Amazing to say “here’s some stuff you might want to know about him, now based on what you know about him how do you feel about him”

“Currently there are only five in unicode: beta, gamma, rho, phi, and chi.”

Sad face

But what does that mean?

But it does

Also the consequences of missing a flight almost certainly outweigh any savings from arriving to the airport late? Like that will almost certainly derail your entire trip and cost you hours if not days of lost time and money

The extra pictures were not intended but I guess those can stay, they are from the Houston Japanese Gardens

Not a selfie but I recently visited WashU where Compton worked

Kagan screamed so loudly at liberal ally after Dobbs leak the ‘wall was shaking,' book claims Justice Kagan allegedly yelled at Justice Breyer so loudly the "wall was shaking" during the 2022 Dobbs leak crisis, a new book by Hemingway says.

Forget about the substance, the reveal that “most of” the justices talked to Mollie Hemingway for her book is bananas. Hemingway is a right-wing freak who runs a conspiracy theory blog. If literally any of the justices are taking this person seriously, the Supreme Court is GONE gone.

read* 😒

Never mind, I read about the supermanifold construction, I was wondering if there’s any connection between the fermions in super manifolds, which you describe as an exterior bundle, and Kähler-Dirac fermions, which satisfy the Kähler-Dirac equation (d+d*)f=0

Someone never the the Library of Babel

does this implement Kähler-Dirac fermions?

WATCH LIVE: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas Delivers Lecture at UT Austin YouTube video by CBS Austin

I swear this really happened: In his UT Law speech the other day, Clarence Thomas (at about 36:00 in this clip) bemoaned the leaders in this country who "gain positions of authority" and then become "enticed by access to things that were previously unavailable to them"

How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas

There are definitely words for people who make money off of producing content about powerful people that the powerful people like and want to participate in. “Journalist” isn’t one of them. But there are others, for sure.

Like it should be astonishing and a clear indictment of our systems of election but it’s just become so routine.

Honestly crazy in a country of 350 million people the amount of representation of the worst people you’ll ever meet among the roughly 500 people who run our government.

Some of the worst stuff I’ve ever gas the displeasure of drinking, but I’d knock one back for Hungary

Metaphors are really too on the nose these days

The US isn’t as as bad as Hungary of course but it’s very very obvious that the media environment shapes how people think about political issues! It would be weird to deny it in Hungary and it’s weird when people do it here about trans rights or vaccine hesitancy or anything else.

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

rather fitting way for trumpism to unravel

we have (a) mind-numbingly stupid, illegal, and cruel decisions leading to (b) entirely foreseeable consequences of them, which (c) they cannot resolve because they operate under delusions like (d) a delusion of victory after clear defeat

all the classics

this is in no sense how it should have happened. but it is precisely because we find ourselves in a situation that requires war, death, and destruction to get well positioned political actors behind accelerating energy transition that we should demolish fossil capital as decisively as we can

I did like two things

Interesting, sounds like quasicrystals might have these?

What is a partial symmetry?

days like today i get incandescent with rage all over again that he wasn't in cuffs and an orange jumpsuit and perp walked on jan 21st, 2021

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Page one: text on black background, “WAKE UP!”. Eyes open, a baby sea turtle with an eggshell helmet says, “you need to wake up!”

Page 2: helmet turtle says to a green baby sea turtle, who is waking up out off his egg, “we need to get moving.” CRASH! A cormorant breaks through the ceiling of their nest hole. Helmet turtle says MOVE!

Page 3: “when you’re out there, beeline to the water. Don’t stop. Don’t be a hero. Godspeed.” The helmet turtle kicks baby green turtle out the hole off a cliff onto the beach below.

Page 4: baby green turtle lands on the sand. The distance between him and the water is quite large. Another baby sea turtle is being devoured by a seagull and is screaming for help.

I dreamt of the beach (1/4)