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Graham's number... factorial.
October 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Graham's number... factorial.
Look - I know if you're in uniform, you're *obliged* to sit quietly, and they are. But you have a face and it's possible to be happy or angry that you're there.
And buddy, these are not happy generals and admirals.
Photo credit Doug Mills for the New York Times.
And buddy, these are not happy generals and admirals.
Photo credit Doug Mills for the New York Times.
September 30, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Look - I know if you're in uniform, you're *obliged* to sit quietly, and they are. But you have a face and it's possible to be happy or angry that you're there.
And buddy, these are not happy generals and admirals.
Photo credit Doug Mills for the New York Times.
And buddy, these are not happy generals and admirals.
Photo credit Doug Mills for the New York Times.
Jamelle Bouie, writing on the importance of valorizing neither deed nor (unduly) victim, says something I thought deserved elevating.
We hear this these days in another guise: "believe people when they tell you who they are." It's just respectful - and you'll be more prepared for what they do.
We hear this these days in another guise: "believe people when they tell you who they are." It's just respectful - and you'll be more prepared for what they do.
September 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Jamelle Bouie, writing on the importance of valorizing neither deed nor (unduly) victim, says something I thought deserved elevating.
We hear this these days in another guise: "believe people when they tell you who they are." It's just respectful - and you'll be more prepared for what they do.
We hear this these days in another guise: "believe people when they tell you who they are." It's just respectful - and you'll be more prepared for what they do.
This is in addition to diegetic discussion of the facts and detailed interstitials.
Also, nice to see accurate discussion of mechanics of graduate school. One girl is writing a thesis. The teenage newbie gets her name on a paper for helping out, and the value of the acknowledgement is brought home.
Also, nice to see accurate discussion of mechanics of graduate school. One girl is writing a thesis. The teenage newbie gets her name on a paper for helping out, and the value of the acknowledgement is brought home.
September 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is in addition to diegetic discussion of the facts and detailed interstitials.
Also, nice to see accurate discussion of mechanics of graduate school. One girl is writing a thesis. The teenage newbie gets her name on a paper for helping out, and the value of the acknowledgement is brought home.
Also, nice to see accurate discussion of mechanics of graduate school. One girl is writing a thesis. The teenage newbie gets her name on a paper for helping out, and the value of the acknowledgement is brought home.
I want to give a shoutout to this anime: Ruri Rocks, currently on Crunchyroll, about mineralogy. It's surprisingly good at taking serious science - hours-in-front-of-a-microscope, repeated sampling, the importance of detailed notes - and making an engaging story.
September 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
I want to give a shoutout to this anime: Ruri Rocks, currently on Crunchyroll, about mineralogy. It's surprisingly good at taking serious science - hours-in-front-of-a-microscope, repeated sampling, the importance of detailed notes - and making an engaging story.
We know why it's called the Department of War. It's called that by lickspittles currying the favor of a narcissistic incompetent who thinks laws don't apply to him and thinks that renaming things changes what they are.
September 7, 2025 at 12:40 AM
We know why it's called the Department of War. It's called that by lickspittles currying the favor of a narcissistic incompetent who thinks laws don't apply to him and thinks that renaming things changes what they are.
This widely held impression is why the Windows 2K musume incarnated as the bespectacled, dependable OL type.
August 14, 2025 at 2:38 AM
This widely held impression is why the Windows 2K musume incarnated as the bespectacled, dependable OL type.
It do seem to have that cake though.
August 8, 2025 at 5:34 PM
It do seem to have that cake though.
On the other hand, nobody in that thread seems to be aware that there was a *1939* Buck Rogers serial.
Buck appeared in the future after being frozen (and preserved with a special lifesaving gas) after the crash of his... dirigible.
Buck appeared in the future after being frozen (and preserved with a special lifesaving gas) after the crash of his... dirigible.
August 8, 2025 at 3:35 PM
On the other hand, nobody in that thread seems to be aware that there was a *1939* Buck Rogers serial.
Buck appeared in the future after being frozen (and preserved with a special lifesaving gas) after the crash of his... dirigible.
Buck appeared in the future after being frozen (and preserved with a special lifesaving gas) after the crash of his... dirigible.
The paragraph that really stood out to me.
We've had a Forever War against "terrorism" overseas for decades. Without a domestic enemy it just doesn't translate into the justification for fascism that they want here. Targeting immigrants gets troops in the streets.
newrepublic.com/article/1987...
We've had a Forever War against "terrorism" overseas for decades. Without a domestic enemy it just doesn't translate into the justification for fascism that they want here. Targeting immigrants gets troops in the streets.
newrepublic.com/article/1987...
August 4, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The paragraph that really stood out to me.
We've had a Forever War against "terrorism" overseas for decades. Without a domestic enemy it just doesn't translate into the justification for fascism that they want here. Targeting immigrants gets troops in the streets.
newrepublic.com/article/1987...
We've had a Forever War against "terrorism" overseas for decades. Without a domestic enemy it just doesn't translate into the justification for fascism that they want here. Targeting immigrants gets troops in the streets.
newrepublic.com/article/1987...
I have been to Abu Simbel and YES! There is indeed a set of vast and trunkless legs of stone!
(Not what Shelley saw. If I understand right, he was inspired by a statue called the Lesser Memnon at the British Museum: seeing a trunk, he surmised the existence of trunkless legs abandoned somewhere.)
(Not what Shelley saw. If I understand right, he was inspired by a statue called the Lesser Memnon at the British Museum: seeing a trunk, he surmised the existence of trunkless legs abandoned somewhere.)
July 17, 2025 at 10:28 PM
I have been to Abu Simbel and YES! There is indeed a set of vast and trunkless legs of stone!
(Not what Shelley saw. If I understand right, he was inspired by a statue called the Lesser Memnon at the British Museum: seeing a trunk, he surmised the existence of trunkless legs abandoned somewhere.)
(Not what Shelley saw. If I understand right, he was inspired by a statue called the Lesser Memnon at the British Museum: seeing a trunk, he surmised the existence of trunkless legs abandoned somewhere.)
Remember, the 4th of July commemorates the signing and publication of the Declaration of Independence.
I'm going out today and driving in a parade.
Because I love my country.
And I want it to be a good one.
I'm going out today and driving in a parade.
Because I love my country.
And I want it to be a good one.
July 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Remember, the 4th of July commemorates the signing and publication of the Declaration of Independence.
I'm going out today and driving in a parade.
Because I love my country.
And I want it to be a good one.
I'm going out today and driving in a parade.
Because I love my country.
And I want it to be a good one.
July 3, 2025 at 3:30 AM
One more provision in the Big Bad Bill that I hadn't heard about until just now, and it's amazingly disgusting: the GOP wants to make it a risk for colleges to seek to educate poor and working-class kids. They really want education to be the privilege of the rich.
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
June 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
One more provision in the Big Bad Bill that I hadn't heard about until just now, and it's amazingly disgusting: the GOP wants to make it a risk for colleges to seek to educate poor and working-class kids. They really want education to be the privilege of the rich.
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
newrepublic.com/article/1970...
In 2014 we saw this in a study on SCOTUS decisions. Conservatives sided with conservative speech regardless of the principles in the case. For liberals the effect wasn't even statistically significant.
Every Dem Senate candidate in 2028 should promise to pack the Court even with a 50+VP majority.
Every Dem Senate candidate in 2028 should promise to pack the Court even with a 50+VP majority.
June 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In 2014 we saw this in a study on SCOTUS decisions. Conservatives sided with conservative speech regardless of the principles in the case. For liberals the effect wasn't even statistically significant.
Every Dem Senate candidate in 2028 should promise to pack the Court even with a 50+VP majority.
Every Dem Senate candidate in 2028 should promise to pack the Court even with a 50+VP majority.
Welp, the NSF grant to support grad students and postdocs I was in a group applying for just got nixed. Just Trump & the GOP tearing apart US science to return all power and money to billionaires so we can exist at their whim.
It will take us a generation to recover from this disaster, at least.
It will take us a generation to recover from this disaster, at least.
May 20, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Welp, the NSF grant to support grad students and postdocs I was in a group applying for just got nixed. Just Trump & the GOP tearing apart US science to return all power and money to billionaires so we can exist at their whim.
It will take us a generation to recover from this disaster, at least.
It will take us a generation to recover from this disaster, at least.
May 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
One of the most eye-opening studies I ever saw was that Supreme Court justices ruled more often for free speech claims when the speaker was of their political persuasion - but the effect was *enormous* (and statistically significant) only for the conservative justices.
April 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
One of the most eye-opening studies I ever saw was that Supreme Court justices ruled more often for free speech claims when the speaker was of their political persuasion - but the effect was *enormous* (and statistically significant) only for the conservative justices.
Here he is still rough, but he is strong and generous, offering food to hungry English workmen and subtly digging at their industrial countrymen supporting the South and slavery.
January 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Here he is still rough, but he is strong and generous, offering food to hungry English workmen and subtly digging at their industrial countrymen supporting the South and slavery.
In comparison, this image , from Puck magazine in 1896 (an American publication), features Uncle Sam in a much more flattering light, and suggests American-Canadian union is only a matter of time.
January 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
In comparison, this image , from Puck magazine in 1896 (an American publication), features Uncle Sam in a much more flattering light, and suggests American-Canadian union is only a matter of time.
Finally, in this image from 1840 we see a different (and rather ominous) Brother Jonathan, riding a rail into Canada and trampling French-Canadian rights.
January 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Finally, in this image from 1840 we see a different (and rather ominous) Brother Jonathan, riding a rail into Canada and trampling French-Canadian rights.
In this image from 1869 we see a simpler Jonathan, being shown Canada's ambitions for a cross-country railway. Canada says it will "stop the foolish talk about annexation," and Jonathan replies, "Wal Miss, I guess you're about right thar; but I'll believe it when I see it."
January 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
In this image from 1869 we see a simpler Jonathan, being shown Canada's ambitions for a cross-country railway. Canada says it will "stop the foolish talk about annexation," and Jonathan replies, "Wal Miss, I guess you're about right thar; but I'll believe it when I see it."
In possibly the most famous image along these lines (Wikipedia hosted), from 1886, we see Jonathan as a Northern dandy, with jaunty top hat and cigar. Mrs. Britannia asks her daughter Canada if she has ever given her cousin Jonathan any "encouragement," to which she replies, certainly not.
January 26, 2025 at 5:04 AM
In possibly the most famous image along these lines (Wikipedia hosted), from 1886, we see Jonathan as a Northern dandy, with jaunty top hat and cigar. Mrs. Britannia asks her daughter Canada if she has ever given her cousin Jonathan any "encouragement," to which she replies, certainly not.
One of my favorite personal photographs is an iron cover on a spring day in Philly, when it had collected a bunch of fallen flower petals. Just a gorgeous contrast of textures.
January 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
One of my favorite personal photographs is an iron cover on a spring day in Philly, when it had collected a bunch of fallen flower petals. Just a gorgeous contrast of textures.