Richard 塚正ー緑
@rhtebooks.bsky.social
Hoping to protect the integrity of my gag post
As a child I played through Sam and Max so many times oblivious to the cultural touchstones it was built around
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 AM
As a child I played through Sam and Max so many times oblivious to the cultural touchstones it was built around
You'd be amazed how much you can get paid if you bother to read instructions and documentation
November 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
You'd be amazed how much you can get paid if you bother to read instructions and documentation
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Welcome sign
Felch, MI
Felch, MI
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Welcome sign
Felch, MI
Felch, MI
Nvidia need to arrest this slide by returning to the firm's roots, like putting improbably breasted women on their packaging
it's actually really good our stock is down $500 billion, you fool, you absolute simpleton
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
www.businessinsider.com/jensen-huang...
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Nvidia need to arrest this slide by returning to the firm's roots, like putting improbably breasted women on their packaging
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it's so interesting to me that the Indonesian revolution found so many allies and supporters in Australians serving in Borneo because they were so repulsed by the Dutch capitulating to imperial Japan
November 22, 2025 at 11:01 PM
it's so interesting to me that the Indonesian revolution found so many allies and supporters in Australians serving in Borneo because they were so repulsed by the Dutch capitulating to imperial Japan
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One interesting thing is the journalist in the linked article, whilst now willing to question the character of elite and well connected men, still takes as given Summers is incredibly smart, citing only his relatives and his repeated appointments to positions. We really have to question that as well
“Claudia Sahm, a former Fed economist who blasted Summers and others for sexism in a widely shared and highly critical 2020 blog post, sounded vindicated. “Okay, so maybe I wasn’t too mean to him…” she said on social media after the emails were made public last week.” www.wsj.com/us-news/larr...
How Larry Summers’s Power Delayed the Reckoning Over His Epstein Ties
The former Treasury Secretary and Harvard president’s enormous network and clout kept him immune from past Jeffrey Epstein revelations. But this time was just too much.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:48 AM
One interesting thing is the journalist in the linked article, whilst now willing to question the character of elite and well connected men, still takes as given Summers is incredibly smart, citing only his relatives and his repeated appointments to positions. We really have to question that as well
Every day I learn new horrors about the tools Americans use instead of bank transfers
November 22, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Every day I learn new horrors about the tools Americans use instead of bank transfers
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I appreciate the WSJ following up on this story, which is already in danger of being one of many forgotten scandals in elite academia.
“There is no world where this makes any sense,” said David Autor, one of the MIT professors who had previously championed his student’s research. www.wsj.com/economy/aida...
An MIT Student Awed Top Economists With His AI Study—Then It All Fell Apart
Aidan Toner-Rodgers shot to academic fame in a field hungry for new insights and revelatory research. But a computer scientist thought something seemed off.
www.wsj.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I appreciate the WSJ following up on this story, which is already in danger of being one of many forgotten scandals in elite academia.
This has a warm glow of nostalgia around it, before the replication crisis, before Gelman would ask annoying questions about how many models you tried, before data colada would check if your data existed. When you could come up with 20 hypotheses and 19 papers before 10 am.
When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%.
phys.org/news/2025-11...
phys.org/news/2025-11...
The Batman effect: The mere sight of the 'superhero' can make us more altruistic
If "Batman" appears on the scene, we immediately become more altruistic: in fact, research conducted by psychologists from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan, shows that the sudden appear...
phys.org
November 22, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This has a warm glow of nostalgia around it, before the replication crisis, before Gelman would ask annoying questions about how many models you tried, before data colada would check if your data existed. When you could come up with 20 hypotheses and 19 papers before 10 am.
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RAILBUS FOR THE 80'S (1978)
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
RAILBUS FOR THE 80'S (1978)
Apropos of nothing, thinking about the long forgotten Josie and the Pussycats film where sinister executives develop technology to manipulate thought and information ostensibly to make money amorally but really because they hope to force people to like them www.youtube.com/watch?v=-duh...
Josie And The Pussycats - 3 Small Words
YouTube video by Feljo
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November 20, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Apropos of nothing, thinking about the long forgotten Josie and the Pussycats film where sinister executives develop technology to manipulate thought and information ostensibly to make money amorally but really because they hope to force people to like them www.youtube.com/watch?v=-duh...
I appreciate the medical appointment reminders that ask me to reply 'YES' to confirm. Like, do I want to go to the dentist? YES! Fuck yeah!
November 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
I appreciate the medical appointment reminders that ask me to reply 'YES' to confirm. Like, do I want to go to the dentist? YES! Fuck yeah!
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"Matildas star Mary Fowler has revealed the inner torment she endured during her time at French club Montpellier, saying she and another black teammate were given bananas instead of flowers during a farewell presentation from the club, an incident she says was not 'a simple error."
‘Treated differently’: Mary Fowler claims she was given bananas instead of flowers on leaving French club
The Matildas star said her tenure at Montpellier made her consider quitting soccer.
www.smh.com.au
November 19, 2025 at 6:38 AM
"Matildas star Mary Fowler has revealed the inner torment she endured during her time at French club Montpellier, saying she and another black teammate were given bananas instead of flowers during a farewell presentation from the club, an incident she says was not 'a simple error."
80s: Japan is the future
90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture
Now: oh, that WAS the future
90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture
Now: oh, that WAS the future
the actual suicide of the West will be combining a rapidly aging population with hostility to migrants. however we must give credit to East Asia, especially Japan, for pioneering this model.
November 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
80s: Japan is the future
90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture
Now: oh, that WAS the future
90s, 00s: Japan in dying country typified by stagnant incomes, xenophobia and toxic, sexless nerd culture
Now: oh, that WAS the future
About 10 years ago there was a rash of preprints like the one that used a training set of mugshots and corporate headshots and discovered you could recognise the criminal physiognomy because they did not smile
Researchers are now saying that AI can find correlations between facial characteristics and success on the job.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
The Economist says that corporations would have a “strong incentive” to deploy this technology when looking at applicants.
November 18, 2025 at 9:13 PM
About 10 years ago there was a rash of preprints like the one that used a training set of mugshots and corporate headshots and discovered you could recognise the criminal physiognomy because they did not smile
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The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.
The distinctive features of prisons are how they try to force you to leave
The pro-Putin propagandist hiding from authorities in the Russian consulate in Sydney, Simeon Boikov, has launched an extraordinary attack on his hosts, claiming they are subjecting him to "prison-like conditions" in a bid to "push me out".
Propagandist says his Russian hosts are trying to force him out
The pro-Putin propagandist hiding from authorities in the Russian consulate in Sydney, Simeon Boikov, has launched an extraordinary attack on his hosts, claiming they are subjecting him to "prison-like conditions" in a bid to "push me out".
www.abc.net.au
November 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The distinctive features of prisons are how they try to force you to leave
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Mr and Mrs Hudson, Seacroft Green, Leeds, 1974, photo by Peter Mitchell.
November 16, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Mr and Mrs Hudson, Seacroft Green, Leeds, 1974, photo by Peter Mitchell.
Doing a very serious take about the American gender sonderweg (genderweg)
Former first lady Michelle Obama said America is "not ready for a woman" president during a conversation at her New York book event. https://cnn.it/43ApuKZ
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Doing a very serious take about the American gender sonderweg (genderweg)
Scotland could only score two goals this morning despite Greece playing Nobody in goals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssea...
Odysseas Vlachodimos - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 16, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Scotland could only score two goals this morning despite Greece playing Nobody in goals en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssea...
There's innumerable examples of elite careers where one is continually appointed to positions by virtue of having been appointed to positions, with no meaningful achievement in any of them, but Summers has long struck me as a particularly illustrative case
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 2:25 AM
There's innumerable examples of elite careers where one is continually appointed to positions by virtue of having been appointed to positions, with no meaningful achievement in any of them, but Summers has long struck me as a particularly illustrative case
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I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
November 15, 2025 at 8:58 AM
I've been collecting pandemic era signs that nobody can be bothered to take down or remove. There's something grimly fascinating about this. Putting them up was urgent and important; removing them is nobody's job. How long will some of these hang around?
Genuinely wondering how much this crowd is reduced by fans trying to avoid being locked up
Star midfielder Jackson Irvine makes his long-awaited international comeback as the Socceroos face South American opposition for the first time in over two years. Follow live.
Live: Irvine returns as Socceroos' World Cup draw goes on the line against Venezuela
Star midfielder Jackson Irvine makes his long-awaited international comeback as the Socceroos face South American opposition for the first time in over two years. Follow live.
www.abc.net.au
November 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Genuinely wondering how much this crowd is reduced by fans trying to avoid being locked up
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Australia is set to issue its one millionth refugee visa since 1947 in the coming weeks, in a humanitarian program that grew directly out the ashes of World War II.
Australia set to issue its one millionth refugee visa since 1947
Australia is set to issue its one millionth refugee visa since 1947 in the coming weeks, in a humanitarian program that grew directly out the ashes of World War II.
www.abc.net.au
November 14, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Australia is set to issue its one millionth refugee visa since 1947 in the coming weeks, in a humanitarian program that grew directly out the ashes of World War II.