I never heard of ircv3 before. TIL. But, some parts of it don’t seem irc-like, and sacrifice the aspects that have made me stay on irc all this time. Hmm. I’ll look at it more later.

https://ircv3.net/

Don’t buy any perishables unless you’re going to use them immediately, i.e. the same day that you buy them. If you buy them, take them home and eat them. Keep lots of non-perishables on hand so you’ll be able to cook something without going to the store when you want to do that.

I think in practice you start with something arbitrary and hope that training or updates converge to something reasonable. There is a school of thought that says start with uninformative priors, those that give the least information. There is a famous book by E. T. Jaynes arguing for this. Lots of people swear by it. I tried to read it once and it didn’t make much sense, but maybe I should try again sometime.

https://omega0.xyz/omega8008/JaynesBookPdf.html

Hmm it looks like ML uses the term “hyperparameter” differently from how it is used in statistics. TIL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperparameter_(machine_learning)

The alleged shooter is a 57-year-old white male; according to his ministry’s website, he “sought out militant Islamists in order to share the gospel and tell them that violence wasn’t the answer.”

He went to persuade the militants and they persuaded him instead? “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”

They have identified a suspect, 57yo dude, named in the article below. The cop car was apparently fake but was an SUV dudded up to look like a real one.

https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172

Some very cheap phones with minutes included, here:

https://www.qvc.com/electronics/phones/tracfone/_/N-mlt0Z1z1393y/c.html

OTOH they can probably be traced back to you since you have to order them with your presumably real name. You can buy phones and prepaid cards anonymously in phone stores but it will cost more.

National guard no, US marines yes? Hmm.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/marines-los-angeles-newsom.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_currency

discusses pros and cons of money intentionally designed to expire.

https://xkcd.com/528/

Police in Petaluma City, California, have arrested 54-year-old Josh Garzoli for allegedly threatening to “execute” a school district official if they didn’t remove rainbow Pride flags flying at local schools. The threats come as conservatives increasingly seek to ban Pride flags from schools as a “divisive” form of “ideological” messaging.

I looked, “Tudo bem?” is a greeting in Brazilian Portuguese, that translates to “everything good?”.

toy poodle mixes, pomeranians, chihuahuas and yorkies

Outrageous either way, but I was expecting Dalmatians.

I’m not used to shitposting being called “content creation” but whatever.

LOL yes let’s impeach him again

Why just once? Let’s impeach him two more times.

She’s independent like Bernie Sanders now? Or more like Joe Lieberman? The article doesn’t explain.

Lemm.ee is shutting down from lack of admins, apparently.

The light was on?

Are they using some interesting propulsion system or just old fashioned rockets? Space tug was supposed to be part of STS in the 1970s but it got cancelled iirc. Leaving just the now defunct space shuttle.

Worth mentioning, this book was written in 1954. Full text is online, find by web search.

Book was published in 1954. I hadn’t heard of it previously. Based on the video blurb, the longwinded but interesting article “Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander might also be of interest. The video is 12 minutes long, I guess not too bad, but I’m still not up for watching it. Here’s a longer version of the blurb, I guess:

https://www.philosopheasy.com/p/jacques-elluls-the-technological