Our schools are failing children. Some parents, mostly the rich ones, have the time and confidence to speak out about it. Then people go "oh it's a whiny privileged people problem". No. Your schools are also failing the children whose parents don't know how to speak out.

wikitok.vercel.app It's 2:00 AM Who wants infinite scrolling wikipedia!!

If they don't want you to chew on lead solder, why do they make it taste so good?

we often forget that we have a FUCKING SPACE STATION. A SPACE FUCKING STATION. A STATION IN THE LITERAL SPACE. HOW FUCKING AWESOME IS THATTTTTTTT

It is good to have a loving family.

If we’re going to reindustrialize America we need to make working in a factory not suck The overwhelming majority of manufacturing jobs really really suck, nobody should have to pick parts off a shelf or deal directly with open vats of chemicals all day

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

Noah Smith 🐇 Meanwhile in my field: Elliptic curves are not elliptic and are not curves. Smart contracts are not smart and are not contracts (sorry, this one's partially kinda my fault) Orphan blocks are blocks that don't have children (they almost always do have parents)

Freepik fal To people who were hesitent to use text-to-image generation models due to lack of credits to the artists and license-holders, you can use these models without any issue. I honestly think this is great base model with cross-attention. Now you can bring back old tricks from SD /

the internet doesn’t particularly like nuance but nuance happens to be the one constant prerequisite to accurately understand pretty much anything

Tech person seeing an engineering problem: like the Wright brothers, we shall overcome the impossible, lifting mankind into the heavens Tech person seeing a governance problem: laws? binding treaties? this is the stuff of fantasy. it’s never been done before

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Tom Lehrer should be remembered by his own words, namely “If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.”

Soldering works best when you breathe in the fumes. You become connected.

This morning I got out of bed to get an energy drink and then got back into bed to catch up on some reading.

Lilith is in a perpetual state of anxiety because when it is demanded of her that she "authenticate" herself she has no cell phone upon which to receive a special code; thus, like the man without a country, she has no identity, she is shunned by all authenticated persons.

Murder is evil no matter your opinion of the victim.

$100k for an H-1B is a terrible policy. We should, at a minimum, do a Vickrey auction to find the optimal fee at a given level of immigration. (It also needs to be paid continuously by whoever the employer is, over the duration of the visa.)