Ilya Farber

(Also, car rentals in NZ are unbelievably cheap.)

Driving in NZ is wonderful! I’ve done it twice (with family). The roads are good, the other drivers seem pretty calm, and the scenery between towns is just incredible.

these charts show the relationship between zip code-level average income and individual probability of voting for democrats in different regions of the country. one of my favorite group fo charts, lots of stories to unearth

Been reading "What is Innateness?" by Paul Griffiths (2002) philpapers.org/rec/EGRWII in which he offers this very sound advice:

Either that, or they neglected to exclude all the Scion Larvae from their counts

OK this is really weird. I scrolled at least 20 entries down, and the original post never shows up, though there are some that may be replies to it. Also notable that none of the replies are from people I follow.

Maybe there’s a “1 result per account, favoring most recent” rule?

I instinctively respect anyone who has 1) a good natural smile and 2) a range of other smiles they can deploy that are plausibly polite yet unmistakably *not* smile #1.

Zero interest in popes generally, but certain kinds of skill say a lot about the mind behind them, and so far I’m impressed.

Ooh! Hadn’t considered that angle.

Hmm?

I live near one of those displays! Sadly much of the hardware is just for show; if you follow the thick cables to the other end, most of them aren’t even plugged into anything.

I like that the little bit of katakana at the right tells us how one is meant to pronounce the magazine’s name: not as “em ell em double-yoo”, but as “murumu”!

Although it would be a great bit if he got into Twitter dunks but kept them on the same 6-month queue as his blog.

I think staying off social media is the only thing that prevents him from becoming a full-time assassin.

OK done with meetings! Gonna take a nap

The thought that kept floating through my mind was: “I can’t *get in*!”

Nice! Do you still have any keys? One of the most vertiginous moments of my life was when I was moving to the other side of the planet, sold my car and condo, and then realized, on the way to the airport, that I no longer owned any keys. It felt unexpectedly scary.

Interesting. Maybe it’s set up that way to make sure there’s no disincentive to blocking bot followers?

'Fluoride Disconnects One from God': Inside the Weekly Call With RFK Jr.'s MAHA Hype Squad A growing weekly call gives insight into RFK Jr.'s biggest allies, showcasing how a fringe movement now holds legitimate power.

<creaking and bubbling sounds fill the darkened woods as my undead legions hasten to fill their quivers with fluoride-tipped arrows>

Woah. The connection to the no-self principle in particular does seem like a very plausible explanation. And the relevant bits are right there in the constitution:

ROU ⚠️ Rude

ROU I Chose Rock

ROU Huh That’s Weird Why Did Your Crew Count Just Increment Oh Well It’s Probably Just a Glitch

YouTube video by Oldies Music The Angels - My Boyfriend's Back 1963

This slice of American cheese, staple of retro diners everywhere!

The songwriters were also serving as producers for his cover band Ronnie Dio & The Prophets that year. And he opened for Sammy Davis Jr in '66! It's like a whole little Fallout alt-timeline, except it actually happened.

Dude, what? How can you be this cool. It’s not plausible, frankly.

Ah, but! Are you cool enough to know what famous track Dio played trumpet (!) on, before even the Elf days?

(I learned this bit of trivia just last week, and still haven’t recovered.)

Would like to hear more!

My theory is that acad/lit VFRs read text the way most people parse visual scenes: with a quick orienting skim to extract gist, followed by focused attention on bits that are either highly salient or needed for filling in key details and relationships.

I’ve always wanted to do an eye-tracking study of academic/literary very-fast readers. My strong impression is that our eyes flick around the page (including back/up) in a way that would look insane if plotted against the linear text.

A picture of a very old BBC Microcomputer sporting a keyboard with markings in Linear B.

BBC Model Linear B

I thought he was actually pretty consistent through the early-to-mid classic period. Possible that what you’re identifying is partly a consequence of his shift from exploratory to didactic? i.e. after some point, he stopped feeling that the lessons were lessons *for* him?

The last refuge of the non-scoundrel.