentation of it all, the story, because this is my first time as a witness, you know, or maybe that was a lie, you see how engaging this sort of thing is

Is anyone aware of a critical profile of Tyler Cowen? I feel like he has become a big ideological player, but he also plays his cards close: he's strategic about what commitments he makes openly and what he pursues more indirectly. For that reason, an exploration of what he's up to would be useful

"We almost had another tool here: the Food Traceability Rule, which would require the records that make a rapid traceback possible. But implementation was pushed from 2026 to 2028 — urged by industry, ratified by Congress."

Here be our 4 page Wonder Woman fan story.

One of my favorite anecdotes from Proto Anime Cut is the one explaining how GITS background painter Hiromasa Ogura's decision to give the film's scenes a hazy look was inspired by his camera fogging up in Hong Kong's humid summer air after walking out from an A/Ced building during a '93 trip.

Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/

Just remembered this (The Cookie Monster was a favorite of mine when I was very little.) kevinmunger.substack.com/p/tyler-cowe...

shark week #art #sharks

Is anyone aware of a critical profile of Tyler Cowen? I feel like he has become a big ideological player, but he also plays his cards close: he's strategic about what commitments he makes openly and what he pursues more indirectly. For that reason, an exploration of what he's up to would be useful

“You know you never really repay sleep debt.” Well then it’s kind of not really debt then, is it. It’s kind of more like hurting yourself permanently

People are gonna fucking hate this if it actually happens. Enjoy all these post 8am sunrises

Thread about Matty 👇 I haven't read his shit in ages so I can't vouch for the analysis, but it's interesting because it reminds me of people I have known.

Daylight SSavings KKKrime

I am watching the new Ghost in the Shell opener I honestly am not even sure how much I like this but I am discovering I am still very emotionally invested in these goofballs. It definitely looks cool.

The natural history collections at the University of Texas, holding maybe 5 million specimens, is partly closed down because our buildings are falling apart and UT is doing the bare minimum of life support. We could fix it for 1/5th the price of a vanity purchase of a single dinosaur specimen.

most obvious policy W of all time

I heard T. Rex got a $1 million insurance policy on his ASS!

bitch I can’t fucking go piss in five states because of you, I don’t want to hear about encroachments on personal life

ICE killed another person.

"u can just do things"

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

I am an agent of the Philosophers, a graduate of one of their "charm schools." I was raised in a joint US-Soviet-Chinese facility to become a sleeper agent. As a result, I'm indistinguishable from a native-born American.

this economy is terrible for comic relief characters

I work at Google DeepMind. This won't make me popular. But it's all public reporting: 2014: DeepMind reportedly sold to Google on conditions: no military use, independent oversight 2026: a Pentagon contract for "any lawful government purpose" Not one safeguard survived intact

Connected: Buttercup Festival 3-389

was i misremembering or did this happen

My brother was tabling for Palestine relief funds and a guy in a punisher shirt came up and pretended to put some money in, before showing his hand was empty and saying "just kidding" with a shit-eating grin.

i had my first non-dual experience from an earthquake, and i wonder if that's common! i was sitting at my desk and i had what i thought was a leg spasm, with my leg repeatedly flexing against the ground. i then learned there had been a tremor -- i wasn't moving my leg at all, the earth was moving.

✅ we 𝗮𝗿𝗲 the killers ✅ we 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗱𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵 ✅ we 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘂𝘀 ✅ it 𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝘀 like frost ❌ we 𝗰𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗼𝘁 tear it away

the goofus and gallant of cyberpunk godfathers

States should have to bid for primary position by handicapping their electoral college votes.

Happy Bastille Day.