A good man should look like a horse
“You look like a horse in a man costume.”
Prof. Sam Lawler
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NOT AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT:
Unnamed homebuilder takes Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith on a tour of a typical working class kitchen.
He explained how food is so expensive, most can't afford to eat at restaurants and are lucky to be able to fill a fridge with food at today's grocery prices.
Carney was taken aback to discover many families did not have a private chef. Smith was silent, trying to process the reality of the lives of every day people who don't have a vacation home in Panama and have to cook their own meals.
"Well, this explains why it took us so long to sell our restaurant on official government social media," she said, appearing distraught.
After the tour, the two politicians left to immediately draft another MOU agreement, this time to never interfere with each other's kitchens, private chefs or restaurants.
Mission accomplished yet again.
Photo supplied by the Government of Alberta, but they do not endorse this unofficial statement.
Falling like you mean it
Prof. Sam Lawler
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Friends, you may have seen this but if not, sharing:
"The LLM-generated proof hinges on a particular mathematical argument that it presented as its own but that actually first appeared in a 2016 paper by Miller and a collaborator."
If violence, knowledge and charisma are the fundamental sources of domination, as Graeber and Wengrow suggest, then it follows that an egalitarian society would need cultural technologies to counter all 3. That discourage violence, distribute access to knowledge, and promote modesty as a virtue among public officials, while cultivating a distrust of charismatic leaders.
Another thing that occurs to me as I read The Dawn of Everything is the role of food production in democratic politics. The other day, while searching for something unrelated, I came across the website of the Light Fighter Homefront Initiative, whose opening paragraph reads;
"Your grandparents knew how to grow food, treat injuries, and communicate without relying on systems they did not control. That knowledge has largely disappeared."
https://lightfighterhomefront.org/
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GrapheneOS version 2026090700 released:
https://grapheneos.org/releases#2026090700
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.
Forum discussion thread:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/41800-grapheneos-version-2026090700-released
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｢ The popular JavaScript package manager pnpm, already known for its speedy downloads, has further cut installation times by up to 90 percent thanks to a complete rewrite in Rust ｣
ajuvo ✔
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#Trump postet die neue Uniform seiner sogenannten Space Force.
Sieht mir wie ne Combo aus Star Trek, dem Galaktischen Imperium und der SS aus.
Und ja, das hat er wirklich so veroeffentlicht!
Just sent 2 (partial, very drafty) chapters to my book editor. This is good, I guess?
This is very very different than any other kind of writing I've ever done. I would enjoy it more if I could somehow stop doing everything else and just focus on book-writing, but yeah no that's just never happening. Need to figure out how to squeeze book-writing in with *everything else* more regularly.
In any case, I sure hope this week goes more smoothly than last week
Here's to a smooth week, Professor! EZ, PZ, breezy!
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NBC News: Tesla says first responders may need to push new Cybercab with no steering wheel
Tesla’s emergency guidance tells first responders the robotaxi “can be quickly pushed” to clear a lane but warns that doing it incorrectly risks electric shock and overheating the motor.
