Andrea

Oh, they'll hit Lawrence v. Texas and Griswold v. Connecticut along the way before they get that far

People who have never seen actual religious persecution in their lives: "someone didn't want to be preached to; my religion was borderline illegal and they basically fed me to lions"

I'm sure the NSA enjoys Hikvision's horrifying firmware altogether too much to ever do this

(see: their own activities with RSA BSAFE, Cavium, etc.)

Am I allowed to rename it sudo?

Before I’d ever heard the word “transgender,” somebody I’ve known my entire life was beaten nearly to death for using a restroom that corresponded to the gender he’d been assigned at birth.

That — not the protection of any women, anywhere — is the point of these bills.

Ukraine rescues soldier via drone delivery of complete e-bike Drones can now carry significant payloads.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

The Anti-Porn Crusade That Censored Steam and Itch.io Started 30 Years Ago Keywords and tags have never been a useful metric for distilling nuance. Pushing for regulations based on them is repeating a 30-year history of porn panic online.

when it comes to porn panics, we're repeating the mistakes of the past every damn day www.404media.co/steam-itchio...

'Horde' intended?

As any student of history knows, religious persecution always works quickly and irreversibly to eliminate unwanted sects

Make someone die for your sins

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Anyway, it's a solvable problem: improbable.com/wp-content/u...

Don't resent meth, resent the DEA

(Displacing blame for the harm it does onto other parties and rhetorically obscuring its own agency is most of how the state works)

upside: the more attention curtis yarvin pays to software the less he pays to politics
downside: it's like a cross between an IOCCC entry and a moldbug blog post

pure brainworms

Language allows you to understand sentences that have never been said before

why the hell is the source he links to for the hough transform *infogalactic*?

why the hell is ... *anything* ?

quillette should really change up their interview process; it's getting too obvious

I am quite lonely, if you want to FUCK let me know please (but I've never done it yet). Just a cuddle friend is okay too (I prefer biological women but who knows).

hahahahaha no

that sure is a website you found there

Horrific confession time: I kinda like yaml

arxiv.org/abs/2004.09543 has a good modern derivation (up to assumptions about gauge-fixing and use of a linear parametrization)

...into spin-0 and spin-2 pieces after gauge-fixing and only spin-0s contribute to sqrt(-g), etc. to reach conclusions about how GR n-valent vertices are only sensitive to at most two momenta (but arbitrarily many spins), for example)

(try writing an expression for sqrt(-g) R of the form sqrt(-g) (two powers of the contravariant metric) times (covariant terms with either two derivatives or quadratic in one derivative of the metric), notice that the powers of momenta only come from derivatives, that you can split the metric...

nope

it's for designated human sacrifices; don't tell them

No, it's not unlearnable but I also don't think it's less hairy than most other sophisticated mathematics

...Einstein-Hilbert Lagrangian but more complicated diagrams with high numbers of irreducible loops can explore the whole space

you probably need to level up on representation theory as well tbh; part of the argument there is expanding a general n-valent vertex in a basis of intertwiners on the spins and the angular dependence of on the momenta of the gravitons and showing that only a subspace can be generated from the...

yes, it's significantly worse than what you will need for just regular quantum field theory or classical GR