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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 1h

in that whole “disavow” video yesterday, the most underrated moment about beliefs is: who would not *disavow intolerance.*. It’s right there in the video near the end. There is a whole Popperian topic to discuss around that, and it was interesting to see it play out

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 1h

no - it’s an attempt at spin, probably one of 10 possible lines to be tested to see if one sticks.

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 1h

to understand and converse. Really looking forward to the discourse around this, and thank you!

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 1h

Anyway, you get the gist. There is no acceptable way to create a front, unless you agree to utter submission. But they are variants of the first group in this much more useful taxonomy and frameworj, which I think we will find indispensable to a rich dialog that will be actionable if we read… +

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 1h

“Pol Pot? Compromise candidate.” Kerouac and Bukowski? I have these hidden scrolls from Che’s hardliners that had to be thrown off the island… Prokofiev? pfft Gorecki!

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 1h

Whatever obscure trend someone wants to talk about to sound erudite/enlightened, they scoff and point out some other, 2x more obscure or grotesquely extreme icon that they know. “Nestorians? pfft, Evagrius would have crushed their water pots and thrown them out to toughen them out.”… +

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 1h

My strawman as I began reading was the tankie, which, when encountered online, I think fits into the first category. The tankies (only a few) I have met have turned out to be cosplaying high-school cliques… +

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 1h

We *needed* this piece to have real discourse about differences that become tedious to discuss online without something like this as a benchmark. I can’t wait to read the reaction from some of the people I follow (and others I see interacting with Dr Bright from other angles.)… +

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 12h

We’re about to find out whether SNL has any juice left

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 12h

It’s much more *human* than this other click-crack, and can even be relaxing.

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 12h

Bluesky without the Discover feed is like real human interaction: not addictive except by choice, sometimes exciting, sometimes just familiar; sometimes some users annoy each other, but it doesn’t last. People who don’t like each other go their own way… +

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 12h

the reasons keep going around and circle back to this one point

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 16h

sundae arguments are difficult to resolve

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 16h

something wrong - some skeets of Italo Pop songs (Tozzi’s Gloria, Cutugno’s L’Italiani). Maybe it’s a message from the great Beyond.😂

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17h

The sound arrangement and vibe is so Italian (more southern than northern) that I will put a thread of songs that I consider to be siblings in tone… +

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17h

I just learned that this song has been remixed in 2024 or something like that and a new generation is listening😂

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17h

Pedro was a tourist guide from Santa Fe, Arg - the Spanish version (video below) was filmed in La Boca, the Buenos Aires neighborhood of immigrants, originally from Italy in many cases but now from everywhere for people who still give it a go down there. youtu.be/swY9JnKFmkc?...

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Raffaella Carrà - Pedro (español) [Video Musical Restaurado] - Millemilioni Buenos Aires, 1980

YouTube video by Restauración Musical

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17h

I just heard Raffaella Carrà’s “Pedro” in a commercial (for a hotel?), I wish I knew the chain (waldorf-astoria?) to give them kudos! (in the background with Michigan-PSU on the tv, haha)

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 21h

Recently I understand current events as resembling getting jolted by some amps

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

wow that’s massive immunity proposed there. How about no

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

only 16% of people find climate change information “unbelievable.”

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

There was a large family at the same pier taking photos with the same background, they had all driven from the Dallas area and were waiting to reunite with a sailor. And more, but we talked to them

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

last boat in camera roll USS Lincoln (left side), just docked earlier that day

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

One small thing that we can all do is to make sure we take ALL our bottle returns (of brands they sell) back to WF and make them reimburse us. They LOOOVE when that happens.

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

(meaning, it is the lowest of low-profile towns and *municipally, not regionally* VERY MUCH A LIVE AND LET LIVE place)

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

Very much. There is a statue in Bushnell Park for a pioneer of anesthesia (Horace Wells.)

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

Columbine: 1999. I think the reckoning is coming (imperceptibly at first) beginning when they begin to govern as a generation. Maybe another decade?

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 23h

When the kids grow up they will not be very forgiving of our unwillingness to protect them when that was our job.

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

In the pavement field, a very important name (for instance, OC curves for continuous production)

Richard M. Weed
Richard M. Weed
BSCE (Princeton University, 1960), MA
Applied Statistics (College of New Jersey, 1976) • Researcher at Self-Employed

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

imo, often the answer is open/public standards (infrastructure), a level playing field, and little else. That allows the innovators to try out the proverbial “firm out of the garage” and local governments/investors to incentivize all of this (Yes, network effects etc are real/it’s not perfect.)

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Lou @loumusac.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Leaves have fluttered back and forth, and two people are enjoying the landscape along the river. #Nature #Seasons #Autumn #Scape #Photography #Montreal

Two people enjoy the sights of a damp fall day on the path littered with fallen leaves. Trees, their color changing loom large in the background. Snapped along the river in Ville LaSalle, Montreal.

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Colin Camerer @cfcamerer.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

“As they sat at a downtown coffee shop Wednesday…” WaPo doing that hard hitting evidence-based journalism that has served us so well wapo.st/3WuNtud

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Democrats are up in the polls. They’re sick to their stomachs.

Polls show Democrats with a clear path to controlling the House and maybe the Senate. But they have been burned before.

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

pues el uso que le das es perfecto a mi entender, y ya

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

just when you think you can catch up, #ALXSky takes it up 3 levels. respect

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Occasionally, I point out that Elon Musk is not that smart because he is not that smart. And when people point out to me that he is extraordinarily talented at raising money; I will note so was Elizabeth Holmes.

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

When he speaks on a topic I am remotely familiar with (the Boring Company), it all comes into focus. Best portrayal of Elon was John Malkovic on SNL (many years before!) youtu.be/F42qmFHNM-M?...

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Johnny Canal - SNL

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

3. I could see someone getting dismayed at all this work just to exchange some real info and just giving up

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

besides being likely created by AI: 1. What is being right about something likely having happened? 2. Technically it’s not about modern times but about times of abundance, with plenty of famines all the time

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

the q&a of a lecture by a Nobel Prize winner was peppered by dissertations in the form of a question, from academics. We’re talking 2 page equivalents until the question mark, and I wonder if it was respect to formulate such Rococo creations, a call for recognition of brilliance, or a bit of both

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

Inspiring. Also, note to self. When I see this, send text to all my friends to organize a caravan. They don’t have to do this alone.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17/10/2026

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

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Edgardo Block @edgardoblock.eurosky.social · 17/10/2026

An antique restored black forest cuckoo clock. I’d put it in the game room or such, though,because my furniture taste is different. Like this one. www.bavarianclockworks.com/grand-collec...

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Grand Collectors 59" Cuckoo Clock

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