"This is the Voice of Moderation. I wouldn't go so far as to say we've actually SEIZED the radio station . . . "
by liberal japonicus The NYTimes Headlines reports that an OpenAI has just solved one of the Millenium problems, the Navier-Stokes equations. Yay, us! Err, just a second. Quanta has this at the end of their article. OpenAI admits that their work on the Navier-Stokes equation was inspired by rumors that Alpöge and Buckmaster had solved … Read more
by liberal japonicus This popped up in my feeds, a youtube video about what happened with Ha Young, a Korean actress. This is a shorter version, but I wonder if both of them miss out on something. If you don’t want sit through, basically the Korean actress, who was in a top-ranked drama, and she … Read more
by liberal japonicus I thought it was Aristotle who came up with ‘suspension of disbelief’, but apparently, it was Samuel Coleridge. Aristotle argued that a convincing impossibility in a story is preferable to an unconvincing possibility, but Coleridge came up with the phrase. This is prompted by seeing clips for the TV series Lanterns along … Read more
by liberal japonicus Allons-y!
by liberal japonicus Folks have been talking about this, so I thought I would toss in the NYT Daily on the DSA.
by liberal japonicus First of all, with all the doom scrolling I do, I’ve gotten a lot worse about keeping track of where I see things. so I don’t have the links to these anecdotes. Bearing that in mind, the question of what is middle class surfaced in the demography post, and I thought it … Read more
by liberal japonicus From here I actually just think the idea that this extraordinary leap in human knowledge and our capacity to explore the world of ideas and the natural world around us in our lifetimes could come about and then be hawked at us like the the cheapest like new pair of shoes, but … Read more
by liberal japonicus This Guardian article touches on a point that I think is interesting, why so many Latinos are involved on the enforcement side of ICE. The final graf is The lesson is that we should stop treating Latino support for anti-immigration politics as a paradox. To the contrary, this is a part of … Read more
by liberal japonicus I an reaching the point where I measure out my life with 5 day open threads. How about y’all?
by liberal japonicus I guess the big news is from the Michiganders and Abdul El-Sayed. I like Jamelle Bouie’s encapsulation of this, which is Vote Blue No Matter Who. If anyone has a more granular view of the race, please drop it in the thread and feel free to write about anything else.