@memeorandum@universeodon.comWhite House Pushes Texas to Redistrict, Hoping to Blunt Democratic Gains (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/us/politics/trump-texas-redistricting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250610/p4#a250610p4
@cdarwin@c.imThe modern standard model of cosmology is a triumph of the scientific process.
On the other hand, it’s also kind of a kludge.
The modern standard model seems to glue together a bunch of disparate parts without any overarching theoretical structure.
Take inflation and dark energy.
In both cases, we have a form of pervasive energy that pushes space apart.
Inflation does it really fast and then dissipates.
Dark energy does it much slower and does not dissipate…
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euSacha Baron Cohen - Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award - pushes woman in wheelchair off stage at awards
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zF98VDxED4
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social“I do not design with Figma. He who designs with Figma has forgotten the face of his father. I design with my eye.
I do not code with an IDE. He who codes with his IDE has forgotten the face of his father. I code with my mind.
I do not push to staging. He who pushes to staging has forgotten the face of his father. I push to prod.”
--The Gunslinger, if Stephen King was full stack
#tech
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of prediction market Kalshi, which is using its federal financial license to open up sports gambling across the US, even in states where it is illegal (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
@nobodyinperson@fosstodon.orgYay, @… made it so :gitannex: #gitAnnex pushes the current branch first (not the git-annex or synced/* branches). This is awesome when you want to push-to-create a local repo to your @…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comExclusive: US pushes countries for best offers by Wednesday as tariff deadline looms (Jarrett Renshaw/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-pushes-countries-best-offers-by-wednesday-tariff-deadline-looms-2025-06-02/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250602/p106#a250602p106
@floheinstein@chaos.social
@NFL@darktundra.xyzThe Scotsman who helped the Eagles perfect the tush push: 'Nobody else is doing what I do' https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6390145/2025/06/05/richie-gray-interview-tush-push-nfl/
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialTrump's ego pushes the narrative that he's somehow a good negotiator & 'gets the best deals' from other countries.
Problem: 6 bankruptcies & no one's left that will lend him money. He only knows how to negotiate w/ dumb blunt instruments: Bribes & Tariffs.
Result: Zero actual trade agreements.
@MediaActivist@todon.eu"What is different, is that before what were largely fringe anti-Semitic and white supremacist theories floating around the far corners of the Alt-Right, have now become the backbone of the Republican party. 'The Great Replacement,' once a conspiracy pushed by only hardline neo-Nazis and white supremacists, is now being touted by everyone from pharma billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, Swason frozen foods heir and Twitter troll Tucker Carlson, to the billionaire backed Turning Point US…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comVance jokingly pushes back on 'intellectual' label: 'You insult me' (Sarah Fortinsky/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5331977-vice-president-jd-vance-intellectual-label/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p54#a250604p54
@memeorandum@universeodon.comJoni Ernst's "we're all going to die" pushes MAGA's toxic Christian compassion on us all (Amanda Marcotte/Salon)
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/04/joni-ernsts-were-all-going-to-die-exposes-magas-christian-compassion/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p113#a250604p113
@arXiv_condmatmeshall_bot@mastoxiv.pageUniversal Phase Transitions of Matter Induced in Optically Driven Cavities
Tsan Huang, Zhiyuan Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24318 https://
@castarco@hachyderm.iotechno-political rant
Say what you want about using the right tool for each problem, but there are tools that suck no matter what.
I'm tired of people portraying legit technical criticism as "biased" and "religious", while at the same time they present themselves as tolerant and open-minded (spoiler: for the most part, they aren't).
Almost every day of my life I have to deal with the nasty consequences of ultra-dumb decisions made by the very same people who are obsessed with productivity and criticise all day long whoever pushes for any design that shows any minim amount of care and/or deep thought (mostly via strawmen arguments).
And, of course, unironically: this has a lot to do with capitalism, as many of our other social and economic problems.
They arrive, have a strike of super-productivity for a few weeks/months and then use that as a trampoline to raise through the ranks or abandon ship before having to face the consequences of their technical crimes.
Then others arrive and are obviously slower at that same job... so the uneducated observers start believing that these newcomers aren't as good as the class traitors who wrote the initial nasty code.
To make things worse, if any of these newcomers dare to speak openly about introducing good practices... this ends up creating a new mental association (in the minds of uneducated observers) between "good engineering" and "lack of productivity".
The ones trying to fix the mess are indeed slower, not because they try to do things the right way though, but because they have to waste vasts amounts of time fixing what is objectively broken besides doing the "visible" work.
Most of today's established "super-productive" ones, if they were starting today, would be probably "vibe coders", certainly not what we commonly understand as a programmer. Not because AI-coding is the future, but because they never cared about the trade at all. They were here only for the grift.
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump pushes a July 4th deadline for big tax bill as senators dig in (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-big-bill-senate-gop-debt-a0679756c6af762ac0291be6cb647145
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p98#a250603p98
