"Per the syllabus..."

Hard to believe he couldn't persuade more voters with his visionary platform of Bike Lanes Suck, and I'm Rich.

Do you know how easy this is for me?

Wasn't the fact that this is illegal a central plot point of Clear and Present Danger?

Wishful thinking in the Boston public schools today (Tuesday, September 2nd)

Fortunately for us all, teachers (even ex-military) do not have qualified immunity like police, and so the liability risk to schools from an armed teacher accidentally killing someone would be astronomical, to the point of making this a non-starter.

"He was second to Nolan Ryan in most strike-outs" is Randy Johnson erasure and will not be tolerated. (Also Clemens was juiced to the gills)

I have a hard time remembering which one is Amanda Knox, which one is Casey Anthony, and which one is Laci Peterson. It's just a haze of 2000s crime victims/accused perpetrators

I don't mean to brag, but my 4-year-olds are watching a cartoon intended for 7-year-olds due to "mild fantasy violence."

#ICYMI: You can spot E.J. Antoni, Trump's pick for Bureau of Labor Statistics Chief, in the crowd of Capitol rioters via our archive of 500+ Jan. 6 videos. Watch him walk through the bottom of the screen starting at ~1:41 in this clip: projects.propublica.org/parler-capit...

Chrono Trigger's 30 years old you say? Time flies.

I understand why people compare our current political situation to Idiocracy—Trump is a buffoon, politics is dominated by entertainment, voters are ignorant, etc. But the movie is really quite a toxic eugenicist vision of the consequences of the wrong people breeding. Maybe watch something else?

In fairness this is also what Lincoln would have wanted

This was also true of the British eugenicist worldview, which became the American one. www.liberalcurrents.com/degenerate-n...

To play video games with a 4-year-old is to be caught in an endless loop of "Can you help me?"<-> "I can do it!" Getting passed a controller only to have it snatched away immediately, forever.

ChatGPT disagrees

At least it didn't try to blame the tsunami on the Jews

For baseball fans of a certain age who grew up watching Cubs games on the WGN superstation in the '80s and '90s, Ryne Sandberg was such an important figure. I remember we all wanted to be #23

Yeah, that figures

What perfect album came out when you were sixteen?

A compelling argument for science reform by the always-compelling @rmcelreath.bsky.social, doubly worth the read for all the incidental shots fired at Nature.

Starkiller Base was no Death Star, but it was a decent first order approximation.

Another example is in estimating the location parameter for a Cauchy distribution. The Bayesian posterior mean outperforms all conventional estimators by frequentist standards.

Trump wrongly thinks the fed has direct control over Treasury rates and thereby can save the government money on its debt service. In his mind, stronger economy = better creditworthiness = lower interest rates. This is, of course, not how anything works.

Folks on the Hellsite seem pretty convinced that the Texas floods were caused by a cloud-seeding tech startup funded by Peter Thiel. Not sure whose interests this conspiracy theory serves, but here we are.

I'm going to miss Eric Adams so much. Truly one of one

It's about time someone called out Some Like it Hot as an instrument of the woke mind virus. Thanks, Nazi AI

<--an academic who often writes about I.Q. and race

Trump refers to bankers as "shylocks"

Imagine feeling threatened by a culture that gave you both Freddie Mercury and Charli XCX

I'm sure the same people who defended police violence with per-encounter calculations will be all over this.

What does the fox say?

"Science is not, and has never been, a neutral endeavour... the notion that researchers can or should cleanse themselves of bias is untenable, potentially intellectually dishonest, and ethically fraught." New preprint with the (brilliant) Sarahanne Field #Metascience2025 osf.io/preprints/os...

Fascist eugenicists of the 19th and 20th centuries fundamentally weakened science to serve their agendas, and now fascist eugenicists of the 21st century are criticizing those weaknesses to serve their own. cen.acs.org/research-int...

Amazing for Milk to get kicked out of the Navy twice just for being gay

Today is, I think, a good day to play Final Fantasy 6 and read The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Sounds like the worst thing for Bibi right now would be for the Israeli public to believe Trump's claims about the conflict with Iran being over. www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahus-p...

Clear evidence of election fraud in the NY mayoral primary: Mamdani received a majority of votes in Green-Wood Cemetery

Will Trump get the Nobel Peace Prize if the nuclear program he dismantles is one that Iran creates in response to his attempt to dismantle their previous non-existent one? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

This chart 1) depicts the injuries that are *most disproportionately* reported in each state, meaning their relative increase in frequency is greatest. Could be 2 instead of an average of 1. 2) is at least 7 years old. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncn...

Big day for Australian cricketer Karen Read, acquitted on murder charges in Massachusetts according to Google AI

Today is, I think, a good day to play Final Fantasy 6 and read The Traitor Baru Cormorant

Uh oh. He’s just going to have to shut this thing off.

Such a disappointing end to a thoroughly frustrating story. I hope the National Portrait Gallery continues to be the amazing and special place it has been. It and Ethiopian food are the two best things about D.C.

I told you we’d be back

What if I told you, etc. nautil.us/how-eugenics...

Don't forget rock, steel, and fighting

The only music you should stand for at a baseball game is Cotton-Eyed Joe

This sounds like an exciting and much-needed new book for anyone studying linear algebra. And the AI-generated bird even has the right number of toes!