seen a lot of "engineers" (manly, necessary) suggest "HR" (womanly, sinecure) should "not exist" and i'm always like, huh so you think your time would be better spent answering questions about 401(k) paperwork and filing the I-9s, curious
what to make of someone who calls themselves an "information technologist" and a "futurist" whose home page 404s
he has, however, now learned what a "pep rally" is, important cultural information
i think he thought "real school" would be stricter than "mom school" but no. in many ways, no.
my younger son has had the opportunity this year, after many years of being only homeschooled, to take a class at the high school. now sometimes he shows up for the class and instead of doing the class, they're going to go watch the baseball game.
have made a hobby of calling Sheehy's office and leaving angry messages, i hate that guy
nothing happens anymore that isn't covered by a dril tweet or an Onion headline, in this case the perennial favorite, "Department Of Labor Spends $40 Billion To Create One Amazing New Job"
a mixed bouquet of different daffodils -- some white and pink or orange, some yellow, some singles, some doubles. a profusion of daffodilia.
a closeup of the corona, or cup, of one of the daffodils. this one is a daffodil with white petals and a pinkish or salmon-colored corona. the stigma and anthers are quite visible. at least i think i have the names right. anyway, the innards of the thing.
good afternoon, the season in western Montana is now DAFFODIL
yeah, i live in western Montana. i hoped like hell Tester's track record would override the D label, but wasn't quite enough.
> In a state more libertarian than partisan—abortion, recreational marijuana, permitless concealed carry are all legal—Democrats have had success here before.
true, but i think this confuses people, because they don't really have that much in common with national Democrats, tho also not with MAGA
this is interesting. Tester isn't wrong imo that the Dem affiliation hurt him last time around. it's not a strong brand.
i think a lot of people's feelings about The Great Gatsby are because they read, or pretended to read, it in high school and then never again, and some of its beauty can only be appreciated once you're an adult. at least, i could only appreciate it upon an adult re-reading, maybe you're better
compare the market for makeup to the market for VR headsets et al
"Maybe this should have been obvious to me given the amount of time, effort, and money people put into making their faces look as good as possible."
i like to see neal stephenson, a guy who got so many things right, admitting something like this.
nealstephenson.substack.com/p/my-prodiga...
still, "lossy compression" made it into Newsweek, guys, software is eating the normies
i feel like people in general underrate the complexity of the world and how we *notice* it. any given piece of the world or scenario has many more facts than a single human can notice or retain. what we notice, what is *salient* to us, has to do with *us,* with our desires and so forth.
i don't mean to sound like a snob, but i didn't think i'd ever see sentences like this:
"The neocortex uses these learning algorithms to build a hierarchy of representations or abstractions of the world that allows accurate prediction of the world, both as it is and how it could be."
in NewsWEEK
> moral reasoning develops through consequences—not punishment, necessarily, but experiencing the effects of your actions on others, receiving honest feedback, having to accommodate reality as it actually is rather than as you wish it to be […]
make timeline go sideways, numbers go up
do you guys remember when Twitter changed the "like" button from a star to the exploding confetti heart and everyone shrilly announced the site was now unusable, that this error would be the death of Twitter
we got my son and his girlfriend a winter CSA membership. i get this little thrill out of adding special treats to their CSA pickup as a surprise. this week they're getting a locally made brie with their veggies. really love being a dorky mom, unabashedly enjoying dorky mom stuff.
such a big world, home to such a diversity of ethnic hatreds
always fascinating to watch a foreign film and have to catch up on varieties of racism you never knew about
holy crap, this is bizarre: my oldest is also obsessed with owning a cubic inch of tungsten.
did you have to tell yours more than once as a child not to lick the uranium?
and something in it one month was also comically heavy for its size and i cannot remember what. thank you for listening.
when the kids were younger, we subscribed to a thing called a "Matter Box" which each month contained a collection of different material items of varying sorts (usually one rock, one space-related thing, one cool manufactured object, and then a couple of other odds and ends)
i have read the alt-text this time and i agree the one on the left has a distinct 1970s vibe about it
have to admit, i want to touch this modified örb
wow, imagine, all of the universe fitting into a single dish, and not even a near one!
