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Du solst sie haben.
Visited the JFK museum and library yesterday.
November 23, 2025 at 10:18 PM
$7.25/hr is $15080/yr.
$15/hr is $31200/yr.

Both assuming a 40 hr workweek.
November 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
To the guy who got pissy at the bank trainee when asked to show ID for a withdrawal: for your enhanced security, per bank policy, you'll be asked to show ID every time.
October 30, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Mahna Mahna The Muppet Show 1977 Original mana mana Snowths
YouTube video by Justin Caise
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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So Schumer and Jeffries were right to force the conversation not about the CR or shutdown but about the final GOP budget and their broader agenda to begin the process of forcing Rs to take responsibility for the incredible harm they are doing to the country.

That's what this debate is about. 5/
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
At the good old NASCAR game
September 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Linux Mint convert.
September 19, 2025 at 8:23 PM
A big part of the problem in the Constitution is that the Presidency is designed to check the Legislature, and not the other way around.
September 18, 2025 at 7:05 PM
If there is a cooler band out there than Wet Leg right now I don't know what it is.
September 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Yeah, easy block.
September 12, 2025 at 5:39 PM
It's wrong to murder shitty people.
September 11, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"The heads of Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Apple gathered at the White House to endorse a plan to feed America's children to yet another technology monster."
The heads of Microsoft, OpenAI, Google and Apple gathered at the White House to endorse a plan to help America’s children learn to use artificial intelligence, as the industry rushes to show support and curry favour with the administration on.ft.com/4nexysf
September 5, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Reading a Wikipedia article on Communicating Sequential Processes, and I realize the original paper was the basis of my oldest brother's dissertation and academic research, and the grief hits.
August 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
My ninth grade English teacher died very recently. I can't think of a better way to honor him than to read a book. Here's to you, Mr. George.
August 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Let's give him the Nobel Fuckup Prize.
August 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"It's time for other people to be violent" is always such an inspiring revolutionary sentiment.
July 21, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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A Louisianan places his hand on a gun of Wiedrich’s battery - “I take command of this gun.” The German gunner, his hand on the lanyard, replies, “du solst sie haben” (you shall have it) and pulls the lanyard, disintegrating the rebel entirely
July 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Being an asshole = getting blocked, even if you're ostensibly an ally.
June 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Public ownership of the means of cognition.
June 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Meanwhile, let's check on SpaceX progress: youtu.be/vlSrcjnAN7Q?...
Ship 36 Experiences Anomaly (Loss of Vehicle) - LabPadre Space
YouTube video by LabPadre Space
youtu.be
June 22, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Thank you, Merrick Garland, for defending norms.
June 22, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Thinking today about this essay from 1993: calteches.library.caltech.edu/3741/
Scientific Elites and Scientific Illiterates - Caltech Magazine
calteches.library.caltech.edu
June 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I wonder how the discussion would change if we talked about "parenting" LLMs instead of "training" them.
June 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
June 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
At least I got a rejection letter for that job instead of just being ghosted.
June 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM