I recently discovered that watching it in French is a whole new experience. You suddenly realise that oh yeah, this is actually very much a French movie. 😂

Thr gamification of debt is just that, a game of expected values. It's fine to play and be one of the benefactors, if you're not too repulsed by the whole system.

Then no reason not to 🏴‍☠️ ;)

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Bandcamp is a great way to support artists, and for listening to new music globaldjmix.com is full off good stuff, sorted by genre.

That's fair. I think that also plays into the happy ending problem. We are at a moment where we fight for damage control, not a happy ending. If you find that to be enough of a motivation for you (I do too) then that's good. That's not everyone though.

Anger does motivate people better than hope. Related, I think our cultural tendency to expect/promise each other a happy ending is holding us back.

It tends to be a lot of manipulating equations for the sake of it, yeah. Not as bad as in some other branches.

It's not "finding out what's wrong" if we already know that it is wrong, and why, and the only reason it gets published is that reviewers didn't have the stomach to properly review your 60 pages of PDE violence.

Nah. A lot of this research can't stand on its own as a contribution to mathematics *or* physics and it doesn't, in fact, help someone else make an elegant model. There are entire branches of it, particularly in the quantum gravity genre, that are less than useless.

Hold up. The phenomenon of entire research groups going down rabbit holes of arbitrarily chosen parameters and cranking out papers about that *is* an industry of useless papers. It's arguing how many angels dance on the tip of a pin, but in a language of differential equations.

Mostly, but Lower Decks is pretty good. And also that would technically include the final season of Voyager which... well I suppose the last episode *is* some massive bullshit.

Thank you for this incredible interview, and the proof of life from Tarek after the strike. Truly, can't say how much of a relief it was to find this. 🖤

It starts with The Curse by @diaryofdreams.bsky.social that I remade the bass line for, to a more contemporary-style deep bass with sub and I think it slaps. 😁

It's so American that you go to "let's scramble to pay advertising intermediaries" rather than just... use spray paint. 😂

Yup relatable. I have like 3 of Freya's "Temptress" and it's fine I guess but... yawn.