I miss believing Bacurau (2019) was fiction

I am absolutely a full-blown balanced literacy truther. I believe there's a shockingly large number of people who are subtly illiterate, can't follow meaning at the paragraph level, and insert random words into what they're reading based on what they already think a sentence probably says

did CVS ever have an eccentric heiress who lived like Little Edie and went to war against Chicago's richest suburb over her beloved pet hogs? No. Walgreens survives in its niche because that is the energy it brings to the market.

CVS is best thought of as a kind of interactive museum exhibit where you can experience everything that has gone badly wrong with American capitalism.

An appropriate response to the administration would be that the courts have clearly established that ICE/CBP actions go well beyond "law enforcement activity" and their established pattern of indiscriminate violence absolutely constitutes a life-safety emergency wherever they show up

last night on I-55 I passed a convoy of at least a dozen military vehicles. Seemed like a mix of troop transport, armored security vehicles, and heavy machinery. Most likely on their way to the National Guard facility in Broadview but I passed them just before the 1st Ave exit. Sick of this shit

dang, I thought that FT article on NEOM would finally get into the details on the physical impossibility of engineering it. Somebody somewhere has tried to model what happens when wind hits a 170km x 500m wall, and I want to see it

may every one of them one day face a jury of Chicagoans

this makes it sound like they compromised one employee account. If one staff member at UPenn had access to basically their entire alumni relations/development database AND the ability to mass-email the entire university without separate authorization, that would not be ideal

Just revolutionized the workload of a team that had been trying in vain to get an LLM to execute a task correctly by introducing them to the term for the task they were trying to do: REFACTORING Today, one tiny corner of corporate America hums with excitement over a new buzzword: "deterministic"

The police commander claim he will try to indict the people that moved the bodies for tempering with a criminal case. He didn't said a word about prosecuting policemen for these brutality. Rio has mandatory cop bodycam. But, according to the police press release, they were out of battery yesterday+

This will be a long thread on yesterday police massacre in Rio. In nothern Rio de Janeiro city, there is a couple of hills called Complexo da Penha. It's Comando Vermelho("Red Command", a drug gang), or CV, territory. CV is the greatest gang in Rio, second in the whole Brazil. +

I think it's probably not a good thing that the University of Chicago, facing existential financial calamity, jumped on the crypto bandwagon in 2021 and is apparently committed to hodling

What a good example of authoritarian thinking. Apparently the only "evidence" the cops had was her driving through town. The assumption here is that theft can only be committed by outsiders, that people in your own town are Good but people in the neighboring town are suspect by default.

the post-covid breakdown of social norms has functioned less by changing expectations of behavior—people still dislike dangerous driving, smoking on the train, etc.—and more by encouraging selfish people to simply violate other people's wishes. If the glassholes succeed this time, that will be how.

move fast and break wings

i love being reminded occasionally of what actual innovation looks like. three six-story buildings being built under a tent structure that also supports multiple gantry cranes that can be moved around anywhere on the site

nazi presidential candidate: mass deportations. you're hearing it more and more. you're getting sleepy reporter: everybody wants mass deportations now. crazy how that just happened democratic party: oh. ok. how much? 52%? ok

imagine if journalists kept asking you like "why do americans say suicidal tariffs are a better economic strategy" or "why does the public favor mass deportations" and never once thinking that the tools used to make people think those things are also available to you

Somehow every time I read a horror story about new methods in American primary schooling, it always ends up here: a purely ideological, anti-empirical zeal for strict behaviorism, operant conditioning, and specifically negative punishment.

it always blows me away just how closely they echo the nazis, down to the finest detail. in a way it's a gift to scholarship to have witnessed the rise of a more or less independently derived hitler 2 (he obviously didn't learn behaviors like this from reading the secondary sources)

also the actual thing that fucking sucks about the Obama library is that they bulldozed a huge amount of a historic and bucolic park to build it, so the comparison doesn't really help his case

One other thing I should probably tell you, we did get something. You know what it was? It was a little three-headed dog that he'd sent all the way from Hades. And you know, the kids, like all kids, love the dog, and I just want to say that regardless of what they say about it, we're gonna keep it.

the situation with this building got a lot more real when I found this article by a structural engineer quoted in the NYT story. I'll probably pull out the highlights in a thread later but the bottom line is once an engineer brings up "progressive failure," that is code for "9/11 2"

Those people on Flight 93 died to keep this from happening.

the way I broke out in a sweat as soon as I hit the phrase "load-bearing facade" and realized that this building is laced with ~1800 wind-driven stress fractures in its fully exposed concrete structure

it's good to hear a house democrat talk about crypto this way. Hopefully by the next election it will be a liability to have ever given the time of day to this industry, which has no use case aside from crime and needs to be killed stone dead.

thinking for no particular reason of that time they delighted the world by putting a touch interface on windows server 2012

This rule may seem at first to have exceptions, but remember that not every object referenced as a file pointer with extension is really a file. tar isn't a file, it's a folder. pdf, god help us, is an operating system.

it's cool that becoming a nazi is like putting on an invisibility cloak as far as the media is concerned. if you say normal republican things, reporters might ask you about them. if you say nazi stuff, reporters will universally pretend they didn't hear it and you'll never face a hostile question

"throwing rocks" sounds like IDF bullshit being imported to an environment where it doesn't even make sense. Chicago streets are not littered with rocks available for throwing.

It's hard to convey just how far away and isolated this neighborhood is from the rest of the city and metro, especially from Broadview or from the north side neighborhoods that the news has focused on. It's a good bet that just about everybody in these photos lives or works in the neighborhood.

in fairness this is like the one thing the trump administration could do to win back the all-important co-PI vote

if you stay very still and keep very quiet, the grand sweep of history will eventually emerge and spontaneously cause people to change their minds and agree with you. but be careful not to startle it

Just to be clear, this is part of the training that NU requires its students to comply with. The plain errors of fact, though, distract from the broader issue, which is that freedom of academic inquiry is incompatible with mandatory adherence to any particular empirical claims.

"when did it start" is a popular game played by children and spouses of dementia patients that gives them a small taste of the sufferer's paranoia and terror at no longer having a confident grasp on reality. every dementia case is a miniature outbreak

thinking for no particular reason about g. gordon liddy telling his radio listeners to aim for the head or groin when shooting ATF agents and remaining not only a free man but also a conservative in basically good standing

never considered that america may one day have a missing women problem because the boys got shots to go to sports camp

the corny nerds have it all wrong, the actual singularity will happen when Microsoft lets you run Hyper-V as a Teams plugin

they turn red when they experience the hot shame of realizing they got played

what always gets me about this stuff is that our society considered itself wealthy enough and free enough to fund most of these areas of study a century ago

my punishment for having long ago read all of Economy and Society is having to wait very patiently for this country to re-derive the concept of rational-legal authority

no one wants to admit it but this was Graeber's whole schtick too

feel like shit just want him back

the gloating about committing horrific war crimes against fishermen is really messing with me and the muted response is making it worse

while this is completely true, one of my less popular beliefs is that the party needs to reclaim this name. it's dumb that it continues to allow itself to be hurt by it

a lot of people are being negative about it but i'm sure if you get in touch with your tiktok sales rep they'll get you in touch with a solutions engineer to help put together a licensing package that's perfect for your business

i don't think about future electoral politics that much but I keep thinking about the overwhelming, primal yearning the slogan "it's a free country" will produce after a few more years of all this. the mass civic salivation at the thought of being able to say those words again.

It's obviously very funny that this guy thinks he just invented quantitative social science, but beyond that, there's an interesting story to be told about the shifting politics of the long fight over quantitative methods in history, dating back well before the rise of cliometrics in the 1960s.

"if something bad happens to you, you must have somehow made it happen" is the core belief that unites new age spiritualism, prosperity gospel, toxic self-help culture, crypto, wellness scams, and every other head on the hydra that is right-wing "culture"