You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

We Need to Prepare for the Mammoth Task of De-Trumpification The damage he and his cronies have wrought could take decades to repair, particularly when it comes to science and public health.

The task of de-Trumpification of science and public health will take a generation and a "Marshall Plan" to rebuild. Without a bold, expansive vision to guide us, there is no coming back. Small-bore, poll-tested versions of the future will not help us. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A sick burn that only game nerds will understand.

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread.

Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff.

1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

That really is missing the point of the character.

So what does new AFOB do?

#caturday

Quick and Meaningless Data Collection Help me collect some data to use for student examples! The questions on geographic region and gender will only be used for subsetting the data, not for student analysis. No questions are required -…

I NEED HELP!

Please take this quick, meaningless 19 question survey so I can get data for my students to learn stats!

I did a similar version a few months ago but missed an important question type. Even if you did the old one, please do it again!

Please circulate widely!

And so I will circle around to my constant point: the instinct for a comforting aristocracy is endemic in the human populace, and the job of democracy is to ruthlessly destroy it whenever it appears. Not build a political, legal and moral (prosperity gospel) framework which fucking encourages it.

In the real world, cultures change constantly - they cannot help but do so - and people change their individual cultural blend all of the time.

What matters is values and it turns out some of the values that are better for human flourishing are pluralism and a high degree of individualism.

seven months on beehiiv, by the numbers was leaving substack worth it?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."

Here are the hard numbers:

My wife asked me to repost this in case some folks missed it.

She is de-stashing her treasure hoard of yarn. There's a lot of it. It's kinda taken over the house. I'm in the attic of the garage right now. Help?

www.etsy.com/shop/Destash...

We need more baby goats 🐐 ♥️

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about.

This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

engage in forbidden sexual intercourse, the Gemara notes that Rav Yehuda says that Rav says: There was an incident involving a certain man who set his eyes upon a certain woman and passion rose in his heart, to the point that he became deathly ill. And they came and asked doctors what was to be done with him. And the doctors said: He will have no cure until she engages in sexual intercourse with him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not engage in sexual intercourse with him. The doctors said: She should at least stand naked before him. The Sages said: Let him die, and she may not stand naked before him. The doctors suggested: The woman should at least converse with him behind a fence in a secluded area, so that he should derive a small amount of pleasure from the encounter. The Sages insisted: Let him die, and she may not converse with him behind a fence.

reject modernity (online r*pe academy), embrace tradition (the Beit Midrash telling a man to die)

I missed that layer.

No media on,
no AI demon.

#palindrome

I have seen this, illustrated.

comparison of historical painting of a Nubian bishop with the photo of someone wearing the reconstructed clothing of a Nubian bishop

comparison of historical painting of a Nubian Royal Mother with the photo of someone wearing the reconstructed clothing of a Nubian Royal Mother

comparison of historical painting of a Nubian king with the photo of someone wearing the reconstructed clothing of a Nubian king

comparison of historical painting of a Nubian king with the photo of someone wearing the reconstructed clothing of a Nubian king

Pictures from "Costumes of prestige and authority in Christian Nubia: insights from archaeological reconstruction"

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hey, are you interested in the subject of counterfeiting Roman denarii during the 1st-3rd centuries CE? Sure, we all are!

Well, there's a free book (from Brepols, which is cool) on the subject here: www.brepolsonline.net/content/book...

American Archive of Public Broadcasting A collaboration between GBH and the Library of Congress with a long-term vision to preserve and make accessible significant historical content created by public media.

This is great!

The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present.

It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more.

americanarchive.org

Part 1 of 4 A Peanuts Comic. Once again Lucy has goaded Charlie Brown into trying to kick a football, and (as usual) she jerks the ball away at the last second, sending Charlie flying into the air. This time however Charlie lands heavily on his neck and is killed instantly.

Part 2 of 4 Lucy kicks Charlie Brown to check if he’s dead. Which he is. Exasperated, and worried she’ll be blamed for his death, Lucy begins to drag Charlie’s now lifeless body towards the creek.

Part 3 of 4 Lucy dumps poor ol’ Charlie Brown into the creek and watches him float away.

Part 4 of 4 Lucy heads back to Charlie Brown’s backyard to pick a fight with Snoopy in order to establish an alibi. Unfortunately a disheveled, crumpled man with a cigar is already there. “Miss, have y’seen this dog? He’s best friends with a BIRD. Can you believe that?” That’s right folks. Columbo is here to avenge Charlie Brown.

Lucy van Pelt has finally gone too far. But she will be brought to justice

a better world is possible! we have enough!

Feels important to uplift Rep Pressley's leadership. She puts in a lot of work on issues that others often don't see as a priority. I've appreciated her anti-criminalization work over the years. She's a worker.

2-panel SMBC comic update. A cartoon beaver and a duck are meeting in the day of night. The duck asks "you forgot to bring a condom?" to which the beaver replies "come on, baby. We're not even in the same clade." Later, both cartoon animals are seen sitting in a modern living room surrounded by baby platypus. Both parents look depressed.

Later it turns out the duck was getting with a porcupine and had a litter of echidnas.

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EFF's green motherboard hooded sweatshirt

Spice up your outerwear with some ✨ color ✨ EFF's new zip up hoodie comes in green! eff.org/hoodie

Hebrew Fonts • the Open Siddur Project ✍ פְּרוֺיֶקְט הַסִּדּוּר הַפָּתוּחַ Download and install our large collection of open-source, Unicode Hebrew fonts.

There is now a Dyslexia Hebrew font available for download:

“Long ago I yearned to be a hero without knowing, in truth, what a hero was. Now, perhaps, I understand it a little better. A grower of turnips or a shaper of clay, a Commot farmer or a king--every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone."

~~THE HIGH KING
Lloyd Alexander

Montana Supreme Court Rules Its Constitution Entirely Protects Trans Citizens In Landmark Ruling The ruling will have enormous impacts for transgender residents in the state.

1. In a landmark ruling, the Montana Supreme Court has declared that the constitution, one of the most progressive in the nation, entirely protects transgender people.

The ruling is even insulated from SCOTUS decisions, due to how state constitutions work.

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