Earlier this month, Zohran Mamdani went on Hot 97, New York’s preeminent hip-hop radio station, to tell the story of how he first entered politics. It’s a tale he’s told many times: In 2015, Mamdani started knocking on doors for an aspiring Queens city councilman, Ali Najmi. But when he told it this time, Mamdani highlighted the real reason he wanted to get involved.

That reason was Himanshu Suri, the Queens-raised rapper and co-founder of the groups Das Racist and Swet Shop Boys. Suri, better known as Heems, grew up with Najmi and had been campaigning on his childhood friend’s behalf.

It’s Heems.

Rosebud?

I liked season 2, though I admit it could have been better.

Altered Carbon is great.

Close… no offense to CGP, but Texagons are the bestagons.

If corporations are people, is it racist to boycott them, especially whole industries?

It is sufficiently different to piss you off at first, but it’s a really good read.

I read it every couple of years. Such a good read.

Isn’t it the case that “consensus” in the sciences is just a shorthand for “we agree that this is most likely to be true”?

If I were conversing with a scientist and I asked about possibility x, and they disagreed with it for the reason that “the consensus is…”, I would assume that they are not saying possibility x is wrong, but rather that they would need really good evidence to agree that x is correct.

Kidneythieves is a criminally underrated band.

No idea, I just quoted the article since I hate those clickbait headlines.

The latest, deluxe end point of these time and attendance tchotchkes and apps is something like Austin-headquartered HID’s OmniKey platform. Designed for factories, hospitals, universities and offices, this is essentially an all-encompassing RFID log-in and security system for employees, via smart cards, smartphone wallets, and wearables.

Kidneythieves is such an underrated band.

https://youtu.be/pn26ZJhSJ94?si=sT-nxfEzBnzszRl-

That’s clearly not as easy to clean as a spork.

I’d do a film version of the Illuminatus! Trilogy across 5 films, and make it feel as epic as the Odyssey or Ben Hur… really old school.

I wonder if it’s a double.

It is possible to fold a sheet of paper into thirds and get three layers…

Yeah, for me it’s been smooth. I have had coverage problems and C/S problems, but they’ve been minor compared to the others I’ve tried.

I’ve had many carriers going back all the way to PrimeCo… I’ve been with AT&T for a few years because they seem to be the least shitty (in terms of coverage and customer service) of all the carriers I’ve tried.