Wordcel in the Streets, Bloodless Quant in the Sheets
@kamonjonas.bsky.social
Cycling fan, amateur programmer, history Ph.D., Episcopalian, liberal, patriot
If you don't support open borders, you don't love America. If you don't love America, you're on the side of the fascists.
If you don't support open borders, you don't love America. If you don't love America, you're on the side of the fascists.
What specific crimes did they commit? A lot of stuff they did probably should have been crimes, but I'm really not sure they did anything that actually was a crime at the time they did it.
October 6, 2026 at 4:23 PM
What specific crimes did they commit? A lot of stuff they did probably should have been crimes, but I'm really not sure they did anything that actually was a crime at the time they did it.
I can fit my bicycle inside on trips instead of having it on a rack outside where it can get stolen/run into/damaged, it's literally the perfect vehicle for my lifestyle.
October 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I can fit my bicycle inside on trips instead of having it on a rack outside where it can get stolen/run into/damaged, it's literally the perfect vehicle for my lifestyle.
I can take it on road trips and park somewhere safe and sleep comfortably in the back, I have enough interior space that in grad school and early in my career I was able to do multiple cross-country moves without needing anything else to transport my belongings.
October 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
I can take it on road trips and park somewhere safe and sleep comfortably in the back, I have enough interior space that in grad school and early in my career I was able to do multiple cross-country moves without needing anything else to transport my belongings.
My first vehicle in high school was a minivan that my parents gave to me when they replaced it with a newer model and since then I've never had any desire to drive anything else: I'm rather tall so it's good from that aspect, and I get excellent sightlines and gas mileage.
October 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
My first vehicle in high school was a minivan that my parents gave to me when they replaced it with a newer model and since then I've never had any desire to drive anything else: I'm rather tall so it's good from that aspect, and I get excellent sightlines and gas mileage.
That famously monolithic religion, Christianity.
October 5, 2026 at 5:27 PM
That famously monolithic religion, Christianity.
October 5, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Episcopalians don't really do megachurches so something had to fill the void.
October 5, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Episcopalians don't really do megachurches so something had to fill the void.
This is just the Heaven's Gate website.
Which, I note, is still up 30 years later.
Which, I note, is still up 30 years later.
Heaven's Gate - How and When It May Be Entered
How
and When Heaven's Gate, the Door to the Physical Kingdom Level Above Human,
May Be Entered. Organized Religions Are Killers of Souls. UFOs and
Extraterrestrials - Sorting the Good from the Bad....
www.heavensgate.com
October 5, 2026 at 1:38 AM
This is just the Heaven's Gate website.
Which, I note, is still up 30 years later.
Which, I note, is still up 30 years later.
I won't claim to be a Brazil Politics Understander, so could someone explain to me why everyone's acting like the outcome of the runoff is a foregone conclusion when Lula + two center/center-left parties > 50% in the first round?
October 5, 2026 at 1:31 AM
I won't claim to be a Brazil Politics Understander, so could someone explain to me why everyone's acting like the outcome of the runoff is a foregone conclusion when Lula + two center/center-left parties > 50% in the first round?
October 5, 2026 at 1:28 AM
I thought everybody wanted to be a cat.
October 5, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I thought everybody wanted to be a cat.
there's an ISKCON joke here somewhere
October 3, 2026 at 3:45 AM
there's an ISKCON joke here somewhere
This is exactly correct--hydraulic (and pneumatic) logic is a well-developed field, a network of AND and OR and XOR and NOT gates is a network of AND and OR and XOR and NOT gates regardless of the medium.
October 3, 2026 at 3:43 AM
This is exactly correct--hydraulic (and pneumatic) logic is a well-developed field, a network of AND and OR and XOR and NOT gates is a network of AND and OR and XOR and NOT gates regardless of the medium.
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I also notice a big delta between people who have had these sorts of jobs at some point and those who have not
October 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
I also notice a big delta between people who have had these sorts of jobs at some point and those who have not
The psychologically-easiest way to resolve that tension and maintain those cherished ideological commitments is to deny that machines not only are not now but categorically cannot ever be capable of anything approaching human cognition, contrary evidence be damned.
October 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
The psychologically-easiest way to resolve that tension and maintain those cherished ideological commitments is to deny that machines not only are not now but categorically cannot ever be capable of anything approaching human cognition, contrary evidence be damned.
But once we became capable of creating ex nihilo machines that can reproduce a lot of our formerly-unique cognitive capabilities, to many people the latter belief became harder to do without invoking something that sounds a lot like "soul."
October 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
But once we became capable of creating ex nihilo machines that can reproduce a lot of our formerly-unique cognitive capabilities, to many people the latter belief became harder to do without invoking something that sounds a lot like "soul."
I also think there's an intersecting ideological component to vis-a-vis a simultaneous commitment to secularism and that humans are sui generis. For centuries it's been very easy to maintain those beliefs side by side.
October 2, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I also think there's an intersecting ideological component to vis-a-vis a simultaneous commitment to secularism and that humans are sui generis. For centuries it's been very easy to maintain those beliefs side by side.
Why does this look vaguely like an outline of Britain?
October 2, 2026 at 12:29 AM
Why does this look vaguely like an outline of Britain?
Whoever their equipment manager is would have just quit if they ever had TJ Houshmandzadeh.
October 1, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Whoever their equipment manager is would have just quit if they ever had TJ Houshmandzadeh.
"Rusting Province" is an unfortunately accurate name for Wisconsin.
October 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
"Rusting Province" is an unfortunately accurate name for Wisconsin.
In a not-insignificant number of cases, people *are* able to work full-time on their passion projects because they are able to fund their work on that project by selling access to that project. Ending copyright would undermine the coincidence of interests that makes this possible.
October 1, 2026 at 5:06 PM
In a not-insignificant number of cases, people *are* able to work full-time on their passion projects because they are able to fund their work on that project by selling access to that project. Ending copyright would undermine the coincidence of interests that makes this possible.