Maybe it’d be good if, in places like Texas, there were lists of lawyers willing to accompany pregnant patients. It’s horrible Texas has made lifesaving care a legal risk for providers. We should fix that yesterday. In the meantime we could make clear there are risks in both directions.
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The kid is learning about exponents, and I’m trying to help. 1/
One trick I think useful is to suggest he define, say, 4^3 not as 4 x 4 x 4, but as 1 x 4 x 4 x 4. Of course the two expressions amount to the same thing. But if you get into the habit of including the 1, it becomes obvious why 4^0 is just one. 2/
And since for positive exponents, subtracting an exponent corresponds to dividing by the base, you can just subtract past the zero exponent to define negative exponents. /fin
“Part of Trump’s genius is being bad in so many ways that no particular way stands out and it seems like he must not be that bad.” ~Scott Alexander www.astralcodexten.com/p/acx-endors...
ouch.
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[new draft post] Private firms, public industries drafts.interfluidity.com/2024/11/01/p...
they say success is hard work, but i contend that failure is more exhausting.
doing bad things may not be the best strategy to restore our innocence.
Denaturalization should simply not be a thing, for Elon or for anybody. The state get its opportunity for due diligence up front. Once a person is an American they are an American.
i don’t even know how you would pin any of those people to a gar.
photograph of a gar (the fish) swimming under water. taken from Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gar
we encounter ghosts constantly. the ghosts we encounter most often are ghosts of our former selves. boo! it says. look what you have done with us, you shithead.
a taste of the conditions Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in mind for the working man. ht @sethcotlar.bsky.social @rednecklefty.bsky.social
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deregulation + financialization = lobotomization + predation no one’s been working on the railroad edition, by Phillip Longman ht @volts.wtf washingtonmonthly.com/2024/10/29/t...
Train Drain | Washington Monthly
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It’s an adaptation. In the original, Neo was a mitochondrion.
it’s amazing how faddish the tech industry is. microsoft, google, amazon have all announced nuclear reactor projects within, like, a minute.
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the problem is Congress has ceased to serve the function of Congress so the other two branches fight over usurping the role.
“As for the problems with what is sometimes termed ‘regulation by enforcement,’ that’s exactly the incentive structure the right wing has set up by kneecapping agencies’ abilities to set rules.” @lopatto.bsky.social www.theverge.com/24280387/gar...
The future of crypto regulation comes down to one unpopular man
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Speaking of Bernie, a very good profile by @ddiamond.bsky.social in, um, the Washington Post. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This election season feels like an active shooter drill.
Bernie Sanders. There are still good people in the world. youtu.be/Vf5MThSniiY
“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?” Here is my answer:
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one perhaps salutary consequence of Donald Trump is he’s exposed just how pathetic plutocratic “masters of the universe” really are.
