The_Turtle_Moves

@theturtlemoves.bsky.social

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Recovering quantitative economics practitioner (data scientist). Interested in things. Appreciate of physical objects and light. Failure modes fascinate and horrify. Occasional woodworking and house projects. Dog. Cat. Cute

Wishbone dog as Odysseus

Cat, in the form of a furry puddle

Boehner describes Ted Cruz as "Lucifer in the flesh" and says "I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life"

The most one can say about the Trump administration’s foreign economic policy is that in the wake of the greatest AI investment boom in history, it has managed to avoid a catastrophic economic shock. That’s really about it.

I worry about a lot of things going on in the United States right now: ICE raids, the diminishing of civil liberties, the vibecession, and so forth. Swelling public support for the dumbest U.S. foreign economic policy employed in my lifetime? No, I do not worry about that — and former Biden folks should stop worrying about it as well.

Wampa enjoying a nice breakfast on a chilly morning

OK. OK. Let’s believe he’s a good man. But his second-in-command - is he a good man too? You’d better hope so. Because he’s the supreme ruler, too, in the name of the king. And the rest of the court… they’ve got to be good men. Because if just one of them’s a bad man the result is bribery and patronage.

Men at Arms, Terry Pratchett

Cancelled Washington Post subscription confirmation

Google News results for Oracle general counsel

Trump media stock price falling

Picture of Google Maps with the top of a shopping center covered in greebles

Small cat sprawls on giant dog bed. Giant dog sprawls next to his bed.

Cat in baby carrier

Total goober eclipse. Just practicing. Large black dog, nose blotting out the sun.

Rufo said on the social media site X that he and Brunet had been “waiting for the precise moment of maximum impact” before publishing their post, saying that “there are rumors that the plagiarism scandal could be the final nail in Gay’s coffin.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/01/04/claudine-gay-plagiarism-examples-harvard/

"Rufo and Brunet did not note that Gay cited Swain in the following sentence."
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/12/allegations-plagiarism-gay-dissertation/

A coyote and a skunk say hi, on a driveway. Caught on motion sensor camera. They seem like they know each other.

"We're all trying to find the guy who did this" guy in a hotdog costume meme