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「青空だけが見たいのはわがままですか?」

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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 16h
[sonic the hedgehog saying "petersonian?".gif]
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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 20h
one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 19h
how did I never connect that it was the same Mangaka as telework yotabanashi
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The fake debate was ‘are people blank slates?’ and the real debate was ‘i don’t want non-whites to go to college’, and the existence of unanswered questions in the fake debate doesn’t mean you have to pretend they’re asking them in good faith.
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Krinn DNZ @krinndnz.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
images that spring to mind unbidden, part 999: "trans-inclusive radical misogyny" // "women should stay out of kitchens"
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 07/10/2026
average bluesky politics-knower: horseshoe theory isn’t really a thing german political parties: we would like to announce the horseshoe initiative
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this feels somewhat reminiscent of Hyperion (books 2-4 are still on my reading list)
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crumb @crumb.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4998...
ihoggan 
 I was a graph theory junkie long ago and even moved to Budapest for awhile to study among the greats. While I was there I started working on Barnette's Conjecture which came to occupy my thoughts over the next 24 years of my life, on and off as I worked in many different fields. Last summer I even thought for a few days that I had actually solved it. But it's supposedly proven here - problem 180. I don't know what to think exactly. I spent thousands of hours on that problem. I really enjoyed it. Hearing that it is solved somehow makes me sad in a far-off way, like hearing an ex-girlfriend died suddenly in a car crash. I don't know, there's probably a lot of people feeling odd emotions tonight. There's no Lean proof for this one so I'm digesting the paper. On the surface it looks like an approach I considered 24 years ago and abandoned. 
I revisited the problem this summer, along with my partial solutions, when the previous round of stunning proofs came out. Several hours of work with Fable simply convinced me it wasn't yet solvable and reinforced how hard of a problem it was. 
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I have very little understanding of higher math, so I ask you: Was the proof due to a type of brute-force solution that could be solved had you gained enough information from reading others' work, or was it more like a proof that was sparked by an insight that came once a clue on how to solve it was put forward? I guess my question is: Was the problem proven by using a collection of everyone's work, or was it due to a brand-new insight? 
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 Hi I'm still digesting the proof and translating a bit from the dual case back to the primal in which I most commonly thought about it. I don't think it was a brute force proof in the sense that it combined every possible paper and commentary. It's rather odd because I feel like most of the work on the conjecture was focused on an induction proof based around graph reductions, and this proof avoided those issues entirely by offering a concrete constructive proof of finding a Hamiltonian cycle. Rather, it explicitly selected the edges not in the Hamiltonian cycle, which is in line with previous attempts via the dual. 
The "oho" insight for this is actually f**ing wild, it involves a complex valued exponential sum on the edges. I've seen a lot of clever counting arguments before in graph theory but this is the first time I've seen complex roots and annihilating terms like this, the symbolic manipulation tricks in this look like things out of quantum physics. I don't understand where this trick originated, I need to really digest this. 



jboggan
 I went back to that Fable chat and showed it this new preprint. It coded up the new constructive algorithm and ran it against the existing test suite, that looks good at least. 
It has been super helpful in delineating where the crucial concept came from. The proof is rather simple as graph theory proofs go, but it does seem to use some constructions that would only seem obvious if you had serious physics experience with partition function and calculating energy states that cancel out. It's not a wholly alien bolt from the heavens, but I can also see how there hasn't been a human being with the broad theoretical physics knowledge combined with the deep graph theory experience in planar graphs to come up with this idea. I don't know, I'm looking for precedents of this formulation and some old papers of Penrose counting the number of edge colorings of this same graph type are coming up, the line of argument at least rhymes. But I agree with the thought that this sort of progress should not be siloed inside those companies. I propose a tax so that every slop cannon Al video pays for another hour of compute time for advancing mathematics. 
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Lin Manuel Miranda is the new Homer” is an uncomfortable truth I’m afraid we must bear
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i'm still mad about that post thats like "humans
USED to be able to memorize long epic poems, but we no longer have Bards so our memories arent as good" boy shut the fuck up. a good chunk of people i went to high school with had the entirety of hamilton memorized for fun and they weren't even autistic.
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
man if only Montana wasn't such a disaster
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
agi hamstrung by spending too much time scheduling meetings to get around to killing humanity
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I think that new things are actually opening really helps the vibe a lot
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
In general I think shirking is a hugely effective tool in the cops political arsenal and whole progressive elected officials have a workable toolkit for punishing affirmative abuses (abuse of force, etc), there’s less of one for negative abuses (refusing to do the legitimate parts of the job)
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’m pretty worried about ICE/CBP going blue-flu to ratfuck the next Dem administration tbh. I don’t really think there’s a good counter to them doing malicious compliance and stopping even normal enforcement, then going “sorry, we had to let that child predator go, due to woke” to sympathetic media
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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Being middle class in the US really falls into two camps: "We are financially secure because we only make small QoL purchases while saving for major and possibly unexpected ones" "Interest rates go brrrrr"
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The Fit really is the ideal car if you're looking for something that can easily park and drive in the city, has flexible interior space, is impossible to shake in an urban pursuit, can transport bikes, furniture, and large objects with ease.
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
if
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
of blississippi happens I'm gonna have to call out of work for like a week
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
why the fuck is Harry Potter somehow at the center of every nascent western political movement
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
fwiw despite not really liking a lot of the choices in the ending I also still really enjoyed a recent rewatch of the show, which does strike me as strange given how much knowledge of the ending recontextualizes everything
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
kinda surprised to not see anyone saying attack on titan. either the reception for the ending wasn't as bad as I remember or the show was good enough to not be ruined or bluesky is too old to have seen it...
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Materialist Gnostic @walmsley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"letting them destroy a city is a small price to stop them from having a nuclear weapon", says man who understands purpose, function of nuclear weapons
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this is what I quite like about Boston, though Montreal is probably better at it
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Flora 🍓🏳️‍⚧️ @floramerigold.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yesterday's news about Jacob Geller broke my heart, so much that I couldn't stop dwelling on it all day. In an effort to make sense of this horrific news and my admittedly complicated feelings about it, here is my article on the Jacob Geller situation: epiloguegaming.com/what-do-we-d...
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What Do We Do With Jacob Geller? - Epilogue Gaming
Earlier this week, a friend noticed Jacob Geller’s book, How A Game Lives, sitting amongst my living room shelves. Under almost any other circumstances, this would have been an exciting invitation for...
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the machine! @technical-transect.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm on board with "a simulation of me is not me" but "torturing a simulated human does not cause human suffering" seems very much a bridge too far
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"this fps game has rpg elements" "oh so you can make choices to align with how you think your character would respond to a given situation and thereby affect the story" "no when you get items they have rolled armor and damage values"
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I'm still mad that we let "rpg" mean "game with numbers in it" rather than anything to do with actual role-playing
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I cannot believe 910 lost I was so confident in my bracket
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
this kinda reminds me of Golden Gate Claude, if you asked it to recite a poem
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
the steelman here is that wage earners will have a larger proportion of their net wealth in cash, as opposed to people more invested in real estate or the stock market what makes it tricky is many wage earners have negative cash, or have much of their wealth in their house or in index funds
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
where do you live? generally I feel that I don't really hear much country in stores or other public places around Boston Massachusetts
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aran 🏳️‍⚧️ @aranaya.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 28/09/2026
Me, a nobody on the internet: Strategic ambiguity is a high wire act but it’s better to maintain the kayfabe than it is to change it The President: We’re trying to to sell arms to China The Speaker of the House: Taiwan is independent Me: No, not like that!
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
this but the fat man is corporate ag who grows alfalfa in the desert for meat cattle, and the little guy is data centers
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I like the new law MA passed that data centers above a certain size must get all their power from clean energy (which in most places means a large solar buildout)
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
wait it only has 95m views on YouTube? honestly that seems to me like evidence of how siloed it is; I feel like that's a very low number for how many radio/streaming views it has feels like the all time billboard record should have more views than the average Mr Beast video
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2016 was a much more fun night for those of us who were dumbass 13yo Sargon of Akkad fans at the time
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Rob Knight @root.guru · 24/09/2026
A 2x2 diagram, with "Careful Reasoning - Confusing Bullshit" on the X axis, and "Stuff that matters - Stuff that doesn't matter" on the Y axis.

Analytic philosophy is in the bottom left: both "Careful Reasoning" and "Stuff that doesn't matter", while continental philosophy is in the top right: "Stuff that matters" and "Confusing bullshit".
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I bought twice as many but I'm only at 1/3 of your points now
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
there was one summer sale a couple years ago with an exploit that let you turn your meaningless steam points into meaningless steam levels, so now I'm at the top of all my friends' friend lists
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This website is great morewrong.lol?post=georgis...
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A Georgist Case for Parking in My Neighbor's Driveway — MoreWrong
I have been parking in my neighbor Mara's driveway since June. Mine is empty, but hers is eighteen paces closer to my front door and doesn't sit under the sycamore that drips sap onto my windshield. M...
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
pivot to Asia going swimmingly
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this sounds like a Douglas Adams bit
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will Stancil (on the Trump economy)
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
people also hear disproportionately from conservative dems in election years because the vast majority of pro trans dems are running in blue districts where they barely have to campaign
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The Buddha laying it down
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Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The thing that's being suppressed isn't really the party, which can adapt to the terrain. It's the voters in New York and California, and their cosmopolitan liberal beliefs
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dalmationblack @dalmationblack.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
the Fenway victory gardens are at least open to walk through for the general public and it makes for a nice section of the broader park they're a part of
Overhead satellite photo of the Fenway Victory Gardens, located in the broader Back Bay Fens neighborhood of Boston
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