that we can derive attention from MaxEnt and an asymmetric Ising model surely means something

"They will struggle for the sake of struggle. They will struggle, in other words, out of a certain boredom: for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle." — Francis Fukuyama

perfidious bastards

broke: home cooking woke: burrito taxi baroque: corn cob in mail

I had strong priors against LLMs for medicine. There are a lot of doctors in my family and I grew up viewing doctors as careful, skilled professionals. I had plenty of bad medical experiences, but I thought it would be hard to do better. Then an LLM found a cure for my 2 decade chronic condition...

their wages? sunlight and phosphorous. paid for by DC area homeowners

someone gave a talk at the math department a long while back about how few nodes you need to infer most of the rest of the connections

and typical mind fallacy means that people will be in a constant state of thinking superintelligence is just around the corner for the forseeable future

*excited emacs noises intensify*

(A substantial evidence review recently found that the odds of being killed if you're hit by an SUV or pickup truck are 44% higher than if you're hit by a smaller car. For children, the odds of dying go up 82% injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/32/1...) 3/10

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the only important cat advice before you adopt is that you should either buy a timer, or schedule your life such that you always feed them at the same time of day. god help the person whose cats learn "i get fed whenever the human wakes up"

We should militarize the police* *the police should not be allowed to criticize or undermine the civilian leader, and be subjected to a type of court martial, and even further should be responsible for their own conduct if a jury finds they did wrong contra official police policies

Some simple (not easy) ones imo: Remove the ability to organize at the department level, allow to collectively bargain at the sectoral level only, or just ban it similarly to military. Consoldiate agencies: while being a large dept is no guarantee of professionalism, it is a precondition of it.

The obvious answer is MUPPET FRANKENSTEIN, with the only human actor playing the creature.

Govt agency/Paramilitary unit exercises too much autonomy & is insufficiently responsive to orders is not a sui generis problem. Decrease autonomy (remove unions), disband specific units or entire agencies & reconstitute, give responsibilities to organizations you trust more. Not easy, but possible.

It seems likely to me that the reason they keep including this demand is because they know America will agree to it but then be unable to deliver on it, thus giving them (Iran) an excuse to keep the conflict going, which suits them because they are winning it

Animal plays Every Single Angel In Different Costumes

What I really think is good is widely dispersed decision making power and egalitarian means of information aggregation. This pushes me towards some kinda democratic market socialism since concentrations of power in the hands of capitalists or planning bureaus is bad. It also makes me hate the media.

inspired to dig through my own collection of wave racks in the wild. This remains my all-time favorite, thanks to the mosaic & general challenges captured

final decision in August. here's hoping higher ups don't get in the way of what is clearly the right decision

Fort Worth's density gradient (center to edge) is upside down:

Ok, setting the context here… this is where my pannier was (high viz one), inside our closed & locked garage that, AFAIK doesn’t have any gaps large enough for big animals to get in. And we’ve ever had animal trouble in here before, so imagine my surprise when I reach for my bag and discover…

Context for the 40% of new recruits getting vaccinated. (article in parent)

Fulfilled a lifelong ambition this morning: I saw a guy walk into wet cement.

I wonder what they'll do to try to convince the markets next? Promise their children in marriage?

There are only two file formats: disguised zips and renamed text files. JSON? Text. EPUB? Zip. CSV? Text. EXE? Zip. SVG? Text. DOCX? Zip. ICS? Text. APK? Zip.

Trump administration to phase out HIV funding for South Africa www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

New paper out now! We (w/ @rmcelreath.bsky.social and @gregork.bsky.social) start from the observation that among adolescents in Leipzig, the gender gap in life satisfaction has doubled over time and ask: why?> link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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We breed them like show dogs here in Chicago. Whole neighborhoods economies are dependent on exactly this kind of guy. They come in at least six kinds of white ethnic and every other race, color, and creed you can imagine.

Hegseth proudly ended the flu vaccine requirement for the military. Following this idiocy, only 40% of new trainees got vaccinated. There’s now a flu outbreak at an AF facility. A new recruit has died, though it is not clear if it was from flu. Now, the flu vaccine is again required there.

We call this yoga pose willem dafrog

Announcing co/core: a social computing experiment from the Graze team

I think it is true a lot of Gen Z is unaware that they are using terms that got adopted by Stormfront adjacent areas at least partially ironically, but that doesn't make it any less dire that that sort of language is being normalized.

Phosphate removal and sequestration is done in wastewater treatment and to manage recreational and drinking water lakes and reservoirs all the time. A water treatment coagulant is all you need to achieve this. These are typically aluminum (or sometimes ferric) based coagulants that are used to 14/19

"I heard they had a stolen election, too. The people wanted Ali. They all said, 'we love Ali', but he was treated very badly. They rigged it for Abu Bakr. Who is that? Have you heard of him? Who picked him? They're saying 'Saqifa'."

That's really what the issue with having extremely opinionated people fuck with what you see on a day-to-day basis. That they're right or wrong doesn't matter here, or that you're convinced or more grounded about your beliefs. The problem is the frame your brain thinks in from constant exposure

call it baudrillardian governance because the objective is not to produce things that work but masquerade events so that they can briefly appear spectacular

I know a guy who literally chose where he lived based on proximity to this park and after he did some research was convinced this was the right choice

acausal influence is a succinct definition of magic

yes I have a girlfriend, no you can't meet them. what? no they don't live in Canada, they're in an alternate reality.

Capitulation at Versailles (disambiguation)

Fundraiser for the 15 folks in Minnesota indicted yesterday for anti-ICE organizing, from a vetted source: chuffed.org/project/1865...

Some may think aspects of The Most Dangerous Man are over the top. The fact of the matter is that you can write reality right into a novel these days, and people will believe it is "unrealistic." Past media is more real for them than present reality. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

More & more solar geoengineering research is moving beyond computer modeling, delving into the design & engineering work needed to develop aircraft, dispersion systems & more. Much of it is happening at @davidkeith.bsky.social's new group at the University of Chicago: Freebie link for my latest:

Singaporean artist Leia Ham reimagined LotR as Tale of the Middle Kingdom, since Chinese name for China (Zhōngguó) means "The Middle Kingdom." Her concept art includes the Fellowship, armors, buildings like Bag End, props like Aragorn's banner and Fellowship brooches, and more. #TolkienTrewsday