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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 2h

Closest is I getting two other guys to use their dorm boom boxes with mine to play 3/4 of Zaireeka

Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 4h

My wife responds to me proudly displaying my finds and explaining why it was such a lucky strike with the same demeanor as when one of our cats leaves a kill for her

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 5h

Heartbreaking: actually struck gold at the uncool used records and books store! That’s an original pressing of Gandalf’s first self-titled for a way better price than anything I’ve seen on Discogs

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Joachim Boaz @joachimboaz.bsky.social · 9h

"And if you're not a good little boy, you'll go to Earth when you die!" Cartoon by Jack Pierce in Fantastic Story Magazine, ed. Samuel Mines (May 1953) #scifi #sciencefiction

Mother alien with multiple legs talks to her child alien. The child has a saucer toy and his shirt says "junior saucer pilot." They are on an asteroid or planet. Earth is in the distance.

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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 21h

watched MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE tonight and it’s so cool that stephen king can more easily imagine a theory of mind for an 18 wheeler truck than a human woman

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

I didn’t think this mfer could be cooler but he did it

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is why it has bowled over the class of people whose lives are spent telling other people what to do. It used to be they couldn't do that to the computer, they had to tell a person who could then make the computer do it. Now they don't have to pay that person.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The advantage that people see in this is it speeds up the time from conception to useful output by eliminating the cognitive load of the user "translating" their concept for desired output into machine-readable language, by making any and all language machine-readable.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

AI is the attempt to create a natural language interface for digital computation input and output. This requires orders of magnitude more computation to brute force its way through natural language's inherent ambiguity and lossiness as a signal. There, now you know what it is and does.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you see this post a vampire that isn't Dracula

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also ol’ Donny T has basically eviscerated the construction sector with tariffs and migration enforcement terror, so I don’t think “the trades” are gonna save anyone anytime soon

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've been sitting on this one, I think it makes up for missing last week

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On today's French Fuck Friday, where we take a look at a different fucked looking French airplane each week, we have this ugly duckling: the Dewoitine 700. Eventually developed into a less ugly swan, the 750 torpedo bomber, which still looks wrong thanks to that double decker cockpit

A weirdly proportioned, nose-heavy twin engine airplane with a shoulder mounted wing and twin tail style vertical stabilizers. The entire nose portion is glazed with geometric glass panes and juts out strangely toward the bottom. The landing gear look much too spindly, giving a kind of "chicken leg" effect to the whole appearance.

The Dewoitine 700 in flight, the close inboard engine nacelles on the high mounted wing giving the plane a hunched, shrugged shoulders look

The Dewoitine 750 prototype torpedo bomber. This development retains the general layout but improves aerodynamics and adds a weird hump on top of the fuselage with what looks like an extra cockpit.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I think Peter Gabriel beat Collins to it on record, but yeah! That vastly overused production technique was their fault haha

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It helps that both Gabriel and Collins were also pivotal in creating the "80s sound" through their introducing gated reverb on drums

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Cassie’s treason was a violation of Restaurant Law. She opened the gate at Pat’s King of Steaks to allow the besieging army of Geno’s Steaks in to ransack the place.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Holy shit now there’s a collecting project

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Check out this insanely sick record my dad had, performed on an instrument made in the 18th century

Record cover with Javanese inspired line drawing artwork of a peacock and a tranquil youth titled “Javanese Court Gamelan from the Pura Paku Alaman Jogyakarta”

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Independent volunteers with nothing in the slightest to do with the USAAF

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Chris Carraba wiping gypsum dust from his forehead after a long day of drywall work, but it’s all worth it to see such handsome couples enjoy authentic Italian cuisine at a reasonable price point.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Past Lives: Around 600 CE, a man died and was buried near the city of Verona in northern Italy. He had led an interesting life, including a migration from present-day Hungary. Most intriguing of all, his right hand had been amputated and replaced with a knife prosthesis. pod.link/1852618120/e...

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The Man with a Knife for a Hand (Lombard Italy, Late 6th Century)

Listen to The Man with a Knife for a Hand (Lombard Italy, Late 6th Century) from Past Lives wherever you get your podcasts!

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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Went to the record store today, spent an hour browsing. Bought a second pressing of The Jam’s “This Is the Modern World” because my copy is trashed. Clerk asked how my kid’s doing because last time I was in there he gave her some old surplus 45s to “start her own collection.” Replicate that Claude.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ultimately, we must speak not of a singular Islam, but of a constellation of Islams, yes.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

He makes me wish I’d had the courage to be have been more of a wastrel in my salad days

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

When the personnel list on a track includes fretless bass AND twelve string guitar you know you better strap your ass the fuck in

Personnel list on Discogs for the XTC track "Senses Working Overtime" from the album English Settlement.

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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK @elbarto.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The beauty of being alive in a world with other people is that we largely have no idea what we can do to satisfy the desires that drive us and we only get a taste of that satisfaction through chance encounters. Expressing desires semiotically to a machine will never result in what we *really wanted*

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Counterpoint: the Dutch gave us an all-time power pop heater about getting married to take advantage of the tax code youtu.be/BxWqrmE7IvI?...

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I Wanna Get Married

YouTube video by De Cylinders - Topic

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In Alabama, there's The Machine in Greek life at the University of Alabama and it interfaces directly with white shoe law firms in Montgomery and the Republican party recruitment pipeline

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You crazy for this one, but also I’ve found myself considering the possibility that Doug Jones might do it, so who am I to judge

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The many sons and daughters of Roy Cohn

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Gary Alexander @garyalexander.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Greek life is so cool because, even if they aren't cooking meth in the basement and some are, they create similar disincentives to blow the whistle or confront other members as the mafia: doing the right thing risks blowing up your housing situation, current social life, and future networks.

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Hm. Does the Potomac regularly freeze over? That could tip it for me

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I’m calling it as I see it! Maryland was a slave state right up to the war!

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maryland is part of the South, sorry everyone. “Mid-Atlantic” is a euphemism for the NYC-Philly metroplex so as not to embarrass New Jersey and Connecticut

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Aaaaand saving this little gem of a panel to spam my wife with

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally, a way to optimize and automate things I enjoy doing

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Credentials, Dan @dancredentials.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

You can’t properly shuffle on something like that

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