Serious data might not be available for months. For comparison, the Pew Research Center didn’t come out with their numbers for the 2020 election until June 2021. Who knows? The country might burn down before next summer.

here’s a matt yglesias article on the ordeal that i think is pretty even-handed

eat a dick

Not enough for the presidential race, sadly; perhaps enough to scrape by with a few Senate victories.

Those are the actors who played Duncan Idaho in the David Lynch adaptation and in the two Syfy miniseries. So, yeah, it’s not wrong, just incomplete — though I have no idea why it only serves up those three. There’s certainly no limitation to three images, as can be verified by searching for “Sherlock Holmes actor” or the like.

Even the AI summary is quite good

insta-block

The level of fucked we are is too big for words

I wanted to say something darkly comedic about the AI bubble popping under the new regime, but my heart is too sick to make a joke

My sense growing up in Huntsville was that the airport ads for defense contractors were kind of like, e.g., Exxon sponsoring a pavilion at EPCOT. The intent wasn’t to push any specific consumer towards buying any specific product, but to pump out a positive image for the company generally.

And a lot of those contractors’ people fly through Huntsville on business. (For those not in the know: The airport is just down the highway from Redstone Arsenal, which is where we brought all them Nazis we recruited to help us beat the Commies to the Moon. The only reason Huntsville exists as more than a sleepy/dying cotton mill town is the space program and missile warfare.) There may well be deals along the lines of “advertise here and your people get the cushy lounge”.

“I have been unfailingly polite, and [your lemmy instance has] been nothing but rude.”

Downvoting because you are a dorkus

eigenrobot:

almost every smart person I talk to in tech is in favor of mandatory eugenic polygynous marriages in order to deal with the fertility crisis. people are absolutely fed up with the lefty approach of using generational insolvency as a pretextual cudgel to install socialism.

Ah, Huntsville. Where the downtown convention hall is the Werner von Braun Center.

🎶 the man whose allegiance is ruled by expedience 🎶

Gauss–Jordan elimination, maybe?

“Your mother was volatile with poor control last night, Trebek!”

Musk lookin’ like he just sipped from the wrong Grail in that photo

“When I have a disagreement with a girl, I hit my balls with a hammer. There is absolutely nothing she can do; it’s a brutal mog.”

Fortune magazine reports:

In separate investigations completed by the blockchain firms Chaos Labs and Inca Digital and shared exclusively with Fortune, analysts found that Polymarket activity exhibited signs of wash trading, a form of market manipulation where shares are bought and sold, often simultaneously and repeatedly, to create a false impression of volume and activity. Chaos Labs found that wash trading constituted around one-third of trading volume on Polymarket’s presidential market, while Inca Digital found that a “significant portion of the volume” on the market could be attributed to potential wash trading, according to its report.

A reminder that we have a music recommendation thread for recommendations of sounds that are better than slop.

Altman’s line is what you write when you have nothing novel to say about physics but really, really want to say disparaging things about gay people.

dys.en.tery

Consider also Sam Altman, who once argued that “we have to allow people to say disparaging things about gay people if we want them to be able to say novel things about physics”

Good grief, I had forgotten about that.

As a queer physicist, what can I say but “suck a bag of dicks, dipshit”?