If I were a trillionaire, I’d also convert the entire state on Minnesota to an aquarium.
Y’all gonna have to move.
Dismantle
This demonstrates why academia is so very fucked. The question is, was the supposed “white supremacist” right or not? Was Arday a fraud?
And 100% of the available evidence points to the fact that Arday was an inveterate fabulist and fraudulent through and through.
It does not matter if Hitler himself claimed this — that would not change the truth content at all.
And academics wonder why trust in higher education is at an all time low and still falling. Probably best a lot of it just be dismantled.
Ukraine strikes major Russian rocket factory with cruise missiles.
Strong Gravitational Lensing and Microlensing of Supernovae.
The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding.
Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose. And fake safety (really censorship) is getting far more pervasive.
The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains.
Suicide rates among teen girls are rising in Australia, Canada, and the UK.
Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing. Wow, this is terrible; makes Claude unusable for most writing tasks.
Turntide
I do think the tide is starting to turn on tattoos, especially on women. I overheard two young women at the hotel I am staying at now for a conference (they were maybe 18-19?) talking about how trashy tattoos looked and they were not planning on getting any even though they legally could now.
Good for them.
Going Dark, and the era of law enforcement hacking.
Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin.
Putin threat pushes Germany to give spies major new powers.
Breakfast looks a lot more expensive under new EU pesticide plans.
Hunt For New Lower-Cost Strike Missile With 1,000-Kilometer Range Underway By U.S. Army.
So much solar: Digging into the list of every US power plant that went online this year.
OK With It
If I were as wealthy as Elon Musk, people would hate me far more because I’d be undertaking vastly more insane things, like opening the first pizzeria on the moon and building absurdly enormous nuclear reactors for desalination and then greening the entire desert Southwest.
I’d also be doing all kinds of highly controversial CRISPR crap in the middle of the ocean somewhere.
Yeah, I’d be utterly despised. And I’d be ok with that.
Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data.
By sky and sea, Ukraine’s drone strikes challenge Russia’s grip on Crimea.
TESS discovers a rare brown dwarf orbiting a massive, aging star.
Why Europe Is Struggling to Build Its Gas Stocks Before Winter.
The $20 Burrito Debate Is a Sign of Inflation Fatigue.
How the Toppling of An Auto Parts Maker Sapped U.S. Manufacturing.
You Are Not Entitled to Someone Else’s Mind.
US wait times for cancer surgeries are getting longer and longer.
Laptop Makers Are Desperate to Sell You PCs With 8GB of RAM. Avoid at All Costs.
In Australia, a Home Battery Boom Has Helped Cut Wholesale Power Prices in Half.
The End of Google Search—and the Internet—as We Know It.
It could soon be harder to see the full price of a plane ticket. Here’s why.
See the Battlefield Innovations Reshaping the Russia-Ukraine War.
The CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back.
Remote workers report the highest well-being in study of 7,700 employees.
Int Comp
Correct. In almost all sporting events, women can wear whatever they like. Most choose to wear the least, both for performance reasons (it’s more aerodynamic) and because many are rightfully proud of their bodies and want to be seen.
And many of the broadcast execs are women, and would prefer that the women athletes not be seen. It’s that female intrasexual competition again….
Stuck Music
I think on average that music now is noticeably better than when I was 14-23 (the age most people seem to get stuck at musically). Production is easier and there are more people out there just trying things.
But it’s pretty clear that major label music was better in the 1986-1999-ish period because the record labels were at their peak financially and creatively. They had enough money to experiment creatively — and did so.
This is not any kind of point about, “All the music was better then!” I don’t think that, at all. Ninajirachi and Renee Christine (and many others) are just as good as anything released in that period. And mary in the junkyard is now one of my favorite bands though not a one of them was even alive in the 20th Century.
Change with the times because the times are gonna change whether or not you do. And there’s tons of good music out there. I find 11.6 new good songs a day, every day. You could do the same.
Hate Hate Hate
We seem to have pushed the AI a bit too far.
Happy 45th birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT.
AI is removing the middle class of software engineering.
License Plate Reader Searches Should Require a Warrant.
Amazing High-Res Photo Shows a Butte Rising From Mars.
Economics 101 Explains Global Food Affordability Challenges.
College Grads Struggle to Find Jobs. Non-Grads Are Giving Up.
Don’t Buy Zuckerberg’s ‘Good Guy of AI’ Act.
Gen Z Is Moving Money From Stocks to Sports Betting in Wealth Plans.
Iranian F-5s Bombing U.S. Forces In Kuwait Should Be A Wake-Up Call: Ex-USAF General.
Weapons Maker Was Paid $533M in Taxpayer Funds to Produce Shells. It Made None.
Neuroscientists have vastly underestimated brain cells’ computing power.
Evidence of three massive black holes in a z ∼ 5 galaxy.
Poland’s Powerful New Frigate Marks Major Shift For Its Navy.
Flock is Trying to Find Out How Much of the Surveillance State You’ll Tolerate.
Ukrainian drones wipe out entire US tank brigade in live war game.
Self Destroy
Watching a civilization destroy itself in real time is not pretty.
Forded
That’s too bad. Though I haven’t been there in ages, Guildford used to be beautiful and safe.
Now ruined by evil idiot leftists who wish to (and are succeeding in) destroying their own civilizations with feral third-world rapists.
Mystical
What’s your go-to comfort movie?
I don’t have a “comfort movie” in the sense this person or likely anyone means, but Mystic Pizza is the closest thing for me.
Julia Roberts as Daisy is perfect, and the whole cast seems like real people dealing with life as it comes. It does not feel (as many do) like a movie being made to have some point, but like you dropped in and are observing these people trying to figure things out.
I only watched Pretty Woman back in the day because I’d already seen Mystic Pizza on VHS. Pretty Woman is entertaining, but Mystic Pizza is a better film.
I chose it because it is one of the few movies I can and have watched more than once. Highly recommended.