I have internet in my office but still do not have an ID badge, and the person in charge of this has stopped responding to my emails.

i am going to be like one of those catatonic alzheimers patients you just set in front of a piano and they just start playing. 89 years old and essentially catatonic until someone hands me a smartphone and i start typing everything i know about twitter beefs from 2014.

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

The idea that electoral outcomes are sometimes very high variance is extremely threatening to a model of politics that suggests that the optimal strategy is reducing how much you do when you're in power to increase your mean outcome in elections slightly

born too late for high modernism. born too early for psychohistory. born just in time to watch bureaucratic rationality collapse before my eyes.

H1B thing is just example 486 of how republicans can't deal with Real Problems. The system is flawed, it is a Real Problem. They are not interested in reform to do things like streamline the process and reduce the potential for fraud, they are interested in being racist to Indians.

Is there a European / Italian equivalent of Wirecutter? I'm genuinely at a loss for how to buy things here.

feeling a lot of solidarity with the Bay Area right now (got woken up by a thunderstorm this morning)

lawl

oh my god is this the "domain knowledge is fake and you can learn anything in a week" guy?

Everyone involved in this needs to stand trial for crimes again humanity

I entered the Biden era making 36k/yr, and left it making 50k because the Biden NLRB let us form a union.

im tired of pretending these people are my equals, we tried letting them live their gross, inbred little lives in peace and they keep tryinf to kill us anyway oppress the yokels tbh

box of white cheddar Cheez-Its. the spicy ones are also acceptable.

Would be nice to see fewer new think tanks centered on tweaking election messaging, and more centered on deterrence strategies for things Republicans might try to do Basically, I want a woke RAND Corporation.

rip umberto eco, you would have loved guys typing stuff in to a chat bot and promptly going insane from reading the output.

“Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man, in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting.” Meta has 100% stopped even *pretending* not to be astoundingly evil. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Genuinely shocking that Friends tops this list while Seinfeld doesn't appear once. Did it not get syndicated over there, or does the UK just have bad preferences?

Any emacs / font experts want to chime in? emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/85...

There's reasonable arguments the US flag *could* be seen as a symbol of oppression by marginalized groups in the US. However! Empirically, most members of those groups *don't* perceive it that way, which is what matters in the context of like, whether people flying the flag at protests is a problem

a protest is a communicative act both between protesters, allowing for further organization, and a communicative act to the government, demonstrating numbers.

figured out the normalization error in our code, but in the process I discovered we're using the wrong sign convention for a really important variable and have to rewrite the draft lmao

Apparently huge swaths of America never inoculated themselves by hanging out on tumblr and watching these people crash out in insane ways

man, I wish I were better at learning languages

I’d like to live in a pleasant social democracy where we all hold hands and sing kumbaya but it’s increasingly looking like the options are an empire of them or us, and the thing is, I like us better. Someone please convince me we can still have a true republic.

this would be a hilarious bit, if it came from anyone who could plausibly deny that it's true

In unions we don't expect everyone to participate and that's fine at the end of the day, but when you go from "no thanks" to actively trying to undermine organizing efforts, we always recognize that as doing the boss' bidding

For scale, if you assume all students/faculty/staff are high-propensity D voters, Wyoming, Montana, and the Dakotas are roughly 2 Berkeleys away from being swing states. Kansas and Nebraska are 3-4, and Idaho is around 5.

whose idea was the new system font in Android 16? and why are they still employed???

anyone else find it annoying that the original post is "...those with THE eyes to see", so it's not *quite* an iambic heptameter?

The app doesn't hate you, neither does it love you, but your life is made of moments that it can use for something else.

I would like us to be able to live in a pluralistic society where people with conservative or retrograde views of the world can live in peace and security, and within their own homes and voluntaristic communities, do their own stupid shit. But the enemy has a vote and they don't want that.

checking the boxes for "i want an operator's license for an experimental light water reactor," "i want a USDA inspection of my hide and fur processing facility," and "i want to get a new social security card" and filling out the appropriate sections. i will spend the rest of my life writing "n/a."

i have written a single form which governs every interaction a person might have with the government by concatenating every form the government produces into a PDF 1.3 petabytes in size

Considering drinks makes this way harder, because the gold, red, and teal* regions don't grow coffee. So I'm going: Blue > Pink > Brown > Purple > Teal > Gold = Green > Red *Thailand and Cambodia grow robusta, but you might as well switch to caffeine pills at that point

Teal > Purple > Blue > Brown > Pink > Gold > Red > Green But if I still ate meat, probably Teal > Pink > Gold > Purple > Blue > Red > Brown > Green

Choosing violence! On the LearnedLeague forums

"Don't sign up for a protest" is a thing to think about if you're planning to do illegal shit. Putting your name and email on a mass, planned, permitted demonstration is a zero marginal risk if you are already politically involved, and a de minimis risk if you're not.

so, as I understand it, there are basically 5 types of physics internet personalities: - anti-string-theory (far right) - anti-string-theory (reactionary centrist) - anti-string-theory (progressive) - anti-string-theory (radical left) - Sean Carroll

Good morning to the triple deckers of New Haven. May they be legal to build everywhere.

In what world would you want to thirst trap or go for any of the three types of people On Here 1) Margaret, 61, full name and face, reposts blueanon slop 2) Steve Seriousson, 46, academic, dry but insightful 3) Gargle Margz 🍸🇵🇸, 28, patently insane, niche interest published to substack biannually

this is so dumb as to be beneath commenting on, but very bluntly: the entire point of protesting is to be visible. if you are afraid of being visible, you should not do it. if you are complaining about how visible it is, congratulations, that's more visible than protesting.

tbh "DEI for libs in police" has a better justification for it than conservatives in academia

motte: hire more people whose priors will in ambiguous situations make them more resistant to making the assumptions most academics would, for the overall epistemological health of the academy bailey: hire hacks who preach demonstrably untrue things (2020 election stolen, climate change not real)

Gonna suspend full judgement unless I can actually read the piece. But again, most university departments are *as conservative as you would naively expect, conditional on the faculty being good at their jobs!*

I am now starting to suspect that people doom posting themselves into saying it doesn't matter that Trump is wildly unpopular because he is going to do a dictatorship are themselves an op. Dictatorships aren't stable by magic, they need people to buy in and go along with them. This matters.

I love to book a flight with one, normal airline and then find out that the actual plane is operated by some firm called "Pepsi presents Jazz blue red express airways"

would be cool if bluesky let you flag some of your posts as "ex cathedra"

The iterated prisoner's dilemma is not *literally* a skeleton key to understanding all of politics, but it's pretty fucking close!

i think a lot of american political institutions have, in years of plenty and peace, have become cargo cults that no longer understand the rituals they are suppose to perform and that there are actually costs to upholding your values