Many of the attempted memes about the hearing today were dumb, but I finally found one I kinda like.
Does anyone have a snappy motto yet for the “abundance agenda” people? I like “there is no freedom without surplus”, as a distillation of all my political beliefs. 
Real analysis is like... one week of studying the functions you actually use in real life, followed by the rest of the semester studying the most fucked-up, evil functions you've ever seen, which have no applicability in mathematics whatsoever except to be counterexamples to nice axioms that you really wish were true.
I wanted to get some updates on whether a Patriot missile defense battery was destroyed in Kyiv, so I searched Twitter for "Patriot" and holy fuck was that a mistake.
(it was maglev)
@lovelanguageisolate, in a game of Contact: Is it a synonym for chewing?
@eightyonekilograms, the wordmaster that round: No, it's not mastication. I've read My Immortal, you're not going to get me with that one.
someone else: Is it a house guy?
81k: [stumped silence] I challenge.
multiple people: three, two, one –
@arriving-at-new-equilibrium: Majordomo.
@eikotheblue and @toasthaste: Malewife.
when I'm just walking around and something makes me screech to a halt and my eyeballs shoot out like binoculars and I gotta drop everything to take photos
I think it's finally time to replace all remaining non-USB-C devices with USB-C stuff, and at last live the unicharger lifestyle that was promised to us a goddamn decade ago before we realized what a mess of incompatibility the USB-C transition would actually be.
Me scrolling through reciprocity.io for the first time and realizing I already know a good number of people there: my gosh—eventually, there will be nerd-specific STIs.
H. G. Wells was correct that humanity would ultimately bifurcate into two species, but failed to anticipate that the feminized nymphs who play, frolic and make out all day, and the cave-dwelling engineers who fear the light would actually be one and the same.
I'm normally the type of person who rolls my eyes when people on social media call movies or TV shows fascist, but man, the 2012 Dredd movie actually is super fucking fascist.
Sometimes software engineering involves making elegant and robust systems, but other times it unavoidably means building horrible hacky Rube Goldberg machines by gluing together a bunch of disconnected parts. BUT once you get all those hacks working, watching the result is frickin sweet in the same way that watching a Rube Goldberg machine do its thing is.
We take a holistic approach, which means that if you criticize us for basically just making shit up all the time then we're going to call you a reductionist.
Recent decades have seen another throwback to nineteenth-century models: an increasing prominence for the owners of very profitable private firms. A study of US tax records, “Capitalists in the Twenty- First Century,” by economist Matthew Smith and colleagues, finds that a large portion of the upper ranks — just over half of the proverbial 1 percent — is populated by the owners of closely held firms, rather than the public company CEOs who get so much of the press. Under American tax law, these are structured as pass-through entities, meaning their profits are untaxed at the firm level and distributed directly to their owners, either a single individual or a small partnership.
The form has grown sharply over the decades. Its share of total business income rose from 10 percent in the mid-1980s to 35 percent in recent years. Contributing to that growth are both a rise in value added per worker and an increasing share of that value taken by the owners.
Who are these owners? Most of them (85 percent) are “self-made,” at least in the sense that their parents were not in the 1 percent — though the remaining 15 percent whose parents were is fifteen times their share of the population. They’re unlikely to operate in capital-intensive industries, like manufacturing, which are more appropriate to conventional corporate forms. As the authors say:
Typical firms owned by the top 1–0.1% are single-establishment firms in professional services (e.g., consultants, lawyers, specialty tradespeople) or health services (e.g., physicians, dentists). A typical firm owned by the top 0.1% is a regional business with $20M in sales and 100 employees, such as an auto dealer, beverage distributor, or a large law firm.
These enterprises yield a nice living for their owners, especially at the highest end. Firms owned by the top 0.1 percent (those with annual incomes of $1.6 million or more) have an average of seventy-four employees who yield a profit of $14,000 each for the boss — more than $10 million in total. Few of these owners have more than one business, which makes for some precarity, and few businesses survive their owners. Even at the high end, this is not “Big Capital,” though it’s fat personal income. But they make up much of the top 0.1 percent — 84 percent of it in all. That’s thirteen times the number who make their big incomes as officers of public corporations; in the aggregate, privateers make eight times as much as their corporate comrades.
This guy is definitely in the same Marxist-to-paleocon pipeline as Burnham. This whole article is griping about the replacement of the Rightful Ruling Class with managerialism, with only a couple nods at socialism when he occasionally remembers what magazine he’s writing for. I’d make a decent wager we’ll see him stumping for Trump— or whoever is carrying that flag— in 2024.
Not literally the same author, but when Jacobin endorses Trump next year, remember that you heard it here first.
oh god I’ve started grammar discourse
What’s Latin for “everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”? The Federal Reserve should change its motto to that.
Omnia conspiratio sunt, si nescis quomodo quicquam agit, i think
Thank you! As is it’s a little wordy to go on a seal, so maybe we can tweak it a little: “when you understand nothing” and “to/for those who understand nothing” are both acceptable substitutes for the subordinate clause, if that helps.
what about omnia conspiratio nescientibus/indoctis [sunt], “everything [is] a conspiracy to the ignorant/unlearned” or omnia conspiratio incomprehendibus, “everything [is] a conspiracy to the uncomprehending”
Omnia conspiratio indoctis definitely feels like something that could go on a seal. Actually I'm going to change my blog tagline to that.
What’s Latin for “everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”? The Federal Reserve should change its motto to that.
Omnia conspiratio sunt, si nescis quomodo quicquam agit, i think
Thank you! As is it’s a little wordy to go on a seal, so maybe we can tweak it a little: “when you understand nothing” and “to/for those who understand nothing” are both acceptable substitutes for the subordinate clause, if that helps.
Since I mentioned Alice Maz a little while ago I figured I might as well share her banger of a tweet today.
Petition to start calling going to Black Metal concerts without earpro "getting screampied".
I believe I will not be signing your petition.
What’s Latin for “everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works”? The Federal Reserve should change its motto to that.