Nat Kimble

We have issued a Freedom of Information Act request for the video of the Venezuelan air strike. And if the government will not release it, we will have to access it from Pete Hegseth’s “Kinetic Warrior Lethality” Discord server.

In respect to Trump's recent pardon of former Honduras President Juan Orlando Hernandez, here are some search key words it might be useful to look into to understand the background. ZEDE. Próspera. Marc Andreessen. Peter Thiel.

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

this looks great

YouTube video by Hank Green Electricity is About to be Like Housing

Hank Green coming in hot with the best summation of the situation at hand in regards to renewables + energy pricing. #solar #energysky

youtu.be/39YO-0HBKtA?...

I built a bunch of Wonders. Is that a Crime?

I really hate the term "sideloading". I preferred the original term, which was "installing software on a computer that you own"

my mom periodically asks me for true crime documentary recommendations by texting me "any good murders lately" and if I ever lose my phone, the person who finds it is going to think I'm a serial killer with a weirdly supportive mother

name a non-LotR character who is a cool and good person but would nevertheless set land speed records for getting fucked up by the One Ring

New Orleans is hot, and the bars were usually not air conditioned. A trough constantly filled with steamy piss smells to high heaven. filling it with buckets of ice controls the smell.

I had never seen a pee trough until my first visit to New Orleans as an adult, and pee troughs filled with ice were de rigueur.

13:45..."closlier"... I dearly hope this was ironic :)

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

"Kill the Messenger"; Outer Space edition.

The Trump administration wants to get rid of the Orbiting Carbon Observatories, which measure global atmospheric CO2 and plant growth. Your Tax Dollars, burning up on re-entry, because The Powerful dislike the results. www.npr.org/2025/08/04/n...

It's my hope that as storage becomes more ubiquitous , regional pricing will mostly equalize out, as more people exploit regional price differences with arbitrage... but I admit I don't know how the market in France works, so maybe that won't be a thing?

Was one named Torquemada? Nobody expects the Spanish moss dissolution.

I wonder if Tucker's "reasonableness" on this issue has anything to do with Russia's stance on Israel's attacks on Iran.

I saw your Banks and Le Guin vid. I think that your categories are good as they stand, but recognize that at a high enough resolution, all imposed categories will be fuzzy at the edges. Biology bleeds into culture, which bleeds into technology. Don't stress about exact lines of demarcation.

YouTube video by 11Alive Officer fires rubber bullet at Australian reporter covering LA protests | Raw video

Purposeful. Specific. Aimed.

youtu.be/vglaT7awScY?...

Humility. The inherent recognition that we can be wrong, that we can fool ourselves. We have to take special care, and develop robust strategies, to safeguard ourselves from self delusion

We find ourselves
In pictures on the net
Blinded by science
Addicted to devotion
[...]
Dead Stars Still burn.

I'm trying to remember an old SciFi short story, where Scientists started translating Dolphin's speech, and they started relaying their wisdom to the world. Turned out to be a hoax that the researchers were using to pass off common sense wisdom as alien Knowledge.

Partisanship is like an accent.

If you THINK you have no accent, it's probably just that the accent you DO have, is invisible to you.

This "middle" perspective was considered important in the view of someone talking to the main character, about their specific mindset in their Math, that they felt would lead to a scientific breakthrough (maybe FTL?)

I have a memory of a moment in The Dispossessed, where the three societies, Harnish, the peoples of Tau Ceti, and the Earth Humans, were described as on a continuum between Overly mystical (Hainish) and overly Materialistic (Earth), with Anarres / Urras a happy medium.

Politics!?!?! In My STAR WARS!?!?!

If you see this, post a sword.
#booksky

Taking a queue from software companies that count every pirated copy as financial loss of that many dollars, The current administration now counts every pill sized as that many lives saved. Of course, to see the problem with that you need to be a fan of Math.