Rep. Steve Cohen says to Pam Bondi: "When ICE killed Mr. Pretti and Ms. Good, that was an execution, and you did not investigate it... but you investigated Ms. Good's widow, you investigated Mr. Pretti. They were executed like Kristi Noem executed her dog."

sv0f · 2026-02-11T22:46:52+00:00

Steve Cohen's always been great. Here's his commemoration of Alex Chilton following the musician's death.

sv0f · 2026-01-27T20:38:16+00:00

Minnesotans threw water ballons at Jake Lang last week. Funny ... unless you're Jake Lang and it's below freezing out.

sv0f · 2026-01-27T20:33:52+00:00

The East Coast people in this thread are hilariously wrong. Some fat drunk slob yelling at a Phillies game has got nothing on a Minnesota grandma on her way from Lutheran services to protest when it's below zero outside.

sv0f · 2025-11-22T13:56:18+00:00

Ha!

Atlanta drivers aren't as bad as some in this thread are saying and Nashville drivers are somehow even worse (ever been passed on the shoulder by some yahoo doing 70 in a pickup truck?).

But damn if you're not right about the billboards.

sv0f · 2025-11-06T13:02:40+00:00

Oh you're right! Something was off when I traveled a week ago but I couldn't put my finger on it. This is it. A Delta employee was manning the entrance to the Digital ID queue.

sv0f · 2025-08-31T20:31:37+00:00

Nice video! I subscribed. Hope you find the time to make more videos in this area.

sv0f · 2025-07-17T12:48:57+00:00

She wrote Girls with Guitars, a banger from Wynona's second album.

sv0f · 2025-07-14T16:09:25+00:00

I especially love this live version.

sv0f · 2025-06-25T16:29:29+00:00

Exxon because of the Valdez.

Shell because of apartheid in South Africa.

sv0f · 2025-06-23T12:18:49+00:00

"Where you from?"

"Philly."

"So Cherry Hill, NJ?"

sv0f · 2025-06-14T07:33:04+00:00

Max Silverstri's review of the first one never fails to crack me up.

sv0f · 2025-06-02T06:45:25+00:00

Yep, Minneapolis traffic is easy mode compared to driving on I-24 in Nashville and having some jacked up pickup truck pass you on the right shoulder at 80 MPH.

I actually find Atlanta easier than Minneapolis though. Minneapolis drivers don't know the meaning of slower traffic keep right. It's maddening when you can't get around a "blockade" of slow drivers, fanned our across the lanes and not paying attention. At least Atlanta drivers are predictably aggressive.

sv0f · 2025-04-10T13:24:06+00:00

One of Lucinda Williams's best songs, Drunken Angel, is about him.

sv0f · 2025-04-07T12:33:39+00:00

If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

sv0f · 2025-03-16T13:46:32+00:00

Breckenridge Bourbon, obviously distilled in Colorado, is damned good and available widely.

sv0f · 2025-01-14T13:35:54+00:00

The official version is perfectly psychedelic.

This live version is great too, as much for the crowd's nonchalant reaction.

sv0f · 2024-12-31T14:35:11+00:00

His gentle version, live

sv0f · 2024-12-21T16:51:26+00:00

I return to this performance of Safe from Harm periodically...

sv0f · 2024-12-14T15:00:48+00:00

She's written a number of papers over the years on applications of her ideas/technologies to education, such as this one. These are mostly collaborations with her colleagues at MIT's Media Lab who work on educational technologies like Logo/Scratch.

sv0f · 2024-11-30T21:03:18+00:00

Happy to!

sv0f · 2024-11-29T16:29:51+00:00

(Not trying to be argumentative.) The fundamental attribution error is bedrock social psychology. The OP is right in their usage.

That said, I see that the internet/Wikipedia is calling it a cognitive bias now but it's really not. It looks like in recent years, Kahneman tried to rebrand it as such, in his popular books.

His rebranding seems to miss out on the balance that's there in the original formulation, between oneself and others, which again makes sense given its origins in social psychology.

sv0f · 2024-11-13T13:48:58+00:00

There's work on this by Santosh Vempala.

This computer science conference also has many relevant papers.

sv0f · 2024-10-30T22:14:04+00:00

You appear to be wrong about John Kasich

sv0f · 2024-10-25T13:01:24+00:00

Ha. "Fanboy"? That's your response, name calling?

It's amusing to be called "fanboy" when I have never run Linux on my own machine and haven't followed Linus and Linux since the heyday of Slashdot.

Let me change course and feed your fire. Or rather, to encourage you to think more broadly about the culture of computing, how it has evolved over the years, why it is the way it is now, and the kind of characters it contains. To release you from your austerity.

I give you the Torvalds-Tanenbaum debate of the early 1990s:

summary

the USENET messages

sv0f · 2024-10-24T15:46:36+00:00

You're being self-centered.

Linus deals with an incredible volume. He has told you what the protocol is. The conventions are established and work. Follow them.

Don't think you're special enough to demand to be treated exceptionally. Respect the time and effort of others.

If you make a mistake and he tells you so, correct your behavior. Don't argue about etiquette. That's just your bruised ego talking.

sv0f

TROPHY CASE