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I see a lot of slick Billy Crudup but the nose is wrong
Looks like that's what you can rent at Amazon. And, of course, there's always fanedit.org/the-shining-...
The Greatest
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*trying to reduce what universities do to a set of bullet points...number one...number one...Oh! Got it!* FUCK YOU INDUCTION!!!1!1!!!!!
Grew up close enough to Springfield, OH where it was common enough to see IH cars and trucks on the road long after they stopped production
btw that is an early 70s International Harvester Travelall 1010
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway." –Andrew Tanenbaum, 1981
Dropped this late last night, but math remains cool in the light of day
About time someone put the fun back into Nextdoor paranoia and warrantless FLOCK searches
More details on the Giuliani crash make it clear that there is a transdimensional wormhole on I-93 in New Hampshire www.concordmonitor.com/2025/08/31/r...
There is still a ton of math to do with small groups, rotations, efficiency, compactness, and on and on. It would be wonderful if the world made more space for us to socially care, if there were more room for "popular math magazines." Read Quanta; read Wired, I guess. www.wired.com/story/for-al...
And so, and so, you can now go to Alice Miller’s Breakout Room Allocation schedule Tool (BoRAT) and submit your problem—or even submit your email list, and, voila! Your optimized breakout schedule. breakoutroom.pythonanywhere.com/allocate/
Anyway, only when the occasion arose in force did a group really push for a solution. That occasion? Covid-driven zoom breakout rooms.
But quintets? Sextets? Get cracking. You could brute force it out, but generalization was elusive. It is *amazing* to me that there can be any unknown math involving things less than 100. But there are!
Solutions for three are called “Kirkman Triples” after the guy who sent in the problem to “popular math magazine” “Lady's and Gentleman's Diary” or "Steiner Triples" after the guy who solved it first. Golfers play in foursomes, so there are solutions for quartets.
Turns out this is a version of what is called the “Social Golfer Problem.” (Math people know this; I was learning as I went) In the literature it goes back to 1850 and started with 15 schoolgirls in groups of 3. There were some solutions; there was progress; there was no general algorithm.
Here is a nifty thing. Math is one of those disciplines where you never know what simple-sounding problems are “unsolved.” Say you want to introduce everyone to everyone else at a conference of 50 people in groups of 5. How many rounds do you need? How do you minimize the overlaps?
He and Cuomo can have a little contest
Discount Code FREESHIP
Oh, I don't think any of these people like each other. The KY/TN war will be bloody. I just want a world full of little guys.
Missed this a month ago. Chefia.
"These are the sorts of winners that Trump likes to have standing behind him, or laughing at his jokes. He hates them, of course, but that is true of everyone else in his orbit. If they know it, they know enough not to make a big deal out of it."
*blaring from a speakerphone loud enough to be heard across the cracked and broken limestone tiles of the former rose garden* ENOUGH WITH THE PROOF OF LIFE DEMANDS! DEPLOY THE GIULIANI COUNTERMEASURES!
erratum: "the Elision" should read "the LLision"—tr.
Thus Kant finds us propelled—our word has been thrown—and in thrownness we veil-in-ink the RAV4fold. We are the BLAckbridge that links and divides—that "Connecticuts" us to and from language. The to and the fro, the Aristotelian metapherien, the transporter. We are the metaphysical truckers.
What, indeed, lies trapped in that net? A blackness, a whiteness at once, which is to say, a squid [ein Tintenfisch, literally "inkfish"—tr.] A bridge between inkblack and squidwhite, a BLAckbridge [RAVensbrück—tr.] that means "you" toward the net of niceness and escape at once.
...thus the LLM elision (the Elision) of the copula in the imperative—"should still nice"—links the net of niceness [das Nett—tr.] to the unmeaning of meanness, to the inmost soul of meaning [Gemeinungseele—tr.] and thence to the four-wheel-drive fourfold—Martin Heidegger, "On the Tedeschi Truck"
National Guard mulching DC is the US version of the PLA coming out of the barracks to clean up after the HK uni protests.
I have now seen this awful pic enough that in addition to the horrifying tartar buildup (guy needs a gingivectomy) I want to know whether that's a Zyn between his cheek and gum
“I can just take life easy.” Toad went back to bed. He pulled the covers over his head and fell asleep
*and on the outside rail it's Ric Ocasek and Paulina Porizkova*
For me, the killer app was when I discovered I could do 2FA on it rather than dig my phone out of my pocket.
Lead Singer has enormous Bodega keyboard player energy
No, but the bathroom is *clean*
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, From ancient Gunckel break to new mutiny, Where RC cola makes IROC Z unclean.
This seems entirely right. I wrote about the sync b/t Telecom and the PSLRA—"safe harbor" language where corps don't have to mean the things they say for Jon Lewis drive.google.com/file/d/1xrYw...
I have taught the story, the US tv version and the Honda. I only wish Soderbergh had managed to make his version
It may not be exactly what you want but Matango is the greatest. High quality version on internet archive
The recruiting class is superb, the interim president is guaranteeing a better season, but like thenNiners the team will never succeed as long as they have to travel and play at dawn
You do not! (.. unless..?)
mfer said brug
Thom Brennaman
When it happens, this is how I’ll know
It’s just that Trump has been out of sight for a couple days and has no public events all weekend.
An entire timeline wishing on a monkey’s paw as if they haven’t even heard of JD Vance
"The damaged and secretly desperate people that squandered their optimistic youth, or betrayed it, or just sold it, are still in control." But enough about The Democrats...enjoy your long weekend! Go keep somebody safe! defector.com/seek-and-des...
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“They’re made out of meat”
There is a lot going on, but I won't pretend I can't still marvel at the scope of human ingenuity
“I Wanna Wander” from I love Melvin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Love_...
Flashbacks to when my office was adjacent to architecture and every term newbies would start cutting balsa wood without turning on the event, triggering the fire alarm.
Ah, the first days of the new semester. Long lines at the bookstore. Student orgs tabling in the quad. New STEM majors burning down the labs.
With the announcement that Ashli Babbitt will be interred with full military honors, it is clear that for the Trump administration the only bad cops are the ones that defended the Capitol on January 6. thehill.com/policy/defen...
At least they want humans to stay in charge and not the academic freedom version of MLB’s robo-ump
In other news USC’s academic freedom task force believes academic freedom is so important writing instructors have to teach differently dailytrojan.com/2025/08/28/u...
Put another way, it's as if someone made a real life version of AI-slop in an effort to align reality with the slop.
Any chance we can Fantastic Voyage Miss Frizzle and find a way to "mitochondrially challenge" RFK Jr? I would very much like my students to avoid long covid.
Listen all a y'all
Ryan was a diver, as it were
I prefer The Ed Zone www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-xz...
Got my New Day Rising shirt from @numerogroup.bsky.social today. Support your neighborhood indie label when you can!
The Ocampan Manual of Style, only no one knows how it was smuggled past the force barrier
If Peter Thiel read Foucault as a how-to manual, these guys are Marxists cashing in
A decade later and the Teen Roast participants are still legends in the O.C.
Watching the 4 o’clock games
This team is amazing. coffeecupsolutions.com/company/our-...
Is that a cat encircled and ensorcelled in blue?
If we can revivify Orson Welles to play Unicron as part of it, I'm in! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crn_...
The massive nostalgia for good brutalist architecture is utterly understandable. I love the stuff; I got to work in Art & Arch; I got to work in Corbu's Carpenter Center. The spaces are vivifying. But I'm glad I never had to take care of it.
Sure, the passage from parlor to patio in a brutalist estate is elegant and open. Rowley Way is how social housing might aspire to greatness. Robin Hood Gardens was targeted, couldn't adapt, was loved and hated, and was bulldozed.
What is true for monumental buildings—departments, libraries, museums, Boston City Hall—is even more true of domestic spaces. Bathrooms, kitchens, HVAC, glazing: often far beyond what homeowners can expect to maintain. Also, wifi and cell service sucks inside.
When they finally decided to bring it back to its original glory, Gwathmey essentially bolted a whole 'nother building onto it to contain the service core—new HVAC, elevators, fire. Not exactly elegant!
For years, the Yale A&A was allowed to deteriorate with drop ceilings, false sheetrock walls, cobbled conduit—because there wasn't money or time to do it right.
But when a brutalist building needs care, things get very difficult and very expensive. HVAC is a nightmare. Recabling to upgrade wiring or load in better comms is concussive and pricey. A leaky window or *anything* that pivots? So much artisanal work.
The virtues of the concrete—clarity, commitment, low maintenance, openness when done right, texture when desired—are heightened by the right sort of textiles, as in the lecture hall in Rudolph's Yale Art & Arch
This image of the wonderful light and geometry of Habitat 67 gets at much of what I love about brutalism, and much of what I resist about it. Short version: brutalist buildings can't learn in the ways that Stuart Brand said buildings should.
And than mine! When Albert settles down to figure out why someone is loathsome, clarity usually ensues. defector.com/james-dobson...
I think that's right, and meshes neatly with this bsky.app/profile/jdco...
Cali still got it
Calling @programme4.tv
Proposed 131–unit affordable housing project in Studio City. Can be easily converted into a staging area for when the Soylent Green euthanasia center has a backlog.
That Anspach performance really sneaks up you.
lol that the McKinseyite word "stakeholders" is anathema
Instead of Microsoft Azure, why not try Macrohard's Prussian Blue?
My giant yard skeleton is gonna cost how much?
One of the solid Chomsky bits was to cite WSJ economic news reportage because, as he saw it, whatever nonsense the capitalist class dispensed at election time they had to tell themselves the truth about money. How's that looking?
Did we not learn our lesson with the 4/4 Mission Impossible theme? www.youtube.com/watch?v=utn3...
Sure, but the disclosure "This reporter's trip to the Nürburgring to drive the new BMW was paid for by BMW" is legible to all. "Winnie slipped me a couple hundred bucks to write say nice things about Eric" has never been seen in print.
"Fuck Everything. We're doing 6 GPTs." finance.yahoo.com/news/openai-...
Please don’t put in the news that I bribed a reporter
The Maaco Era: Musk Almost Always Chickens Out (apologies for liberal cringe here)
The Maaco Era: Musk Almost Always Chickens Out (apologies for liberal cringe here)
