Guan Yang
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“Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production”
Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu
December 25, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“Slop is not distinguishable by its attributes. It is an attitude of production”
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The Vatican City State is tiny, but that was not exactly of the Popes’ own volition…
December 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The Vatican City State is tiny, but that was not exactly of the Popes’ own volition…
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Sabine Devieilhe: O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn (Die Zauberflöte, K. 620)
Sabine Devieilhe sings ‘O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn’
An impressive spectrum of emotional registers, coloraturas at breakneck speed and a stratospherically high F. Mozart really did go all out for the Queen of t...
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November 17, 2023 at 4:18 PM
Sabine Devieilhe: O zittre nicht, mein lieber Sohn (Die Zauberflöte, K. 620)
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people are clowning on this, but the Canadian mind is cunning, pitiless, steeped in boreal perfidy
The Atlantic suggesting, without evidence, that Canada's Global TV broadcasting the '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT that CBS distributed to it may have been an act of "treachery."
🔗: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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December 24, 2025 at 3:37 AM
people are clowning on this, but the Canadian mind is cunning, pitiless, steeped in boreal perfidy
From earlier this year, on the status of Greenland, which was a colony until it was integrated into the Kingdom of Denmark in 1953.
New Geo-Political Challenges and the Past and Future of EU-Greenland Relations
Ulla Neergaard , Professor of EU Law, University of Copenhagen Photo credit : Gordon Leggett, via Wikimedia Commons *This co...
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December 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
From earlier this year, on the status of Greenland, which was a colony until it was integrated into the Kingdom of Denmark in 1953.
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In New York City, one of the arguments frequently made by the MTA against platform screen doors is that they would be difficult to implement because different trains running on the same line have doors located in different places.
Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:
Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:
Today Futian HSR Station in Shenzhen just installed a dual layer PSD system. Similar to the one I visited in Osaka, Japan; two layers of PSD units can shift around to match the door positions of any train. China has over 50 different HST models with a bunch of different door locations...
December 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In New York City, one of the arguments frequently made by the MTA against platform screen doors is that they would be difficult to implement because different trains running on the same line have doors located in different places.
Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:
Meanwhile, at Shenzhen's high-speed rail station:
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Becoming a One Hundred Twelver
we love a breaking new story from a 17th century archive
Correcting the record: Zohran Mamdani believes he is 112th NYC mayor
Exactly how the official count of mayors will be updated to include a 17th century mayor’s second term is unclear.
gothamist.com
December 21, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Becoming a One Hundred Twelver
70% right, 30% wrong, many such cases
My most leftist view is that people blaming their problems on Capitalism are right ~70% of the time
December 21, 2025 at 5:23 PM
70% right, 30% wrong, many such cases
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This does not have an immediate effect for common devices. Apple, Microsoft and Google each operate their own NTP servers (synchronized with GPS and other sources, and using their own atomic clocks), and other devices use the ntp.org pool.
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.
December 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
This does not have an immediate effect for common devices. Apple, Microsoft and Google each operate their own NTP servers (synchronized with GPS and other sources, and using their own atomic clocks), and other devices use the ntp.org pool.
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“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
The Alarmingly Racist History of the Supreme Court’s Canceled 1947 Christmas Party
The Court held its first-ever office Christmas party in 1946. The following year, the clerks suggested inviting Black employees. It did not go over well.
ballsandstrikes.substack.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“The Supreme Court decided not to have a Christmas party for 12 straight years because the justices couldn’t agree on whether to invite the Court’s Black employees” is about as tidy an encapsulation of the Supreme Court’s whole deal as I can think of
The Chinese constitution itself warns: “In the struggle to safeguard ethnic unity, we should oppose major ethnic group chauvinism, which mainly refers to Han chauvinism” 在维护民族团结的斗争中，要反对大民族主义，主要是大汉族主义
China's Official Media Rebukes Han-Centric Historical Narratives
A viral online discouse blaming Qing Dynasty for China's contemporary woes prompts official excoriation
www.sinicalchina.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The Chinese constitution itself warns: “In the struggle to safeguard ethnic unity, we should oppose major ethnic group chauvinism, which mainly refers to Han chauvinism” 在维护民族团结的斗争中，要反对大民族主义，主要是大汉族主义
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49. The game isn't over by far. But make no mistake: we are winning. That's something to be proud of. It's something to accelerate. It's nothing to take for granted. And it's certainly no time to take Yglesias' advice and fumble the ball so the other team won't feel so sad. /fin
December 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I want to know which one of you multiphase atmospheric chemists forced them to add "until opened"
December 19, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I want to know which one of you multiphase atmospheric chemists forced them to add "until opened"
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I agree with @ahenneberg.bsky.social here.
December 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I agree with @ahenneberg.bsky.social here.
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america is so great europeans have to move here to do the mass shootings they can’t do in europe
December 19, 2025 at 7:26 AM
america is so great europeans have to move here to do the mass shootings they can’t do in europe
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In Ancient Rome, proof of citizenship was more about vibes than paperwork.
How could the Romans prove they were citizens?
“the sanctity of Roman citizenship was protected less by formal documents of identification and more by two methods. … Someone with the tria nomina being dragged about in a litter by 30 slaves … was obviously a citizen.”
“the sanctity of Roman citizenship was protected less by formal documents of identification and more by two methods. … Someone with the tria nomina being dragged about in a litter by 30 slaves … was obviously a citizen.”
How Could The Romans Prove They Were Citizens?
When the Apostle Paul was being a pain in the arse in Jerusalem sometime in (probably) AD 59, the locals had enough of his weird ranting and dragged him off to the Romans for a good, old-fashioned 'qu...
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December 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM
In Ancient Rome, proof of citizenship was more about vibes than paperwork.
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matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
December 18, 2025 at 3:56 PM
matt & co’s theory of how public opinion on immigration would respond to new information was simply empirically wrong.
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
at this point the only reasonable conclusion is they refuse to update their priors w/ new data because the data is inconvenient for them
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/the-cost-o...
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Bullet Train. It is stupid as hell and I love it
December 18, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Bullet Train. It is stupid as hell and I love it
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Newt Gingrich
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Newt Gingrich - Wikipedia
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December 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Newt Gingrich
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