I’ve always been on team Shit Matters And You’re A Loser Asshole For Pretending It Doesn’t

ascii title of old gamefaqs guide to ssx3

I’ve been replaying the SSX games recently and had to consult the Old Texts. Like Gandalf poring over the archives of Minas Tirith I have uncovered knowledge that should have never been forgotten. #games #gamefaqs

Fun fact! The name of my blog comes from an Alfred Russel Wallace quote describing the first time he saw Ornithoptera croesus. He got so worked up that he got a headache and had to go lay down for the rest of the day. "None but a naturalist" could relate, he explains.

I feel positively ancient having a wordpress blog, but I guess I'm glad that I never got onto the nazi site substack.

Anyway, here’s to you mom. You really checked out right before the world went completely insane. I’m sure you’re pleased with your timing, you never could stomach bullshit.

But more often it is this: a reminder of her life and an affirmation of the impact she had on this world.

Pic of text: “I wake up with these memories on some mornings. Radioactive and smoking, I will carry these images with me for the rest of the day—Cherenkov radiation practically oozing from my smile.”

The grief is still radioactive sometimes.

5 Years of Grief “I was an infant when my parents died. Both were ornithologists. I’ve tried So often to evoke them that today I have a thousand parents. Sadly they Dissolve in their own virtues and rec…

My mom died 13 years ago now…It’s still rare that I go a day without thinking about her, although my grief is very different from what it once was. I wrote this piece on grief 8 years ago and it still captures most of my feelings. #writing

nonebutanaturalist.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/5...

Screenshot of doctor from Arrested Development whose gag is to deliver news in a literal way which causes misunderstanding.

Oof, is this your vet?

(I hope your dog ends up being okay and/or recovers soon!)

Immigration is good. Good for us, good for the immigrant.

Allowing immigration is not a nice thing we do for immigrants. It is merely ceasing to do a bad thing to immigrants.

Oh dang, 🗣️new stability metric! 🗣️

Well, actually seems to be more of a super stability metric that can be used to categorize things like resilience. Excited to dig more into this, seems like a concept that can really help organize some things for community ecologists.

CBS turned their news operation into propaganda, kicked Colbert off the air for making too much trouble, and all that just to have Charles Barkley go on the air on one of their most-watched telecasts of the year and say this lmao

Oh dang, I totally missed this somehow and it wasn't showing up in my google searches. This might be exactly what I was looking for today! Thank you!

Whatever happened to snowboarding games?? We used to be a society, man. The last SSX game came out in 2012!!

Man, Man Man!

This is so dispiriting as a grad student. Especially after that other stupid article in Science. So many people view these technologies as a way to just pull the ladder up after them. Yeah, I know that we're all pushed to publish as much as possible. Eventually, you have to ask what is the point?

Yeah, totally! And to be clear, that process of elimination can be really difficult and it's helpful to have a skillful and experienced doctor that can make the right call in ambiguous cases. Which makes the original article all the more baffling, these designations don't just come out of thin air.

A frustrating aspect is that a lot of conditions, even physical ones, are notoriously difficult to diagnose through "objective metrics" (ask anyone with lupus...). Medicine is not a precise discipline in a lot of ways, bodies are weird and complicated! That ambiguity is just a vehicle for prejudice.

Like, the apotheosis of just follow the arrow on your map and do whatever random crap it says to progress the "plot".

Woof, I bounced off of Crimson Desert almost immediately. It's the kind of game that I want to like. Unironically I love doing random crap in a large fantasy sandbox world. The initial "quests" were so disjointed and weird. They made me worried I had a stroke because there was no causal through line

Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.

I'm so glad I don't have a relationship with my mentor where I'm constantly worried about how many utils of value I can provide. And whether or now my utils are being realized quickly enough relative to a giant matrix.

Yeah, seems like this person also had a crappy mentor: "I felt I was constantly disappointing her. But she didn’t give up on me. Perhaps she believed in my potential..." Brother, everyone deserve a mentor that actually believes in your potential. It should be verbalized (and then internalized!)

I mean, the actual problem, that a lot of people have pointed out, is that the skills that make someone good at being a researcher are not the same (and based on most mentors seem to actually be orthogonal) as being a mentor

Jesus christ, people are really just writing stuff like this with their actual name on it.

Everything about this is so stupid. What's next, the satori of slurs???

That's what kills me about this too. They are "forbidden" in the same way that a geocentric model of the solar system is forbidden, that is, it's stupid and you're stupid for thinking it. And if anyone needs a quick and easy tip for sniffing out bullshit, just look for "evolutionary psychology".

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

(Yes, of course I'm making substantive progress on my dissertation my dear committee members on this website. I've definitely done more than try to insert "bee" into as many words about finances and taxes as possible today)

I'm currently working on the most forced, hackneyed pun title for a paper that has ever been written. I know that there's tough competition in this arena, but I'm confident in my absolute lack of originality and unscrupulous commitment to forcing wordplay where it doesn't belong.