Matt Rich

Last week was SOMETHING in lab:

- MITES (luckily caught early and contained)
- Freezer plug catches fire (risked life and limb to yank it out via cord, survived)
- Spilled my coffee all over my desk (keyboard sticky now)
- Someone used the LAST BOX of P2 tips and didn’t reorder (I crashed out).

Wait, it’s bc these “pundits” don’t want literate people being able to argue with them on the internet isn’t it… omfg smdh gtfoh

Why are these people so obsessed with not reading? Reading is great!

as conservatives, we believe in small government, like sending armed police to WNBA games to make sure the defense isn't hand-checking my favorite player

this is what happens when you study skull shapes instead of ball

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When we lived in Tokyo, we had a 4th floor apt above the train and next to a highway, so sometimes there was an “earthquake” that was most likely either a big truck or the Keio New Line.

Earthquake-proofing is essentially “making the building wobble a bit.”

we need more friction everywhere. everyone is going insane without it. it’s a hard point to argue without coming off as boomerish because it’s adjacent to bad faith “safe space” discourse but in reality it’s the chuds so scared to see a brown person they never leave the house who need it back most

A big ass cast iron pan covered by a single piece of the big foil

Coming around on the big foil

If that isn’t Living, I don’t know what is

Ok but docker can go fuck itself

A dead -80C freezer with a burned out plug

A blown outlet

afternoon surprise

Personally, I would rather spend $200M on cancer research than on an effing ballroom, but maybe that’s just me. 🤬

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The first (moderately) detailed explanation of how OpenAI partnership will be rolled out in Canvas, including assurance that all AI features with be "opt-in" (at least for now), but no mention of whether OpenAI will have access to Canvas courses for training purposes.

These days it seems like all the best Star Wars are the ones about the PEOPLE in the Star Wars universe. No space magic necessary.

Obviously Andor is colored by the current political moment. I also enjoyed the Bad Batch, which also doesn’t center on the Force.

Trump Administration Scraps Effort to Pause Health-Research Funding

Now changed to “scraps plan”

he nailed it

Pretty sure I got banned from Beeropedia for getting into an argument about how this tasted like, iirc, “goatpiss”

absolutely no question in my mind he's married to a chatbot

every college protest movement has been morally correct and on the right side of history and they hate it so bad

just do AI in the meantime I don’t see the problem here

wtf is wrong with SEA’s international arrival connections?

you enter the country in a lovely concourse then get shoved through the most pathetic single TSA line in the country? Is it better to just exit the airport and then enter through normal security again?

nama pineapple sour, squuezed

Also this 生 pineapple sour SLAPS

The gyu-kaku uniform is a shirt that says

Beefing up
the people;
That’s the magic
of Yakiniku.

And I want one really bad

You have to reward yourself for each paragraph

This is better advice than mine, which was “go on a trip to write my dissertation in two weeks.” I did eat a lot of ice cream though.

Day trip to visit the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, which mean TOKYO EVENING COMMUTE LFGGGGGGG

(the morning was easy. probably too early. this one is “waited multiple trains before i could get on” legit).

Day trip to visit the National Institute of Genetics in Mishima, which mean TOKYO MORNING COMMUTE LFG

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