Paul Kube

[Exit King.]

"Car hunt" makes me think of Repo Man, but I suspect you are describing something else here

B61 mod 11 more likely... the bunker buster variant.

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil.

Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

Friend of mine here with the snake wranglers group is super conscientious about relocating. Turns out it is nontrivial; relocate to another snake's territory, or to unfamiliar environment, and survival rate can be low

Snake Wranglers For Snake Removal Call: 1-619-204-5117

Where in CA are you? San Diego has the Snake Wranglers volunteer org. snake-wranglers.com

Puck, can't tell if you're trolling, but Snyder is not a reporter, he's a well-known scholar of fascism (Yale, now U Toronto). He hasn't missed anything about Trump. When he says "how did we miss..." he's talking about America broadly... the electorate, the media, etc.

Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...

Kingdom Of The Biters - defector.com/kingdom-of-t...

ChatGPT - Tariffs to Eliminate Deficit Shared via ChatGPT

I said "more coherent", but of course ChatGPT got the math wrong, as it often does. The equation it says can be rearranged to solve for the tariff rate T T= D/(M×E) can't be. Give it a second chance and it will apologize and correct itself. chatgpt.com/share/67eee2...
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ChatGPT - Tariffs to Eliminate Deficit Shared via ChatGPT

Some folks have said "sounds like ChatGPT" but ChatGPT is actually more coherent: chatgpt.com/share/67ee16.... And much better at detailing assumptions; in particular making clear that the result assumes no change in exports.

Zach, Read Turing 1936 if you haven't. One of the greatest intellectual achievements of the 20th century right there archive.org/details/Turi...

Real computation - Wikipedia

There are models of computation over arbitrary real numbers en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_co.... Those models are not realizable though; advantage Turing.

Dinosaur Comics! tomorrow is another news

tomorrow is another news www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Very business-as-usual, from the days when an acting director of the NIH would feel obligated to respond to such a letter and might even be called before a congressional committee to give sworn testimony.

Most of the people reading this have a sense of how bad things are right now.

So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.

Decision to dump water from Tulare County lakes altered after sending locals into a mad scramble – SJV Water Water managers were relieved Thursday evening after the Army Corps of Engineers agreed to back off of a sudden decision earlier in the day to dump massive

Trump apparently directed the Army Corps of Engineers to meddle in local water policy and angered a whole bunch of farmers—and likely his supporters—all to try to win a political point. The water appears to be directed to recently *FLOODED* farm lands.

Star Trek TNG Seven of Nine saying "I WILL NOT COMPLY"

Bluesky’s science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform Roughly 6,000 readers answered our poll, with many declaring that Bluesky was nicer, kinder and less antagonistic to science than X.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I gotta think she's gonna be OK...

I introduced Ragnar to the concept of "snow cookies".
The top layer of snow froze to make little slabs of snow.

He likes them!

##CorgiCrew #ThisIsWinter

Do you deliver lol... WOW.

Wow... thanks for surfacing that.

Oh them's some good jokes. And if the absolute infinity contains no negation, what is it doing being the negation of negation? I ask.

The Values Gap America is an exceptional nation

Via The Browser scrupulouspessimism.substack.com/p/the-values...

ATLAS releases first open data from heavy-ion collisions The ATLAS Collaboration has released its first open data of heavy-ion collisions for research purposes. This dataset features lead-ion (Pb-Pb) collisions at an energy of 5 TeV per nucleon pair, record...

If you're bored, take a crack at finding some needles in the latest haystack from CERN. “While colliding protons is akin to smashing two garbage cans together, colliding lead ions is what happens when you drive two garbage trucks at each other.”

atlas.cern/Updates/News...

A keg of cognac around the neck would be appropriate

A room in the house that looks like it hasn't been touched since the 16th century.

They try to make up for it with this, but... no.

Why Are Publications Sugar-Coating Livilsberger’s Political Minifestos? Over the last four days, the bizarre Cybertruck fire outside a Trump hotel in Las Vegas has run from comical interlude to possible terrorist incident to tragic suicide of another veteran of America’s…

Why Are Publications Sugar-Coating Livilsberger’s Political Minifestos? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a...

Not photogenic enough? That's what actors are for. Seriously, someone should do this.

That is... interesting.