JD "Rant Paul" Paul

@rantingnerd.bsky.social

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Former physicist, current Google SRE (opinions my own)
https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org member
https://www.haverford.edu grad
He/him
Also https://hachyderm.io/@rantingnerd
Used to post at https://rantingnerd.blogspot.com.

I am not my cousin's keeper.

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This is a case where I will actually STRONGLY suggest you read the replies. It's quite good.

OK besides this below and DEVO coming out of the Kent State massacre, what are other facts you have about the evolution of art / music /etc that wouldn't be obvious if you didn't know but, retroactively, explain and/or illuminate a LOT ?

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"Slow Horses," featuring our flatulent hero Jackson Lamb, will be back Sept. 4. www.apple.com/tv-pr/news/2...

“Slow Horses,” starring Gary Oldman, returns for season four on September 4www.apple.com Apple TV+ unveiled a first look at the fourth season of its BAFTA Award-winning series “Slow Horses,” starring Academy Award winner Gary Oldman.

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Eleven Commandments. Louisiana's law mandates a specific text. Not from Exodus, or Deuteronomy, but from the Fraternal Order of Eagles. They used a KJV-sounding pastiche adapted from the Bible and paraphrased by a Minnesota juvenile court judge in the 1950s. It's not the Bible. It's the Eagles.

So, even within Christianity, the Ten Commandments aren't precisely the same across traditions — the text is translated and even *numbered* differently. This law appears to mandate the KJV version — a Bible translation entire Christian traditions reject. apnews.com/article/loui...

The Ten Commandments must be displayed in Louisiana classrooms under requirement signed into lawapnews.com Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. Republican Gov.

Lots of other people are posting ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-... and for damn good reason. This is Mickens-level ranting.

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicityludic.mataroa.blog

Tom Friedman with a solid, grounded take on Israel/Gaza. I hope Biden heeds this. www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/o... (gift link)

Opinion | American Leaders Should Stop Debasing Themselves on Israelwww.nytimes.com You have to wonder if American “friends” of Israel have any clue about the nature of Israel’s government.

If you see this, post a picture you took of a sunset

If see this post a picture you took of a sunset

If there's FOMO, and FAFO, is there FAFOMO?

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I'm a science fiction and fantasy author. My greatest hits are: "Classic Rock" "Tea" "Even more tea, seriously, would you like another cup of tea?"

Coraline reference on SNL! (2nd day running of me tagging @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com . Not planned, honest.) youtu.be/Ttska8oXZP4?...

This is my favorite line from #DeadBoyDetectives (which is a story from @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com 's Sandman universe). It's almost like Murderbot as a ghost. I really enjoyed this show.

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A newspaper editor — Chris Quinn of the Cleveland Plain Dealer — says it as clearly as he can: "Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts." www.cleveland.com/news/2024/03... Quinn writes of a different kind of access. Access to our own eyes and ears:

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every morning i have to stop sleeping. because of wokeness

Who Could Have Predicted? (With authoritarians, every accusation is a confession.) wapo.st/3PDFzZe (gift link)

Media Matters summarizes the Project 2025 horrorshow: www.mediamatters.org/heritage-fou... (via @boingboing.bsky.social , which summarizes the summary here: boingboing.net/2024/03/23/m... ) Make sure everyone knows about this. The President is important but so are the people he brings with him.

Earworm!

My intrusive thought for the next nine months is whenever I read Joe Biden going on a roll the voice in my head will be Owen Wilson

As a friend says, "Everywhere I look, I see confirmation bias!"

Thrilled that my article w/ @timlapira.bsky.social "The people think what I think" is up at @ajpseditor.bsky.social. We find a remarkably consistent false consensus effect in political elites estimates of public support for a range of policies. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

@annleckie.com I bet you already knew about this but wanted to make sure. 😁 www.inquirer.com/food/tea-che...

How science can help you make a better cup of tea and why a Bryn Mawr scientist wrote a book about i...www.inquirer.com Bryn Mawr College chemistry professor Michelle Francl has written a new book on the science of tea.

This is so close to confirming my Bayesian priors about "centrists" that I question it, but it seems really solid as a result.

Centrists Are the Most Hostile to Democracy, Not Extremists by David Adler www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

From that well-known left-wing rag ... Fortune Magazine.

it was never inflation. It was always just the hand of neoliberal capital reaching into your wallet to rob you while lying to your face. these cutesy names for corporate criminality and domestic shock doctor in only allow it to continue in new and accelerate forms.

Me, looking at citrus taxonomy (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_...): OMG, citrus fruit taxonomy is BANANAS! ...umm OMG citrus fruit taxonomy is WILD! ...umm 🤦

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Someone once described the Facebook reactions, in order, as “the stages of learning about Morrissey” and that’s really stuck with me

The existence of /dev/random implies the existence of /dev/ransub

Yes, yes, and yes. Also, best re-use of the Litany Against Fear ("Fear is the Mind Killer...") from Dune, ever.

This is both lovely and an amazing example of a creative process.

For those of you on Instagram, this is lovely... www.instagram.com/p/Clg657vO7v...

Oliver Jeffers on Instagram: "The etymology of a thought process: Here is how one spark caused a fir...www.instagram.com 15K likes, 146 comments - oliverjeffers on November 28, 2022: "The etymology of a thought process: Here is how one spark caused a fire. During lockdown, my frie..."

Oh, hell yes.

As an aside, the most annoying thing about charitable giving is that now you're forever in their email database. Even if you've opted out! Please, non-profits: Just take my money and send me a receipt and let that be the end of it. I'm more likely to give again if I don't hear from you after that.

This is one of my favorite books of all time. Zelazny pulling out all the stops, not long before he died.

Just got my copy of this glorious book. Back in print again. Introduction by me.

I struggled really hard to finish @scalzi.com's _Starter Villain_ last night, but now I have the last 10 pages to look forward to tonight. I keep taking photos of chunks, to show people. I thought Zoom jokes were worn out, and tech-bro pitches were no longer funny, but Scalzi proved me wrong.

First post! I am not my cousin's keeper.

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