Mike Lee Williams

A notification informing me that Sheffield United have lost by four goals to one at home on the first day of the season.

it is happening again

i think at least the "diminishing returns" claim is on shaky ground at this point, if not the specific numbers

emailed!

A tweet that reads: Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

fingers crossed, the latitude doesn’t progress to ennui!!

whenever i start a new job i like to make the same joke about my 90 day onboarding plan being entirely comprised of trying to get my python environment set up. sadly that joke no longer works (because uv). anyway, today is my first day at anthropic!

I would have gone with CRAP

The Lily and The Lion, part 6 of Maurice Druon's accursed kings series, is a flawless masterpiece, just like the other 5 parts (part 7 is not canon). i am on the record about loving these books: maxread.substack.com/p/a-great-pu...

wealth of shadows by graham moore is a good novel if you like monetary theory and ww2 but i cannot in good faith recommend it to anyone else

quit my job a couple of weeks ago and have been enjoying funemployment. first break between jobs ... ever I think? watching a tremendous amount of rubbish on youtube (idiots in cars compilations, northern lion) and finally finishing DS9.

id always assumed “tensors” for multidimensional arrays was imported from general relativity 🤷🏻‍♂️

how much of this jargon (along with “tensor”) do you think has its origins/continued popularity in people coming from physics and thinking everything is a special case of physics?

97% of New York City's three million free parking spots are free. Adding meters to just 25% of free parking spots could generate billions of dollars for the city. Using demand-based pricing, cities can price parking by block — setting the right price to ensure a few curb spaces are open on every block. It's simple: prices increase when demand is high and decrease when demand is low. San Francisco successfully piloted demand-based parking and saw: • 1 67% drop in parking search times • 1 30% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions • Y 22% reduction in double parking

just saying, if an pro-transit mayor wants to fund some ambitious policies, there is a massive goldmine of 3 million free parking spaces in New York City just sitting there waiting to be metered

Quarters A, Brooklyn Navy Yard - Wikipedia

It’s the person who lives here!

Precinct map of the NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary showing that Lander got one (1) vote in the Navy Yard and everyone else got zero.

much love to this voter in the navy yard

me

completely disgusting out there, don’t get me wrong, but this is the least unpleasant 100 degree weather I’ve ever felt.

The cover of A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman

rekt

love it when it feels like you live inside a human lung

Literally the only promotion I’ve seen for it is Mark Rober mentioning it in the last ten seconds of his weekly 30 minute summer camp kids science videos on YouTube. He has a lot of subscribers in the target market but … come on!

I did this walk last year. Highly recommend it, even if you’re not running for mayor. Magical island. Also don’t rank Cuomo.

it’s “fill my cap with water from a splash pad and put it on my head” degrees in the city

ask him if this is true bsky.app/profile/stef...

Always the ones you least expect

SLIDING DOORS (1998)

i support improv/vibes in this matter but fwiw I had an excellent experience with that luggage hero app. left my obnoxious backpack at a newsagents, four pints and a walk with friends unencumbered.

ridiculous question, you have better things to worry about on release day but ... will it connect to iOS and tvOS? my brain is currently melting trying to find a modern/non-retro controller that does Switch 1, 2 and iOS. when it comes to controllers "bluetooth" contains multitudes apparently.

same people who printed the voter guide in which Eric Adams is a candidate for the democratic nomination, right? Great stuff.

people give those amazon brands with consonant names a hard time, but the customer service is better than "real" brands (or amazon itself). you contact a human and they send you a replacement, no questions. i just had a nice chat (on whatsapp!) with a guy in shenzen and he replaced my RC car?!