Timothy Clark

If I'm at my desk, I 100% prefer videos to podcast audio-only style because I find that I focus and engage with video better than audio when I'm stationary, with music as the only exception. Even something like Well There's Your Problem's slideshow format helps me focus way better than audio-only.

Discord at the moment seems a bit more "for now" than usual, though.

But wouldn't it be wild if somehow that actually fixed it?

For now.

Two perfect examples of Americanisms.

1. Toilet w/o washlet: "Not Invented Here" syndrome
2. Showers with no water pressure: malicious compliance. It's about making people mad so they push for getting rid of water efficiency regulations. Other places can do low-flow/high-pressure but not here.

The only huge headline would be actual particle detection, and I have no idea if that'll happen anytime soon, but verification of CDG-2 seems to me incompatible with 1/r theories. I don't really see how Birkeland currents would apply at cosmological scales, but I don't follow the literature closely.

It was a very small bit by this point, really, as the recent experiments made the prospect of extremely-low-density regions of space where gravity starts looking like 1/r instead of 1/r^2 less and less likely. I think the observations of CDG-2 have finally finished it off for me.

Holy Streisand Effect, Batman.

A Galaxy Composed Almost Entirely of Dark Matter Has Been Confirmed What scientists thought were four separate star clusters are actually part of one nearly invisible system.

As one who still held out a bit of hope for Modified Newtonian Dynamics rather than particle-based Dark Matter, I think this result has put the last nail in MOND's coffin.

Masked paramilitaries marching in front of a hanging Trump banner on the DoJ

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

A convicted felon–adjudicated sex assaulter–pedophile is preaching to us about 'justice'.

A very troubling aspect is that it wasn't classified as a Type A mishap in the first place. The Type A definition on this PDF explicitly states "Unexpected crewed aircraft departure from controlled flight occurred" -- which is exactly what happened, even though they recovered control later.

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This country's failure to bring Trump and everyone who aided and abetted his coup attempt in January 2021 will go down as the greatest malpractice of American justice since the failure of Reconstruction.

The reason why billionaires are attracted to Russia isn't difficult. That is a society run by and for oligarchs, without any pretence of being anything else. Putin's regime is the model they want to impose on us.

Four paintings from Cole's series "The Course of Empire" with the third, titled "Destruction" containing the text YOU ARE HERE and an arrow pointing downward.

this is a subtle but IMO wildly underappreciated problem

Seeing guys claim that AI is *already* intelligent and capable of original thought really gives the game away. It’s not about waiting for the technology to miraculously become better, it’s about convincing you it’s something that it’s not

So much anti-trans discourse is nothing but “What about (made-up bullshit about trans people?)”and you do not have to indulge this or treat it like a legitimate argument.

if only there were people out there with good ideas who needed funding

The left-ish people making millions on Substack, which platforms literal Nazis, "accidentally" sends out push notifications with a swastika promoting a Neo-Nazi blog tells me everything I need to know. Substack's "OK with Nazis" owners get a 10% cut, and Richardson and Krugman are OK with Substack.

What if instead it rescues consumer electronics?

To use my usual example, the Atari 2600—which has 128 bytes of RAM total—was sold commercially, somewhere in the world, from 1977 to 1992. Its programmers kept discovering new things they could make it do, because they had reason to plumb its depths.

units discourse is so boring.
is a taco a sandwich but for gifted kids (derogatory).

Come for the trenchant analysis, stay for the accidental puppy in the preview blob.

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is boring and dangerous opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

"Semantic ablation" is the perfect term for what you get outsourcing written language to a slop machine:

"... aggressive ... tuning, which deliberately penalizes unconventional linguistic friction... where the pursuit of low-perplexity output results in the total destruction of unique signal."

Newsom is an empty shirt, and I thought Harris would have been OK as President. But only petulant children when faced with only two choices refuse to try to stop the greater evil. "I won't vote for ANY evil." Fucking grow up, the real world is not obligated to conform to your sense of moral purity.

It's survivorship bias-fueled eugenics. Mr. "I snorted coke off of toilet seats" got lucky and thought it was better breeding or some similar garbage.

Swear to god, so many of these uber rich guys who keep trying to intellectualize and sanitize white supremacy really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive. They constantly say word salad-y nonsense like this that would cause them to fail a fourth grade US history test.

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office Welcome The Stranger

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

youtu.be/uoU9Img_B40