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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

One of my favorite rhetorical and analytical moves is joining things (showing that different, seemingly unrelated ideas are part of the same phenomenon) and taking them apart (resolving paradoxes by demonstrating that what appears like a contradictory thing is different things, lumped together). 1/

A collage made of architectural features from 'Variae Architecturae Formae' (1636), a collection of engravings. The architectural arches, buildings, fountains, etc, are layered atop each other and placed around each other to create an infinite, recombinant built environment.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/08/2026

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Jeff Norman @jeff2ffs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Re something "you'd like better if only you knew about it": this is one reason it's maddening that many people vote in multicandidate elections based not on what they'd prefer...but on which candidate they think would do best against the other party's candidate. 1/

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Dave Berkeley 💙😷 @daveberkeley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My "two (or more) different things" were spatial filters in image processing (& 1D versions in audio processing) and the way neurones can produce sum of products. It occurred to me in the 1980s but I think someone beat me to it. Convolution + activation function gives us CNN.

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