Donald Abrams @hypethral.bsky.social · 19/03/2026Can you spot the countries that rely on nuclear and renewable energy? 000
Donald Abrams @hypethral.bsky.social · 12/06/2025"Describe a favorite movie in the most misleading way possible" In this singsongy tale, a top cop discovers religion, uncovers the heroic legacy of a young woman's father, and enjoys the peace of nature with his best friend 000
Donald Abrams @hypethral.bsky.social · 28/05/2025A lot, but not all, of this thread will revolve around the "cognitive bias codex": upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co... There's a writeup about it from @busterbenson.com here: 2019.busterbenson.com/piles/cognit... 100
Donald Abrams @hypethral.bsky.social · 20/05/2025Just came across a programming language based on arcane rings: suberic.net/~dmm/project... 010
Donald Abrams @hypethral.bsky.social · 16/03/2025In computer programming, type safety is important because your brain needs the blood to keep coding 031
Donald Abrams @hypethral.bsky.social · 11/03/2025haha, before my time too. Most of this came from math where people just made shit up and some of it stuck. Check out the 1929 book monoskop.org/images:2/21/... for all sorts of dead ends, for example: 100
Donald Abrams @hypethral.bsky.social · 09/01/2025Sadly the absolute number of journalists is at a 23 year low, let alone the per-capita (as per data.bls.gov/dataViewer/v...) 110
Donald Abrams @hypethral.bsky.social · 29/12/2024Without downloading any new pics what’s your energy going into 2025? 010
![snippet from the linked book "A history of mathematical notation" by Cajori Florian:
In considering
maxima and minima, on page 24, Landen invents a new designation,
"writing [x J-L y] for the value of the quotient of [x...Ly]-[v...Lu]
divided by x-v, when v is therein taken equal to x." Landen had no
followers in the use of his symbols.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztvatrgnyycy4h3hfkmavp74/bafkreie44dlqj2kbq22kkk5t3aaemc3bh6yrolqqv7cmqtfj5l7nshlasy)
![pin that says "stand with survivors Release the [Blacked out] files"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ztvatrgnyycy4h3hfkmavp74/bafkreib2jxarfzm6ejanyjdk4balzbow7jszdlenip3lebbe5xeprxovl4)
