yarrriv

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Mostly quantum physics, urbanism, politics and nostalgia for Montreal.
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yarrrivMay 17, 2023
I am interested to know if there are any physical scientists at all hanging out in the AI-alarmist spaces, as opposed to mathematicians and computers scientists, because these folks' view of science is just cartoonishly out of touch with how it works in reality
yarrrivApr 30, 2023
The statues at the Hirshhorn look like they're unionizing
yarrrivApr 21, 2023
Metro's concept art for the new 8000-series trains shows a woman late for her flight because of single tracking at Crystal City
yarrrivApr 17, 2023

When you start reading a New Yorker story about how encrypted phones have failed you might expect some flaws in the implementation or memory leaks

But no

yarrrivApr 12, 2023

They're not wrong on the substance but it's mind-blowing to me that this is Slate's Jurisprudence team:

- The man who wrote, in October, "The most aggressive initial challenge to President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program reached the Supreme Court on Wednesday. It will fail."

- The woman who wrote the 2013 hall of famer "Stop Telling Ruth Bader Ginsburg to Retire"

yarrrivApr 11, 2023
Coming out of my phage
And I've been doing just fine
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yarrrivApr 7, 2023
A Star Wars "era" is roughly the length of a presidential term it seems
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yarrrivMar 18, 2023
I got the point of this show from watching a two-minute trailer but somehow it's going to be ten episodes