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All news is bad news in the proximate sense i think @mattyglesias is correct. but there's an ultimate evolutionary reason: false positives of being worried about "bad stuff" are way cheaper than false negatives where you don't anticipate tail risk

"The invasion of Iraq squandered the national unity following the attacks of 9/11..The cost fell on the bodies of young men and women from small towns and inner cities. Meeting anyone in uniform from a family of educated professionals was vanishingly rare"

@btbytes @anangbhai Only thing Cameron was ever good at was beclowning Miliband.

@btbytes @CTag51 From this old column:

My Homelab Build

#homelab #no-kill-like-overkill

Bezos is definitely taking a non-trivial risk here -- 15 successful test flights of a novel suborbital vehicle backed by all the analysis money can buy, still isn't going to give high confidence of even 99.9% survivability.

@DrDeepakKrishn1 Wrote this blogpost over a decade ago on a related topic

@IamMaya00

@tszzl Injera is sour dosa.

In case you are one of those extremists pretending to read fonts larger than 2 pixels, that's the link:

good dive into some git internals

In this video the lady has completely nailed the Vedic pitch accent. Esp like the way she gets the sandhi-s right at morpheme boundaries. Requires serious training and not easy to do!

v1-6 of catustriṃśa adhyāya (34th chapter) of the śukla yajurveda.

couple of interesting comments here — I feel like it's rare for people to be this open about class-based disdain

link to the first one:

I made this club to help amplify marginalized Hindu communities by having discussion on problems that impact the global Hindu community and to learn about each other’s diverse practices. Give it a follow pls! Remember we all achieve Dharma together.🙏🏾🕉

“Attractive and interesting people are more fickle because of the vast pool of options available to them. They are, relative to less desirable people, more likely to use exit (‘it’s over’) rather than voice (‘let’s talk this out’) in their relationships.”

You Don’t Need Permission

Happy 76th birthday to Bill Paterson, who was absolutely brilliant in the terrific BBC miniseries Traffik (Later remade as an Oscar winning film by Soderbergh).

@chrismcdonough this is how my city has 'removed' 138 left turns ;)

Dylan Graham describes his experience putting #dlang to good use in an unlikely place.

So, @devonzuegel was right. No “scarfaces”, but plenty of peacocks by the traffic light.

Thank you everyone for all the amazing contributions to Zig 🧡

Thanks to @veejaysai I learnt that today was Mali's anniversary. A good day to remember his brilliant music with this old recording of an RTP in Sahana...

My ashwagandha tea tastes even better now.

Amazon sells neoliberal orientalist spirituality to its workers (AmaZen!!!)

Outcast as I wanna be - Romani survival, and the power of culture. Part 2 of 2

Wikipedia is basically Steven Pruitt’s Roam db

RT @shub_nudi: A session on Panini's Grammar: A discussion between @hamsanandi and @udayanah on clubhouse. (in Kannada)

Do attend this promising session. Add it to your calendars.

Also, reply to the QTed tweet with your questions.

I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time 🤓🐞

lol at this headline and subhead combo

@TheEmissaryCo Not Bollywood strictly speaking, but GV Iyer's Acharya movies are in Sanskrit

A Chinese film's rendition of Nalanda outclasses any Bollywood interpretation of ancient India I've seen.

The epic yet graceful Sanskrit, wondrous architecture balanced with cinematography, and most importantly, unapologetic Dharma.

one of the greatest authors of all time.

Doing the right thing - not surprising to Indians who value Dharmic principles as a normal way of life. His grandparents gave him the right advice.

In March, @samit_dasgupta, a mathematician at Duke University, and Mahesh Kakde of the Indian Institute of Science provided the first answer to a question David Hilbert posed over 100 years ago.

don’t use extensions

actually don’t use chrome

“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”

@btbytes @hpnadig I am a korean drama regular since many years nw. Lot of cultural similarities too. They refer to spouse as jib-saram jib means house saram is person. Like we say mane avru... Check out this wiki page

Ouch! "But then I realized that ["Noise" co-author Cass] Sunstein kinda is like Columbus, in that he’s an ignorant guy who sails off to a faraway land, a country already full of people, and then he goes back and declares he’s discovered the place."

@btbytes The talk about connection reminds me of the story about Korean princess from Ayodhya:

Strongly recommend reading this article. I agree with 90% of what Burja says in here. Main thing I would add is that the oldest civilizations are probably underwater due to sea level rise.

Reminiscent of how Platonists handled the same question: Bhagavan’s Presence in the Murti