Brian T. Rice

The choice of the words "individually tailored," here, is interesting. Until the Industrial Revolution (which overlapped the French Revolution), most clothes, and many other items, were custom made for the individual.

Mass production and sameness are the modern, arguably unnatural, situation.

Besides the fact that it’s tasty, one reason we turn to hyperindividualism in our tastes is that we’re alienated and dehumanized by a capitalist society that reduces us to a number on a spreadsheet and crushes our individual human rights.

I would say the book “Conceptual Mathematics” (PDF available at archive.org) is at this level.

No, it's not a pipe dream! For more details on how category theory helps us model complex systems, try the talk, slides and papers here:

math.ucr.edu/home/baez/co...

I can tell you this writer is my least favorite kind of motherfucker customer.
As a barista it's my job to manage complicated drink orders and it's not actually terribly difficult to do.
This asshole rolls his eyes when his wife says "skim milk please" and we all think she should leave him.

Over the last 13 years, polar-orbiting satellites captured the midwinter snowpack across the Western United States.
This winter season is a record low for snow across the region.

Nothing says “poised for success” quite like the words ‘venture capitalist’ followed by the guys who ran Wordpress and Tumblr into the ground LMAO

The way the market is reacting to this you'd think it wasn't coming from the most full of shit man on earth

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if you're wondering what this means for the water situation this year, the answer involves a lot of hyperventilating

One of the most destructive blind spots to the guys currently tanking our society is that they treat information like vitamins and believe it can be optimized.

1. They’re lying/wrong

2. It means the world is run by guys who think they have nothing to learn from a movie or song or play or stranger

You need to call your reps and demand that they OPPOSE:

-the KIDS Act
-KOSA
-the Screen Act
-Sammy's Law
-the App Store Accountability Act

And additionally, oppose:

-reforming/sunsetting Section 230
-online age verification/ID laws

www.congress.gov/members/find...

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

My "absolutely no PRs from anyone exposed to microplastics" policy is raising a lot of questions answered, quite frankly, by the policy itself

Lmao I mean, this is just pathetic. Someone sue the government and find all this shit out (if they live) and make a stink, just asking won't change shit, probably nothing will anyways. All rules for you, none for them.

game character is at the bottom of what looks like some stone steps, close to some trees. they are saying: this looks like a tree from far away, but it's just more of that computer generated crap. this comes from the point and click command 'look at the trees'. down the bottom of the screen is a face portrait of the character and the point and click commands: walk to, look at (highlighted), take, use, talk to, swallow, give, push. to the right of this is mostly blank boxes for inventory.

harlan ellison: i have no mouth, and i must scream, screenshot, macintosh (1995) www.mobygames.com/game/617/har...

DEI for conservatives is working out so great that we can't tell you how great it is working out.

Hasbro’s CEO on J.K. Rowling. We just published our new Decoder interview with Chris Cocks, the head of Hasbro. I asked him directly about how he thinks about author J.K. Rowling’s politics and what it’s done to the Harry Potter f...

cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch

www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...

the real question: what's his opinion on suspending users that track the head of trust and safety's porn likes?

it would be the work of minutes for one of these guys to just reorder the same shoes in the right size without telling the Big Guy, but that would be defeating the purpose, which is to demonstrate a willingness to humiliate yourself the second he tells you to.

every complex system runs in a degraded state all the time

Fluffy gray tabby upside down on a cardboard cat chaise, where he is soaking up some surprise rays.

He doesn’t understand why they keep coming and going, but he’s waiting for those sunbeams to fire up and stay.

text: step 7: chivalry is not dead. if mario grabs his girlfriend's hat, purse, or umbrella, he earns extra points.

donkey kong, manual, excerpt, colecovision (1982) archive.org/details/donk...

"We do not want metal in our food."
"But they could just lie about it"
"We do not want metal in our food."
"But what if we disclose that it's in there?"
"WE DO NOT WANT METAL IN OUR FOOD."

call this argument what it is: giving up.

"Saying 'No' is hard. Just say yes. It will make your life so much easier."

YouTube video by Atoga blahaj goes to waffle house at 3am

Time for blahaj at the waffle house. youtu.be/X1beEuBV7M0

Genderqueer Pride ✊ #genderqueer #pride #floppydiskart

SIGNS OF SPRING feed! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

This disgusting shit doesn’t belong in American society.

And Republicans who support it don’t belong in Congress.