Rob Simmons

You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform You advocate a ( ) solar ( ) lunar ( ) atomic approach to calendar reform. Your idea will not work. Here is why: ( ) solar years are real and the calendar year needs to sync with them ( ) solar ...

(x) "7am" is a social construct
(x) social constructs are actually very important

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It’s so difficult to maintain what I really do think is the epistemologically correct stance of “it’s a big deal but there’s a lot of bullshit”, because like, there is a *lot* of bullshit

I don’t actually know what “shovel in waves“ means

Favorite crime?

I think it's just trying to make rich people mad at Schumer so he funds DHS.

You're A Real One, Mr. Grinch

i will always have a soft spot for profiles of annoying people engaged in good work. being mildly annoyed is the baseline reality of organizing and existing in human society

DOG AT THE OLYMPICS
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Frankly difficult to believe, your speculative fiction is usually much more grounded

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

Love this quote; a thing I like about Lean is that the first goal was helping many humans work together on math. The features built to do that can also facilitate modes of co-creation with computational collaborators - including but not limited to the current generation of statistical AI.

Oh my god

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

They sang “American Idiot”

No Kings includes Draft Kings

I don’t know if it’s correct per se but I think this is a legitimate concern and I think it’s the best current non-ethical argument for largely avoiding the use of LLM based tools, including (but not especially?) in software dev.

How old is this hero? Did his parents know what that were doing?

MILO, THE PARALYMPIC MASCOT, HAS ONE LEG!!

this captures how our brains cant deal with orders of magnitude in a way that no “a trillion sections is six millennia“ or whatever quite manages

This is truly an amazing and perfect toot by one of the greats. I’m gonna be thinking about this one for a long time.

I saw this for the second time today and was briefly like “you moron, you believed this obviously fake parody thing was real, be a less credulous consumer of social media” and then I searched and nope it’s a real podcast title available on Apple Podcasts and everything

It strikes me, by the speaker’s reasoning, as a reasonable biblical case for neighborhood ICE watch, though. (One of many.)

i bought some coffee beans and some sleepy time tea at the grocery store near my house and cashier said "whoah man you've gotta be careful about mixing uppers and downers"

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every time you press this button, it should automatically notify HR

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test

Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs)

Good tech.

Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales)

Bad tech.