Mark Arildsen

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun “You’re under arrest! I heard you insult the President as bad and actively stupid!”
“No, I was talking about one of his underlings!”
“You can’t fool me—you called the guy bad, and actively stupid! You must have been speaking of the President!”

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@ashleydzhang For Florence, one day I enjoyed was traversing the recently-opened-to-the-public Vasari Corridor across the Arno, then walking through the Giardino di Boboli, along the old city wall, and up to the Basilica di San Miniato (which has mosaics and an amazing view).

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

Scott Alexander’s pen is more powerful than the fully autonomous drone swarms.

[Scott Alexander @slatestarcodex]

I cannot wait until the White House changes hands and all of you ghouls switch back from "you're a traitor unless you bootlick so hard your tongue goes numb" to "the government asking any questions about my offshore fentanyl casino is vile tyranny and I will throw myself in the San Francisco Bay in protest", like werewolves at the last ray of the setting moon.

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun Sicily, known to the ancient world as a Grain Land.

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun Another L for Marxism-Lennonism

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun “Sorry, though, how much student loan debt are you carrying?”
“$178,900”
“Whoa, that makes a lot of the numbers we see look like ants! That’s way up there. What school?”
“University of Northern Iowa…” “UNI?”
“UNI”

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun Imagine opening a gender theory text with this:

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun Our truth-based kiki publication, their fact-free bouba rag

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun That does raise the question of who will assume the hereditary title of Sultan and Yang-di Pertuan of the Garden State of New Jersey, The Abode of Dignity.

[Michael Nielsen @michael_nielsen]

A useful survey of the (current!) state of public science funding in the US. I'm reminded a bit of the burning of the Great Library at Alexandria in 642 CE. Attacking science for political ends is incredibly stupid

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun My SF rec if the weather's good and y'all are up for it is that it's a great place for scenic walks. The northwest part from Sutro Baths to the Golden Gate Bridge is great for that (and one can throw in a stop at the Legion of Honor art museum as well).

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun As opposed to his interlocutor, Vice President Vance, who is merely committed to “creating stories”…

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun Certainly, whatever it was, its goal was ensuring the constitutional transition of power to the president-elect, which happened in due course. I do not claim it's in any way a precedent for something more radical.

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun But that's not exactly what is alleged to have happened in January 2021, in my understanding. Rather, commands were given, allegedly against the will of the president, to clear the capitol and protect DC in the lead-up to the inauguration. Not mere refusal, but action.

[Kelsey Piper @KelseyTuoc]

MAGA is doing everything they can to make sure no one who cares about progress, technology, discovery or American exceptionalism has a home on the right. We ought to be doing everything we can to make sure those people have a home on the left.

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun The default human is Carl Friedrich Gauss. That's why they call it the Gaussian distribution!

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun I guess MAGA now stands for Make Amazon Gouge Americans!

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun French energy policy 🤝 French strategic posture

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun *Acts of Union 1800 (which took effect by 1801, I guess)

[Mark Arildsen @markarildsen]

@MAAinthesun I think UK might be fine, as they were probably there after the Act of Union 1801 that united Great Britain and Ireland