I’m at ICE HQ

How can this go on for another 3 years?

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*beastie boys robot voice*: suprascapular nerve entrapment

And if the cow has tools will the mayor provide a table on which to display them?

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Oh yeah I got the shirt

I want this for Sacramento.

The core problem is that literally 50% of the water is diverted to make comically tiny profits of, like, a few hundred million dollars, so trillions of actual economic activity gets held hostage by some clown who bought land in 1872. Put a market price on water and the problem is instantly fixed.

Iranian Missile "In memory of the victims of Epstein Island"

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Big news! The City of Sacramento's 2025 housing production numbers are out and *significantly* beat expectations — up 14.7% over 2024 to 2,737 homes. sacramento.granicus.com/MetaViewer.p...

This is the warning on the blood pressure monitor my dad just got. Exceptional work. Anybody know what the fuck it’s supposed to mean? Last line is especially ominous

Remember the famed 1990s productivity boom? Post-covid era is now beating it. That includes nice wage increases, and an even higher rate of growth in the non-financial corporate sector. I continue to be surprised nobody cares about this, outside massive dorkwads.

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Instead of doing bad things I’d simply do good things rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

Pity the McDonalds marketing team that has to go back to the drawing board for this summer’s “Epic McFlurry” campaign.

began a long-term project today, to run an annual 5k in less than age/2 minutes. Anyway, made It this year in 20:22, which means I had more than a minute to spare.

Congress has appropriated the funds to NSF but OMB is delaying the release. When funds are released, NSF, which has lost almost 1/5 of its staff, will struggle to evaluate proposals. Since they have to award the funds, big projects with established PIs will benefit. This is how US science dies.

Press gave Biden far worse coverage for a small number of American soldiers dying while leaving a war than to Trump for a similar number dying while starting a war for no reason. It makes you think!

Saw my lifer burrowing owl today

Team mongolia gold medal at the 2026 Ice Alaska World Ice Art Championships Double Block. #icealaska #WIAC #worldiceartchampionships #icesculpture

HOW DARE THEY DO SUCH A THING?!

Oh my god you love to see it. And hell yeah Morgan Burgess. www.capradio.org/articles/202...

Milkshake puck

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

City officials say the corp’s abrupt change in position comes as a shock, and could derail the city’s timeline to get a long-term solution in place as soon as possible.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

House of Sam and Fozz

The Felt and the Furious

Statler and Waldorf go to White Castle

After a lifetime of classic cross country skiing, today was my first day on skate skis (and my first time waxing my skis – I’ve always believed in buying cheap skis and beating them to hell on rocks and branches). I’m surprised at how much shit I didn’t eat. It was fast and fun!

Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

It's ironic to see a discipline care **so much** about unbiasedness (causal inference!) at the level of a single test but then have a research production system and culture that is basically a ferocious bias generation machine. This is not good.

Got a 3-D printer and immediately printed a thicker foot to stabilize the 3-D printer.

They’ll be hearing from his father

From the land of "Thank you for your service."

Tet: offensive, rookie of the year

Was stretching in the back yard after my run and witnessed my dog slaughter three rats in five minutes, which doubles her lifetime tally. We are hoping that this empties out the crawlspace, where she’s been hearing them every 2am and waking us up with barking.

It's Elmo's birthday

Happy Alaska Marmot Day!