Breathe easy: I do those things! I appreciate your concern, truly, but I'm doing so remarkably well in my personal life that I can afford to attempt keeping track of this.

Apologies, first of all, because I understand how I must come off around here sometimes. But if you've seen me on the virtual meetups, that's me, smiling almost eternally and forever goofy, unless you think I'm that smiley guy who heckled mk a little too strongly before his big toast during the 10-year hubski anniversary virtual meet up, possibly because of network latency. That wasn't me.

Another apology, because, nah, it isn't like "they're both kinda bad", I have to rebuke that. Again, the fact that this view is fairly widespread shows a complete failure of media (for example, here's a good piece on how the media "sanewashes" Donald Trump's nonsensical word salads into false coherency). I'll cut myself off here, because I can imagine that it's been a pretty shitty past month for many in the RFK camp. But dude, even if we cancel out Harris and Trump, the VPs alone are indisputably disparate. Tim Walz is comparatively divine.

Sidenote: For what it's worth, I've broached politics with about 30 physicists in my field over the last few days. I am extremely representative. It's unfortunately reinforced the idea that silicon valley and wealth do something to people that I want to turn and run away from. To whom it may concern; sorry (#3).

But I agree, you gotta unplug sometimes. And obviously I hate that X is still a thing. Hopefully these LLMs/AI completely ruin the internet for a while, most humans cannot handle this shit.

Me, though? I know what's real, and I'm excited for the future: