in keeping with "in the us, a hundred years is a long time, in the uk, a hundred miles is a long distance", in steamed hams one joke is that utica and albany are culturally similar enough that it would be absurd for regional slang to occur in one but not another, but albany and utica are about […]

more delilo most photographed barns from me. idk if it's like walter benjamin style "work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" aura or what but you do feel a like psychic compulsion to take these pictures alongside several dozen of your compatriots doing the same thing

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the tessellated swan wall and I thought well as well him as another

inadvertently duplicative words in loan words that i think are reasonable usage, by category: generic terms in other languages that have become specific in english: "banh mi bread" "chai tea" definite articles where it's awkward not to supplement with the english definite article "i'd like to […]

while i think most people understand that prefacing a post with various flavors of "um, actually" is annoying, i think there is still a huge number of posts where the "um, actually" is still there in a real, spiritual, sense, even if it has been excised from the text.

i understand that the chains of power are corrosive and corrupting for both the ruler and the subject, and that we should be building towards a non-hierarchical mode of being in which human agency and dignity are preserved through mutual caregiving, but just once it would be fun to shout "guards […]

just did such a bad job writing a sentence that i had to edit almost every single word in it in order to make it make sense, gonna call it on posting for the day

now that my academic writing deadline is over i can return to my non-academic writing drafts, and it's pretty rough. i got two half-finished "lacanian anime analyses" and one half-finished "rethinking data science pedagogy", topics that i assume my younger self would have assumed i would write […]

i gotta stop timing things so the only time when i have things to plug is during double xp posting events

[uspol] apropos of nothing on this, the 11th of september, but remember when trump released a bunch of poorly redacted "jfk files" that, among other things, revealed that the CIA was actively engaged in attempting to sabotage and overthrow the chilean government […] [Original post on jorts.horse]

learned that jorts.horse is apparently blocked on eduroam

here's a preprint of the unhinged paper i wrote with @lane we stop just short of saying that the unthinking use of frequentist statistics puts your very soul at hazard https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08213

from now on when people ask me about 3d pie charts i'll say "oh, you mean the nazi data visualization? no thanks" https://www.chartography.net/p/when-fascists-chart?r=qheuw

i evaluate tarot decks the normal way: immediately going to see what the Tower and the Moon look like

I also picked up this beautiful 1869 bird book that not only hates parrots but seemingly implies that they speak with the voices of the dead

i try not to get political on here but i think new chevrolet in flames should have been on tallahassee rather than being relegated to a rejected b-sides ep

illustrated children's book called "tyrone slothrop's big rocket adventure"

mourn ya til i join ya, buddy

The incredible power of not going on the computer

it's a precarious balance that will be upset at any moment but i finally got my youtube recommendations how i want them (1/3 recipes for braised daikon, 1/3 documentaries about kowloon walled city, 1/3 folk music)

whenever the library closes for federal holidays it also padlocks and closes the material drop off slot, which i don't 100% understand, like isn't the whole point of it to have a place to drop books when the library is otherwise closed?

"what's in the box?" [bene gesserit voice]: "ennui" "a bored animal trapped in an enclosure will sleep and eat and occasionally play with its enrichment toys. what will you do, i wonder?"

Found him

raymond chandler once said, to writers of pulps, "When in doubt have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand." but what he actually meant was "When in doubt have Brian Blessed yell 'hawkmen... diiiiivvvvee' and then attack the War Rocket Ajax"

if i didn't have the evidence of my senses i would assume that "dale arden" is not the name of flash gordon's true love, but was instead the name of a guy who sells pre-owned chevrolets to the tri-county area

pronouncing kayfabe like "caffabé"

i know multiple CS professors who have MFAs. i also know multiple CS professors who were very active on AO3. what i am proposing is a sort of "paper-writing thunderdome" that will either save academic writing, or mercifully destroy it forever.

i spent saturday cooking while they got linux working on a new laptop, which is my ideal division of labor

ah fuck they are gamifying google scholar (more than it already was), leading to the grim future of an any% google scholar speedrun

the trillions of cells in the human body are all engaged in an intricate ballet of almost unimaginable complexity in order to continue the operation of a machine that, at the highest level of description, turns food into partially remembered mountain goats lyrics

new babysitter, talking to parents: "yeah, the kids went to sleep on time, but the life size statue of watto is creeping me out, can i cover it up?" parents: "take the children and call the police immediately! we don't own a statue of watto!"

i cancelled all my meetings today and went to convene with the 40 foot egrets instead

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the main species of things in wplace appear to be: flags (national, pride, combinations thereof) anime characters undertale characters and i don't know what that says with respect to the collective unconscious and how we make use of the infinite blank canvas of imagination. it's probably fine […]

we were discussing this w/r/t the narcissism of small differences but the more i think about it the more the devon way seems obviously correct.

Joseph Joestar, smugly: Your next line will be "ah, this 'Stand' power, which is merely a projection of the self, but which is embodied with independent thought and action and so on, we think here of the Lacanian 'little other'" Slavoj Žižek, about to lose a fist fight very decisively: Ah, this […]

My wife made a replica of a pompeii mosaic out of beans and sent it in to the minnesota state fair ❤️

say what you will about the educational system but they really got my number with that "needs improvement" grade for "self control" on my kindergarten report card

partially my own doing i know but one thing i dislike about the Great Splintering of academic social media is that i don't get the dopamine hit of "oh i liked what you wrote" as often, and i apparently need a very precisely calibrated reward schedule so i don't get either too conceited or too […]

i already made the "food court de mata ashita but it's dinner with andre and wada is wallace shawn" joke so now i've moved on to "food court de mata ashita but wada is sheriff ed tom bell from no country for old men"

one of the podcast ads I get now starts with "we're drawn to nature, whether it's the recorded sounds of the ocean we doze off to, or the succulents that adorn our homes" and it's the most intensely dystopian sentence i can imagine. the shit a YA protagonist says after coming of age in a […]

CHORUS Lo, yonder the king himself draws near, bearing that which tells too clear a tale,—the work of no stranger's madness,—if we may say it,—but of his own misdeeds.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328487 i'm in the wrong line of research

obviously nowhere near the biggest threat to the Creative Arts these days, but i think that, in the future, the tv tropes website will be seen as the equivalent of leaded gasoline and asbestos and radium water as a "it was a mistake to let this brain poison into our lives and it will take […]

[food, dreams] had a very vivid dream of a bakery serving what i can only term "dessert kimbap", which were crepes (in this case a chocolate crepe and a matcha crepe) covered with chocolate whipped cream and strawberries, and then rolled up like and cut into bite-sized sushi-like bits.

how it's going update: i was going to suggest making pasta puttanesca for dinner since i was sure we had a couple of big jars of olives and capers, only to realize that i had in fact only seen those jars in the dream i had last night where i guess i was organizing the pantry.

spent a chunk of today making biblically accurate error bars

is being an adult just eating tupperware containers of salad for lunch, forever

do you think people who are in obvious allegories like Pilgrim's Progress or The Magic Flute ever cotton on to the fact that they are in living in obvious allegories. like do they go "gotta head by the Cliffs of Prudence to pick up the laundry, will be back to have supper before the Scarab of […]