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I knew it was legal to sell fake medicine in the US. It sucks, but "homeopathy" has been around forever here, and the "medicine" is just sugar pills, so it's not going to actively hurt anyone (outside of scamming them out of a few...
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Disclaimer: the featured image of the Trojan Horse popcorn bucket was likely AI-generated, and was taken without permission from a site that itself seemed likely AI-generated. I’m still anti-AI but will hypocritically use it when it...
“the graveyard is without walls” the cemetery of the corner cityblock, sat in a sunken land that sloped down from the sidewalk, it did not have walls. blanketed by tall trees, the canopies covered the citylights, a single streetlamp i...
Camera: Fujifilm XT5Location: ///damage.appear.ties I appropriated this window-reflective photo on one of my regular visits to the National Portrait Gallery. Not to see the artworks (tho they are pretty cool) but because the gallery has...
the moment where sadness shouldn't be present that hurt I can't share no one can carry it for me I lock the door and hold my breath you have taken another piece of me whistling while I gather myself
NOAA’s Dealing with Disruptive Behaviors describes ten different kinds of people who can disrupt meetings and gives advice for handling each. I’ve been a big fan of this taxonomy since I first encountered it several years ago, but going...
I’m enjoying Yaroslav Hrytsak, Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation, trans. Dominique Hoffman (PublicAffairs, 2024). It allows me to see this history within its broader European and even global contexts. That is the best way to make a...
AI-generated image of a man talking to a robot over tea Lately, I’ve been having a lot of very interesting conversations with LLMs about a wide range of topics. However, most of them have pertained to technical topics and I thought it...
The Globe Thistles and the Sea Hollies look like they might be related......but they belong to different genera: Echinops and Eryngium. Both are much visited by bees.
Opportunity of a lifetime to watch England play in the World Cup Semi Finals in Atlanta, Georgia.
Another in my occasional series featuring dubious statements about language by scholars in other fields: Nelson Goering posts on FB about a book on Vietnamese history he’s reading in which the author claims the Vietnamese word for water,...
A week ago, a philosopher named Amit Hagar put out a preprint entitled The NISQ Trap: Eight Years of Demonstrations the Hardware was Built to Lose. Here’s the abstract: With a single clear exception, every NISQ-era flagship demonstration...
I saw these miniatures hanging out at a local coffee stand, and I immediately took out my phone to take a pic.
When Eugene of Bhagwan Incense first reached out offering samples I was hesitant to accept them; my experiences with Indian style incense at that point had been less than stellar. After Irene of rauchfahne.de sent me some very nice...