Clarissa
@paolady.bsky.social
Spreadsheet wizard by day.
🌆 City girl. 🚲 Biking. 🎨 Trying my hand at watercolor painting.
🌆 City girl. 🚲 Biking. 🎨 Trying my hand at watercolor painting.
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The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
The death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
Bookselling is like the most "people go to the store and buy what looks cool to them without a particular agenda" type business left, and your purchases have a huge influence on what is ordered, what is displayed, and what is recommended.
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
The subcategorization/tropefication of popular fiction has been very bad in general, both for authors and readers.
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... 3) The Catholic Church is deeply concerned about polygamy and bigamy in countries with *very* poor gender equity rights, and there are a LOT more Catholics in those countries than in the US.
Sorry to rain on the Tumblr parade but the Church *should* take this position as a *global* Church
Sorry to rain on the Tumblr parade but the Church *should* take this position as a *global* Church
November 26, 2025 at 4:38 PM
... 3) The Catholic Church is deeply concerned about polygamy and bigamy in countries with *very* poor gender equity rights, and there are a LOT more Catholics in those countries than in the US.
Sorry to rain on the Tumblr parade but the Church *should* take this position as a *global* Church
Sorry to rain on the Tumblr parade but the Church *should* take this position as a *global* Church
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A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.
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“Instead of having fire insurance, let’s just have everyone save the average they can expect to lose to fire.” The result would be that most people would never have any use for that savings while a handful of people would save way too little to cover their losses.
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 PM
“Instead of having fire insurance, let’s just have everyone save the average they can expect to lose to fire.” The result would be that most people would never have any use for that savings while a handful of people would save way too little to cover their losses.
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training data is literally the most important ‘ingredient’ that can reveal so much about model behaviour
but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down
but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down
November 12, 2025 at 10:49 AM
training data is literally the most important ‘ingredient’ that can reveal so much about model behaviour
but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down
but again, opening up your training data is like putting your dirty laundry out and can bring an entire company down
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World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
November 8, 2025 at 12:17 AM
World's biggest spiderweb discovered inside 'Sulfur Cave' with 111,000 arachnids living in pitch black.
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
www.livescience.com/animals/spid...
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Bizarrely, it may not actually be as bad as the dot com bubble. AI "only" accounts for 40% of the value in the stock market. The dot com bubble was 80%.
The big difference is that instead of Keynesian boosting, the current president will make Hoover's response look good.
The big difference is that instead of Keynesian boosting, the current president will make Hoover's response look good.
November 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Bizarrely, it may not actually be as bad as the dot com bubble. AI "only" accounts for 40% of the value in the stock market. The dot com bubble was 80%.
The big difference is that instead of Keynesian boosting, the current president will make Hoover's response look good.
The big difference is that instead of Keynesian boosting, the current president will make Hoover's response look good.
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Even westerners should know by now that Hindu/caste supremacists are every bit as virulent as white supremacists. They just don't have as much power (though they do have a significant amount of it), which is why they love kissing the asses of nazis higher up on the global hierarchy.
Once again a gentle reminder that brown women can be pretty right wing. Their minority status in the West does not stop that from happening. You don't need to reach for any other explanation.
October 31, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Even westerners should know by now that Hindu/caste supremacists are every bit as virulent as white supremacists. They just don't have as much power (though they do have a significant amount of it), which is why they love kissing the asses of nazis higher up on the global hierarchy.
Looks like NYT is rage-baiting like an average Twitter/X poster
In Opinion
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Early in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, “it was easy to assume that failure to learn his name reflected a failure to take him seriously,” John McWhorter writes. But “as a matter of pure linguistics, it would be surprising if people didn’t have trouble with the name Mamdani.”
Opinion | I Now Mispronounce You the Likely Next Mayor of New York City
A lot of people seem to trip over Zohran Mamdani’s name. The reason may not be as simple as it seems.
nyti.ms
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Looks like NYT is rage-baiting like an average Twitter/X poster
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🤩 What a phenomenal record-breaking win by Indian women over Australia—that old nemesis—in the cricket #WomensWorldCup2025 semifinal today w Jemimah Rodrigues scoring a 💯 for the ages! Never have I been so glad for insomnia that woke me up at 4am, allowing me to watch the entire game.
🏏 #IndVAus
🏏 #IndVAus
India make history as Rodrigues and Harmanpreet end Australia's reign
Women's World Cup 2025/26, IND Women vs AUS Women Match Report: The hosts completed the highest ever chase in women's ODIs to stun Australia and book their spot in Sunday's World Cup final
www.espncricinfo.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
🤩 What a phenomenal record-breaking win by Indian women over Australia—that old nemesis—in the cricket #WomensWorldCup2025 semifinal today w Jemimah Rodrigues scoring a 💯 for the ages! Never have I been so glad for insomnia that woke me up at 4am, allowing me to watch the entire game.
🏏 #IndVAus
🏏 #IndVAus
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This is pretty accurate, especially in the imperial core, and most especially in the US.
The dominance of finance capital over industry has characterized capitalism to varying degrees since the late 19th century but it goes into overdrive circa 1980:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h022...
The dominance of finance capital over industry has characterized capitalism to varying degrees since the late 19th century but it goes into overdrive circa 1980:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h022...
Jonathan Levy - Instability and Inequality: American Capitalism after the Volcker Shock of 1980
YouTube video by Dartmouth
www.youtube.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:46 AM
This is pretty accurate, especially in the imperial core, and most especially in the US.
The dominance of finance capital over industry has characterized capitalism to varying degrees since the late 19th century but it goes into overdrive circa 1980:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h022...
The dominance of finance capital over industry has characterized capitalism to varying degrees since the late 19th century but it goes into overdrive circa 1980:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h022...
Tirzepatide is used to treat type-2 diabetes and for weight loss similar to Ozempic.
Co-opting @peark.es
Eli Lilly just smashing Q3 earnings.
EPS was 7.02 vs 5.89 expected
Revenue 17.6 billion vs 16.1 expected.
EPS up 495% year over year.
Tirzepatide ALONE 10.1 billion in sales.
Insane numbers all around
Eli Lilly just smashing Q3 earnings.
EPS was 7.02 vs 5.89 expected
Revenue 17.6 billion vs 16.1 expected.
EPS up 495% year over year.
Tirzepatide ALONE 10.1 billion in sales.
Insane numbers all around
October 30, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Tirzepatide is used to treat type-2 diabetes and for weight loss similar to Ozempic.
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Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.
October 29, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Hot take: More sociologists and economists need to work together.
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
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I know the stereotype is that college profs want everyone to learn their subject. Interestingly, if I had the power to reshape undergraduate requirements, I wouldn't make my subjects (various forms of bio) required.
I would make a substantial probability and statistics class required. For all.
I would make a substantial probability and statistics class required. For all.
October 27, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I know the stereotype is that college profs want everyone to learn their subject. Interestingly, if I had the power to reshape undergraduate requirements, I wouldn't make my subjects (various forms of bio) required.
I would make a substantial probability and statistics class required. For all.
I would make a substantial probability and statistics class required. For all.
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
October 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
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Saw a clip of Cillian Murphy talking about enjoying using his normal accent in film and why the fuck would you have a guy who can do an Irish voice not do the fucking Irish voice in everything? WE DONT CARE, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest star in the world playing guys named “Tom Miller”
October 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Saw a clip of Cillian Murphy talking about enjoying using his normal accent in film and why the fuck would you have a guy who can do an Irish voice not do the fucking Irish voice in everything? WE DONT CARE, Arnold Schwarzenegger was the biggest star in the world playing guys named “Tom Miller”
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This sort of stuff gets laughed at as impossibly naive and simple-minded - “Yes, yes, be nice to people who are different than you and who are struggling” - but then, as we can see it’s actually a pretty big ask, consistently through history
Again, the Bible is unambiguous about it.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
Zechariah 7:9-10
Thus says the Lord of hosts: Render true judgments, show kindness and mercy to one another; do not oppress the widow, the orphan, the alien, or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
Zechariah 7:9-10
October 21, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This sort of stuff gets laughed at as impossibly naive and simple-minded - “Yes, yes, be nice to people who are different than you and who are struggling” - but then, as we can see it’s actually a pretty big ask, consistently through history
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Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon
www.worldscientific.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Time for 2025 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread. If you like these, you might like the second edition of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website until end of November 2025.
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
www.worldscientific.com/worldscibook...
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"nobody you can yell at is a decision maker" -- the decision makers have ensured that
October 20, 2025 at 12:43 AM
"nobody you can yell at is a decision maker" -- the decision makers have ensured that
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it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 12:27 AM
it is never okay to take out your frustration on service people and people who do have low moral character
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Welcome new people, here are some soccer analytics and tactics accounts to follow if you're into that
October 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Welcome new people, here are some soccer analytics and tactics accounts to follow if you're into that
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I think the taboos against commenting on other people’s bodies are generally well founded but there has to be discursive room to talk about the moral injury of being a woman surrounded by aggressive, invasive, and inhuman-looking plastic surgery.
October 18, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I think the taboos against commenting on other people’s bodies are generally well founded but there has to be discursive room to talk about the moral injury of being a woman surrounded by aggressive, invasive, and inhuman-looking plastic surgery.
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"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."
October 17, 2025 at 4:32 AM
"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value."