Friday, May 21, 2021
I invented the concept.
— A on rabbi cakes for years of rabbinical school*
Thursday, May 20, 2021
Reliance on revelation made Joseph and the other visionaries appear marginal, but like marginal people before them, the prohets aimed a question at the heart of their culture: if believers in the Bible dismissed revelation in the present, could they defend revelation in the past?
— Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Recently, the founders of DOGE-inspired memecoin Shiba Inu Coin sent Vitalik Buterin half of all existing SHIB (presumably in an attempt to convince other traders that the Ethereum cofounder is fan). After Buterin donated more than $1 billion worth to India for Covid relief, he “burned” the majority of his remaining SHIB, removing them from circulation. Via a message on Ethereum blockchain, he warned other developers: “PLEASE DO NOT GIVE ME COINS OR POWER IN YOUR PROJECT WITHOUT MY CONSENT!”
— Coinbase Bytes, "🐕 A brief history of Dogecoin"
Tuesday, May 18, 2021
When I was a kid I came up with this delusion that I remembered every license plate I'd ever seen.
— Lily
Monday, May 17, 2021
So excited to retire.
— Lily as she falls asleep
Sunday, May 16, 2021
The contestants’ investigations of Mr. Donohue had all the signal traits of a normal social media hunt gone awry — largely, that you assume your conclusion and go looking for evidence.
— Ben Smith, "I’ll Take ‘White Supremacist Hand Gestures’ for $1,000," The New York Times
Saturday, May 15, 2021
Stantion
— Sign on stantion in front of Honeycomb Creamery
Friday, May 14, 2021
The world is a hive of bible-making... In the Book of Mormon reading, the Bible becomes not the book of books, but the mother scripture for a brood of bibles. Divine revelation cannot be confined; it is delivered wherever people will listen. The Book of Mormon not only prepares the way for itself by ridiculing those who think the Bible sufficient; it warns readers against restricting God in the present. Revelation may break forth anywhere and anytime.
— Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Thursday, May 13, 2021
What is most interesting about Joseph Smith is that people believed him.
— Richard Lyman Bushman, Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
FROM THE OFFICE OF
Arnold H. Aronson
Arnold H. Aronson
— Letterhead
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
Dear *checks notes* SOIL @solidobjectives Glad u like teh memez but we don't make them to give u clout so u can advertise ur job postings to millennials
— @dank.lloyd.wright
Monday, May 10, 2021
Last month the creators of SHIB released a white paper, which they called a "woofpaper". In the woofpaper they revealed that they sent 50% of all SHIB, roughly 505 billion coins, to Vitalik's wallet without his knowledge.
— Brian Warner, "The Creator Of Ethereum Was Unwittingly Gifted Half Of A Dog Meme Cryptocurrency. That Gift Is Now Worth $14 Billion," celebritynetworth.com
Sunday, May 9, 2021
"We found things that didn't belong there based on shop drawings," said Frank Crosher, a security engineer who worked on the site from 1980 to 1982 and managed the embassy security team from Washington until 1986. "We found cables in the concrete as well as design discrepancies, millions of bits of data."
Along the way, they discovered interconnecting systems so sophisticated that they could not be removed from the steel and concrete columns, the beams, the pre-cast floor slabs and sheer walls between the columns. They found electronic "packages" where a piece of steel reinforcement in the flooring should have been, and resonating devices that allowed the Russians to monitor precisely both electronic and verbal communications.
... It was then that the C.I.A. admitted for the first time that the Soviets had successfully incorporated complex and impenetrable surveillance systems into the building structure.
Along the way, they discovered interconnecting systems so sophisticated that they could not be removed from the steel and concrete columns, the beams, the pre-cast floor slabs and sheer walls between the columns. They found electronic "packages" where a piece of steel reinforcement in the flooring should have been, and resonating devices that allowed the Russians to monitor precisely both electronic and verbal communications.
... It was then that the C.I.A. admitted for the first time that the Soviets had successfully incorporated complex and impenetrable surveillance systems into the building structure.
— Elaine Sciolino, "The Bugged Embassy Case: What Went Wrong," The New York Times
Saturday, May 8, 2021
Dandelion flowers open each morning and close each night. (Sometimes they don't open at all on cloudy days.)
— northernwoodlands.org
Friday, May 7, 2021
Friends of Mount Auburn
— Hat
Thursday, May 6, 2021
So we're making our own wasps.
— Jerry on IPM
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
Alexa, play ninety three point seven fm.
— Lily randomly guessing the correct radio station the Red Socks game was on
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
The artwork was a theatrical performance of an institutional ribbon-cutting ceremony (complete with suited officials and giant golden bows).
— Rebekah Modrak, "new work" email
Monday, May 3, 2021
I suddenly understand that she is just another Sisyphus,
like everyone else
like everyone else
— A student's work
Sunday, May 2, 2021
Having long detested attempts at pictorial representations of the unobservable.
— Manjit Kumar, Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality