I've mostly ignored CDC's advice, given how unrelated to emerging science and common sense it has been. Instead of smashing a square peg into a round hole, I wish they'd ONLY report the data and emerging science so people could at least make INFORMED choices.
It's mind boggling to me how many educated people think meh, it's just a cold.
There are so many SIMPLE things we could be doing to make this so much better for all.
Note to self. Continue to avoid the hoi polloi.
Twofer. #Russia
Via Yaroslavl Trofimov:
Putin to Carlson: we do not intend to attack #NATO countries.
Two days later: Russia issues an arrest warrant for the prime minister of a NATO country.
Via @emptywheel:
Is the political press corp too dim-witted to connect #Trump's order that Congress withhold #Ukraine funding to Trump's boast that he promised to let Russia have his way with NATO allies? You realize these are inextricably linked, don't you?
Let’s not act as if it’s normal for the House Speaker* to refuse to allow a vote on critical national-security legislation that has passed in the Senate by a lopsided bipartisan margin of 70-29. Surely he must let the House vote.
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*Mike Johnson, Putin’s puppet’s puppet.
@arstechnica "Multi-ton robot tried to push through a crowd, so they disabled it to prevent anyone from being injured or killed." Fixed that for you.
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Listening to Will Wright on this Masterclass sub I got for Solstice is making me want to play The Sims ( #thesims ?) again! Many memories :)
http://www.davidchess.com/words/SimsStories.html
Wow those are ancient!
I think I have a Sims ?4 save in which I'm trying to do 10 generations in the same lot. Takes a long time! (I am always very nice to my Sims, so no evil tricks 😁)
Oh hey maybe this would be a fun place to talk about my half-baked amateur #math and possibly #topology ideas!
Say I have a semi-metric space where for every point P and real distance D > 0, there is at least one point Q where distance(P,Q)=D.
Is that space interesting in any way? Does it have a name or set of named properties?
Earlier weblog entry (using a rule about accumulation points rather than the PQD thing): https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/semi-metric-woolgathering/
Quick remark on the patch topology for constructive point-free topologists.
There is a universal way of transforming a spectral locale into a Stone locale, known as the patch construction, which exhibits the category of Stone locales with continuous maps as a coreflective subcategory of that of spectral locales with spectral maps.
Here a continuous map of spectral locales is called spectral if its defining frame homomorphism maps compact opens to compact opens.
In other words, for any spectral locale A there is a Stone locale Patch A and a continuous map ε : Patch A → A such that any continuous map X → A from a Stone locale X factors uniquely through ε.
Now specialize X to the terminal locale 1, whose frame of opens is the object Ω of truth values.
Then the above universal property says that the "spectral points of A", namely spectral maps 1 → A, are in canonical bijection with the points of Patch A, namely the continuous maps 1 → Patch A.
This is interesting because, classically, A and Patch A have the same points.
To see how badly this fails constructively, consider A = 𝕊 = Sierpinski locale.
The defining frame of the Sierpinski locale can be defined in the following two equivalent ways, and, as is well known, it classifies open sublocales:
(1) The free frame on one generator.
(2) The Scott topology of Ω.
Now we have that Patch 𝕊 ≃ 𝟚 := 1+1.
We know that the frame of the locale 𝟚 is simply the powerset of the set 1+1 (which type theorists may write as Fin 2).
The easiest way to see this is to check that the inclusion ε : 𝟚 → Ω satisfies the above co-universal property.
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Here is how you can support an author and libraries: Go to your library and ask for my latest book. If they don't have it look perplexed. "What? You don't have Teri's latest book?" See if they'll order it.
If you check out a few of my books that helps keep them on the shelves.
(I am always embarrassed when books come out because I think they are priced too high at first.)
So as far as I can tell, e/acc ( #eacc I guess, "Effective Acceleration") which is the latest techbro idea, is that since we use resources to do things, some of which are desirable, it's a MORAL IMPERATIVE to use resources as quickly as possible. Thus hastening the heat death of the universe, when all possible resources have been converted to "utility", and everything is just a sea of featureless thermodynamic equilibrium without thought or life.
Great, billionaires in a suicide cult. 🤪
So if a doctor in Texas performs an abortion, they are fined $100K, lose their medical license, and get a life sentence. If a woman in Texas gets an abortion:, she's fined $10K and sentenced to life in prison.
But if a man forces his wife to take abortion pills, it's 180 days jail.
Tell me it's not about controlling women.
The Trump-appointed Florida judge in the documents case is part of his defense team. This has been clear from the start, and almost every move she makes is plainly designed to help him. An ongoing travesty. https://joycevance.substack.com/p/mar-a-lago-update
Posted! On objective truth and formal systems and semi-metric spaces and things.
Semi-metric woolgathering https://ceoln.wordpress.com/2024/02/09/semi-metric-woolgathering/
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