It’s because America is obsessed with race, and has systematically attempted to demolish black economic power from the foundation of the society, that people may choose to shop this way.

I did go to high school in Alabama, and know somebody from Muscle Shoals …

That’s retro-futuristic, a very different thing.

I give the gift of a free bird to any I pass on the street.

I guess it would be impossible for it to be farther away than I think…

This is a good discussion about the original tests Turing discussed, as well as a very fun interview.

https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2024/4/4/the-turing-test-is-bullshit-walex-hanna-and-emily-m-bender

I used to work in the valley. As a general rule, the higher up in the org the person is, the more relaxed they are about a little lawbreaking.

The girl on the far right of the picture looks interested tho.

As if having insurance means you get treated…

A rich white cis gay man backstabbing trans people?

This never happens, I’m shocked!

Dogs served in war at least as much as horses, and are currently doing so in larger numbers.

I encountered this quotation afterward, which reassured me that feeling dead in the water for months at a time happens to the very very best of us.

I can illustrate the … approach with the … image of a nut to be opened. The first analogy that came to my mind is of immersing the nut in some softening liquid, and why not simply water? From time to time you rub so the liquid penetrates better, and otherwise you let time pass. The shell becomes more flexible through weeks and months — when the time is ripe, hand pressure is enough, the shell opens like a perfectly ripened avocado!

C. McLarty, The Rising Sea: Grothendieck on simplicity and generality, in J. J. Gray and K.H. Parshall eds., Episodes in the History of Modern Algebra (1800–1950), Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2007.

I once spent about four months trying to understand a single diagram in a math textbook.

I’d rather have kids get interested in playing poker than pulling a slot machine lever.

A decent core game with huge amounts of annoying crap wrapped around it.

The Substance on Netflix

Exactly zero fucks are given about long term profit.

If any company cared about long term profit they wouldn’t be destroying the ecosystem.

Mac and cheese with bechamel and a little tomato

Butternut squash soup

Burritos

I’ve known her for over 25 years. She got married to my college roommate. For the two of us, this joke is out of bounds.