duck is born free and everywhere is in supply chains

some rightthinking internet citizen has uploaded the entirety of All That Jazz (1979) to youtube, you should watch the first 6 minutes. Incredible opening sequence. you can viscerally feel that this guy makes no sense to himself unless and until the music's playing. youtu.be/kCrY76mh2Xg

I want what they had

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“Oh finding a partner before the advent of dating apps must feel like being on the last chopper out of nam” yeah maybe if you identify yourself with COLONIZERS ….some of us are out here finding life beautiful and we don’t see retreat as victory

*squinting* something something … set Cardinality…. Axiom of choice ,… mathematicians help

I hate when Anglo media say like 'we know little about Indonesia' 'little known Indonesia' 'underappreciated Indonesia' ✋ do not include me in this please, I have a library card. That is 🫵 your problem.

When you giving something you don’t really have to someone who doesn’t really want it.

enough of this "I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself" bullshit. they also don't have any open heart surgery and didn't make any films such as my neighbour totoro. respect to the wild things but there's other ways to live.

If we can’t stop the spread of drugs even in prisons, the chance of purely police/military solutions for stopping drugs on the streets isn’t looking good. #econsky marketdesigner.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

i think william blake and david lynch have the same energy

He who is tired of Sydney is tired of life

Why would they reduce fares? NSW PT is already cheap. we need it to be more reliable and offer more frequent services, that’s how we make it more appealing.

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

Academics, shall we share our stories of grad school rejection? I was rejected by CMU, where I am now the Herbert Simon Professor of Philosophy. (I was also rejected by 13 other programs, also)

Haha I love the title; something about its tone, and the feeling of resignation that it conveys. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Some people would rather push oil over $200/barrel during an election year than go to therapy.

This is exactly what our research shows: when it becomes harder to tell apart expert-looking content from the real thing, the value of expertise goes up. And so does demand for it… giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... AI hallucinations haunt users more than job losses

“Very good. It makes me feel real fear.”

One of those replies that deserves elevation into the main discussion

what if, rather than approximate answers to the right questions, we got exact answers to the wrong question, made ever more precise, more quickly?

this is going to sound absolutely feral but hot thai coffee goes really well with beef massaman curry

Sydney city almost sparkling and washed new in the rain 😊

Never underestimate the abilities of a great survey field professional

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

“We need generative models, data models, for prior checking. If you combine the likelihood and prior you get the posterior. If you combine the prior and data model, you get the prior predictive distribution!” 👨‍🍳💋

Imagine there’s no endogeneity It’s easy if you try No hidden selection bias No omitted reasons why Imagine all the scatterplots Meaning what they show

i'm sorry i'm sorry but "Afroman will bring it to ya" for glory glory hallelujah COME ON!!!!! youtu.be/HM8Ee6pcXvQ?...

Can we pause for a moment to think about the dudes from Karachi or Luzon or Fujian who are in these tubs just doing their jobs and trying to send money home.

promises made promises kept

apropos of the cesar chavez thing it is time to revisit this sootyempiric.blogspot.com/p/no-heroes-...

I think about this a lot, in the sense that people who accuse other people of being out of touch are often themselves also very out of touch bsky.app/profile/karl...

perfect, no notes. -- my review of 4'33" by john cage

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

96-year old Dolores Huerta made a gutting confession today. She deserves to be heard in her own words. Even the most righteous movements find ways to make space for misogyny. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Took me a minute !

in 100 years nobody will read adorno, butler, foucault, or habermas. they will, however, read my favorite intellectual, elonolf rowlingyahu, an accountant by training who specializes in, get this, cancel culture on elite college campuses, anti trans semantics, and the excesses of palestine protests

it's not like challengers was high art or anything but i did truly enjoy how dirtbag idiot loser patrick, in the end, understood that art was an even bigger loser and more pathetic than he was, because success had made him more afraid, not less

fortunately I remembered that I have but one life and death comes for us all so I will instead not be doing that

No words for how evil this is.

Harris accused Altman of being the “Goebbels of the Trump administration.” But on Tuesday, Harris said by email: “It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”

So weird: there's more than one scammy memorial site inviting donations or tree-planting in my dad's memory. We are not asking for that, but if people feel moved, donations in lieu of flowers to www.aclu-mn.org, www.aclu.org, or www.eff.org Econ folks, can you help get the word out?

The words “Britpop Demon Hunters” appeared in my head and I’m feeling queasy

again these are straightforward imitations of nazi anti-jewish legislation

standard scientific practice says that if one theory proposes that banal phenomena are a 'miracle', and a rival theory offers a non-miraculous explanation, that's a really good reason to prefer the rival theory

I don’t see why a 15-second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish and fake l/t memories should not be subject to short-term capital gains taxes on everything (including unrealized gains) and a 100% inheritance tax.

illiterate in the good way is when your heart is pure and open and you're virtuosically posting music remix tiktoks that spread the good word of the incoming woke 2 to the online broletariat or etc

I think if you asked me to mock these guys then "desperately need therapy: will never get therapy" and "refuse to introspect ever" are things I coulda come up with. But. "Obviously when you introspect you just feel guilt, so clearly this is a plot against Great Men" is too perfect. Beyond me.

that's right. and being neither catholic nor protestant, I experience neither guilt nor work ethic

the only thing i use llms for personally is to source weird fragments of quotes, which they are usually good at. but both claude and gpt just failed completely at finding high profile uses of the phrase "the whole ballgame", and a GOOGLE SEARCH turned up heaps of useful results. what the fuck.