The Hedonic Adjustments of J. Alfred Prufrock, CFA

Though, sincerely, this week gap between global DSTs plays hell with those of us who work with or manage international teams.

PMC solidarity means global Daylight Savings Alignment

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This preview image makes it look like Ólafur Arnalds has just ripped a really loud fart tho. (With apologies to @derrickgee.bsky.social )

Imagining University Trading Floor.

PhD/MD yelling at an ABD "I need that literature review now or I'll rip your head off. Who has the spread on bell hooks 20 years?"

Betting pools on which first years can eat the most free food at the event.

was just skimming through old footage and found this ruthless moment in 1970s baseball broadcasting

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin.

Here's the video of it running.

when I end up having an argument on here with someone I already disliked on Twitter it's

Initially read this as "Limited Partner" and frankly, still true.

None of the clocks at my gym are set to a consistent time and I left my watch at home.

A cloud of smoke covers a quarter of the picture and the face of a man dressed all in black, their back to the camera. A man in mismatched tactical gear holding a weapon. Someone in a blue dinosaur onesie walks behind them. Berkeleyside caption: "After officers set off two stun grenades, an officer blasted a riot control agent, likely a pepper-spray round, into the crowd, hitting Jorge Bautista, a pastor with the United Church of Christ in San Mateo, wearing all black at right, in the face. Credit: Jerome Parmer"

If this isn't the cover for a 7" record for a band called VomitSludge then I'm declaring punk officially dead.

www.berkeleyside.org/2025/10/23/l...

Truck sales obviously lead recessions as people pull forward their spending....

Panel on Energy Transition drops potential Misty View name: Grid Hardening.

compared to conventional debt, green bond and loan issuances are systematically followed by sustained reductions in carbon intensity (emissions over income) of up to 50 percent. These reductions correspond to as much as 15 percent of global annual emissions. Green bonds contribute to reducing emissions by providing financing to large, high-emitting firms, whose improvements in carbon intensity have significant aggregate consequences.

some encouraging evidence here that green-labelled bonds and loans are actually achieving something meaningful

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I do enjoy spaces where someone can express a thesis/research around demographics and economics and you don't have to immediately question if they secretly say some wild shit in the Group Chats.

The purpose of the system is what it does*.

* mortgage payments in Santa Clara for 55 year old programmers

"categorization contains flaws"

Two slices of bacon and three cups of coffee. it is conference time LFG!

Following California condors tagged with GPS transmitters, researchers have tracked their expanison in 2025 from the Central Coast to the East Bay and near Santa Barbara. Condor GPS activity in 2025 Sources: Ventana Wildlife Society, heat map provided by Evan McWreath/VWS PAI/BAY AREA NEWS GROUP

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

the world, which seems tragically harsh and even doomed on a two coffees empty stomach, now seems alive with possibility after 900 calories of lunch. No conclusions to draw from that

"every week i put the entire chatgpt chat into a word document, start a new chat, and then ask chatgpt to read the document."

Bespoke user workarounds will never be killed by AI.

a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor with the words not like this ALT: a man in a white shirt is sitting on the floor with the words not like this

New PhDs on the job market, 2012-2020: we should figure out a way to appropriately match postgrad slots to job openings so the job market isn't such a nightmare

2025:

Cost of the Goods Sold

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me. "Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines. We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes. It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

Their nostalgia is kitchy.
My nostalgia is literary.

I mean, it can be necessary to believe that rights are inalienable or natural because it makes the entity which is denying you those rights to be committing a greater crime

Tired: four martini lunch
Inspired: three Guinness breakfast

My boss: "dude you gotta stop telling me to read theory."