Per this article, national bias in skating judging is apparently a whole subject with an academic research paper presented at the 2020 Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. slate.com/culture/2026...

And the locks on the door at my local bank totally neuter my ability to stroll in and walk away with all the money.

It is not our moral responsibility to coddle the delusional fears and bigotries of white supremacists. It is not our moral responsibility to change reality for them so they can hold onto those fears and bigotries.

It is our moral responsibility to make their fears and bigotries THEIR problem.

Can they give it to the whole defense?

I’m hoping the AI ads presage the success of the AI industry as well as all the crypto ads did a few years ago

This is Up With People erasure

I’ve heard of research that the happiest athletes are the bronze medal winners.

“And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now.”

The buck stops... somewhere over there.

Any question that begins with the word "Why" can usually be answered with the word "Money".

I almost wish I hadn’t cancelled my subscription already so I could cancel it again

Recent: The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness, The National

Throwback: Most Of the Girls Like to Dance (But Only Some Of the Boys Do), Don Dixon

They're all Dodgers fans still steamed about the unassisted triple play that Bill Wambsganss turned against the Brooklyn Robins in the 1920 World Series.

Evergreen post

Telecommuications Technology, Policy, and Management (Sirbu)
Computer Methods of Electrical Engineering (Talukdar)
Two EPP Project classes and one more as a grad Project Manager even though I was still an undergrad because Indira thought I could handle it.

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

Personally, I’m hoping for another SB XX