OTOH, bringing it back to the most important message in this story: rats only make messes your kids won’t clean for 3 years or so, if you’re lucky.

A parrot will make that noise for 40 years.

All of this delights me: preventing parrot ownership, Milda, and multiple generations of pet rats.

(I do look forward to their inevitable return to my life as pets, I just would like my kids to be a TINY bit older so I can plausibly pretend to myself that they’ll help us keep things clean.)

That said, I’m not TOO sad to not be flying, given the shenanigans over here.

Alas, I’m not, though I’m sad for many reasons (not least my affection for Shin and desire to support him). Tons of travel in the first part of 2025, so I dialed it back in the second half. Be sure to chat with my student Claudia instead. 😊

(Yes to Rio, though; everyone better be there!)

Gotcha, that tracks! Thanks for indulging my “don’t read it, but…😊hopefully can do so this week!

Ok I obviously want/need to read the paper, but trivially, syntactically, this is just not true, right? There are infinitely many ways to solve any particular computational problem.

I'm no economist, nor CEO, but my instincts say that actively preventing an academic from spending a few thousand dollars on your service is not a very good business model. WTF, guys. /fin

Not only should he not: he absolutely cannot beyond like, two days. It's basic article 1 shit. It's possibly the most unconstitutional thing he's pulled???

Thank you!

Thank you, Lenore!

Right back atcha. 😉