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people love to propose bullshit they know will never happen in order to provide themselves peace of mind when oppossing things that actually can happen

I think about this @ryxcommar.bsky.social post a lot.

Pinterest started recommending me Snoopy stuff because a girl I'm flirting with likes Snoopy stuff and I pull Snoopy pics from Pinterest. But today it recommended me "Snoop Dog" [sic] and I guess I can see why it did that but that's an extremely different thing.

K-pop outperformed the vast majority of companies in the S&P 500 in 2025. You would currently be 63% richer if on January 1st 2025, you bet the house on BTS and NewJeans.

merry christmas bluesky

tenoch is good too

real anna's heads also participate in the annual christmas season arbitrage where you get $125 of anna's for $100.

It's honestly pretty good. I will say the plain chicken there is extremely mid though and I'm a carnitas guy which might explain my very different experience there than some other people. also real anna's heads know to get the quesadilla, not burrito

Lmao

Fwiw they still have an internal API endpoint that connects to the lava lamps but they don't really use it these days. It is fun to joke about though.

The Mexican Jarritos Instagram account has fewer followers per capita (1 in 2940) than the South Korean Jarritos Instagram account does (1 in 2810).

chocolate glazed

I feel like the US federal government must have better sources for inflation numbers than Doordash.

stranger on the train asked me what brand my boots are. total menswear victory

MJ Lenderman bf / Faye Webster gf

I had no idea what Fiserv does until I looked up their website. Their website says that they offer "insights" and "solutions" to "move businesses forward." So I guess that's what they do.

The main discourse drivers on liberal twitter are media people because a lot of the normies are on blusky. The article's writing style is great if a bit navel-gazing, but there's not much to say about it except to announce to everyone that you are a reader of highfalutin culture pervert writing.

Today is the 10 year anniversary of Joanna Newsom's latest album, Divers.

Yeah I'm trying to lower my bar a little bit for this one because the thoughts keep sticking around, and I still feel like they're useful enough even in an inchoate form.

I will once I figure out where gamma distributions come from!

(There will also be PCA!)

This is fueled a little bit by arrogance perhaps, or maybe because there's a soft ceiling to the audience I attract, but my general feeling is "if I don't understand this, I bet 95%+ of my audience won't," and it's not fair to pretend like I do understand it. It's tricky stuff!

The challenge for me is my thoughts are rather informal. There are some formal bits and pieces but I don't really feel fully comfortable with them. Mainly, I still don't feel in my bones a strong intuition of where the Gamma distribution as a prior for precision comes from.

I'm writing a blog post for the first time in over a year. I've had some thoughts floating in my head about vector embeddings that I haven't seen articulated anywhere.

So you're saying cultural appropriation is OK? Got it. 👍

I'm with you, Joe. Halloween is a holiday where people constantly culturally appropriate from marginalized communities, and women denigrate themselves to appeal to the male gaze. Far from being celebrated, the holiday should be actively shunned.

A friendly reminder as Nobel season approaches, the Nobel Prizes are not real Sveriges Riksbank Prizes in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

Alexis Trousset would have loved Valorant.

I have yet to have the mythical 95th ptile biryani so I guess I need to be on the lookout

Is there any food with a higher delta in quality between the 80th percentile and 95th percentile than baklava? Like a good baklava is whatever, but an amazing baklava is to die for.

nothing these guys are mad about is comprehensible to a normal human being