There's a good joke about non-constructive proofs

Kagi Translate. English: SQLite is a C-language library that implements a small, fast, self-contained, high-reliability, full-featured, SQL database engine. George Costanza: So you got this SQLite thing, right? It's a C-language library—whatever that means—and it's small, it's fast, it's self-contained! It's like a tiny little engine that could, but with SQL! High-reliability! Full-featured! It’s doing everything, Jerry! It’s doing everything and it doesn't even need a server! It’s a database in a pocket!

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This is hilarious and also going to get annoying real fast.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus

CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED

can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

seeing this shit while donald trump is president is enough to melt my brain

collection of dishonest headlines

Google search, "would the us commit troops to defend taiwan" AI answer: Whether the U.S. would commit troops to defend Taiwan is officially governed by a policy of "strategic ambiguity," designed to deter both a Chinese invasion and Taiwanese independence. While the 1979 Taiwan Relations Act mandates providing defensive arms, it does not legally guarantee direct military intervention.

Deplorable state of U.S. media on display here, deliberately misleading the public. You can literally type into Google the same question @aoc.bsky.social was asked and the AI will give you her same answer because "strategic ambiguity" has been official U.S. policy her whole life.

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

Minneapolis church has delivered more than 12,000 boxes of groceries to families in hiding DHH church has hundreds of volunteers packing and delivering groceries to families who have been too scared to leave their homes during the immigration operation.

They have quite an operation going.
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Our infrastructure isn’t ready for what’s coming.

FLORIDA — Woman in scrubs: “I’m a U.S. citizen! Why are you doing this to me??”

37. Zohran Mamdani, 11 • Books. • FIFA 2003 and SimCity 3000 computer games.

I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro

They line up perfectly.

oh my gosh

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

Rolling out the Matt Christman quote from after Charlottesville (2017) again:

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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the party now cared more about climate change and various academic fixations than cheap energy and good-paying jobs.

This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.

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.

Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline The Steady State | October 16, 2025

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I hope to see you at a No Kings protest this weekend.🇺🇸

I was shocked when I first saw these results from standard climate models used in IPCC reports: for high emissions, the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC shuts down in all 9 models that ran past 2100, and is well on the way to shutdown by 2100.
Our paper on that is out today.🧵

WHAT THE HELL? This was there are recently as July 12, and now it's gone. web.archive.org/web/20250000...

Holy shit cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

Motherfucking wind farms…

I am simply arguing that we need to be careful saying that something isn't conscious because we completely understand the constituent parts that make it up. there may come a time when we completely understand the constituent parts that make up the human brain.

100% agree that there is nothing going on in LLMs besides lots of matrix multiplication. but like, can you point to where the consciousness is in this image of a neuron? if it turns out we end up being able to prove that all neurons can do fundamentally is matrix multiplication also, what then?

Whenever I think about trying to personally switch to metric, I don't, because more often than not I really do want a measurement system where I have strictly integer amounts for thirds or fourths of the primary unit.

IQ Bell Curve Meme: * Low end: Use base 12 (Clocks, the imperial foot, well tempered music octaves, etc) * Middle: Nooooo, we should all use metric so everything is only divisible by 5 and 2!! * High end: Use base 12

My original reasons for writing The Mis-measure of Man mixed the personal with the professional. I confess, first of all, to strong feelings on this particular issue. I grew up in a family with a tradition of participation in campaigns for social justice, and I was active, as a student, in the civil rights movement at a time of great excitement and success in the early 1960s. Scholars are often wary of citing such commitments, for, in the stereotype, an ice-cold impartiality acts as the sine qua non of proper and dispassionate objectivity. I regard this argument as one of the most fallacious, even harmful, claims commonly made in my profession. Impartiality (even if desirable) is unattainable by human beings with inevitable backgrounds, needs, beliefs, and desires. It is dangerous for a scholar even to imagine that he might attain complete neutrality, for then one stops being vigilant about personal preferences and their influences-and then one truly falls victim to the dictates of prejudice.

Objectivity must be operationally defined as fair treatment of data, not absence of pref-erence. Moreover, one needs to understand and acknowledge inevitable preferences in order to know their influence-so that fair treatment of data and arguments can be attained! No conceit could be worse than a belief in one's own intrinsic objectivity, no prescription more suited to the exposure of fools.

my heart