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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Early January, please. We leave on vacation on the 18th.

Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As others have pointed out, Kol Nidre doesn't have any effect on promises between people, but my understanding is that when it comes to "spiritual obligations", it only applies to those you add yourself. Whatever you believe is actually required by Torah, Talmud, or tradition, isn't affected.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

And it's often retroactive. Here's the law in California. It's an arrest until they decide it isn't. But if you tried to get away before that, it would have been resisting arrest.

California Code, Penal Code - PEN § 849.5

Current as of January 01, 2026 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

In any case in which a person is arrested and released and no accusatory pleading is filed charging him with an offense, any record of arrest of the person shall include a record of release. Thereafter, the arrest shall not be deemed an arrest, but a detention only.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I believe it was a few months before I started driving, so I didn't actually have to deal with it.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, I'm pretty sure it's was half gallons in suburban Chicago. People wouldn't have understood liters.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm old enough to remember when gas hit a dollar a gallon. IIRC, stations switched the pumps to measure in half gallons until new ones could get installed.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

People in Chicago, too. bsky.app/profile/evan...

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"This is Jessica. She used to be Steve. Steve had no interest in being called 'Jessica', but that senile old guy over there thought it'd be funny to call him that, and we're all supposed to play along."

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A body-worn camera records things already observed by the police. They can only corroborate. License plate readers record things nobody sees. I'm not sure whether they actually violate the Fourth Amendment, but they do seem different to me.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Also, if you want to teach all kids how to use tools and understand how circuits and plumbing work, great! My junior high had wood shop and home ec for all, and it was good and useful later on. It's the "we'll choose certain kids for that track <wink, wink>" that's a problem.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I've been telling people that I honestly never expected to see firsthand how Lysenko's theories got accepted.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

My city, Mountain View, CA, is a dark area in this map. When they put in the cameras, they explained the safeguards to us. Then they issued this in January content.govdelivery.com/accounts/CAM... and removed the cameras in February www.mountainview.gov/Home/Compone...

content.govdelivery.com

City Statement on Flock Safety Automated License Plate Reader System

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I have to say that I've appreciated the announcers warning us. “And now a word from State Farm<mute>”

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

I rarely take things being handed out outside a venue, but I made an exception for this one. #Valkyries

A poster reading

THANK YOU
GABBY & COACH
WILLIAMS NAKASE

EXCLUSION IS NEVER
THE ANSWER

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

What do you think of James Hogan's 1979 "The Two Faces of Tomorrow"? A different sort of AI training paradigm, but the scene in which Hector fries an egg is a hoot. (In the shell because it had internalized that it wasn't supposed to break eggs.) Also this explanation to a reporter

"If the cat's got fleas, one guaranteed way of getting rid of them is to throw the cat in the incinerator," Chris came in. "Intense heat is a fail- safe way of killing fleas."

"The problem is it kills cats too," Ron said. "But when you gave me the problem you didn't tell me I wasn't supposed to do that. You assumed my own common sense would tell me that part of it. Except I happen to be a computer. I don't have any common sense."

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Damn near indestructible, can be stuck in a backpack, and (to a first order approximation) don't really need to be tuned. People have mentioned ukulele, but I took guitar as an adult, and even then it was frustrating how long it took to get everybody in tune every class.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

In seventh grade, in 1977, we had to take a "constitution test" in social studies class as a state requirement. One of the questions was to write out the preamble, and I could hear everybody else singing it under their breath. Just like I was.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

What are you talking about? The top floor of the Sears Tower is higher than that.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Honestly, the current version works just fine for me, but I'd be happy to throw a couple of bucks or so a month your way either this way or as a Patreon just as a thank you for maintaining a useful tool.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Same panel, I believe only in Dave Whamond's "Reality Check", January 16, 2014. But Breathed had them in the same strip on 6/11/17.

BILL THE CAT AND CATHY SUE EACH OTHER OVER INTELLECTUAL RIGHTS TO THE WORD 'ACK'...

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I grew up at Wrigley, and it's still one of my favorites. Fenway is interesting, but feels clunky to me. But I have to say that I really enjoy Pac Bell^W SBC^W AT&T^W Oracle Park.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Me, too, but we're old. I've just been watching people reacting to a YouTube video explaining "why NBA players in the ’70s and ’80s dribbled like that", and it's fun to see them realize that it was because the refs actually used to call carrying and palming and double dribble and traveling.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I realize that this is late, but rather than (or in addition to) a badge saying that a post has been edited, I'd recommend a prominent indication that a reply, quote, or repost was for the original version (or a specific superceded one if you allow multiple edits), not the final one.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I wound up on the scoreboard *twice* yesterday! Okay, the camera was focused on the girls next to me the first time and the girl behind us the second. I don't have either the hair or the energy to move like that these days. (TBH, I don't think I was ever as photogenic as that guy.)

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

I knew about Protestants, but as the only Jewish kid in my school in a mostly Catholic Chicago neighborhood, it really surprised me to learn when I got older that most American Christians weren't Catholic. (I was the only kid on my block who didn't go to the local Catholic school.)

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

אַז די באָבע וואָלט געהאַט בייצים, וואָלט זי געווען מײַן זײדע. (Although I guess these days not necessarily. 😄)

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

My mind immediately went to the next line: "The time is gone, the song is over, thought I'd something more to say..."

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Not quite, but close. He didn't quite live to see the first transatlantic cable (in 1866), and Marx, I believe, never visited America.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

People forget that. Wildfires were why we had a couple of boxes of them to donate to the hospitals in 2020.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I saw him once in person. He said the same thing. I remember him saying something about them having been written "before I discovered the wonders of plot". (I started with the first one because that was all there was at the time.)

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I'm still not sure why the yellow was reviewable. The way the rule is written "mistaken identity" is only appropriate if there's a chance that the card was shown to the wrong player *for the offense that was called*.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

There might be special rule changes for this tournament, but these are the 2 (of 5) relevant reasons for VAR from the 2026/27 Laws. The underline indicates changes. "Cards" was changed to "red cards", so the yellow wasn't reviewable. "Mistaken identity" is (only) for "Did I miss who tripped him?"

c. Red cards

DOGSO (especially position of offence and positions of other players)

serious foul play (or reckless challenge)

violent conduct, biting or spitting at another person

using offensive, insulting or abusive action(s)

clearly incorrect second caution

d. Mistaken identity (red or yellow card)

If the referee penalises an offence but has clearly misidentified the player who committed that offence, only the identity of the offender can be reviewed.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

This is obviously a sense of the word "legitimate" I was previously unaware of.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

That was a rule that got discussed regularly among us AYSO refs. What exactly does "deliberately kicked to the goalkeeper" mean. Opinions differed, but I was really surprised that that one wasn't called.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

That's been the case at least since my first referee class, ca. 2004.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

And, I guess, his "We Will All Go Together When We Go": Oh we will all char together when we char. And let there be no moaning of the bar. Just sing out a te deum When you see that ICBM., And the party will be "come as you are."

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If they do, then I'd add Tom Lehrer's "Bright College Days": Turn on the spigot Pour the beer and swig it And gaudeamus igit- ur

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

The watch counts up to 45 minutes, then the stoppage counter counts down to zero. The only real discretion is when they push the button to make the stoppage counter count up. And when they blow the whistle once it hits zero. Even at the AYSO games I did, the higher level refs had them.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

With a decent referee watch, they know exactly how much stoppage time there is. The problem is that they're the only ones that know, and they only say once.

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Evan Kirshenbaum @evankirshenbaum.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I had gotten fully dressed for my Friday yoga class this morning before my wife told me.

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