Big weekend for moon-gazers.

Everybody wanna be a transfluvial salt merchant, but don't nobody wanna lift no heavy ass.

Sadly this revenue did not materialize. That was a difficult earnings call.

One of the oppositions I feel most strongly is to the idea that we should indefinitely postpone what is good.

This reminds me of a thought from Boscovich.

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

Drop the "oft," "are," and "ngineer." Just SWEs. It's cleaner.

It slightly bothers me that the name of the person who wrote this came to refer to a voluptuary or gourmand.

running a vending machine is a solved problem. the solution is called 'a vending machine'.

Fulke Greville has some great lines, like the first 4 here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47683/... Or the last 4 here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56368/...

"First mover advantage" sounds like a premise to an ontological argument.

I'm a big fan of the Awkward Lunch Date trilogy: Surviving Lunch (2019), The Long Goodbye (1973), and We're Going the Same Way (2018).

in high dimensional space you can make any statement about high dimensional space and people will assume it's true

I would have gotten so rich from this offer. I can't even get the model in question, or any of its cousins or competitors, to correctly state and apply modus ponens to mathematical results from my specialty even when they examine papers which answer my questions.

Lester R. Brown wrote and revised in several editions a book titled "Plan B," "Plan B 2.0," etc. In it he talks about desertification in Iran, which he attributes to overgrazing. I got curious whether this happened.

Each of Myus, Priene, and Miletus was a port city in its day and declined after becoming landlocked by the siltation of the bay.

Some time ago I ran across a claim on Twitter: that Europe has recently reforested, gaining 90,000 km² of forest between 1990 and 2015 by downsizing agriculture. I got curious and it turns out this claim is both true and false, in different ways.

Every day now the green blossoms on the kousa dogwoods where the hummingbirds congregate grow a little whiter, marking the time until June.

The air is silver with rain, the first storm of the year that feels summery.

It is that time of year again, when the petals of the cherry blossoms fall like 空に知られぬ雪.

o3: I owe you a straight answer. I have my doubts, and I was silly enough to pay the full Amontillado price without consulting you in the matter. You were not to be found, and I was fearful of losing a bargain.

Been enjoying barley lately.

"If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?" Quite a bit actually, it brought me to lots of other things first.

Lester R. Brown wrote and revised in several editions a book titled "Plan B," "Plan B 2.0," etc. In it he talks about desertification in Iran, which he attributes to overgrazing. I got curious whether this happened.

One must imagine Damocles happy.

Phylogenetic taxonomists when people ask what they can eat during Lent.

By the way, for anyone wondering why we have imports on the books from Heard Island and McDonald Islands, the answer is that someone logged imports from Honduras incorrectly.

One must imagine Damocles happy.

I was delighted to find this cotton farm glam video because of the somewhat unusual location in which it was shot.

@norvid-studies.bsky.social ‬got me wondering about the origin of a folkloric figure: that there are 6 anthropogenic extinctions per day. Some digging turned up a satisfactory answer.

To my surprise, while sparse, these rain gauges apparently did exist. So if the analysis were repeated with the more recent data it would be somewhat more convincing.

I did unearth the source of the claim that the Sahara is expanding southward at 30 miles per year. Or rather, I unearthed the ruins of the source. The claim was invented in 1972 and its source vaguely referenced 4 times before becoming folklore.

2016 was the year a lot of my friends lost the ability to think: one by taking quantities of DXM that would make a titan blanch, the rest by replacing their taste with recommendation algorithms and their thoughts with transcripts.

Ah yes, the ruminiferous ether.

So how do we all feel about testing in prod?

There's some pavement I need to go tear up. I have to find out if there's a paradise under there.

Sounds fun. 1 like = 1 thing I love.

The last time 25% tariffs were introduced, my family in manufacturing called to talk about their bad day. Alas, it sounds like they're going to get another round of sectoral reinvigoration soon.

Numbers should be safe, legal, and rare.

This is a good soup. www.justonecookbook.com/japanese-gla...

The 1948 book Conscious Clay suggested that the sense in which you persist when you tell a joke and it lodges in someone's brain, multiplied across every interaction and rippling out in time, amounts to a sort of immortality. The internet has diminished the poetry of this idea.

The difference between applying the tree cover criterion from the FAO definition or the tree cover criterion from the EEA definition globally is 13% of the planet's land surface. www.nature.com/articles/ncl... bsky.app/profile/yond...

Rain pulls gauzy curtains over the world, shrinking the atmosphere around us. Snowflakes fill the air with visual reference points, clarifying the depth of the atmosphere and enlarging it around us. Rain is cozy because it wraps us. Snow is cozy because we wrap ourselves while it illuminates us.

Some time ago I ran across a claim on Twitter: that Europe has recently reforested, gaining 90,000 km² of forest between 1990 and 2015 by downsizing agriculture. I got curious and it turns out this claim is both true and false, in different ways.

Really makes you think how most of the West Coast productivity advice is just to wake up at the same time as the East Coast.