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Tony DeSimone

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Technology and National Security Studies at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Opinions my own. What do I look like? A shill?

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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Happy Stanislav Petrov Day to those who celebrate
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Sept. 11 and the Persistence of Memory (Gift Article)
Twenty-five years later, fleeting memories and indelible images still haunt those who lived through the attacks and their aftermath.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We probably still have a few months left before we have to succumb to our new robot overlords
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Nominative determinism www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/s...
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Physicists Have Argued Over This Problem Since 1883. It May Now Be Solved. (Gift Article)
Physicists have debated which way a submerged sprinkler sucking in water would spin. Careful experiments provide an answer.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Enjoying the baseball season so far
Text and equations from https://fermatslibrary.com/s/aerodynamics-of-a-knuckleball that can only appeal to a physics major that fondly remembers Phil Niekro
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I don't know how I feel about this, but as a marketing tie-in, it's brilliant Girl Scouts highly unimpressed after New Jersey troop teams up with local cannabis dispensary to sell cookies | The Independent share.google/bZXNIHTeBsFk...
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Girl Scouts unimpressed after troop teams up with cannabis dispensary
Girl Scout cookie season runs from January through April
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Not footy fans
Spelling Bee rejecting MANCITY
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I haven't been this annoyed since colloidal wasn't a word
Concomitant not in the NYT Spelling Bee word list.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
It's 5:30. Not only is the clock at 30th Street Station wrong, it's impossible
A clock at a train station in Philadelphia, in the United States of America, the nation that pioneered the idea of timekeeping of mind-bending precision starting with the ammonia maser and now maintains clocks accurate to billionths of a second, that has the minute hand at twelve and the hour hand somewhere between six and seven.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Little kids should make their own light saber noises Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain | WIRED share.google/N8DxqLDTtrEh...
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Lego’s Smart Brick Gives the Iconic Analog Toy a New Digital Brain
The new sensor-packed Smart Play Brick will land this spring as part of a special Star Wars collection. The update adds interactive lights and sound to the Lego experience—including the minifigs.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Landlines really are dead even for #ikea
The Ikea help guy, who has always had a good old wired handset connect to a trusty landline to Ikea to get you help when you needed it now has a cellphone and probably is just relying on AI slop
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
The Metric Conversion Act was signed into law 50 years ago today. That's nearly three score kilofathoms
Image of White House memo recording approval of the Metric Conversion Act
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
If they're brewing it in Oklahoma the word has entered the language
New York Times Spelling Bee rejects dunkelDunkel beer from Marshall Brewing of Tulsa Oklahoma
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
This guy should not pay for a drink for the rest of his life. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/w...
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Bystander Tackled and Disarmed One of the Sydney Gunmen, Video Shows
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
@profanity.accountant I don't swear very much here because I can block all of the mouth-breathing assholes who piss me off
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Black and white Asteroids game screen
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
That right there is some world class trolling www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/w...
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Once Again: The Pope Likes That Other Chicago Team, Not the Cubs
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
If you can't trust the pasta grannies who can you trust? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
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Barricades in Bari: why the city’s ‘pasta grannies’ are under scrutiny
Sellers of fresh orecchiette in southern Italy are fighting back after being accused of tricking tourists with bought wares
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
It's only a matter of time before speech-to-text makes all our conversation sound like this
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
#neverforget
One World Trade Center viewed through trees from St. Paul's Chapel with gravestones in the foreground
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Wasn't expecting to find food safety tips while browsing the American Nuclear Society web site www.ans.org/news/article...
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Cs-137 contaminated shrimp? What we know
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
We may finally see the autonomous vehicle Turing test. Can an AV merge into the Lincoln Tunnel at rush hour? www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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Waymo gets first permit to test autonomous vehicles in New York City
Alphabet's robotaxi unit Waymo has received its first permit to begin testing its autonomous vehicles in New York City with a trained specialist behind the wheel, helping the company advance its self-driving ambitions.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Not to quibble, but we didn't need a movie to make Jim Lovell immortal www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/s...
Headline reading, 'He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”'
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
I love the Dutch
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
"the art of film"
The Criterion Collection is dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K editions of the highest technical quality, with supplemental features that enhance the appreciation of the art of film.Announcement of the Criterion edition of "This Is Spinal Tap."
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Rest in peace, Bill Moyers. As a press secretary, he was of course political, but also serious, honest, and thoughtful. Happy to have met you, even if only at a book signing
Signed title page from Bill Moyer's book, ""Fooling With Words"
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
As a Yankees fan, I just want to say, no one can hate the organist for the Red Sox
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
And why do we keep coming back? For that one time when you're in a bar in LA full of Red Sox fans watching Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS and Aaron Boone comes up to bat. www.newyorker.com/sports/sport... #yankees #baseball
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The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan
There are classic moments in this subgenre of deflated fandom that you may have seen before, even if you do not love or pay much attention to sports.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Anyone else out there get a little queasy thinking their former office may now be on the SVR'd Floor? #Severance
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Years ago we were looking for a movie to go see. I suggested the new Clint Eastwood picture. "I don't really like Clint Eastwood. Lot of violence." "Ok how about this one with Gene Hackman and Richard Harris?" "Oh I love Gene Hackman!" And that's how we saw "Unforgiven" #ripgenehackman
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Prima cosa, è "Canadese. Americanos are now ‘Canadianos’ in Canadian cafes protesting Trump www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Americanos are now ‘Canadianos’ in Canadian cafes protesting Trump
Some coffee shops are showing their support for Canada by changing the name of Americanos to “Canadianos.”
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Am I the only one to notice that the Cologard colon cancer test kit commercial that just aired during the Bills-Ravens game used the same set as the 1955 Laurence Olivier production of Richard III?
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Philly fans never disappoint Misogynistic Taunts Cost Philadelphia Eagles Fan His Job at D.E.I. Firm www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
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Eagles Fan Loses Job at D.E.I. Firm After Misogynistic Attack on Packers Fan (Gift Article)
The fan, who was caught on video harassing a female Packers fan at Sunday’s playoff game, was also barred from future events at Lincoln Financial Field.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Regretting that in graduate school, I foolishly wasted my time studying the phase behavior of magnetic materials
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Our most decent president Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...
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Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says
The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office after one term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
A new and worthwhile year-end tradition
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Ok this is Jonathan Swift level brilliant. Who did this?
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Moynihan Station in NYC is a big improvement over the dungeon that is Penn Station
East exterior of Moynihan station in NYC decorated for the holidays
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Me standing in front of a life-size sasquatch in a Luca Brasi Fish Market t-shirt
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Had one of these in my office in grad school. I felt I was living in the future
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
I know the Brothers Grimm primarily as filtered by Disney. They're much more interesting. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Brothers Grimm Were Dark for a Reason
Their version of “Cinderella” or “Rapunzel” could be disturbing. But turning Germany into a unified nation, they believed, meant unearthing its authentic culture.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
Somewhere Yogi Berra is looking down and smiling
Play at the plate in the World Series: Yankee catcher tagging out Dodger trying to score.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
"...and be specific." youtube.com/watch?v=KAG3...
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YouTube
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Born in another ugly era, Columbus Day is an accident of history www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... I wish the day had never been associated with Columbus. We've forgotten that the holiday was about persecution of immigrants.
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Opinion | Born in another ugly era, Columbus Day is an accident of history
The holiday is an unexpected result of toxic immigration politics, racial violence and the actions of a mostly forgotten president.
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
I was pawing through my junk drawer for something and came across this. I'm now reflecting my youthful wonder at seeing a modem on a PCMCIA card with the RJ-11 connector and everything.
PCMCIA 56kb/s voiceband modem in front of a Hayes 2.4kb/s modem
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Ok, that's an immediate block. Last thing I want is a wave function collapsing on my savings account
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Ok that's enough. Switching to baseball
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 01/10/2024
Ridiculous and a great fun tead
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Retro Computers @retrocomps.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
The first website is still on the web, for now.
info.cern.ch
World Wide Web
cern.ch
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Tony DeSimone @adesimone.bsky.social · 28/09/2024
www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/... Friends said Rush had argued that regulations tended to stifle innovation and that classification wasn’t needed to ensure safety. He was at best half right.
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Coast Guard wraps hearing into OceanGate’s doomed Titan expedition
The hearing on the Titan submersible’s implosion featured testimony painting Stockton Rush as an ego-driven CEO who skirted regulations.
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