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Joseph Morris
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Lawyer/dad type; Oakland, California
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The basic thesis being rebutted, for the paywalled and click averse
December 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Respect to these three ladies dancing with pom poms on an interstate 880 overpass at 8:00 a.m. on a Tuesday to protest ICE ("end the ICE age" is one of the signs)
December 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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What a resume
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsey...
November 17, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Waldo Point Harbor in Sausalito saysays Wikipedia. Bit more upscale than I'd always imagined
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"I've had nothing to live for
Look like nothin's gonna come my way" is its apex of glumness; but "guess I'll remain the same, yes" seems to envision future. I read as ordinary nonsuicidal depression, or even mere sadness at lack of purpose
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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A story with more detail www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Trader Joe's feedback form filled out with comment that seeking to eliminate the NLRB is fundamentally offensive and causes the person submitting it to not want to shop at their stores
October 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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This boat was . . . more sausage-shaped than the average trireme? Or saltier?
October 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Hopefully Mike shows up with a specific answer, but, bibliography FWIW web.archive.org/web/20250627...
October 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Not a fluid dynamicist. Also I think heat and better consistency might matter at least as much as, if not more, than plane tilt
An imperfect crèpe
September 20, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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If you are a fluid dynamicist, never forget that you are a fluid dynamicist
One day his colleague was frustrated that all of his crepes turned out uneven. Sellier swife reminded him that, as a fluid dynamicist, he of all people should be able to solve this problem Scientific paper with the title Pancake making and surface coating optimal control of a gravity driven liquid film
September 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Also respect to the California law or funding directive that causes all California public libraries to issue cards to any California resident, which has made it super easy to get all of the ebooks and audiobooks that my children want to consume
August 31, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Maybe another example although not one we do frequently
August 31, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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August 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Always about US property over other people's liberty. We too would be more free today if we had just let Iranians have their freedom in 1953.
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June 22, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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This time with all text, although had to edit for length to get it under 2,000 characters
The fact that the first software breakthroughs were in the area of missile targeting, and of information search and retrieval, tells us nothing in particular about what present-day computers are good for. The fact that some early stages in the evolution of the human brain were dictated by the needs of hunter-gatherers tells us equally little about what to do with the resulting product. Steven Pinker tells us that ‘The mind is a system of organs of computation, designed by natural selection to solve the kinds of problems our ancestors faced in their foraging way of life’...Pinker’s sentence is misleading even if we substitute ‘brain’ for ‘mind’ as its subject. It is misleading for the same reason that it would be misleading to say that my laptop, which I use only for word processing, was designed to track missiles and comb databases. Accounts of what the original designers of tools had in mind make little difference to the uses to which we put those tools. ... books like Pinker’s and Wilson’s, ... tell us that linguistics, cognitive psychology, and evolutionary biology are conspiring to change the human self-image . . .what we had previously thought to be cultural will turn out to be biological. But this claim would sound convincing only if we come to think that evolution has created a brain that unfortunately cannot be programmed in a certain way – a brain so constructed that certain input-output functions cannot be realized by it. To acknowledge the hegemony of the biological would be to admit that some seemingly promising cultural initiative should not be attempted, because biology blocks it. [such an argument] would amount to saying: do not even try to modify our social practices in the proposed way, because we know in advance that it will not work. We know that the experiment should not be tried, because it is foredoomed.
June 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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June 18, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Reminds me of Klion's "New York nationalist post" which I think of often
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David Klion X post from 2023 I'm something of a NYC nationalist—I really think it's a miracle that all the peoples of the world can live together in one city basically in peace and harmony—and this UES halal cart vendor story is only reinforcing that.
June 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Just discovered the Tape Notes podcast, gonna learn how all my fave electronic artists do what they do
May 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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I will sign this anyway but could you please ask Bike East Bay to not do mandatory opt-in for petitions, this is bad privacy practices to force people to share their information for more purposes than what they want
May 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Prior to this post I would not have thought of those things as causally linked; but went searching and here's Denvir writing on the 10th anniversary of 9/11
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A DC action against the IMF and the World Bank scheduled for September 26, 2001 – The Associated Press reported that police anticipated 100,000 protesters – quietly fizzled after the meetings were canceled. Small protests against the Afghanistan war were met with a bipartisan dose of jingoistic opprobrium and though the invasion of Iraq sparked mass demonstrations in 2003, that movement also fizzled into a puddle of futility and disorganization.
May 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Respect to the neighbor putting up posters with PR against a specific invasive plant
Poster with a man holding up a plant, saying dig stomp rip destroy this evil weed - the bridal creeper
May 1, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Guess I can continue to not worry about AI threatening my livelihood for a little while yet, still functioning like a hallucinating high school junior

crowdfundingattorney.com/2025/04/30/l...
Blog post partial screenshot In the earliest stages, I don’t expect an AI tool to produce great results. During a recent demonstration, the sales rep said, “You should view this as the work of a second-year lawyer.” Unfortunately, it was more like the work of a high school junior. The good news is that brute strength tools like ChatGPT have improved dramatically. You still can’t rely on them – recently ChatGPT produced a quote from a court case speaking directly to my issue, but when I checked (always check), the quote was hallucinated – they are better than the intermediated tools, so far
April 30, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Signal does this; I love that it automatically calls the convo "Note to Self"
April 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Guess the effect of the pandemic on high schoolers was not 100% negative

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The Department of Music [at UC Berkeley] has experienced a tremendous increase in student enrollment since the beginning of the pandemic. Back in 2020, Milnes and other faculty members were worried what the loss of in-person events would mean for the field, but it appears that many young people passed those isolating times by diving deeper into the music they love. Now in college, these students want to hone their music-making skills. “Our music major’s numbers have doubled and are on the way to being tripled,” reported Milnes. “Kids want to study, play, and perform music. The concert halls are just exploding with their enthusiasm and talent!”
April 23, 2025 at 12:34 AM