Daniel Martin

Why anyone would do this from an account where they have their real name, image, city where they live, where they went to school, and place they grew up all public is completely beyond me.

I read that filing as the lawyer saying "please make this all go away hard before more comes out and this blows up into professional sanctions for me."

The cadet is physically able to stand and move without a wheelchair, but uses one whenever they are in public for extremely complicated cultural/religious ritual reasons, the full details of which will wait until a Very Special episode focused on this background character or the tie-in novel.

When Patrick Stewart was announced as the captain of the new Enterprise in the 80s, a reported objected that in the 24th century they'd surely be able to cure baldness, and Gene Roddenberry's response was that in the 24th century they wouldn't care.

The confederacy also used crap cryptography. (Vigenère cipher, which might have been okay, except that they used only three different fixed short key phrases to encode things)

The Union used word-order mangling directed by code books which the South's experts weren't able to crack consistently.

The spiritualist sees something weird they can't explain, and must invent ghosts so that the mystery is explained.

The skeptic sees something they can't explain, leaves it as "not explained yet", and lives in a world with unknowns rather than inventing a supernatural world to explain everything.

I am distracted by how you, a human and native English speaker, seem to interpret the hallucinated quote sentence about skepticism very differently than I do.

That quote is perfectly in alignment with what I have heard prominent skeptics say about skepticism.

What if you use it to bring down a Mylar party balloon?

A screenshot from Facebook Messenger, with the profile name and picture of the person responding to our FB ad redacted: System: ________ replied to an ad. Our Account: (auto response) Hi _____. Please let us know how we can help you. Them: your Belief in a dead JEW gave us the Evil Christian Republican NAZI HATRED of Donald J TRUMP in our WHITEHOUSE BASTARD!

Today in "fun messages found in the church's FB Messenger account", a little bonus antisemitism mixed into the standard "all Christians are responsible for Trump so we hate you" message.

A large pigeon with standard Rock Pigeon markings stands at the intersection of cobblestone and regular sidewalk pavement. Near 87th & Central Park West, Manhattan, NY, USA ƒ/7.1; 1/640 s; 300 mm; ISO 1250

A large pigeon with standard Rock Pigeon markings price at the spaces between bricks while standing on cobblestone. Near 87th & Central Park West, Manhattan, NY, USA ƒ/7.1; 1/640 s; 300 mm; ISO 1250

Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is one I don't really have good shots for (birds that dive under water for food), so I'm going with the Alt theme of #Pigeons&Doves

Here's this absolute #pigeon unit from two months ago in NYC.

#birds #photography #microfourthirds

So, remember the story about Noem shooting a 14-month-old dog for being "untrainable"? The dog was named Cricket.

For a long time, my reddit activity was basically confined to r/adventofcode.

Now it's that plus also r/SouthJersey.

I wonder if this effect (where the LLM appears to switch roles in the conversation) is because it's replying by first ingesting your email, and your reply included "On Tue Feb 10th, LLM Scammer wrote: ..." at the bottom of what you said, and therefore it's responding to the original text too.

"When we disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process, it's a total coincidence that we ran across them while we were out driving around."

I suspect that the only way around this would be to rebrand the vaccine and then make a splash about only offering this much better vaccine to places outside the US until Trump gets mad and demands that it be offered here, and then performatively "reluctantly" cave and begin offering it in the US.

In those cases where DHS does move people anyway, and you get stuff resolved later, is there any paperwork generated which says something like "on date 2/4 at approximately 1:50am, agent W. Smith loaded detainee Jones on the bus to the airport".

Is who did what violations a discoverable thing?

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Modern anti-spam measures basically make 100% self-hosted email impossible. The best you can do is run your own system for local storage but pay on one of the big providers (aws, azure, etc) to handle everything one hop upstream.

Oh, absolutely. The incredible post-compromise discipline makes this a more scary compromise, not less.

This intrusion was notable for the level of care and planning that was taken post-compromise.

Updates were apparently compromised for months, evading detection by only serving the malware version out to select targets rather than to everyone.

Abolish ICE, except for a tiny office that does nothing but answer FOIA requests about their former colleagues, generally document what happened, and refer incidents to prosecutors.

But importantly, it's spectacular state violence *with proper documentation*.

Don't punish people just because we know they did bad stuff.

Prove, where everyone can see, that they did the bad stuff and then deliver punishment appropriate to what was shown in open court. No more secret punishment.

Anti-Spotted Lanternfly poster from the state agriculture department. It features a bunch of boot prints with images of the adult Lanternfly superimposed and the text: JOIN THE BATTLE, BEAT THE BUG! STOMP IT OUT! STOP THE SPOTTED LANTERNFLY

The way native fauna (especially birds, but also local praying mantises) have slowly adapted over the past ten years to attack these bugs is a nice little "nature is healing" story.

Go #birds.

A red adult Cardinal and a brown baby/young juvenile Cardinal stand on a thick tree branch surrounded by green. The adult bird is leaning out to the juvenile with a red, black, and white insect in its mouth. The juvenile is leaning forward, mouth open wide. The bug that the adult is feeding his kid is a Spotted Lanternfly, an invasive pest that the state has several campaigns about to get people to kill on sight. (It can be very damaging to several different crops) When the Spotted Lanternfly first invaded over a decade ago, part of the worry was that this bug had no predators locally. However in recent years Cardinals, Blue Jays, and Grey Catbirds have all been observed eating them. Burlington County, NJ, USA ƒ/5.6; 1/20 s; 300 mm; ISO 1250

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Birds&Bugs I think I have to go back to a shot I've used before of this Cardinal feeding his child a Spotted Lanternfly. (An invasive insect people are supposed to kill on sight; the featured creature in badbug.nj.gov)

#birds #microfiurthirds #photography

If you learn mathematics in the US and stop taking math before you get through calculus, I think you really miss out on how connected different bits of math are and miss out on understanding what the math means.

Calculus (in the US) will give you that, or fail you when it fails to give you that.

It's that 2) that's huge, and that I think is the real benefit to people who grew up in the US system of learning calculus.

If you learned earlier math in S.Korea or Japan, that benefit isn't going to be as big because those systems are much better at connecting different topics prior to calculus.

So calculus in the American educational system serves multiple purposes.

It probably shouldn't serve multiple purposes, but it does:

1) it's a filter, for good reasons and not
2) it's used to integrate multiple otherwise separate bits of math
3) it provides stuff you need for physics

Maybe it's how my one digital thermometer explicitly says that it can't measure temperatures below -58°F.

There was a restaurant here that recently removed the CO detectors when they kept going off (because of the gas leak, that the owner decided to ignore and open anyway). Fortunately, some employee ratted to the local police and fire, who shut the place down for code violations.