Happy Bloomsday to all. For some reason the Paris fragments with Kevin Egan in Proteus are my favorite pieces of writing in Ulysses; I often catch myself muttering bits from them. Reading this chapter was one of the greatest aesthetic shocks I've ever had.
The concept of me defending Timothee Chalamet through the ballet scandal just for him to turn around and maybe do the most anti art thing you can do in 2026 (sell out to Kalshi)
Growing up in Connecticut, I always assumed the majority of Americans had Italian-Irish ancestry.
Pizza places on every block, Irish pubs, kids in your graduating class named Ryan Mancino/Maria Murphy, everyone is Catholic.
Once I left New England, I realized how unique it was.
I'm so mystified by this Vanderbilt Law report on "post-crash" AI reforms.
Setting aside its presumptions of a crash:
A) If exotic financing is bad, why only move to curtail it post crash?
B) The logic of separating model and inference is totally different from Glass-Steagall
Seeing a video of the IRGC overtaking a cargo boat in the Hormuz and celebrating by holding up a package from Drake’s with my name and address clearly printed on the shipping label. They open it to find a waffle knit cotton short-sleeve polo shirt and all take turns wearing it
@MattBruenig@burkehenryt Definitely are using connections made in government, mostly (in my exp) to set up meetings w legislators and introduce them to some client who advocates for their business. But that really doesn't seem all that odious as far as 'corruption' goes