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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Apple "detectives" wanted to identify a gnarly old tree growing on a remote plot of land in Maine. What they discovered was the key to a centuries-old apple mystery.

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How apple detectives solved the mystery of an ancient tree—and rewrote the history of fruit

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

at the moment of the last out. that triggered the Singularity

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

that's not a "risk," it's a fact of life. no democrat president going back to Carter has ever done anything but consolidate whatever abuses of power his republican predecessor bequeathed him, and there is no chance of the party nominating anyone in '28 who won't do the same

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

everything is somehow simultaneously both too metaphorical and too awfully literal

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"never forget" = "remain locked in politically useful trauma"

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

the computational and formal aspects of science are massively overtaught, and too early. much more useful to learn to evaluate scientific claims, to understand how and why they're made, by whom etc.: but that's rhetoric, we don't do that

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

you'll have to pry my obligatory acknowledgement this information is submitted under penalty of perjury on every application for government aid out of my cold dead hands

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

have you heard the good news about our lord and savior Cthulhu?

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

or: 2020 set the bar, and they're not going to take any steps to dismantle the gestapo under any kind of pressure short of renewed insurrection

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"bellicose Belichick cosplayer Bill O’Brien" goddamn it, you have no right being able to get away with that

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

funny to think of this as an influence (but by what variety of misreading?) on the Chelsea House content mill Harold would be overseeing a couple decades later

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"this is worse than that time I saw my late-espoused saint brought to me like Alcestis from the grave"

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

hopefully whatever the device is it's got some sort of onboard AI, for comedy value

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

the last remainder of American ingenuity expending itself on keeping the rotting husk of a billionaire upright, seems a little on the nose

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Favorite film for each year of the 1970s: 1970: Five Easy Pieces 1971: Evel Knievel 1972: The Godfather 1973: The Exorcist 1974: Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle 1975: Nashville 1976: Taxi Driver 1977: 3 Women 1978: Days of Heaven 1979: The Jerk

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

when you default to crime-rate rhetoric in order to justify how much social good some government action does, you are in fact endorsing and practicing criminalization politics. you're playing the cops' game. learn to stop doing it

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

you could have stopped at just "more people having their basic needs met." that's an intrinsic and self-sufficient good. it doesn't need to be juiced with a fucking crime argument

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

sneaking off to the bathroom and silently turning pages while you read past your bedtime is a formative childhood experience

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

haven't read The Obscene Bird of Night, but it's going on the list; thanks for the rec

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

new mitch mcconnell proof of life photo just dropped

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

I've never known anyone in finance who *didn't* have alarmingly shallow ideas; how could they tell?

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Larry's had almost as many PMs as Queen Victoria

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

not gonna look it up, but there's definitely a nonzero chance the Times actually did run that article

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

piss off a red-winged blackbird for me, I love those belligerent, self-important little guys. the sergeants of the bird world

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

literally heading out the door or I'd look it up, but there's a big recent one (2015-ish?) that's excellent

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I think I might throw Benjamin's Passegenwerk in the mix too

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

how much do I miss walking to Montrose Point to watch the birds? hiya Beck, nice to see you on here. it's Michael from Sears

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

my favorite found annotation was in a copy of a selected edition of Yeats: an undergrad summarizing Easter 1916 with "jerky guys were killed and Yeats feels bad/respect"

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

lots of data we have to gather yet before we can reliably model how a given billionaire will liquefy under pressure

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

it's staggering, once you start coming up against it regularly, the degree to which hostile information architecture is baked into the US social benefits system

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

he's a capitalist. he believes in hoarding wealth. end of story

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I think of him as more the Chris Meloni type and now I want to see an Odyssey played by the cast of Wet Hot American Summer

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

I read the dubious word as "resurrected"

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

For those who are reading Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois for the first time or again, here are some sources I recommend to read along with it, if you haven’t read them.

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

it's the deep gnawing guilt over things that *aren't* transgressions that really makes you a catholic

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

we Midwesterners, especially of German stock, are viciously petty people when we want to be, and I feel like the rest of the country doesn't really get that

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

guess that's why they call it Claude, this is the same way I talk to my cat when he decides he wants to scratch up the sofa

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

When people insist I'm not old, they're telling me they think old is shameful, I should be ashamed of admitting it; and they're letting me know that whatever my experience of this phase of my life is, I can just keep it to myself. Better I be alone with it than that they give up their denial

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

you're talking about a statistical text robot built on signal-processing algorithms. there are no "flavors." there is no agency doing any "adjusting," much less intentionally with respect to a user. you have an incorrect understanding of the technology

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

they're not "teaching" it anything though. that's an obfuscation. all they're actually doing is constraining the chat's linguistic space (to some limited extent) so that sycophantic expressions are less likely to appear in the output that it generates

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It's a point of emphasis for me this year to read physical books, mostly novels. Till maybe a decade ago I never went anywhere without a book, and it's shocking to me the extent that I've lost the muscle memory for immersing myself in one. (And as someone getting older it's also a memory practice)

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

is the guy next to him Nixon morphing into Warren Beatty or Warren Beatty morphing into Nixon?

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

it's more that Platner seems so replacement-level hatable. like, you could throw a rock into any given prep academy and stand a good chance of hitting one of the type

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Newsom is the best evidence we have that the rich are actually reptilian aliens in skin suits. Platner's just a Maine-coded local oaf: hating him has no bite, no savor

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

1/26/2026 Zipps Sports Grill in Scottsdale, AZ (Camelback & Miller)

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

industrialization is less about automating processes than about automatizing the people who work within them. given that "good enough" has no bottom here, slaughtering people wholesale may be one of the few areas (along with call centers) where AI can fully replace human labor

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

ludicrous to talk about "human decision" being "sidelined" when the AI itself is the decision. you don't use AI to get targets "right," you use it bc there's no target you could ever get wrong. you use AI when you've decided on industrialized slaughter and want a cheap way to scale up

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He Hates These Cans @hehatesthesecans.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

You valued your son. We get that. He was more than a son — he was a friend. Here are some ideas your US Military has for you about how to appropriately grieve a combat death: [begin bulleted list]

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