Borges

The place we were in the picture on the right burned down in the Maui fires. Awful.

I used to roll my eyes when devs spoke about single-digit ms latency budget changes but man, if that isn't the difference between a slick product and a clunky-feeling beta.

Infinite love for Washington ferry system. There is no better way to travel.

Interesting, I thought it was exactly the opposite - higher interest rates have crashed the stock market and left the labor market completely intact.

The WSJ's complaint here is really weird and wrong, in that light.

I truly thought it was unfilmable and was very happy to be proven wrong.

The "punching Nazis" larp on this site is only a faint echo of the unfathomably righteous original.

I've muted it from my Twitter feed because it seemed to make everyone insane and, like you, I remain in a state of blissful ignorance.

"Somehow, Padme returned."

Thus via induction we've proven that this guy's degenerate tit-for-tat strategy works iif every single person who plays the game does not defect.

So opponent 1 cooperates with opponent 2 by not deflecting in the first game unless others of the same characteristics have already defected, in which case, opponent 1 defects

Ad infinitum

Simultaneously this guy is creating a second prisoners dilemma for his counterparties in both games (opponent 1 will defect first and ruin the game for opponent 2, who wants to play it straight with the guy.)

Boatposting

Opening the What's Hot tab, and here's a friend I haven't spoken to since college! 🙂 Who now has some painfully bad political takes 🥲

Apparently so!

Foucalt agreed with the Chicago School's (!) definition of crime: it is an act likely to incur punishment.

I've loved the National for years, but this brutal review of their last three albums is just spot-on.

Take your little kids somewhere tropical and they will just want to hold hands and look at the ocean.

I want the same from my vacations, honestly.

Let's see a Freudian analysis of ancient Greek kings. Or how about a rumination on the politics of seafarers from Carthage to England to Polynesia.

I want to see more beautiful academic prose in social science. These dry, p-hacked articles are neither fun to read nor useful to anyone.

Opinion | What America Needs Is a Liberalism That Builds You can’t transform the economy without first transforming the government.

What do you think of Ezra Klein's idea of "supply-side liberalism" - the idea that the left needs to improve the government's ability to make and do things?

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/opinion/biden-liberalism-infrastructure-building.html

Best of luck during this trying time (for you.)

Good night from Maui, where the waves are warm and the sky is a spectrum of every conceivable color.

😅 I don't get it either.

Some of my relatives farm these things. They are huge in China and Japan, apparently!

For the first time in my life, I have more bookshelves than books.

I predict this won't last long.

It doesn't have to be that way! Users should be able to ruthlessly prune their feed. Let a million competing algorithms bloom.

The thing is, everyone has such Stockholm syndrome from other sites pushing random content on them that they assume the average quality of the site is what they'll see.

This is such an important distinction to make. You can't police all bad thought away from a platform, though with illegal stuff you try.

The ideal end state of this open protocol is a set of strong tools that allow users to easily filter for things that trigger a stress response.

Come with us next year! (I won't blame you if we lose.)

It's hockey night, folks.