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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Serious own goal there. something like 6x more free than paid.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Huh. I guess I did think napoleonics were within your historical sphere of interest. Noted!

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Hey now, Napoleonic Codes deciphered is right up your alley?!?

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

#nationalpoetryday I never saw a purple cow I never hope to see one But I can tell you this right now I'd rather see than be one

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So much this. When people accuse me of being willing to eat pizza they consider trash, they don't understand - almost ALL non NYC pizza is trash.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm sure there's a good story having to do with local expertise and survival of the fittest but it's amazing how the shittiest cheapest most fly-infested pizza place in NYC would be the best pizza in most other American cities.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Presumably Reed's (Reeds'?) law comes into play somewhere - or is that what you're referring to?

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Ed @ed3d.net · 19/09/2026

Everyone on this blue sky wants to know: what the h*ck is a Jev? Why are nerds excited about this? Reader, I wish I knew. Watcher, I’ll tell you, don’t tell the reader guys. youtube.com/watch?v=HojO... (As usual, obeisance to the algorithm is appreciated. 🫡)

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Jev's kinda neat. It might change how you do some stuff.

YouTube video by ed3d dot net

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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I have endless time for people on quixotic harmless quests like this. This game has been lurking at the edge of my consciousness for years. Good for these guys! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...

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Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished?

The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Long! But nuanced in a way that works for me.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Block early, block often is the key to happiness here I am convinced. And I have an audience of 1.5 people on average!

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Crazy to think that this was 15 years ago.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 16/09/2026

i will be DAMNED if i lose to a CONCEPT www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

T-Rex: Today's job: achieve inner peace. And the clock is ticking: there's no time to waste!
T-Rex: It's OVERDUE, actually.

T-Rex: Cards on the table, I needed to have inner peace DAYS ago and I most DEFINITELY need it RIGHT NOW!!

Dromiceiomimus: Buddy - I think if you want to be at peace you must either solve what's troubling you or learn to accept it, so that you can simply exist without worry.
T-Rex: Right. Okay. I can do this.
T-Rex: I will simply achieve peace by making peace with everything that's preventing me from achieving peace! EASY!

Narrator: LATER:
Utahraptor: So - how's achieving enlightenment going?
T-Rex: NOT GREAT!

T-Rex: I'm beginning to suspect that it's a task that may take my WHOLE LIFETIME to complete, or - and this is even WORSE - one of those BALONEY tasks that can NEVER be completed because it turns out the attempt, the JOURNEY, is more important than the destination!!
Utahraptor: Oh god, I hate those tasks.

T-Rex: EVERYONE DOES!! The purpose of journeys is to REACH DESTINATIONS! Dying in the middle of an one is just a LOSING to a JOURNEY, and a journey is an INANIMATE CONCEPT that doesn't even know you're alive!
T-Rex: ARGH!! I WON'T LIE, folks! I am really QUITE FAR from INNER PEACE RIGHT NOW!!

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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

his name being on things is important to him, clearly, but he struggles with associating it with anything to do with soft power like arts/culture. This isn't just because artists overwhelmingly dislike him (though that of course factors in) but because he's utterly incapable of philanthropic work

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I was watching Sesame Street with my son in our apartment in Hell's Kitchen when the BBC broke in with the news. A friend watched the towers fall from his balcony in Battery Park City. A student, late to work, was just out of the subway when the first tower fell.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Thank you Jake, so much this. Destroy faith in the banking systems? Very possible. /=Doom.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Why, at this point, would anyone believe they wouldn't train on it? Who could be so credulous?

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I was thinking today that the current mood seems to be "what if they ran the Manhattan project in public, with corporations competing to see who could produce the first atomic bomb?"

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I've always thought The Culture was set in to too far future to be a useful referent (other than ideologically) for our current situation. Varley's Eight Worlds seems a more likely outcome, aiming at The Culture but essentially reflecting our own neuroses back at us.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Well *clearly* Austria is setting up a stab on Germany. Let me send a message to warn them …

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This Day in Labor History: September 2, 1885. White miners in Rock Springs, Wyoming decided to exterminate the town’s entire Chinese community. Mostly Knights of Labor members, they killed at least 28 Chinese miners in the Rock Springs Massacre. Let's talk about white supremacy and unionism!

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Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

“Hey Lou! It’s your cousin Marvin! Marvin Bega! You know that new mambo you’ve been looking for? Take a listen to this!”

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I recommend to you this podcast series about Dolly Parton by Jad Abumrad (creator of Radio Lab). You may ask: how did a MacArthur Award winning pub radio guy meet Dolly? Because she personally funded his father's vaccine research, that's how. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/dol...

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Dolly Parton's America : Episodes | WNYC Studios | Podcasts

The story of a legend at the crossroads of America’s culture wars.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

This Day in Labor History: August 18, 1823. Slaves in Guyana rose up in the Demerara Rebellion. This was brutally suppressed by the English colonialists, but also played a critical role in building abolitionist support in Britain, paving the way for emancipation less than a decade later!!

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Anecdotally the ability for metric tons of crap to be generated by AI seems to overwhelm the fewer good products (the meteorology stuff, medical advances, etc). And so you have to be looking for the quality stuff, but the crap is everywhere. Hence, more "why are we wasting time on this?"

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I was literally at AMS in Madison this week learning about recent advances in meteorology, this is very cool.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Degrees of degeneration in food are, of course, measurable in units of "Scalzis"

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Cloudflare @cloudflare.social · 29/07/2026

Cloudflare now supports post-quantum (PQ) authentication when connecting to customer origin servers via Authenticated Origin Pulls and Custom Origin Trust Store. This is the first step towards providing PQ authentication for all Cloudflare products. cfl.re/3TqilL6

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Post-quantum authentication to origins is now supported

Cloudflare's Authenticated Origin Pulls and Custom Origin Trust Store now support post-quantum authentication.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When I traveled to conferences a lot, I used my remarkable to take notes, then send transcribed notes to myself via email; I liked being able to go back and see what had been discussed. Its good for what it does, but like all such things requires a commitment to the bit that can be hard.

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DanceScholar @dancescholar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026