Elizabeth Economy is, I assume, the Secretary of the Treasury in Jennifer Government
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Elizabeth Economy is, I assume, the Secretary of the Treasury in Jennifer Government
...mofo said "sky martini" damn it's too early
The alt text description of Atomic Habits as "feminist literature" has me actually wheezing this morning, thank you Sky Martini
I dunno why that's the name they went with for tvorog, which is a staple in Eastern Europe. Like cottage cheese, but less sort and often more...granular. Great base for things, similar to how Greek yogurt is used.
Perhaps he is differentiating between ethnic Kazakhs and citizens of Kazakhstan, a significant plurality of whom are ethnic Russians and other formerly Soviet nationalities. If so, he is indisputably a Russian asset and must be arrested and yeeted into the sun at once.
What about the people who do understand it but pretend they don't? Asking for a New Republican...
Bezos is trying to supplant Musk as the Ur Oligarch, so you can count on the Post continuing to serve up Musk-critical content
I like my mad libs bots like I like my indivisible stochastic processes: non-Markovian
This also works for Bill Belichick
Preview of the announcement:
Writing Camp of the Saints but you keep getting distracted by drawing the S over and over again
She is beauty she is grace She's concrete with a crushed stone face
It's especially forgiving to water, which it gives carte blanche to intrude into the interior
🎶 I'm never gonna punt again Tarred heels have got no rhythm Though it's easy to pretend I know Bill's out of fuel 🎶
I automatically read this as "a Prince of Petworth level" and now I either have to bleach my brain or learn how to code games
Don't forget the next interim head coach of UNC
I'm sorry, "dog control should be a power held by the parliaments" is objectively one of the funniest things ever written on this series of tubes
If it weren't for football, they'd have closed most of the colleges in red states already
That was a mass conscript army in a period when there were far fewer exemptions/other methods of avoidance than in the contemporary Russian army, so even the bases in Russia proper (and Crimea) were designed for way more servicemen than exist today.
It's sort of a retconned strategy that was bootstrapped after the attempted Rick & Mortying of Kiev ("Let's go. In and Out. Twenty minute adventure") didnt work out, but they have convinced themselves they can outlast the decadent West in this slow burn, and in the meantime it has political benefits
They could do that in the sense that the resources do exist in-country to do that, but they cannot do it in the sense that it is seen as too large a political risk bsky.app/profile/opul...
Right, that reserve is not meant to - and cannot - deploy whole hog as a unified operational element.
As Prussian Daddy taught us, military considerations are subordinate to, and exist to serve, political ones. Putin needs the war to remain below the threshold at which it becomes inescapably intrusive and demanding upon his key constituencies, and that applies to economic resources as well as human.
A bunch of overbuild, decrepit Cold War era bases where 85% of the items of value were stripped and sold off during the 90s. You could hypothetically warehouse a mass mobilized army there, but good luck doing any RSOI
Occupational hazard of being a legal journalist. It can't all be covering which group of partners is running off with their book of business to start a new form where they can behave as bad as they wanna be 😭
My father-in-law is a VDV commander. It is difficult to get his attention in a magnificent war because he is lost in wonder. We were in Abkhazia together years ago and I asked him what it would cost to invade it today. I will never forget his answer… 'We can’t, we don’t know how to do it.'"
Shirt version is: they don't have the materiel and logistical operation for that.
Posse Comitatus doesn't apply to National Guard in Title 32 status, and DC's non-statehood means the Feds can just invite other Guards on in. It's very annoying.
One interesting dynamic that I'm personally experiencing is that on the one hand, like a lot of people in DC, I'm pretty desensitized to being surrounded by armed personnel of military & non-military varieties. On the other hand, that just means I'm that much more cognizant of how outrageous this is
People kept clamoring for 'the Joe Rogan of the left' - well, here she be
Dudes Posting Their W's, Level Infinity @dudespostingws.bsky.social
Now, I loved a Gatsby Arrow as much as the next Booeybuyer, but what truly made the Georgetown one an institution was the combo of radically cheap (for the neighborhood) pitchers of beer and the people watching available from the outdoor seating (plus the, ah, loose ID enforcement for non-buyers)
An important point for everyone who thinks we can just Glonzo our way into a trifecta through anything and everything (and then what?)
Not to be confused with the Other Kevin Kelly FCS Experiment, which was also mostly a fun time for fans of other Patriot League teams guhoyas.com/news/2014/1/...
It's funny because this display is in a part of the Thompson Athletic Center that only student-athletes and staff go by, so most students/faculty/alums never learn THE TERRIBLE TRUTH
Can't be overrated if nobody rates you
With vastly inferior locations in Friendship Heights and Ballston
That's the apocryphal explanation that we all swear by, but it was probably just a made up yell, as was the style at the time
Transmissionsubstantiation
Please no, we don't need either Ryan Day or Sark becoming a United States Senator
When you ask Mississippi State why they're playing Southern Miss in Hattiesbrug.
The tendency toward never digging even a millimeter under the surface of anything that validates your reflexive response is so widespread & yet so particularly damaging as the level of systemic complexity rises that it explains a large percentage of Why We Are So Cooked on all parts of the spectrum.
This is as good an example as any of how misperception (not to say misinformation) spreads. The average skeeter is reading this and assuming this is some cockamamie embezzlement scheme Trump cooked up, rather than an established program whose most recent iteration under Biden was twice as big.
If it makes you feel any better, Georgetown was definitely the best 0-2 team in the country coming in
Oops WHMO has all been reassigned to mulching and edging duty
Army needs to bring back woke and LGBTQ+ Lotsa Good Blocking, Tackling and Quarterbacking + not losing to an FCS team
Taco Bell is a brand that believes in Living AI. You are all examples of the Live AI mentality.
BUILD THE ROSSLYN-GEORGETOWN GONDOLA MCCOURT DADDY
Eh, I think you got there when you more or less said that the understanding of information in physics is different from information in a computer or a book. That's correct, those are different understandings (although on some level even the computer/book info has to be reducible to physical reality)
It's a major ongoing discussion in physics, e.g., philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/18...
There is no difference between the two in physics, for a microstate (or anything) only exists if it is measurable. This is why we say that quantum particles literally do not have a specific location until a measurement collapses their wave function. A measure is not the same thing as a measure*ment*
Yes, QFT is a map that says that in the terrain, information (like mass/energy) is conserved and cannot be destroyed. Hence the Black Hole Information Paradox that led to the discovery of Hawking radiation
"measure" in physics does not imply the existence of a human or consciousness, e.g., a measurement in the quantum mechanical sense does not require a living observer. Standard physics is not solipsistic.
like when QFT says that information cannot be destroyed, they mean the terrain, not the map
Yeah, what I'm saying is the standard understanding in physics is that information is as close to "the terrain" as is accessible in any sort of dispositive way, because everything is an arrangement of microstates and therefore everything is "information" (which is not the same thing as "knowledge")
I suppose one could interpret Constructor Theory, which I am quite fond of, to say that the entire universe is ultimately reducible to TRUE/FALSE statements, not yeah that's obviously not the same thing as digitizing something into our concept of binary code
Yes, I would agree with all of that in full
This is a long-standing epistemological debate - can we definitely say anything at all about 'reality' or is it all just mathematical models. Most physicists accept that there is no ultimately authoritative God's Eye view of reality, so it's all models all the way down.
Sure, that article talks about humans when you don't actually need humans, they likely figured most readers needed it put in human terms
While there is no single accepted definition, and the division between classical and quantum creates its own distinctions, generally speaking information is a measure of the number of microstates of a system, i.e., of differentiation of physical states.
Are you looking for an explainer type overview or foundational texts or...?
I understand what you and @kh0rish.bsky.social are saying here, but this is not how modern physicists understand the concept of "information." You are welcome to disagree with them, of course.
This is just "if a tree falls and there's no one around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Sound waves are physical, sound is a type of information physically encoded by things with 'ears' and auditory processing functions
The encoding and decoding done by humans are themselves physical processes
I do land in the camp of believing that information *is* real in the sense that it is all encoded through some physical manifestation. The files literally are inside the computer, though not in the way most people think about it
On one level it's obviously correct on another it's absurd bigthink.com/surprising-s...
Alternatively - it's all information
Stephen Miller is known to be obsessed with OPT and CPT. Also, under Trump 1, some of the legacy data issues with how SEVIS captured those statuses led to him badly misunderstanding how many of those folks were actually in the U.S.
It's NIMBYism that is somehow simultaneously hard-r and non-rhotic r
The biggest retroactive rationalization was the construct by which one can make just about anything antisocial one wants to do "punching up" & therefore objectively good. You might think that telling Pete Buttigieg he's a child trafficker & deserves to die is bad, but I am AFFLICTING THE COMFORTABLE
Madhu Gottumukkala is who comes to mind for me
You have to read it in this voice though getyarn.io/yarn-clip/a6...
But at least we got this incredible headline out of it kotaku.com/john-romero-...
The real dark realization is that the median is more likely to go *up* due to significantly reduced numbers of immigrants from Central America.
That definition would rely on a pretty outdated conception of who is on LinkedIn. I just picked a generic name out of a hat:
Certainly not! It's just that Nuance Is Dead, and in this particular case, once simplistic headlines and narratives have entrenched themselves, things that in the surface seem to support it get thrown onto the Bayesian pile as supporting evidence, even if it is far more equivocal in its details, eg
Honestly a lot of it is just academic PR people and media going for clickbaity headlines
The road checkpoints are the biggest anomaly to me. Rhode Island Ave between Eastern and South Dakota??
My sense is actual immigration enforcement raids can be anywhere, but obviously you're much more likely to find people from Central America in some neighborhoods than others. The Guard looks to be mainly in central and tourist areas. Downtown, the Mall, Foggy Bottom, Dupont, Georgetown, Capitol Hill
More seriously, a real Rosetta Stone for understanding The World of Ideas is that many people really and truly do reject the idea of tradeoffs, if not in theory then in all meaningful practice.
James T. Kirk, but leftistly
Charles Barkley ass frog
People be pissed all over the place huh
In the US, it was the 1960s. In Russia? You and I both know there is only one answer for all time
I'm with George Carlin on this one - you need to exercise your immune system like you do the rest of your body
Trains are turning back at culminating points where they can generate greater élan
The (surprisingly armed) rent-a-cops who've been deployed on various platforms and trains for the last year and a half do a - again, surprisingly - much better job of spreading out and increasing their coverage.
It was the Year of Glonzo, The Year of Corruption, The year we argued about kids in bars. It was The Year of The Drizz The Year of Mayor Adams, The Year of Jain, And The Year of Soy. It was A New Age It was The End of History It was The Year Everything Changed The year is 2025 The place is BlueSky
She has a true poaster's heart. Has anyone shipped her and Stancil yet? ....h my god where did that thought come from jesus christ I need to go touch tallgrass
Congratulations on your newfound fame (I assume this is about you) bsky.app/profile/awfu...
"the majority of young, naive people" the average DHS employee is 45 years old
