Julia, Mother of Runes
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Trans Woman, Academic Law Librarian, TTRPG Enthusiast, Magic player, Statistician, Priestess of the Muses
He was the mad wizard that created the Abomination of Pure Evil, which devoured him and spat him back out to properly start the plot.
November 4, 2025 at 5:28 PM
He was the mad wizard that created the Abomination of Pure Evil, which devoured him and spat him back out to properly start the plot.
So that's how Waffle House can get supplies during a natural disaster...
October 29, 2025 at 1:24 PM
So that's how Waffle House can get supplies during a natural disaster...
So this is looking less like the dot-com bubble and more like... South Sea?
September 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
So this is looking less like the dot-com bubble and more like... South Sea?
So it's exactly like the dot com bubble?
September 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
So it's exactly like the dot com bubble?
Isn't this literally what Enron was doing before they collapsed?
September 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Isn't this literally what Enron was doing before they collapsed?
It's the oldest trick in American Politics. During the lead-up to the revolution, you had literal slave owners calling a small tax increase "slavery."
September 8, 2025 at 3:51 PM
It's the oldest trick in American Politics. During the lead-up to the revolution, you had literal slave owners calling a small tax increase "slavery."
How many of that billion is because they have no choice but see Google's AI search results or get stuck with always-on Copilot because institutional accounts have copilot managed centrally by default?
August 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
How many of that billion is because they have no choice but see Google's AI search results or get stuck with always-on Copilot because institutional accounts have copilot managed centrally by default?
Media: I think it's time to jump onto the "AI is all hype" train
Ed:
Ed:
a man with a beard and glasses is standing in front of a podium and smiling .
Alt: a man with a beard and glasses is standing in front of a podium and smiling . He says, "I've been here the whole time"
media.tenor.com
August 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Media: I think it's time to jump onto the "AI is all hype" train
Ed:
Ed:
Yglesias seems like another one of those people who took a bunch of entry level social sciences courses in undergrad and stopped reading there, but believe their social and political theories should be taken seriously.
August 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Yglesias seems like another one of those people who took a bunch of entry level social sciences courses in undergrad and stopped reading there, but believe their social and political theories should be taken seriously.
The vast majority rapists "getting away with it" are the result of police failing to investigate or prosecutors declining to prosecute. And it has little to do with the quality of evidence: Prosecutors will decline to prosecute with ample evidence and prosecute with flimsy bullshit.
August 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
The vast majority rapists "getting away with it" are the result of police failing to investigate or prosecutors declining to prosecute. And it has little to do with the quality of evidence: Prosecutors will decline to prosecute with ample evidence and prosecute with flimsy bullshit.
I went and read the threads... This is a truly unhinged take that fundamentally misunderstands what a criminal defense attorney - especially a public defender - does in the justice system.
Prosecutors and police do far, far more to let rapists get away with rape than defense attorneys do.
Prosecutors and police do far, far more to let rapists get away with rape than defense attorneys do.
August 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I went and read the threads... This is a truly unhinged take that fundamentally misunderstands what a criminal defense attorney - especially a public defender - does in the justice system.
Prosecutors and police do far, far more to let rapists get away with rape than defense attorneys do.
Prosecutors and police do far, far more to let rapists get away with rape than defense attorneys do.
It looks like the South Sea Company is a sure bet!
August 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It looks like the South Sea Company is a sure bet!
"Five years out" is both the typical time a startup has to show it can be profitable or sell to keep from and the typical CEO contract length.
June 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
"Five years out" is both the typical time a startup has to show it can be profitable or sell to keep from and the typical CEO contract length.
I never noticed how much of the reporting on AI is couched with the "it's early days and a lot of functionality is still being built" language, which is the same thing we heard about the Metaverse and NFTs.
June 26, 2025 at 11:13 PM
I never noticed how much of the reporting on AI is couched with the "it's early days and a lot of functionality is still being built" language, which is the same thing we heard about the Metaverse and NFTs.
On the downside of lawyers being able to tase narcissistic oligarchic windbags who won't shut up is that they might be able to charge lawyers to represent them.
June 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
On the downside of lawyers being able to tase narcissistic oligarchic windbags who won't shut up is that they might be able to charge lawyers to represent them.
"Let us turn away from the spectre of dictatorship to the stable hand of monarchy" is certainly a position.
June 23, 2025 at 3:41 PM
"Let us turn away from the spectre of dictatorship to the stable hand of monarchy" is certainly a position.
The administration took the "worst campaign possible" from Randal Munroe's "How To" and made it a reality:
June 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The administration took the "worst campaign possible" from Randal Munroe's "How To" and made it a reality:
Hopefully we'll at least get a good Folding Ideas video out of this like we did for the metaverse.
June 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Hopefully we'll at least get a good Folding Ideas video out of this like we did for the metaverse.