Grievance Poisoning in the First Degree Is "I am so great" an actual philosophy?

Wrote about Palantir and Alex Karp's whiny bullshit. GROW UP DUDE.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/grievance-...

"Having a monarchy next door is a little like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and has daubed their house with clown murals, displays clown dolls in each window and has an insatiable desire to hear about and discuss clown-related news stories. More specifically, for the Irish, it’s like having a neighbour who’s really into clowns and, also, your grandfather was murdered by a clown."

the Irish can, apparently www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

I’ve been warned that by engaging in politics, I might undermine myself as a scientist. Or worse, reduce the trust that people have in me or scientists as a whole.

This latter point is the thesis of a recent article by Byron Hyde: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

I disagree for multiple reasons.

so it's finally infrastructure week eh

Some science cuts in Trump's proposed FY27 budget

❌ NIH: -$5B, including all of NIEHS, NIMHD, FIC & NCCIH.
❌ EPA: -4.6B
❌ NSF: -3.8B
❌ NASA Science: -3.4 Billion
❌ NOAA: -1.8B, including the entire Oceanic and Atmospheric Research budget ($605M)
❌ AHRQ: All of it. -$296M, 100%

And there's more.

oh my

Fin bref, tout ça c'est effectivement une taxe sur les femmes en temps, en énérgie, en dignité, et OUI c'est contre la loi du pays.

L'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes : un bel idéal, et la loi, mais beaucoup de gens ne le comprend même pas apparemment.

Une photo de ma carte et quelques captures d'écran plus tard, ils ont trouvé enfin le champ à changer ! Quel miracle d'informatique, très impressionant.

J'ai informé la banque dans une strongly-worded letter franco-français que c'était eux qui agissait contre la loi. Et puis c'était genre "mais votre nouvelle carte a le bon nom /c'est désormais bon dans le base de donnée" euh, non

A la banque, même histoire qu'avec ton notaire "oh non, on peut pas le changer dans le logiciel" comme si ce n'est pas possible de changer le contenu d'un champ dans une base de données. (Et du coup, *personne* n'a *jamais* voulu changer leur nom à cette banque, vraiment ?)

Brava! 👏👏👏👏👏 Et waoh, "on sait que c'est vous" c'est vraiment choquant, pour un document légal du coup.

Ça m'est arrivé 2 fois, une fois en hôpital, une fois à la banque. "Madame, c'est comme ça en France, c'est la loi." C'est n'importe quoi, c'est ça ce qu'il est.

Comic reference to the Ides of March.

It’s that time again…

We were too busy eating chicken wings? 🍗

Oh I think we were talking about Irish and I knew it had "clear" and "dark" Ls (tongue not bunched up in back / tongue bunched up in back)

It was the spoon trick for vowels that made you fall in love with me, right? 🤣

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Almost 5k 🚀 let’s get there today - tell your friends!

🇫🇷 On passe les 5,000 aujourd’hui? Parlez d’Eurosky à vos amis!

🇪🇸 ¿Llegamos a 5,000 hoy? ¡Cuéntaselo a tus amigos!

🇩🇪 Schaffen wir heute 5,000? Erzählt euren Freunden von Eurosky!

🇳🇱 Halen we vandaag de 5,000? Vertel je vrienden over Eurosky!

2026 F1 opening titles Watch the all-new 2026 opening titles featuring all 22 drivers.

Kimi Antonelli hanging loose 🤙 #F1 and I'm going to sleep, let me know how FP1 goes

www.formula1.com/en/video/202...

Ok, 🧵: This ain't it, folks (the quoted text, not Prof. Carrillo).

The "students with anxiety/social barriers so they don't want to talk in class" is a thing, undoubtedly. You don't help them by giving them a robot to talk to; you help them by giving them better paths to speak for themselves. 1/x

pinging @moppety.bsky.social

Switzerland decided not to fund humanities and social sciences in their new national research funding...

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba... 🐦🐦

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model.

This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine.

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I mean, they have to, right? Or else they would have to admit that their gains truly are ill-gotten and they are bad people

My journey to the microwave alternate timeline Recommended soundtrack for this post

"Here is the sad truth: baking potatoes in the microwave is an NP-hard problem."

malmesbury.substack.com/p/my-journey...

Two stick figures in a version of xkcd's "Average familiarity" comic: Woman: "Compositionality is second nature to us formal semanticists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows Functional Application." Man: "And Schoenfinkelization, of course." Woman: "Of course." Caption: "Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field."

The world needed this. marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-gen... Thanks, @lensdeer www.tumblr.com/lensdeer!

In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps:

How dumplings spread around the world

(tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)

...and Universal Basic Income works, and ME/CFS and Long Covid are physical diseases that really exist, and ...

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