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The first Captain Marvel film introduced us to Goose (called Chewie in the comic books). The recently released Marvels film appears to be delivering a few more Flerkens. Whether it is in the comics or the movies, Flerkens are a little more than cute. First of all, what is a Flerken? In both comics and movies, a Flerken is a rare alien that has the appearance of a cat, but actually contains a pocket universe.

When you run dbt commands, they generate a significant amount of metadata. This includes storing compiled SQL code of your models without Jinja, compiled code of generic tests, and a DAG pipeline for dbt docs. These artifacts, collectively known as dbt artifacts, can be seen as byproducts of your dbt commands. Each time you run dbt commands, the artifacts are updated to reflect the latest state of your project. There are various applications of dbt artifacts.

If you are someone who knows a lot about philosophy of science (or pretends to), then this post is not for you. Stop reading now, because you will just get mad at my oversimplistic explanations. You may even say I am “wrong.” Guess what, this post is not for you, so I don’t care. This post is for the many, many, students and professors of psychology who have essentially zero working knowledge of philosophy of science.

Things in Canada look pretty fucked right now in terms of Covid. It’s honestly disorienting to hear about from an American perspective just as it seems like we’re starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel down here. Everything is upside down! We’re supposed to be the ones just constantly fucking up. I take no pleasure in reporting this to be clear. I wouldn’t wish American-style public health and policing on my worst enemy.

Gooooood morning, folks. Happy Friday. Welcome back to the Kicks You Wear. I hope you’ve had a fantastic week. Cop anything this week? I ended up getting the Hal Studios Gel-1130s that I’ve been completely obsessed with. That’s two of the three pairs in my collection. Might have gotta go for that third. Give a gift subscription Let’s jump in. The Kobe Brand is starting to seem more and more like a Nike subsidiary and less like a sneaker line.

The Denver Nuggets' postseason dominance caught many by surprise, judging from the dumbfounded ESPN commentary and stunned court-side celebrities, particularly during the Western Conference Championship against the Lakers. Adele looked like she was about to belt a somber ballad to accompany the moody footage of LeBron James retreating into the tunnel after a third consecutive loss. There's a script called The Lake Show that everyone was supposed to follow, with the Lakers delivering another one of the beatdowns they previously administered Denver every time the Nuggets managed to poke a toe into the Western Conference finals since 1985.

When you are lonely, you have time to think; and one thing you may think of is the privacy of the mind, our ineluctable opacity to one another. One mines the pit of isolation for insight, seeking the metaphysical in the mundane—or hidden depths within oneself. “I think, therefore I’m not you.” You might expect a philosopher like me to celebrate these meditations. But I suspect that they’re a form of sublimation: the animal reality of frustrated social need refigured as tragic epiphany, like referred emotional pain.

In their debut album “Peace thru Vandalism” the punk band The Vandals critiqued the American power structure in the song “Anarchy Burger”, saying: “America stands for freedom but if you think you're free try walking into a deli and urinating on the cheese anarchy burger hold the government” Indeed, in American you can’t just go around pissing on other people’s brie without facing some consequences. So then Anarchy Burger supposes the possibility of maximally free world, in which scatelogical miscreants could act with impunity.

Let me tell you, the news this week about Sonny Gray was a gut punch. Okay, that isn’t actually true. It was only mildly annoying. But it was annoying. I’m not talking about the fact that Gray signed a contract to pitch for someone other than the Cincinnati Reds. That was disappointing, to be sure. Gray probably had the most underrated Reds career of any pitcher in my lifetime.* I would have loved to see his triumphant return to Cincinnati, a veteran arm to lead the youthful pitcher brigade in 2024.