Can’t wait to watch the thrilling tale of a weak and pathetic creature, whose every living moment is agony, who flees, is hunted down, captured, and tortured by the leaders of first one and then the other side of a power struggle he cannot understand. Truly a parable for our times.
The Data Colada people provide an update on the defamation case Francesca Gino has filed against them. Short version: the dismissal hearing happened and now they wait for a decision on that. https://datacolada.org/116
Look, I’m gonna be honest with you [there is a pause; a fugitive moment; he gazes off into the middle distance as if gripped by a memory he cannot articulate, a feeling he cannot explain; his focus returns but the sense of loss remains] this is a good book and you should buy it https://theordinalsociety.com
The astonishing organizational power of taking everything on your computer Desktop, putting it in a new folder named “To File” and never looking at anything in that folder ever again.
This is a bad decision by Columbia’s administration. Maybe you’d like it if these teenagers had let’s say more considered political opinions. The problem is the people most excited for this sort of police action do have well worked-out views, and they’re authoritarians who hate universities.
U. Chicago’s President thinks the protest encampment is reminiscent of an illegitimate military operation, so I assume he’ll be encouraging his Econ department to provide them with policy advice.
(Also, maybe someone with a high school education can tell him about the origins of the word “Campus”.)
Thanks Bob, boy that’s quite a scene there at Princeton, though Emory is also really making the running today here on Clusterf**k TV. If I can just turn to you, Chuck, as— <places hand to earpiece> My apologies, first let’s go over live to the West Coast! https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-25/la-me-usc-commencement-canceled
Room full of aging nerds: We remotely worked around a memory issue in a failing FDS unit capable of addressing 8,192 16-bit words over a network connection with a round-trip latency of 42 hours
If you're going to cheerfully market your neat PDF typesetting tool as “a serious contender for the title of LaTeX successor (and God knows we need one) then I feel it should know to keep section headers with their subsequent paragraphs.
Going to give my brother back home a call, as I’m just wondering what this fella is like and am certain they already not only know who he is but will be able to tell me how once we were on holidays in the same B&B in Goleen and we found his dog after it was lost or he took my cousin to her Debs etc
Happy book launch day to @kjhealy and @marionfourcade whose The Ordinal Society has been keeping me up late reading and rereading and following references:
