The thing about measles is that it’s the only known virus that triggers immune amnesia - it causes your immune system to forget everything it has previously learned. Meaning you essentially reset to zero and are now at risk of basically everything. It can take 2-3 years to get immunities back.

Introduction to Categories and Categorical Logic "The aim of these notes is to provide a succinct, accessible introduction to some of the basic ideas of category theory and categorical logic. The notes are based on a lecture course given at Oxford over the past few years.

This is the best Christmas movie you've never heard of. Cargill found it in 2020 and told all his friends about it, and we've been watching it every Christmas ever since.

the world has changed

New post: Moving your code from prototype to production brandonrohrer.com/hosting8.html So you wrote a cool little weather app that predicts temperatures in your neighborhood. Now you want to be able to share those predictions with everyone of the thousand people who live there.

“To be an unhatched trans woman is to feel like a wolf among sheep, predatory, a privileged male surrounded by the most vulnerable of vulnerables instead of... a girl, looking for community without understanding how or why.” Yes. I don’t want to be scary. I want to be safe. Trying not to cry.

it's actually kinda funny in a way to get to the finish line of curing cancer and having the government go eh you know what. never mind

lmao

they are bad people doing tremendous damage and we will have to keep fighting them on every front, but “elections are over and we’re doomed forever” is not true and we are going to win

note to everyone else they're trying to intimidate: telling the administration to fuck off remains the single most effective response

As much as I've been a goofy fuck about promoting I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend for $200, the genuine reception it's getting is incredible. Especially with people totally unfamiliar with my work. Here's an early review thread, starting with the incredible starred feature in Publisher's Weekly.

This is so fucking funny dude.

Polling: "Do you think the rich have too much political power in the U.S.?" Yes: 80% No: 8% Independent voters are 81%/6% on this; even Trump voters are 68%/18%. Maybe a political party could lead on this issue. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

The thing frustratingly not talked often about with AI is what its true costs will be. Companies are operating at such a GARGANTUAN loss right now, that even if they got AI working 100%, the cost to break even could prevent common implementation by a generation or two. It just may not be feasible.

he's weak and he's flailing and he's never had less juice in his political life know that, even as he does untold damage on the way down, we are going to win

The fact that you can have 6 billion dollars and not be aware of the existence of other countries is a good argument in favour of the government confiscating 6 billion dollars from you

Fucking get them Chesterton

legal experts say the reapers from Mass Effect 3 cannot launch a unilateral invasion of the planet Earth

This is why hating and mocking AI relentlessly and publicly is vital work.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

(2/2) #Mothman

That reminds me of one of my favorite memes:

I think it would be good to have a president who has a vague connection to the reality of how things work

I support this small company who is selling high-performance running apparels at a reasonable prices, unlike other companies like Tracksmith, Bandit Running, Sastify Running, etc. Article: run.outsideonline.com/gear/afforda... Terignota: terignota.com

This is a really great high concept movie. A group of college friends take a wrong turn and end up on a road that doesn't seem to end. Like ever. A really great premise taken to its best possible conclusion. Loved it.

Sorry to go sorkin mode but as an American I find this not only treasonous but sacreligious

folks we are into “breaking gerrymanders” territory here we are going to win

Vampiress, using hypnotic stare: "Say three things you like about yourself." The vampiress' girlfriend, sweating profusely, trying and failing to fight it: "I. . . think my hair. . . is kinda cute." Vampiress: "Two more." The vampiress' girlfriend: "FFFFUUCCCKKKK."

In its defense, it is a nonprofit organization.

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

I suppose the list of things Sam Altman cannot imagine is quite long

11 officers present to arrest Luigi Mangione "for taking 40 minutes to eat his McDonald's meal" including NYPD officers who were far outside jurisdiction and had invited themselves. They can be heard interrupting Altoona police radio to announce they'll be arriving despite being ignored by local PD.

"back in my day i paid a single time for a piece of software that actually did the thing it said" you are just a luddite afraid of RELENTLESS innovation

You don’t have to meet anyone else’s definition of being trans other than just being your true and authentic self. Your identity is just as valid and genuine❤️🏳️‍⚧️

My Senator told me FedSoc judges keep ignoring his unambiguous laws so I asked how many laws he has and he said he just goes to the Congress and gets a new law afterwards so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding unambiguous laws to FedSoc judges and then his chief of staff started crying.

I don’t want to vote for a Democrat who promises to get Trump’s voters to vote for them. I want a Democrat who wants to put Trump in prison

On social media, people love to say this country or that country ‘lives in the future.’ But do you know which country actually does? Korea. Whatever socio-economic problems Korea is dealing with today are the ones your country will face in about ten years.

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

Just 17% of Americans now say they trust the government in Washington to do what is right. While trust in government has been low for decades, the current measure is one of the lowest in the nearly seven decades.

It's hard to explain to normies how much effort Trump is putting into anti-trans policies. This is like the 12th thing just this week. And there were 12 things the week before, and 12 things the week before that. There will be 12 things next week. This is almost everything the government is doing.

Shopping small is meaningful!

The White House as recently as Sunday was calling it the United States Institute of Peace. It has now removed the “United States” in formal communications and replaced it with “Donald J. Trump.”

Having a low attention span day which sucks because I got plenty of sleep. I finished my book I wanted to read and idk what to do now.

Incidentally it is killing me that I didn't read this soon enough to have a quotation to open the section on the Moon in A City on Mars.

At the last MN Council of Non-profits conference, I sat in a session that was about accommodating autistic people in the workplace and this was something I found incredibly important: Job Interviews do not have to be a test of how good a person does 1:1 with surprise questions.

I get the impulse, there are cases it has been used well, but mostly it is used for corruption and Trump is really showcasing the extent to which it can be abused that genie will not go back in the bottle, no more pardons

You’re telling me these antibiotics are for broads on the spectrum?