Steve Norum

Warner is up for reelection next year, whereas Kaine isn't up until 2030. The caucus met to decide who would take the risk of voting with the GOP, so that as many dems as possible could pretend to have a spine.

Paragraph from an article in Haaretz by David Rosenberg, discussing why some Jews voted for Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor: “If they aren't hurting economically, why would Jews, young or old, support a candidate promising things like free bus rides that they don't need, and threatening to raise taxes that they will have to pay more of?”

Perhaps even some financially-well-off Jews voted for Mamdani because improved social services make society better for everyone in it?

If the article weren’t written by a Jewish author for Haaretz, I’d honestly guess parts were written by quite the antisemite.

Link: archive.is/ljgQX

Farmers fight an 'extension cord' for data centers Tensions over a proposed 67-mile transmission line have rocked Maryland's farming communities, as the nation’s largest grid operator says data centers are driving power demands.

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... very much brings to mind one of my favorite songs: youtu.be/0cXSz2XfS7A?...

"There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power stations. I hope that, encouraged now as 'patriotism', may remain a habit." - JRR Tolkien, Letter 52 (re: how the state of the world in 1943 was shifting his politics towards Anarchism)

A torn but original poster for World War One war bonds. Top text reads “Remember your first thrill of American Liberty”, bottom text reads “Your duty-Buy United States Government Bonds” and “2nd Liberty Loan of 1917”. Poster image is a ship of poor European migrants approaching the Statue of Liberty.

A nice reminder of the days when America’s eternal militaristic jingoism was able to coexist happily with a welcoming attitude towards immigrants*.

* yes, I know it was a super racist and shitty system, just in different ways than the current state of immigration law.

And I’m sure part of it is due to the “mental health emergencies” part, but I’m still not overly inclined to put much weight in their numbers without more details on their methodology.

Screenshot of a Wired article with the paragraph: In a given week, OpenAI estimated that around 0.07 percent of active ChatGPT users show “possible signs of mental health emergencies related to psychosis or mania” and 0.15 percent “have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent.”

It might be good that they’re trying to measure signs of psychosis and mania in their users, but I’m dubious of how well they’re doing given that the population rate of schizophrenia (to say nothing of bipolar with or without psychosis) is at least 10x the rate of psychosis/mania they’re seeing.

In fairness, this is in Forbes, and I imagine AI probably could easily replace the value its target audience provides to their employers and society at large, at least based on the Forbes readers I’ve run into in the wild.

Yep, head gasket was the continuing source of problems with our 2003 Forester. Also some rust issues with various exhaust parts but that’s mostly due to salt during the winters, not it being a Subaru.

Small sample size, etc., but if I had to pick which vehicle I’d trust the most to get me from point A to point B, my Wrangler would come in second to my Corolla but ahead of the other 5+ brands I’ve owned or regularly driven. (That said, it’s by far the least comfortable.)

I loved my Subaru but it’s the least reliable 4-wheeled vehicle I’ve owned. They aren’t terrible but don’t begin to approach Toyota. My Jeep is a collection of iffy noises, but has never had any serious issues even when driven daily. (My Hondas have all been used motorcycles so not comparable.)

A two-story train car with approximately 20 seats visible, only one of them occupied.

An advantage of the shutdown: this is what a VA-DC light rail ride looks like today.

Paywall-bypass link for the article linked in the first post: archive.is/FLX19 (6/4)

Also, to be fair to the paper's authors, they may not actually have thought that autism was a single condition. It's possible (likely?) that they presented it that way due to it being the "common" view, and as a way to emphasize the importance of their research into the different subtypes. (5/4)

If you’ve ever met multiple people with the same diagnosis, it should be immediately obvious that there are usually multiple different subtypes with multiple potential causes. Diagnoses are mostly just a guide to help predict the best treatments to try first, iff the patient wants treatment. (4/4)

For example, I’ve been diagnosed with depression, ADHD, and subclinical anxiety, and they all (based on life observations and medication response) stem from my body processing adrenaline in an atypical way. You can also end up with those same diagnoses via many other biological routes. (3/)

ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, and probably a lot of other DSM5 diagnoses are the result of a wide range of inputs, and have a wide range of subtypes. They’re also all interrelated and interacting. (2/)

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude — WIRED Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later.

On the one hand, it’s good that this research is being done and reported. On the other hand, the fact that the starting assumption, even among many in the field, is that things like “autism” or “ADHD” are single conditions and not convergent syndromes, is shocking. (1/)
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ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

If we define terrorism via the definition I often hear of "illegal violence carried out to influence public opinion or politics", this is missing quite a few government-instigated-but-still-illegal actions, especially from the last few months.

This all seems to miss that people don’t take Tylenol recreationally; they do it because they feel sick. Some of that is because pregnancy is uncomfortable, but some is likely because of things like the flu, which are themselves thought to possibly cause neurological problems in developing fetuses.

And then SCOTUS agrees 5-4 and points out that the first amendment doesn’t protect thoughts, just the external expressions of those thoughts.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they say some form of “we aren’t punishing them for their speech, we’re punishing them for their views. We’d punish people who haven’t said anything if we could but the ones who speak up are the only ones we can find.”

It’s annoying the number of interviews I’ve seen with students who said that Charlie Kirk made them feel comfortable expressing their true opinions on controversial topics without asking what those opinions are.

(Insert goose chase meme here, but I’m too lazy to make it on mobile.)

It annoys me that he went with this instead of something more clever like "Pronouns updated: was/were".

(And also that he's a despicable alcoholic monster who has no business being in any position of power and all that, but I assume that's understood to be a given around these parts.)

I'm reminded of the line from someone more clever than I am: "Say what you want about Hitler, but he wasn't 100% bad. After all, he did kill Hitler."

Could've stashed it on the roof in advance; definitely safer to sneak it up there at night than during the day. Doesn't explain how he got away, but there are way more paths to exit a roof than enter it (even if you ignore jumping, utility-area doors are almost always unlocked for emergency egress).

What, Harrison Butker goes too far to the right? Who could’ve ever foreseen such a thing.

And sure, calling it Defense as an aspirational goal isn’t a terrible idea, but we long ago stopped even pretending that was where the department was headed.