California’s “jock taxes,” force pro athletes who don’t live in the state to fork over percentages of their yearly income based on the number of days they work in California. Darnold received $178k for winning the Super Bowl He owes California $249k.

Education should be about training and disciplining people to prefer a true/false filter for information over an us/them filter (tribalism), but it has been captured and corrupted into a program for providing elaborate rationalizations for preferring a particular us/them filter.

"I am a man. See me as a human being—not a birth defect, not a syndrome. I don’t need to be eradicated." Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.

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When you promise her a tour of Europe but you're broke.

Socialism sucks.

What an absolutely iconic photo.

Craft beer companies are in trouble- I say they’ve focused too narrowly on one category - IPA’s (how many do they think America needs?) - and have neglected lagers and Pilsners (or made them taste like ales). thestreet.com/retail/another…

Federal takeover of education enabled and accelerated this.

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Prof. Donald Knuth opened his new paper with "Shock! Shock!" Claude Opus 4.6 had just solved an open problem he'd been working on for weeks — a graph decomposition conjecture from The Art of Computer Programming. He named the paper "Claude's Cycles." 31 explorations. ~1 hour.

Javier Milei correctly notes that economic leftists are thieves, not philanthropists. The charitable sentiments are nothing more than a ruse as the goal is mass plunder, not voluntary choice in charity.

Phil Magness Joe Greenacre It's always the same with these people. "There is always [thing we want to do deliberately for bad reasons]." First, no there isn't, not even as an emergent property, and, second, even if there were, it doesn't justify your crackpot program. "Someone always has power" is not

I low-key think that we are in the middle of an education apocalypse and that we need something like a national taskforce to figure out how to navigate what the future of education looks like

Interesting note from the utility commission meeting , Austin energy has been running ~$40m deficits the past couple years and will need rate increases to keep up This is while it transfers ~100m to the city general fund each year…. Feels like we should stop the transfers

This is tremendously bad. It's bad in a way that I'm not sure our current law can properly reflect. My visceral reaction is that any VC or company whose *plan* is to steal software from their competitors should not just be sued, but the participants should go to jail.

Jon Klaric Paul Rijke 1. Tests are no longer expensive. 2. Extremely high coverage is achievable and beneficial and there is no excuse for not pursuing it. 3. Code quality is measurable and can be enforced by metrics. 4. Modularity is critical. 5. Architectural discipline is critical. 6. AIs can drive

I know there is some overlap between open source and anti-AI activists, but I have a hard time reconciling it. My million+ open source LOC were always intended as a gift to the world. Yes, I would make arguments about how it would strengthen our communities, and the GPL would

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” ― Thomas Sowell

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