Max Hawkins

From “Chess Perversions and Other Diversions” by Erik Olin Wright.

www.sscc.wisc.edu/soc/faculty/...

Affective polarization go brrr

Next you should run a TSP optimization to generate a maximum entropy summer road trip!

This is the main reason I live in Southern California. I love stumbling upon a mind-blowing but statistically improbable restaurant at the far end of a strip mall in the San Gabriel Valley or Long Beach.

The real villains are businesses that set up the platform incentives for that grift to be a profitable endeavor.

'90s Sim City 2000 warning message by the transportation advisor shouting at the player, but the text has been edited to read "YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

this about sums things up.

Trump shutdown of chemical safety watchdog could mean ‘more explosions, more deaths’ in Cancer Alley On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the...

The Chemical Safety Board does not duplicate OSHA or EPA. It's more like the NTSB of chemical plant incidents.

Eliminating the #CSB will mean more chemical releases, evacuations illnesses and deaths -- everywhere in the US, not just cancer alley.

www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

for context here’s a map of greater Los Angeles and the protest is the roughly the red circle

just that period reminder that content posted to Bluesky is public to *anybody*. if you don't want to see it used in a court of law, don't post it here.

and DMs here are not E2EE, they can be subpoened. a great use for bsky DMs is to share secure comms and move the conversation there.

That’s my guess! Unclear from the web page though…

Makes sense to me. I have a lot of small side projects using the API that I don’t share because it would be too much of a hassle to put Stripe in front of it and charge for usage.

Population Growth Reported Across Cities and Towns in All U.S. Regions Cities of all sizes grew on average from 2023 to 2024, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Vintage 2024 Subcounty population estimates released today.

US Census updated its city-level pop estimates today, showing population increases from 2023–24 in most cities.

Interesting data:
—NYC added 87k, up to ~8.5 m
—LA added 31k
—Chicago added 22k
—Seattle added 17k, up to 781k. This is up from 563k in 2000! Its density went from 6700 ppl/sq mi to 9300!

Oh thank god. All of my replies became obnoxiously bro-coded last week. I wasn’t sure if it was because I was asking it to explain the basis trade and it was channeling finance bro.

Sometimes it works if you ask it to export a .doc and the code interpreter doesn’t fail.

Once again, the Neopets Shop Layout HTML editor emerges as the latent engine of US tech sector dynamism.

I’d also love to know all of the press conferences / important votes / Supreme Court rulings scheduled the following day just so I can know ahead of time when some fuckery might disrupt my day

It’s a shame there’s no modern equivalent of burning someone a CD. It’s harder to share mp3s than it used to be in a lot of ways.

I am really enjoying going back to mp3s after doing streaming for many years. I had forgotten the satisfaction of ID3 tag cataloging and manually curating perfect playlists.

NHK on the tariffs on uninhabited islands:

Existential Liberalism: James Baldwin and the Problem of Freedom The burden of freedom has always been heavy, and Baldwin forces us to confront whether we are willing to bear it.

Historically prescient.
What he said six and seven decades ago is still relevant and likely to become yet more so.
www.liberalcurrents.com/existential-...

*Please repost* @sjgreenwood.bsky.social and I just launched a new personalized feed (*please pin*) that we hope will become a "must use" for #academicsky. The feed shows posts about papers filtered by *your* follower network. It's become my default Bluesky experience bsky.app/profile/pape...

Koreatown. Best food too.

What's up with Costa Rica?

Turning off the Discover feed and using others like Quiet Posters or a topic-specific feed helps.

Sometimes I’ll search for keywords I’m interested in and follow people who seem interesting in the results, or look at who people I follow follow.

Take metro to Koreatown and eat an amazing meal on your way to LACMA and the Tar Pits

Could be interesting to filter based on the average embedding of _someone else’s_ feed, like seeing your feed through their eyes.

Wow, sick.

Opus is a bit of a hybrid from what I remember. SILK codec is voice oriented, but you can get high quality with good compression if the encoder uses CELT.

Awesome! I’m there.

Need a faraday cage laptop case. Then you can truly log off!

John Galt lives!