I did notice a *2nd order* correlation (i.e. the residual fluctuations after the recession signals were removed) between JOLTS job openings and the S&P 500 but the apparent lags were strange.

blanch party

It’s telling you don’t need the context of the image to know the original story was about some right winger being invited to speak.

Oh how much work “shocked” is doing, too! Existence of right wing views—not shocking these days. Should just say “be ready to be offended”—which is just asshole-coded.

Did a new Dune trailer drop?

that's a monty python reference and iowa pork is a big deal

but really—what form does this alienation take? are people not going to vote against fascism because i made a joke? that's pretty self-involved.

i seriously doubt someone genuinely about to fight fascism would stop because of a joke.

My extended family consists of white people from rural Illinois and I grew up in a deep red county in Texas. Collectively we're not good people.

A good start is simply not to publicly push back against attempts to shame people into realizing what evil they've done.

I extend this to all Americans, frankly. I do not push back on anyone calling us stupid or evil. Collectively, we are. And we need to experience that shame.

There is a certain amount of tone deafness in saying "there are good people there" when the state voted overwhelmingly to put people in charge that are murdering our fellow citizens and trying to eliminate us or our families from existence. There were probably good people in Nazi Germany, too.

Cover of Light from Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Today's book rec: "takes elements of familiar story lines -- a deal with the Devil, aliens living among us, and the all-too-real struggles of a young trans woman -- and combines them into something completely new, jarring, unexpected and beautiful." My full review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

my own origins trace back to less than a hundred miles east of the mississippi border of iowa

very good pig country - is it?

lol yeah this is like a middle schooler's copy didn't zoom in

i guess what i'm trying to say is that even copies and prints can be inspiring / memorable for kids

i guess IQ isn’t genetic when it’s inconvenient for their argument

my grandmother had a wyeth print that i eventually saw at the MOMA

my parents had a reproduction of this on canvas and as a kid I thought it was the real thing until i became aware of not only monet but several aspects of our socioeconomic milieu

I don’t use it partially from principle but also my skills have decayed so much from just leading projects more than coding them that I’m afraid I’d completely lose any proficiency I have left.

See the times I have to write something as *opportunities* to prevent skill decay!

easy. vibe code a unit test for your vibe code. what could possibly go wrong?

LOL

That time between Empire and Jedi

I am not a Republican

CCD ain’t what it used to be

probably offensive

anyway there’s a place for you if you like the robes and the ceremonies but don’t like the pope that got kicked off by an unhealthy, misogynist old man ruling as a tyrant king and it’s called the church of england

“58/95 Nor are they the merits of Christ and the saints, for, even without the pope, the latter always work grace for the inner man, and the cross, death, and hell for the outer man.”

think twitter would let you post 95 theses as a single tweet now

the protestant reformation repeats; the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce

It’s important because if you use whom when you should use who, you come across as both pretentious and stupid. If you use who when you should use whom, almost everyone will give it a pass.

“maybe today is the day it will happen” meme but for jd vance getting excommunicated

but don’t obscenely rich people make us all rich in spirit in late capitalism in a way that’s better captured by the average?