I have a couple of Covid-era T-shirts and the sizes are INSANELY wrong. Like they just had a bunch of tags and sewed random ones in. Now they’re mostly only off by 1 size, but who knows which direction.
I occasionally take pictures, sometimes of cats or moss, and I spend a lot of time professionally thinking about what things mean.
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I have a couple of Covid-era T-shirts and the sizes are INSANELY wrong. Like they just had a bunch of tags and sewed random ones in. Now they’re mostly only off by 1 size, but who knows which direction.
I’d love to learn more about this, but I’m not sure what to search for. Can you help me out?
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The Republican Congress is going to try to rewrite the history of RFK Jr.’s confirmation as HHS Secretary. “We didn’t know” “Nobody told us” “He promised he wouldn’t…” This thread will be about the warnings from thousands of scientists and HCW who loudly and publicly opposed his confirmation.
Gorgeous! I haven’t done hydroponics since my high school science fair project. I planted a Rosa Bianca eggplant this year, and the first one was almost completely white (and very delicious). I might need to find those little teeny guys for next year.
In and of themselves? Doubt it, it’s pretty exactly the same thing he was speaking about in the OP quote. The way people are treating them as if they are something magical and actually “intelligent”, whatever that means? Sure. Which was my original point.
At what, exactly? What, specifically, are the objects of astonish and horrify?
I suspect he would not be surprised, except to, perhaps, be disappointed.
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Wait, wat?
This. It seems pretty clear that it’s all a mish-mash of various agendas that they’ve each been told they can go ahead with, as long as they stay out of the way of whatever the grift of the day is. Clearly a lot of chaos that will, at some point, become direct infighting.
The Magna Carta, written 1215, was made possible by WASPS. Although they weren't consulted on the content of the founding document for universal legal rights, it was the wasps that made the ink used for writing & signing. Let's talk about oak gall ink.
Fun thread!
But consequently, we don’t really have black currant flavored anything. Zante currants (the raisins) are available, but not very known, at least not where I’ve lived. (Upper Midwest, Florida, NYC, DC, California, and New England.)
Red currants are native to Europe, too, though, and my German grandmother grew them. They’re members of the same genus as black currants and gooseberries, Ribes. It’s still illegal to grow any them in my town (dammit) in Massachusetts, but many other places have removed the restrictions.
Finally a use for… wait, still not it
And I saw the parents speak for about 30 seconds and was, like, “OH.”
I think you’re both looking at different sides of the problem in good faith - how do we prevent potential deaths in front of us today and how do we fix the systemic problems that are creating the potential of deaths. Two legal and regulatory solutions to two problems, not one.
More accurate than “no mail from Japan!!! Or Germany!!!!!” I’ve seen going around. Is it bad? Duh. Is exaggerating good? NO. Stop it.
Judge Xinis: Your clients are *absolutely forbidden* from removing Mr. Abrego from the continental United States. You understand this? DOJ: Yes.
True in SO MANY contexts.
We need to know what humans do before we argue that machines can do it just the same. There can’t be AI literacy without a literacy in being human: how we make meaning in work and life, distinguishing the artificial from the imaginary from the true. mail.cyberneticforests.com/human-litera...
Cute.
Steve Shirley escaped the Holocaust as a child & went on to found one of the earliest software startups. The really impressive part? She employed women programmers who had been pushed out of the workforce after having kids, & allowed them flexible, family friendly, work from home jobs—in the 1960s!
The light is awful when thunderstorms roll in—except on a Costa’s hummingbird. That’s when his gorget feathers turn electric. #birdsky
They will likely promote explicitly violating accessible design principles, I expect. Because accessibility is woke.
Then stopping clean energy from being built is an actual national security concern.
It’s cooked lime.
But the content is pure 80s. And the play is 1983.
Glengarry Glen Ross would do it much more efficiently.
Small cat, enjoying the sun. She’s been very upset about the cool temperatures this week.
I’m perfectly fine with accepting her *claim* at face value, I just think her judgment of “inappropriate” is wildly, abhorrently off.
Moment of zen.
Sure, most elected Dems don't use a lot of these words, but that — in no way — means that Dems shouldn't use them if they are the right words for their conversations and their audience. This is about leadership and, unsurprisingly, the Third Way's approach is leading from behind and compromising.
I thought Naming the Dead was a good counterpoint to the standard true crime show — cops who worked very hard to identify Jane / John Does, regardless of the victim’s perceived status or attributes, because everyone deserves dignity. (Some may still be terrible in other circumstances, of course.)
into her late 70s. And that was with a lot of improvements to sanitation and labor-saving technology. I don’t know how my mom survived the 1970s with four kids (4, 5 1/2, 7, and 8 in 1976), living 12 miles from town. Anyway, she told me to never marry a farmer.
I grew up on a dairy farm. I don’t exactly *not* recommend, as technology has made a LOT of progress, but it is 365 days a year, morning and evening. Rural life in 1933 before they had electricity or even a car? Absolutely no. My dad almost died multiple times. My grandmother worked 12 hrs/day
It looks like old timey Kraft labeling. Like 20s or 30s packaging design.
Dinner: chef salad and flaky buttermilk biscuits.
And the apple strudel has raisins, no coconut.
Huh. I am neither Czech nor Texan, and that’s both new and weird. It reminds me, though, of an old community cookbook that both my grandmother and aunts* contributed to, with recipes that have clear origins from the late 1800s to 1960s, based on the ingredients called for. *German Wisconsinites
Not least because it will not be up to code or safe for human occupation.
I wonder how long until Hegseth scrubs this and similar articles? www.quantico.marines.mil/News/News-Ar...
So we should focus on the progress, but also there’s a lack of progress we shouldn’t focus on. Sounds a lot like “these Black people should shut up and be happy I’m not allowed to own them like I’d like to, hey don’t make me feel bad about how I feel, that’s oppression”.
The head of the Italian Bishops’ Conference took turns with dozens of other members of his diocese reading the names and ages of the 16 Israeli children and the 12,211 Palestinian children who have been killed in the war.
New developments in the AI-ificaiton of the US government. In my view these are further steps toward building an evil computer that auto-funnels your tax dollars directly to the broligarchy. You be the judge. Here's the evidence 🧵
Love it when the “Criticisms & Controversies” section of the Wikipedia page is 5x the length of the rest of the article.
?? If it weren’t, it would just be a list or bar chart. The visual organization now is more confusing than helpful.
Better that than a Word table, though, the most cursed MS Office object.
It’s also a horrific representation of state spatial relationships.
Good to know 1926 recognized butter on crackers as a superior snack.
Spaghetti and fish sticks is also very common in Catholic areas.
Depends on jurisdiction. Some states have good consumer and privacy protections, some less.
It’s worrisome that even local advocates are responding with debates about effective crime prevention strategies - important to discuss of course. But not responsive to Trump’s capricious power grab.
I don't know why this lad is building a subterranean city for cats, but I'm all for it.
My boss (for certain values, thank God) responds to things like “yeah, I finished the edit of that doc just now, as I said I would” with things like “Amazing!” and this has the same vibe.
There seems to be an increasing inability to pull together the disparate pieces and make sense of them in such a way that people unfamiliar with the domain can engage and learn from them.
I see something parallel in my field, with an increasing inability to extrapolate a solution from a set of use cases that are overlapping to demonstrate aspects of the scope of the problem. There’s a similar inability to write a narrative business document — all facts, no story.
This is the kind of document I love: cites.org/sites/defaul...
I have gone down the rabbit hole of exotic woods that are good for musical instruments and there are so many and they are (mostly) all so endangered. And there is a CRAZY black market. And traveling internationally with certain instruments is difficult because of that.
(Trying to redirect a true crime acquaintance to that way of engaging - cops might assume a murder victim is a prostitute or a “transient”, but they also assume they deserve dignity as much as anyone else.)
Although National Geographic has a new one that might be overall Good? Using genetic genealogy to identify Jane/John Does. Cops who see victims of crime as first and foremost people, stories about reuniting splintered families & communities. Incidentally, one serial killer.
As long as you include the TV shows in that.
Much like gAI, a lot of the danger is in assuming the underlying data is comprehensive and accurate. (I have a lot of additional opinions on Palantir. Maybe I’ll write them up someday.)
since Trump is instructing federal law enforcement to besiege D.C. bc of purported crime reasons, let's review this piece I wrote in June about how he keeps trying to legally justify his fascist bullshit by pointing to nonexistent 'emergencies' ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...
Almost 30 years for me, and yes. This stuff is the result of not listening to the data people, too. It’s abuse of data, when the data itself isn’t already.
Also-also, I am tempted to go on my rant about how treating the real estate a business requires as a totally separate asset from the business itself is Bad, Actually, and one of the things that makes PE and consequences of estate law worse.
I was agreeing and riffing a bit. More “yes, and one thing we need to stop doing is using the “family farm” to paper-over how inheritance law is putting the thumb on the scale in bad ways” and think through what is fair. Leaving things to your kids is fine, fam legacy is fine. Scale can make it bad.
*plus some nuance from Family Drama. My dad got the short end of the stick in his family in many ways, but the general inheritance scheme was fine.
Anyway, family farms have become so scarce they’re a terrible proxy for inheritance policy, but they do drive a lot of nostalgia-infected policy positions!
Primogeniture (or modified to a pick-one-inheritor-to-keep-the-business-intact variant) is a driver of some very bad outcomes, in societal, business, and familial terms.
I have one those names, and come from a tradition where all the children inherit equally and if one is taking over the business, they buy the others out. (My dad bought the family farm from his parents. When they died, he bought his siblings out of their share of the remaining balance*.)
That rift forming between it and New Jefst is a bit concerning, though.
That was our thought.
Worse because some are referencing racist epithets.
I grew up on a dairy farm and can attest to this. (Not our farm, but we knew of several who were absolutely appalling. One was banned by from several creameries. Kraft even rejected them! When he finally lost the farm, he ended up running a Christian summer camp.)
No, but I did once argue a 13-point story down to an 8. Sadly, it should’ve been a 1. (It was changing a link in the website footer, which shouldn’t have required a JIRA story at all, but no one could figure out where it lived.)
Add: my mom was also a great parent for me and my brothers, all of us little weirdos. Just accepting that kids are people and people are weird and inscrutable and autonomous and you have to teach them. Lots of other trauma — the universe doesn’t care about what physics affects + societal sexism.
And it worked, but we were white and read as middle class. I wonder if any of the Black families (or even poor white ones) even attempted that. Which is a total tangent from yours, but just affirming that hitting kids is bad, and adding that some parents of Gen X kids knew that very well.
My parents were shocked and appalled when we moved to Florida (from Wisconsin, no corporal punishment allowed) in the 80s and the high school had corporal punishment. My mom went in and made them put in our records that under NO CIRCUMSTANCES was anyone to touch any of us.
I got spanked in VERY limited circumstances - doing something physically dangerous as a toddler, before my parents could have a conversation where they knew I understood. It was explicitly about attention and focus on the lesson. (Yes, there are better ways. It was the tool they had.)
Apparently, I tested ‘genius’ in 8th grade, and the vice principal was super excited to talk to my mom about it and she wanted absolutely nothing to do with it and wouldn’t tell me what it was about. She was a very smart lady. Well, she also wanted nothing to do with being a ‘lady’. She was awesome.
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Before you see a hundred or so posts saying that Texas has issued arrest warrants for the absent Dem legislators, you should be aware that they are civil warrants issued by the House that are not effective outside the state www.texastribune.org/2025/08/04/t...
Semantic value is overrated. Especially if it breaks my disruption of a process with disruption.
The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.
Is this better or worse than me, at the same age and situation, have to listen to the TEACHER say, “what’s the matter with you boys, letting a GIRL beat you?” I’m guessing it was about 10 years earlier than your experience, so I guess that’s progress.
Please enjoy this Klimt Eastwood
Guilt, I suspect. He thinks that he should have “accepted god’s will” and let his child die - he failed a test. So now he’s going to prevent other people from failing their own tests. There is a lot of this kind of incredibly f’d up thinking in certain strains of evangelicalism.
More #CowsAtTheMuseum
Now with better hashtag. #CowsAtTheMuseum
New Bedford Whaling Museum has more cows than expected. #CowsAtTheMiseum
Those are consultants, not even data bros.
MAYBE pickled fruits.
Bread is blasphemy! Only crackers, pickled vegetables, and dried fruit belong on the board!
I know? It’s a rhetorical device that can be roughly translated as “some people have clearly gone feral and do not know how to act anymore”. (Also, these particular people are likely quite affluent but don’t think of themselves as wealthy, even though they are.)
Costco used to have hand cranked onion choppers at their condiment station. It was glorious.