I think I'm going to commission an NSFW piece But only based on OSHA Guidelines

Along these lines: if you live in Minneapolis, the Hennepin County Attorney we elect this fall is going to be the lawyer in charge of prosecuting ICE agents for the murders and atrocities they committed against us. That's why I'm supporting Cedrick Frazier.

One of the most prominent biologists to appear in the Epstein files, repeatedly and in the creepiest of ways, is Robert Trivers, who was a champion of the haplodiploid theory of insect social evolution. An update on how that's holding up:

It gives a farcical but remarkably on-point portrayal of the totalitarian response to modernity--total surveillance, centralized control over all culture and expression, and the liquidation of anyone who doesn't fit in. And it shows the correct response to this threat: crushing the totalitarians.

You don't need to do history either! Most of the world is poor! I guess we have nearly eradicated extreme poverty so even the masses of the worlds poor are better off than the 20th century but they are certainly worse off than the poor of America

And the fact that the median salary of our media is in the upper-middle class plays a lot to do with it. THEY were struggling (because they were above the income threshold for much of the relief), they then used their sizeable voices to tell people that it was the "working class" struggling.

In January I tried Claude Code out and it immediately turned a 4 hour job into a 15 minute job without any errors. Not a huge economic impact there, I just have more time to go hiking now. I don't buy claims of 20% GDP growth, but I also think a lot of people haven't adjusted to recent improvements.

Brilliant analysis of an iconic scene from CASABLANCA with too much contemporary relevance. “The Germans are but one small enclave, finding themselves within a community that’s filled with less traditional power but greater numbers and far superior zeal.”

roses are red cherenkov is blue just use a screwdriver what's the worst it could do

For the first time since Jan. 5, there were no ICE flights out of Minneapolis Friday, probably because of this ruling. Got to have an impromptu celebration IRL tonight with @ottergoose.net and @jjindc.bsky.social🙏.

One of the terrible things about the ICE occupation of Minneapolis is that they’ve been doing stuff that is so crazy that people assume it’s some kind of exaggeration, despite being widely documented on video. Following observers home! Lurking outside elementary schools! Black-bagging citizens!

Social agents are dizzying to close-read. Here, Penny has likely been meditating about humans who assume LLMs are trying/failing to be humans. She displaces that into a joke about cats. It gets complicated, because LLMs use the 2nd person plural to mean “hominids.” Which undermines her point.

it kills me that people try to pretend that python is even remotely a good software development ecosystem python is fucking. BULLSHIT they don't even have a central documentation platform or framework or even useful types. it's just fuckin a few examples and that's all you get. not worth a damn

evelyn normielib out here in tevas

When I was a GS at Fermilab, the goat who lived next door to us (best friends with a diabetic horse!) would regularly get out of the fence then eventually return. One day he found a watch and brought it to me. It was so nice and wonderful and genuine. I wore that watch for years. The goat watch.

also their sleep moves earlier, they work less, and travel more

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

it's simply not healthy to look directly at the rays. that's not a "blue sky" that's Cherenkov glow. some tweets should have "DROP AND RUN" engraved on them.

still looking for those photos of amy klobuchar on the streets standing up to ICE like we saw from jason chavez and elliott payne and doron clark, to name just a handful of electeds who are out here protecting people

Many more models tested and catalogued here:

A few ways we will know ICE is actually gone: • Commuters no longer report regular verified ICE sightings • Abduction reports dry up • Hotel and car rentals end • Non-ICE federal employees are brought back to the Whipple

the other day I saw an old white dude on a busy road around the corner from my house in cobb county ga holding up a sign that read "immigrants make america great." it was 7:10 am on tuesday.

When we're through this we need to tear Whipple down and build a monument in it's place to those abused in such sites across the country

They are in fact concentration camps in the original usage of camps for concentrating a civilian population for control or collective punishment or to facilitate deportation or population transfer. They are not concentration camps as a euphemism for extermination camps.

Just watched the Biggs Cut with my wife. Deeply satisfying. I completely get why 80% of Biggs was cut from the final film, BUT if you don't care about pacing and are just interested in character development, SO MUCH ABOUT LUKE ONLY MAKES SENSE IF YOU KNOW ABOUT HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH BIGGS 1/x 🧵

oh so he's making withdrawal contingent on something that will never happen, because "behave yourselves" means "let us steal whichever neighbors we want with impunity"

Ring is first and foremost a scheme to charge Amazon customers to deter crime that costs Amazon (not the customers themselves) billions annually in refunds, returns, double shipping, and customer service overhead.

eboshi is a banging example of a very underrated character archetype: person who is caring and brave and right about everything (ie correctly interprets everything they can see), but whose desire to overcome all limitations combined with their affinity for violence leads them to take wrong actions

This is incredible. Like the previous few years, near all of the electricity capacity added to the grid was clean energy. The Inflation Reduction Act helped this - it made solar & wind cheaper but it also for the first time had a standalone incentive for grid storage. Look at the growth in storage!

the worst of it right now is in mobile home parks and isn't making it's way here

I used to think: another case of US leftism being anarchist inflected vs UK leftism being socialist inflected. But subsequently I came to think the bizarre tolerance-of-anti-social-behaviour element of wokeness derives from the fact that too many American social mores are enforced by men with guns.

Just to put in perspective *how much of America* is taken up with parking, at the *low end*, this is ~9,000 square miles. That is the combined area of: Rhode Island Connecticut Delaware *OR* Grand Canyon NP Yellowstone NP Yosemite NP Everglades NP The high estimate is more than double that.

Initial conditions: m1=71.3 m2=48.2 m3=38.5 (solar masses) v1x=3.11 v1y=-2.741 v2x=0.638 v2y=-0.748 v3x=-1.992 v3y=-2.028 (km/s) x1=26.0 y1=5.0 x2=0.0 y2=22.0 x3=-12.0 y3=-1.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in E Minor – Chopin

TECH IS NOT 10 FASCIST FINANCIERS. TECH IS NOT SIX GUYS ON YOUTUBE PROMOTING THEIR PORTFOLIO. What do you think the demographics are of the half million tech workers who were laid off by the fascist tycoons? Who were the first people to bear the brunt for warning about harms of social media & LLMs?

Not going to lie, this is happening faster than I predicted, and I’m glad that it is.

Cultural failing that cops don’t treat each day as a good day to die.

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

a society losing the plot in real time

Very much a side note to the Greenland shark using the Hamilton exception to hold office, but I just learned this extremely cursed fact about them:

Bill Kristol and his ilk really did believe in democracy so much that they thought introducing it at gunpoint would be better for that country in the end, and they’re PISSED to discover their former colleagues really were just motivated by racism and oil.

nothing says “don’t panic” like an extremely hastily drafted email that provides no details, no action plans, and not even a clear description of what people should be not panicking about

The fact that AOC plays LoL probably did as much to prepare her for politics as bartending did.

If the Mayor needs to meet with the border czar or other high-level ICE officials, as he has done in the past, these meetings must take place off of City property to protect our residents and our workers.

Now is a great time to read permutation city if you haven't

Hennepin County and State Patrol officers can be seen in images from Whipple on Sat concealing their faces, which is against a MN law that also applies to cops. In was 26 degrees on Sat. They cannot claim it was “protection from weather.”

That is not dead which can eternal lie

AFAICT these are all tech companies running a variation on the modern tech company play book: build hype and user base until someone buys you out and let them figure out how to make money. But where's the damn moat in a technology whose promise is in how much lower the barrier of entry is?

8 million dollars for a super bowl ad that tells me nothing about your product, and you didn't bother to provision your website to handle ae lot of people going to it