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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 2h

Oh, because it’s a contract, and that’s the most important thing? Are we in the Lochner Era again?

James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 03/10/2026

Yeah, it’s one of the few thongs where everyone agrees on the problem but they don’t agree on the solution. And I would rather keep changing than do permanent DST, personally.

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Desmos Studio @desmos.com · 02/10/2026

You can finally get your ducks in a row (and column). Type “matrix” in any Desmos graphing tool to get started. Learn more: help.desmos.com/hc/en-us/art... #iteachmath #mathsky #linearalgebra #matrices

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 29/09/2026

I’m gonna go with wealth inequality. It doesn’t matter how you are personally doing when you see the top and their impunity. (And the seeing is a key part, not just the fact of it.)

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 28/09/2026

The thing about that discourse is, and I feel like I’m channeling @jamellebouie.net here, what is the mechanism through which I would have heard this song?

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caroline cash @cashbrowns.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Nancy 9/8/26

Nancy’s at school…. Her teacher asks her a math problem: if Nancy had three cupcakes, and Sluggo asked her for one, how many would she have left? Nancy’s reply is “three.”

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 21/09/2026

The thing about a transplant is that it can be rejected by the host body if it doesn’t fit.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 19/09/2026

I wish that when something is advertised as zero sugar, that meant no sugar and not fake sugar.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 18/09/2026

I don’t think taking turns is important (although learning how to take turns is a good reason to play the, with kids). Some games (maybe the best ones?) have simultaneous play

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 18/09/2026

Haha. I suppose I could say tabletop games as an overarching category.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 18/09/2026

When at the beginning of this year I listed how many board games I had, the students were incredulous until they realized I count card games as board games.

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Me: I’d like a slice of pizza Server: that comes with three sides Me: I know what shape it is

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 17/09/2026

Aren’t there exactly enough seats? I mean, not likely seats, but theoretically possible.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 14/09/2026

If the only thing you have to note about the rising tide of fascism is that we have to let it rise far enough to be over someone else's head in order to stop it, I don't think your strategy is particularly good.

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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

can those of you mad because you think trans whining on microblogs will depress support for dem politicians please imagine for one second how dem politicians spouting transphobia on enormous mainstream platforms depresses support for trans people

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 11/09/2026

At the very least, stop telling me that if I were watching on YouTube I’d see XYZ. No. That can be a fun bonus for those people, but I will never watch.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 09/09/2026

Except that one of his promises was that he wouldn’t do that, because they do that with the library budget every year. And still came away with less than last year (as a percentage).

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 08/09/2026

Switching from a bottom/less than group to a top/greater than group is inherently misleading. It should all be deciles or similarly shaped/directioned groups.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 08/09/2026

Yeah, LLMs are inherently broken in this way because they work by associations. Efforts to make them more accurate are done by laying structures on top of that unstable foundation. Coding allows for more structures to improve outputs, but doesn't change the fundamental flaws.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 08/09/2026

Because code needs to compile and complete a function, it’s easier to self-check than other content, which is why it’s a better tool in that domain.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 06/09/2026

With the ages of the three women involved, braiding together, it’s almost mythological.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 05/09/2026

And then they’ll say something like “nobody wants to work anymore”

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 05/09/2026

It seems most mapping websites use Mercator, or a variant (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Mercator_…), which does make some sense given the original purpose of Mercator was to aid navigation, I suppose.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 05/09/2026

Maybe, but how common is Mercator, really? I haven’t seen one in a long time, feels like.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 05/09/2026

I saw that article before but am questioning how new this map is

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 01/09/2026

You say there’s a reason, but what is the reason?

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 29/08/2026

I bet he thinks “eating right” would cure suicidality too.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 29/08/2026

Well, it’s saying less than 10% of passengers are Black, not that less than 10% of Black folks use air travel. So it is skewed (because it’s not ~14%), but not as skewed.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 29/08/2026

This is basically why speed cameras are so effective at changing behavior.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 25/08/2026

I was sitting next to a friend who got the push alert, gasped, and opened CNN. I got excited for a second.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 22/08/2026

That’s what social media is for!

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 21/08/2026

So it’s 3 equilateral triangles with ratios 1:sqrt3:2 and a 30-60-90 triangle, all with their circumcenters and perpendicular bisectors drawn in? That’s nice.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 20/08/2026

While I agree with this sentiment, it should be done by making the cars go down. I don’t want to pedal up the sky bridge.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 19/08/2026

I’d go retro with a burrito pneumatic tube.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 19/08/2026

There’s also a split the middle approach - say the special ed teacher works with two cohorts in both math and science.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 19/08/2026

At least that’s consistent with the very first op-ed guy:

From the Wikipedia page for Op-Eds:

When Swope took over as main editor in 1920, he opted to
designate a page from editorial staff as "a catchall for book reviews,
society boilerplate, and obituaries" Swope explained:

"It occurred to me that nothing is more interesting than
opinion when opinion is interesting, so I devised a method
of cleaning off the page opposite the editorial, which
became the most important in America ... and thereon I
decided to print opinions, ignoring facts."

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 17/08/2026

US child vaccination rates have plunged since before the pandemic, with kindergarten classrooms in more than 70% of counties now lacking herd immunity against measles.

US choropleth map showing percentage change in MMR or overall vaccination rates since before the pandemic, by county. Decreases are shown in pink, increases in green.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 17/08/2026

Probably wouldn’t be so easy to just walk into it if it were deadbolted….

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 17/08/2026

Funny, there’s no mention of speed cameras in this excerpt.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 11/08/2026

Just two weeks ago a Canadian politician read out a speech that included the AI prompts, so it’s still relevant! www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/new-brunswi…

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 10/08/2026

I feel like these might be of interest to @triangleman.bsky.social

A make-your-own mosaic tray I saw in Flying Tiger Copenhagen. The rectangular tray comes with square tiles of various colors you can put in.

A "Which One Doesn't Belong" in the Nobel Prize museum in Stockholm. The top left is an alligator (or crocodile, I dunno), the top right is a goose, the bottom left is a fish, the bottom right is a gorilla. It's actually a WODB, not just me seeing one - the placard says so, including asking the children to find as many different answers as they can.

The other WODB from the Nobel Prize museum in Stockholm. Top left is a cobra, top right a lion, bottom left a penguin, bottom right a rhino.

A public musical instrument in Freetown Christiania. It is a wood and glass structure with a pitched roof. Inside are various strings made of metal. There are three big yellow arrows hanging from the roof and pointing down. They are proximity sensors - as you move your hand closer to each, some of the strings inside vibrate faster, creating different notes.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 10/08/2026

Some mathematical photos from my most recent trip to Scandanavia.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 10/08/2026

That’s a pretty good set of four.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 01/08/2026

People keep talking about “bringing the kids in” when AES is pointing out the damage Vance is doing to his kids. Pointing out a hurt is not doing a hurt! Pretending it’s not happening is, though.

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James Cleveland-Tran @jclevelandtran.com · 30/07/2026

I only know who he is because of the Weird Al movie.

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The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 28/07/2026

We've got a fantastic announcement: The Downballot has just released a new version of our one-of-a-kind "hexmap," which shows every congressional district as the same size. @donnermaps.bsky.social has been hard at work updating it for all 10 states with new maps. Check it out here! 🧵

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The Downballot releases our latest House 'hexmap,' updated for redistricting

By making every district the same size, we eliminate that misleading sea of red

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