John Harrold

I've started doing something similar for fun. In this paper with a vector image I embedding a picture of my son with a balloon. It's faint but if you zoom in you can see it (you have to download the PDF). It's open access though. doi.org/10.1007/s110...

Capital gains should be taxed when the assets are monetize, whether that's via sale or via loan

Hi. I, a trans woman, am the Executive Producer of this show. I wrote the question. He called trans girls men. He has now said it in three different places in the past week.

My theory is they basically said everything and each group just heard what the wanted.

And Lindsey Graham should be remembered as someone who, on his very best day, was a sniveling coward with a moral compass that pointed only to power.

Hey @proptermalone.bsky.social did you folks discuss this guy on the podcast?

It's obviously dumb to apply how-to-win-elections logic to non-candidates who are reacting out of moral outrage. But standing by this position is essential because if Matt acknowledges that his ability to predict what makes candidates successful is wrong, it kneecaps his entire approach.

If you were to take everything that was wrong about the democratic party, distill it down to its essence, and pour it into a human shaped mold, it would look like Matt Yglesias when you cracked it open.

Both @vanityfair.com and @propublica.org have me questioning the credibility of their stories after the shoddy lab leak story a while back.

this is an insane way to frame this attempted murder. i hope that chud rots

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you can go back to X and I can’t stop you. it is also true that you can’t stop me or anyone else from thinking you’re a fascist-suckling piece of shit for doing so.

What is the centrist/view from nowhere equivalent of "A capitalist will sell you the rope they use to hang them"?

I’m sorry to have to be the bad guy here but we need to recognize that we live in a compressed air thrusters world now. If you’re not finding ways to teach the critical use of compressed air thrusters in your classroom, you’re setting your students up to fail when you could be setting them up to fly

People even if you think AGI will create treatments or cures for different kinds of cancer, please do not start smoking. Even if those treatments are created they will likely suck. I'm not saying they wont work but they will likely be painful, have many side effects, and wreck your body.

There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.

We should all find some freaks.

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Ken Paxton has tremendous Fargo (TV series) antagonist energy, just an unlikeable, stupid-but-thinks-he's-clever, immoral asshole through and through

ok! xo is my attempt to answer the question “so how exactly do I make agentic AI help me” it hands your agent a set of prompts and skills to in turn help you set up your agentic environment to act as a better assistant: remember things you might forget, cut friction, reduce attention tax

Language barriers and national cultures are important, but they look tiny next to the deep cultural divide that separates LaTeX users from normal humans.

I must confess that when I'm walking down the sidewalk where I live I often encounter people speeding down the sidewalk on ebikes and electric scooters. I have yet to encounter someone on and ATV. I think we lack social norms about where and how these bike and scooters should be used.

In general everything is a struggle. And if we give up on our side then the other side will make progress. Or more progress. Just because you have lost something doesn't mean you should concede defeat. You have to keep up the struggle. And you must do so assuming the other side will as well.

Ahem…

Another reason publishers may want your email is AI scraping. From listening to the @404media.co podcast. They ask folks to get email links for their free reporting because it was the only way to stop the AI companies from scraping their content because these companies do understand consent.

I love living in a country where a politician can sign a law banning the health care I need to live and be greeted as a hero of comity and good sense

I feel like this describes all the folks in the IDW and associated secular gurus.

"The purpose of SlutCon is to help men who are scared of women to start liking women, by putting them in proximity of women who likemen and aren't scared of men." Isn't the bullshit of this statement kind of betrayed by calling it SlutCon?

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I just imagine this Polson guy as reviewer number 2 trying to get people to cite him: "The authors of this work clearly haven't read the 200 papers published in the last year regarding the topic of..."

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A few weekends ago I went to Miami and attended 9 open houses in extremely high-risk flood areas to see what agents are telling prospective buyers about them. Here is my journey

New — I wrote about this weird thing where people within the Republican party keep being exposed as Nazis and the party then tries to claim each one is an aberration. The facts, as I lay out here, indicate otherwise:

For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.

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I feel like people are focusing on the extinction thing too much. I saw someone say: Even if it causes a nuclear exchange that is unlike to lead to extinction. I think that starting a nuclear war is pretty damn bad. Extinction shouldn't be the threshold for concern. It should be much much lower.