"I hate [politician on my side not doing what I want], they need to go!"
You can blame people you basically agree with, or you can work with the people available to try to work toward better.
1st feels good for maybe 5 minutes, then ruins improvement right now, the 2nd has a chance to make things better.
Try to take your anger, your resentment, which I share, to those chiefly responsible for problems, and not to those nearest and ablest to help, even if not as fla…
The billions and billions of dollars this bill pumps into ICE far exceed any conceivable legitimate need the agency could have, even if you agree with its mission.
This bill takes the same masked, anonymous gunmen who have been kidnapping people off the streets and gives them a budget the size of a military.
This is not about honoring the law. This is not even about immigrants.
This is about creating a police state.
I see no other way to read these numbers.
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🧑🏻💻 .NET 10 Preview Now Available on #Azure App Service! :azure: https://azure.github.io/AppService/2025/08/26/dotnet-10-preview-on-App-Service.html…
Interesting piece on the #Arctic #SeaIce and it's (improving) representation in global climate models by Gavin Schmidt over on @realclimate, I'm not entirely sure all of the improvement is for the right reasons, there are probably compensating biases, it would be interesting to see if the models get the regional signal correct in different parts of the Arctic, but overall I agree with this piece, there have been some big steps forward in global models, the regional level is often not very well represented though.
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/05/predicted-arctic-sea-ice-trends-over-time/
Series C, Episode 12 - Death-Watch
SERVALAN: The ancient weapons of combat. Use your choice with honour. [Deeta takes both guns and checks them over.] They've already been checked. Don't you trust us? I assure you they're exactly the same.
DEETA: No two guns are ever exactly the same.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/…
physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…
I keep seeing posts about Sydney Sweeney (who I'm aware is a terrible person), and almost every single response is "wait, who is she and why should we care?"
And while I agree that we shouldn't care (I certainly don't!), I can't help but be shocked that no one's seen Euphoria?
[edit: forgot about White Lotus, but it's not as good as Euphoria imo]
TECH 2025: Europas Abhängigkeit von US-Clouds und Rüstungsgütern ist gefährlich. Die Konferenz in Heilbronn fordert: Mehr Investitionen in eigene Technologien, weniger Bürokratie – und ein „Buy European Act“ für digitale Souveränität. #Handelsblatt:
TECH 2025: „Europa hat alles außer Zeit“ – TECH-Aufbruch in Heilbronn
By all reports, DOGE’s tools were hot crap, and I have serious doubts about whether any of the engineers in involved were any good. But what Weissmann is saying about this •belief•? Agree completely.
That particular form of engineering arrogance that imagines Smart Boys with Fancy Tech can magically untangle complex human systems needs to die a quick death. It’s not good public policy. It’s not even good engineering.
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