George Budd @Gbudd@qoto.org

I love reading ancient cuneiform tablets. Classics such as "Fuck you, this copper sucks." (Ea Nasir), "I should get more new clothes, my dad's employee gets new clothes twice a month and it's embarrassing.", and of course "The sesame harvest will die — let nobody say I did not warn you!", which is absolutely a set up for "Per my last clay tablet.".

Social media & email may be part of the problem. But if we're still like this when we have to carve our petty bullshit into clay then it's clear that we're the problem. It's us.

Accidentally put 4 spoons of instant coffee in my cup rather than 2 this morning, and have spent the day wondering why I can smell bluetooth.

to;dw

"This is not about favor for any party or campaign because the moment you enter Arlington, politics are to be left at the gate. It’s not about you or me or anyone other than those buried in that ground and their loved ones who will never see them again because of their collective sacrifices."

READ: https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/in-praise-of-the-hardest-job-in-arlington

Start your week with all the key facts about #GW170817 with this infographic by @UofGravity's @daniel_williams

#Astrodon

“Come to think of it, denigrating the worth of a soldier’s service based on whether he deployed to a war zone is… kind of like denigrating the worth of a woman’s citizenship based on whether she happens to have children.”

— Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, on X, defending Gov. Tim Walz against accusations by Sen. J.D. Vance.

Pretty good.

Http needs a status code for grudging acceptance. We have 202 Accepted. We need 222 Tolerated.

For when the client is doing it wrong, but you've decided to be the bigger person and deal with it anyway.

I’ve seen this Kamala 2020 ad a dozen times today. It doesn’t get old.
I never saw it when it first ran. It has aged amazingly and I hope they play it on repeat.

#Harris2024 #HarrisButtigieg #HarrisButtigieg2024 #VoteBlue

Ok we all need another #doomscrolling break!

Boop the chonky boi before continuing on your journey

#cats #catsofmastodon #fedicats

réparer les blessures

What She Said https://mockpaperscissors.com/2024/07/14/what-she-said-7/

Sometimes I'm like why did it take me so long to try R and realize it's not that hard and then other times I'm like oh yeah on one of the first big research projects I was ever on a tenured faculty sneeringly said "well do you think you can calculate an average? Can you at least do that?" when I asked if I could sit with the main author doing the modeling to learn and then they disinvited me from all the analysis meetings

My boss said a dumb thing today.

We were talking about my land and taking the decks apart and what I want to do with the cedar logs and so on.

And at some point, I can't really remember for sure, we were talking about me needing a truck at times, maybe? That my little Kia won't be able to manage some things, then she said,

"And there's times when you just need a man."

I laughed and moved on in my brain to other things so I would not offend my boss, but I want to say:

Um. No.

I love men, I love good men. I've never been successful at choosing a good one but in theory, I know they exist and I like the idea of them.

But I don't need a man so I have someone to do the heavy lifting. I don't need a man to have the home I'm working toward. I need me. I need my friends and neighbors. I need to work hard and hire help occasionally or even just do without if I can't do it myself.

For me to want a man in my life so he can open pickle jars and drive a truck and lift heavy things is no different than a man wanting me in his life to cook his meals and do his laundry.

I'm not doing that.

I don't NEED a man.

Can we please get out of the cave era where I can't be happy or have the things I want unless a man is there to help me?

Please?

Thank you.

Intel's Pentium processor (1993) was a big jump in processor performance, starting a brand that lasted until 2023. But what's inside the Pentium chip? How did Intel organize its 3.3 million transistors? Let's take a look inside and see the chip's "standard cells". 1/21

Here is probably the best picture of Doots I’ve ever taken. I thought maybe y’all needed to see it today too. I just took it last night while we were playing.

Go play with your cat. You’ll feel better.

If you are a cat, go play with your human.

Happy Dootsday!

#AllCatsAreBeautiful #Dootsday #DootsToots #CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Cat #LynxPointSiamese #OneEyedCats

This is bonkers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearing_polymorphs Some pharmaceutical crystals can no longer be synthesised because they now spontaneously change to a more stable (but less medically efficacious) form. The more stable form acts as a seed crystal for the less stable form, and once this happens it creates a cascading effect, in which people who have ever worked with the stable form can contaminate an entire factory/lab and make it unable to reproduce the earlier form.

fun fact: the landing zone on a hard disk platter has a special surface texture that reduces stiction. the rest of the surface is so smooth the head would get stuck if it landed on it.