Bjork has given us her hitbox. I expect the lab folks to have her frame data ready for the rest of us by EOB

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

April is your yearly reminder the only reason you have to spend hours filling out your taxes is because companies like Intuit (Turbo Tax) lobby the government to make it as hard as possible to do your taxes so you will buy their crappy software every year.

Don't be afraid to tell someone how much they mean to you. A sincere and honest complement to another shouldn't feel weird and is often the highlight of someone else's day. Let the people you care about know you love them.

This is sort of the skeleton key to understanding a lot of shit: there 100% is a non-trivial amount of inefficiency and waste in the federal bureaucracy, and most of it is a *direct result* of ‘reforms’ that are meant to assuage the people who complain about “waste and inefficiency in govt”

I saw a Let's Go Brandon shirt out in public today and it made me create this graph.

My 4-year-old got on my computer and started sending stickers to random people. This one made it to someone at work.

Any update on this?

I refuse to learn what the Rizzler is. I refuse. You can't make me.

I was reading what happened to the AP Calculus teacher depicted in Stand and Deliver and the school muscled him out for getting too famous and wanting too much control over a program he built from scratch. This "crabs in the bucket" mentality is so disheartening!

One of my biggest long-term concerns is the decline of our collective sense of community. We have successfully silo'd ourselves away from those in our towns and neighborhoods in favor of like-minded spaces on the Internet. This lack of engagement with others fuels many of our political problems.

Biden insisting he should run again despite showing serious mental decline while the entire Democratic party looks the other way and lets him do it will be seen as one of the serious political blunders of the 21st century.