Carlos Yu

Mira Nair is having a ball on this press junket.

oh I like this one

An old time-y illustration of a Oranges.

Today is Quartidi the 24th of Brumaire in the year 234.
Brumaire is the month of mist.
Today we celebrate oranges. #JacobinDay

More information on oranges

Dr. Nut (circa 1936-circa 1978): An almond/amaretto-flavored soda from the New Orleans-based World Bottling Co. and Wright Root Beer, it developed a devoted and intense cult following.

Jesus, Sam

TFW when a company decides to change from Excel to specialized project management software that... lacks, but wants the same deliverables.

anyhow, saw two today at Moynihan Hall. I don't think they're being replenished.

the Northeast type of late middle-aged Anglo man who looks like the inside of an old shoe and you wonder what his nickname was on the commune, who nevertheless still has that ruling class mojo.

RFK Jr. is that type. Maureen Howard wrote about them. maybe Sanders is kinda that for his followers?

Blasting the shit out of this "Twin Pack"

to the people who think an anti-corruption message is an automatically winning strategy:

have you seen the vast numbers of participants in house-flipping, MLMs, meme stocks, crypto, sports betting, and so on?

corruption is *aspirational* for boatloads of people.

the public itself is damaged.

"how do you value a non-market service? it's unpossible!"

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Ariana Grande, Drake, Brad Pitt, Payne Stewart, Doug the Pug, Khloe Kardashian, the Red Tiger from Voltron, Tinky Winky, Mariska Hargitay, Mario, Super Mario, Luigi, Yoshi, the Princess, Bert, Ernie, Grover, Snuffleupagus, Burger King, Grimace, Ronald McDonald, the two old guys from the balcony...

I am honestly delighted that the Pope loved THE BLUES BROTHERS

maybe *the* great American Bollywood movie

listening to @blankcheck.bsky.social go to the zoo!

it's nice hearing laudatorily goofy guys hang at something low stakes.

when I was a kid afflicted with night terrors, I would listen to AM radio from across the country, the overnight guys rambling, taking calls, playing deep cuts. kinda miss it.

serious question about J. Davenport Vance: how can you be a United States senator from Cincinnati fucking Ohio and not be aware of the legacy of the Taft family?

Vicodin? is it Vicodin? you're higher than Favre on Vicodin? your Vicodin addiction has made you forget the history of your own state?

without minimizing the damage done by Epstein, Maxwell, etc, I have to say this is a dilettante's network.

compare the CSAM networks of the 1970s (e.g., North Fox Island).

Uncovering and measuring the short- and long term effects of Segregation Academies is huge. I’ve been impressed since I first saw this at @nber.org Race and Stratification in the Economy conference and it has only improved since then. An excellent job market paper by a very promising economist.

intoxication and militarization. pretty much a recipe for atrocity independent of environmental lifestyle or ethnic background.

I think it just might have been the heavy drinking. it's an old stereotype of the Mongols, and also of the Scythians.

but look at the Macedonians.

and yes, Wisconsinites are pretty pacific, but Dahmer was drunk off his ass all the time.

a monkey glands huckster operating from a Mexican pirate radio station!

a lot of money has been spent to keep AI from being associated with waifu gooner Musk crap in the public mind, because that seems to be a dominant use among its power users.

it would be... telling to see it gain pedo taint through the Epstein channel.

a test: AI pioneer Marvin Minsky was one of Epstein's special interests. the late Ms. Giuffre testified that Maxwell directed her while underage to have sex with Minsky, who was 73 at the time.

can the Epstein wave spill over into the AI pool?

people have almost forgotten W. Clinton, a feat for which his image management team has earned every penny

it's gonna be the sort of CSAM that causes depressed investigators to clean a gun badly, isn't it.

BOND: You want me to kill this... Epstein?

M: no, no! that would only draw attention to his habits. [beat] we want you to silence his critics.

it's interesting that a spiral/recursion metaphor emerged when a more academic culture focused on viruses and mushrooms instead.

I can't help but think this might be due to the nerd origins of the early datasets, like Hofstadter's video camera pointed at a TV set "strange loop" business.

... but Americans today are haulers, and the car (and increasingly the truck) is a big part of the change.

walking and mass transit can't really handle that.

yeah. three generations of urbanists have denied that when given a choice, people might prefer driving to walking.

one ethnographic point that's rarely brought up: in some cultures, a person of status was not expected to carry anything; a servant would do it. we still see the remnants of that...

Red and green aurora

Red and green aurora

Red and green aurora

Red and green aurora

Brief aurora display here on the east side of Madison, WI. Visible to naked eye in color but not as vivid as these photos