Abble pie 🍎🥧

It's time to wheel this one out again...

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

Curmudgeonly compaint to ignore: Even as I recognize its necessity, I don't like "we're going to win" rhetoric. I think it implies "norms" can be restored, that there'll come a day when this is "over"--vs. a long struggle in which there're victories but no final victory, because this isn't a movie.

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs? ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons. COWEN: What’s stopping that? What’s the ultimate binding constraint? ALTMAN: We’re working on it really hard. COWEN: If you could have more of one thing to have more compute, what would the one thing be? ALTMAN: Electrons.

I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?

ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.

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my grand opinion is that in addition to free busses, university education should have less AI slop and meaningless busywork, and more writing bad music as a class activity.

Chicago has had one 9/11 worth of people disappeared since the attacks began in September. Los Angeles has had two 9/11s since June.

This is very high on my list of "not politically charged stuff I want somebody to run for office on"

Normal guy decathlon:
- walk a dog
- change a diaper
- shop and cook for a 20 person backyard cookout (counts as 2 events)
- ride a bike
- drive 2+ kids to activities
- hang out at a normal bar
- buy a dozen donuts
- discuss one random historical event in detail
- tell one joke

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

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but also, gravitational lensing via quasar is not exactly new?

The way that these creepy dudes keep compulsively telling on themselves all over Al Gore's internet continues to fascinate and baffle me

MICADO ELT instrument with mass and height compared to 4 Chilean Elephants and one German Giraffe in a slide from Eline Tolstoy.

SI units for #ExoELT instruments are mass and height in Chilean Elephants (ChEl) and German Giraffes (GeGi), respectively.

I will not be taking questions at this time.

@thelouvreof.bsky.social Saw this and thought of you ❤️😆

Reminds me of @maryrobinettekowal.com's cat Elsie using "litterbox" as a curse word 😂

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

The first person or Party to run on not just abolishing these institutional powers, but imprisoning everyone involved with these crimes against humanity will win a free and fair election if they still exist.

Pupdate: I'm going with "Abble pie"!

Outlook needs a "remove me from this thread" option.

I would use that everyday.

I'm reading the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (midway through the third book) and I really like it!!

More about Avi Loeb embarrassing himself and, by proxy, the astronomical community.

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Screencap of Abbie's Bluesky profile, showing the name "Abbie pie"

Though my seasonal name appears to support apple pie, please know that I am a pecan stan!

(I can't get over how good Abbabadook was for spooky season. Suggestions better than "Abbie pie" are welcome! I'm also open to going straight to a winter name.)

But he literally doesn't know the first thing about comets, which is that they have dust tails pushed by solar radiation pressure. Ask him why Hyakutake had such a long tail. He won't know.
Everything about 3I/ATLAS is consistent with a comet, likely one < 2 km in diameter, as common as Borisov.

Avi Loeb's calculations about 3I/ATLAS are 100% wrong because he has never understood that dust in the tail(s) responds to solar radiation pressure. Solar wind shapes the ion tail. But the radiation pressure is about 1000 times larger than the solar wind ram pressure, for particles that feel it.

It has always been so obvious that the backlash to MeToo isn’t about whether the abuse is happening but whether people are allowed to want it to stop

California fishery trials ‘whale-safe’ crab gear with big results

these are the new crab pots which are specifically designed to prevent this exact situation. we need to mandate these in oregon YESTERDAY

www.nationalfisherman.com/california-f...