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Sometimes I like to turn on my dishwasher just to pretend that it’s raining.

[6] L To Calvisius. Thave been spending all my time here among my tablets and books as quietly as I could wish. "How is that possible," you ask, "in Rome?" Well, the Circensian games have been on, and that is a kind of spectacle which has not the slightest attraction for me. There is no novelty, no variety in it, nothing which one wants to see twice. Hence I am the more amazed that so many thousands of men * should be eager, like a pack of children, to see horses running time after time, and the charioteers bending over their cars. There might be some reason for their enthusiasm if it was the speed of the hors or the skill of the drivers that was the attraction, but it is the racing-colours which they favour, and the racing-colours that fire their love. If, in the middle of the course and during the race itself, the colours were to be changed, their enthusiasm and partisanship would change with them, and they would suddenly desert the drivers and the horses, whom they recognise afar and whose names they shout aloud. Such is the influence and authority vested i one cheap tunic, I don't say with the common crowd, - for that is even cheaper than the tunic, - but with certain men of position; and when I consider that they can sit for so long without growing tired, looking on at such a fruitless, cheerless, and tedious sport, I really feel a sort of pleasure in the thought that what they take delight in has no charm for me. Thus it is that I have been only too glad to pass my leisure time among my books during the race-meeting, while others have been wasting their days in the most idle occupations. Farewell.

[first lines Jerry: Loyalty to any one sports team is pretty hard to justify. Because the players are always changing, the team can move to another city. You're actually rooting for the clothes when you get right down to it. I mean, you are standing and cheering and yelling for your clothes to beat the clothes from another city. Fans will be so in love with a player, but if he goes to another team, they boo him. This is the same human being in a different shirt. They hate him now. "Boo! Different shirt. Booooo."

Pliny the Younger apparently thought sports were very stupid but it's funny that it's for the exact reason laid out in Seinfeld s6e12 ("The Label Maker")

Negative Mass Universe is the name of a shitty prog rock album.

“Organizations which design systems […] are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.”
— Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

Trenchant surveying, automaton!

I can’t help but notice that nine letters times three words is 27 letters total. In other words, three cubed.

machinery
abecedary
haruspice

Graph text: Subcritical Turing bifurcation: formation of a hexagonal pattern from noisy initial conditions in the above two‐component reaction–diffusion system of Fitzhugh–Nagumo type. Graph contents: A noisy blue square with speckles of green and dark blue over x and y coordinates. Graph description: Noisy initial conditions at t = 0.

slop administration

An Oral-B login screen.

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

I'm not incredibly fond of headlines like this because they are slightly misleading— you click on the article and what it's reporting on isn't actually AI specifically, but data centers in general— of which AI processing comprises 10-20%. Data centers overall make up about 2% of global power usage

Sorry to hear but it’s totally understandable. I always appreciated your posts here, especially considering how actively hostile an experience Twitter is nowadays for queer people.

The screams of tormented souls lead to some very interesting and complicated fluid dynamics

Advice, please — I would like to learn more about k-pop. Is the best way to start with 1- or 2-pop in order to build intuition, or should I go directly for the general case?

If some future archeologist digs up our trash, they’d probably call us the Plasticware Culture

I’m getting really into group theory

AOC and Bernie in front of the rally crowd in Denver

Zoomed out crowd shot of 34,000 people in downtown Denver with Colorado mountains in the background

Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.

This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.

Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.

And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

Stay safe, and good luck 💖

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

I realize I’m just shouting to the wind here..
If there’s any takeaway, it’s that I’m proud of my sister for showing up to this town hall. I’m proud that she is one of the many people holding this man accountable.

If you’re reading this sis, just know I support you all the way and I love you 💛🌻

From the kansas community on Reddit: Marshall ran away. Explore this post and more from the kansas community

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A crowded room of people attending US Senator Marshall’s town hall in Oakley, Kansas. Several are raising their hands and asking question in agitation.

You can dodge the questions. You can leave 20 minutes early. You can go back to your million dollar mansion in Florida.

Senator Marshall, you are a grifter and a hack, and I feel the same contempt towards you as you feel towards the people of Kansas.

You call it waste, but as far as I can tell the only waste you see is the health and safety of your constituents.

Weather stations in Wichita, Kansas City, and Goodland are critically understaffed due to recent NWS firings. Accurate forecasts are critical to the success of Kansan agriculture. Each spring storm season, these meteorologists save lives.

You are a doctor. A child in Texas died of measles, a disease you know full well is preventable with vaccines you know work, and yet you blame the death on “illegal immigrants”.

Roger Marshall is a coward who disrespected my sister

Apple Health new trend showing my resting heart rate increased over the last 5 weeks.

huh, wonder why

15,000 and counting.
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