people who focus on it have a bad habit of going cyber-psycho

Boltzmann Mans

Not without a TREMENDOUS amount of work. I did this because of Prometheus' carbon dating. www.funraniumlabs.com/2015/06/carb...

Super fun thread full of experts. For starters, "You could not use Carbon-14 dating for this purpose without arbitrary error bars" is the entry point. But people have very interesting alternative ideas!

does Great Man Theory violate unitarity?

zoom out historically, and it's harder to think that the things that seemed all-encompassingly important in 2016-2019 actually were the Prime Movers of our present moment

no one is ready for Economics 2.0

if outlets for evil are necessary to reduce evil in practice, then it is decidedly true that this outlet cannot itself become evil too, otherwise it's just a shell game

"this movement has gone too far, and i am going to be increasingly skeptical of these sorts of claims" really doesn't explain the rise of explicitly pro-rape rhetoric and organizations and i think this is a substantial and important failure of many narratives of the last two decades

how do we explain to the media in a way that they hear it that they're being viewed increasing as collaborators with an illiberal regime that is trying to eliminate democracy? i feel like ezra klein got the message, but then took the wrong conclusion.

they destroyed the country over nothing

it's nuts that you can just publish the headline "are women ruining the workplace" in the new york times and not be spit on or worse every subsequent time u leave the house

what's particularly galling to me is we all do this on websites where there are no books, but there are numbers everywhere (im looking at at least two right on the UI as i type this)

every time I explain to my coworkers that a social media influencer from out of town has convinced the Trump administration that the Portland police are antifa, they look at me like I've sprouted a second head www.theverge.com/policy/81340...

legchair

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

contempt for animals is less of a red flag and more of an earsplitting air raid siren

idk i think it's kind of loser shit to get worked up about this in this way when you run a bluesky data aggregation account, and also i think aelkus' read is correct: making these public instead of private is a good thing you can't paper over human social behavior and pretend it's not happening

good night music.youtube.com/watch?v=doCS...

this is Dark Woke

one weird trick

the implications of a "stable political system" are that the people want things to happen, but then every time anything happens, there is backlash proportional to the intensity of anything happening. Nothing Ever Happens, as threat

Woke is back

no text about my ballot got me nervous

oh shit it's nanowrimo huh?

there's one paradigm. meet your mutuals. there's another, one that i subscribe to: don't meet your mutuals. but like all rules that are not based on the laws of physics, what isn't strictly forbidden must occur.

starting Google, but Biocosmist. our motto is "Be"

lmao amazing. symmetric group of n elements. wow. the future is becoming more and more Alex optimal every day.

realizing electronics are complicated ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-00...

and that's where unitarity comes from...

if you ever wondered why democrats suddenly started talking about "amplifying voices," around then, it's military surplus.

silly times produce silly men make bloody times &c &c

i just don't really believe people are going to leave NYC/new york state people don't leave places. rollingout.com/2025/10/24/e...

is this a constitutional crisis yet?

how many milli tree years of carbon did you use reading my post?

Vaporware Wave

im constructed non-abelian

Biocosmism

i don't really understand why "good faith earnest curiosity" gets few likes

biocosmism implies night watchmen state that guards your right to longer life through universal healthcare and food replicators

"winning elections is all that matters... no not like that!"

"Hott—shockingly— answered 'No' when asked if he agreed 'agree that it's unconstitutional to arrest people for being opposed to Midway Blitz?' Similarly, Bovino testified that he has instructed his officers to arrest protesters who make hyperbolic comments in the heat of political demonstrations"

the problem with the 50+ posts label is if you have an actual conversation with 3 people in your own threads you're basically already there

Idaho made it illegal for any public school or private business to require vaccination, even if that private business is a nursing home or day care. And that's much closer to becoming a national GOP policy than banning algebra ever became.

Hope You Can Learn How The Gear Works In Time

i think the main thing about media in the US is that youre going to have to start your own

i have this ship of the Theseus going on. i don't think there's a single piece left in my pc from the first build (maybe some old hd), but there's never not been overlap the easiest way to get your pc safely moved overseas is putting the pieces in a carry on and buying a new case when you land

people refuse to believe the Long 90s are gone

I found a guy who invented Reddit from first principles in 1998 in this review of the movie Pi. www.jerrypournelle.com/reviews/pi.h...

need a stamina/mana bar for posting