Getting famous via an absolutist puritanism means it's pretty hard to concede or admit anything.
Highly recommend following him if you're not already.
Reading the patience and replies from @besttrousers.bsky.social to explain how data and measurement actually work is awe-inspiring. Lord, grant me that grace some day.
I seem to wake up every morning still an American and the sting of that humiliation has not yet dissipated with time.
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I like Graeber because he's fun to read and dislike him for reasons you reference. Any recommendations for readings by the pro-social adults you mention?
As a young GenX, yeah. We got the worst of the infant blood-lead levels, might be best to just skip us.
And I thought how in my own lifetime the USSR went from world-defining to non-existent in the span of 1980-1990. it doesn't take long. Everyone must be watching the US with the same trepidation.
I read the wonderful Dancing in the Glory of Monsters and was struck by the similarities between Mobutu and Trump: old men, surrounded by cronies asset-mining any institution they touch, a cynical and paranoid public, annoyed neighbors, collapsing future, dynastic kleptocracy, etc.
I had forgotten how fantastically beautiful, weird, and wonderful David OReilly's games and movies are: www.davidoreilly.com
Polar is great if you're in a Python environment because you can work with really large datasets but you don't get access to the same excellent viz libraries in JS without a lot of work. Looks like I should check out DuckDB!
Are you still using DuckDB? I'm kind of stuck in Python Polars world for exploring large data and I keep thinking I should try working with Duck
I agree with folks who say it's the least bad alternative but I can't say it's a full on replacement. We're just in a different era of being online today.
Vancouver is far nicer. I say this as someone who has lived betwixt the two for decades.
I'm really enjoying my time in Hokkaido, the 17th state and/or territory of Australia.
I've been enjoying digging into Causal Artificial Intelligence by Elias Bareinboim. Free textbook here: causalai-book.net
My European friends always delicately critique American consumerism, militarism, and imperialism and then slander peanut butter and then I have to explain that they profoundly misunderstand my allegiances.
"Slow Horses" really turns into a UK based "24", doesn't it? I was hoping for a bit more spying and a bit less shooting.
> ai as simulacrum for temporarily-embarrassed millionaires
Ah, this is perfect.
"CBP stays at the border" might sound like a win, but keep in mind that this is what "the border" means to them www.aclumaine.org/know-your-ri...
I realize that I'm not an AI agent hater, I just find folks chatting about how they get AI agents to do stuff really boring.
"In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care." dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I've been trying to enjoy Pluribus but cannot. Unlikable person yells at obsequious intelligence. Yes, I also think ChatGPT is creepy, now what?
You can say "money" two ways in Alaska: "fish" or "oil".
One of the things must folks don't appreciate is that platforms like X and FB & Tiktok have pixel trackers embedded everywhere around the web. They gather your preferences based on what other sites share about you with them. Sites do this to get better ad targeting. BSky doesn't have that.
This might just be the ski season that makes me finally give up on buying ski passes.
I realize that I prefer no algorithm for the same reason I don't want guns in my house. They can be used in useful ways but, for me, the risk that they'll be used in bad ways outweighs the benefits they may offer.
Yeah, I never got "I don't like you" vibes, I just got "I don't care". My friends who stayed are all now, 10 years later, very happily at home there.
it does always boggle the American mind to move somewhere and find that people aren't immediately enchanted by Americanness. I say that as an American who lived in CPH for a while.
