lmao 🤌🏾
'An “alienated view of the world”! Not by, like, trying to pay rent or having an insurance claim denied—no, no, it was probably the Foucault you read in 2003.'
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Come build software and ML models with us!
A new research paper by Ed Glaeser, Sam Silverberg, et al. identifies several fundamental problems with the US bus market:
- It’s a duopoly, dominated by Gillig and New Flyer
- Foreign (and cheaper) competitors are blocked by federal Buy America rules
- Transit agencies customize *everything*
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
A garden flag depicting two bright red cardinals in winter hats posed in front of a birdhouse, with a light covering of snow on top.
I save that assumption for when the depictions show the two sharing a birdhouse, often in Winter as these tend to show up in holiday-themed decorations.
The latter having different problems, given that birds only use birdhouses during breeding season, and cardinals don't use birdhouses at all!
A photo of the front of the magazine USA Philatelic, showing their new fall stamp with two stylized bright red cardinal birds among greenery.
I am begging everyone: if you are going to make a product involving cardinals, please talk to literally anyone who looks at birds to know,
1. Those are two *male* cardinals
2. Most seasons of the year is the males are *very* territorial
This depiction is highly ornithologically suspect!!!
The panel I was on about "Where Physics Gets Weird" was featured in the Daily Dragon!
I love doing science speaking at Dragon Con each year, and this one was a doozy. I definitely felt like the odd person out as the quantum chemist among a bunch of (astro)physicists, but it was great!
Thank you so much!!!
And, to be clear, I really appreciate y'all covering science track content and covering a panel I was on! Thank you for doing this and hopefully we see you again at more science track panels next year!
I sent it through the contact us link on the dragoncon site, with the department set to daily Dragon, so hopefully it's in your hands now. Thanks!
Hey folks, you got several of the attributions on this article very incorrect w.r.t. speaker, I'm sending an email with more info. I'd love to be able to reskeet this once the article is fixed!
GUYS. The comment period for the upcoming ACIP meeting ends on the 13TH. If you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here:
www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...
Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. You CAN submit anonymously!
Alas, it wasn't recorded via the regular channels (e.g., DCTV). Unless someone has a private recording, it's gone :(
And, of course, we can’t forget about coca!ne
3rd dragon con in the books, now I’ve finally been convinced to download this app so I can keep in touch with awesome Science track folks. As my first act on this app, please see attached some motivational posters made from some quotes I gathered over the Con.
Do this!!!
And if you want more ballroom content with more seats, mention in the app that Sci Track NEEDS BIGGER ROOMS! It really does help!
A PowerPoint slide shown on a projector. The slide shows a busty cartoon woman in the left, with a white-throated sparrow's head (white-striped), and a female gender marker. On the right are two white-throated sparrows indicated as male, one white-striped, one tan-striped. The two male sparrows have voice bubbles saying "would" and "oh yeah".
More Dragon Con notes: everyone needs to appreciate this slide from @tkingfisher.com from her talk on the four sexes of white-throated sparrows at the Solve for X variety show in the Science track ( @dconscitrack.bsky.social )
A sculpture of a corn-plane hanging from the ceiling in an airport terminal. The front half of the plane is a corn cob, with wings made of leaves on the stalk, a tail of stalk, and nacelles of smaller corn. The sculpture is titled "Corncorde".
It is the time where I travel home from Dragon Con, and emotionally, as well as physically, I am here:
Oh, and did you get turned away from a panel you wanted to go to because the room filled up too quickly? Please add a comment in the ratings in the app to let DragonCon know. This could help us get a bigger room in the future so that we don’t have to turn anyone away.
Did you attend a Science Track panel this weekend that you loved? Go in the DragonCon app and rate those panels! Your ratings and comments help us to know what types of panels you love and we should do more of in the future!
Definitely doing less for #dragoncon this year on costumes. Its been A Year and I never get to spend enough time with my friends as I want to while at con.
But! I'm still doing plenty with the Science track! Moderating four panels and speaking on a fifth.
Who will I see this year? Sound off!
And there's at least one recent N American game that I'm aware of that leaned into some of those "dark romantasy" trope stuff but did it with safety mechanisms and proper LARP culture, so one *can* do this
...but it sounds like folks in the OG thread witnessed a case where none of this was present
Fwiw there are North American "blockbuster" games with ~1K pricetags that fulfill a bit more of the niche -- higher production values, trained NPCs, and associated bigger costume outlays.
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ANOTHER earthquake!
"POKELAW - speculative ethics of Pokemon" - SUNDAY at 1:00 PM. Panelists: Meredith Rose, Lucas Matos Hernandez, Will Harris, Jess Eppstein, Ryan Consell Description: Capturing wild animals for bloodsport, using unsupervised preteends for fieldwork, how did any of this get ethics clearance?
Got my tentative schedule for DragonCon, and FOLKS...
My god. 1.6%. I knew at some level a lot of it was as scammy as it felt but hearing that number is numbing.
Completely emblematic of the ineffectiveness of the Democratic party.
Earthquake! (in Westchester NY! My second since moving here!)
