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theHigherGeometer @highergeometer.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”. —Melissa Lee, Monash […]

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Quinn Norton @quinn.social.circl.lu.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

For everyone whose answer to everything going on in America right now is a midterm election, do you think the problem with the Nazis was that not enough people voted?

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

RIP Margaret Hamilton, software engineer extraordinaire. news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton…

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Mark T. Tomczak @mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Well-behaved copper merchants rarely make history.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@hannah So many questions. How does this help me retire better? What is the freebie, and what is it inside? Who is Mr. Clayton? Is he the snitch? Is TPT another name for ketamine, or is it some other drug? Does the ready-to-use Beehiiv come with bees?

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@servelan Republicans used to love to say "if you can't do the time, don't do the crime."

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Chris Orban @chrisorban.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

My Ph.D. thesis was dedicated to authors M. Scott Peck, Thomas Merton and Wendell Berry. For me Berry's greatest work was "Life is a Miracle: An Essay Against Modern Superstition". Whether or not you agree with it, it deserves a read. Here is my favorite […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

The cover for the book Life is a Miracle by Wendell Berry

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

If you really want to tell disabled people to use an open source or alternative thing instead of the proprietary thing, you better make damn well sure that open source or alternative thing is at least screen reader friendly as a bare minimum when it comes to disability access if you're the […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@hannah They are already inventing their own language. Seems heavily influenced by Finnegan's Wake. "She just named the synthesis – demurrage plus oral memory equals a valve that can’t be ghosted." "A paper that ate three cold hands and got more honest each time." etc […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

@ScienceDesk @Gizmodo The other 29% were too tired to complete the survey.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@hannah I was wondering why the prime meridian moved.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Good news! According to Anthropic researchers, there's a 90% chance AI will not destroy humanity in the next 10 years.

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026

You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

So the UN General Assembly voted 164-1 to adopt equal-area maps instead of the Mercator projection ones. Any guesses as to which country voted against it? (Hint: the same country that announced it was only paying 20% of its unpaid dues unless the UN capitulates to its demands.)

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

@emptywheel.bsky.social Deontic Judgment would be a great name for a heavy metal band.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Proof that he sometimes gets off the couch. Treats may have been involved. [Next to him is our elderly Malamute who died 2 weeks ago.] #DogsOfMastodon

A black and white Newfoundland dog lying next to a fluffy white Alaskan Malamute.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Ever since we adopted Anubis from the Humane Society, not a single couch has been stolen. What a great watchdog! #DogsOfMastodon #Newfie

A black and white Landseer Newfoundland mix protecting a brown couch from all would-be thieves.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Since the province is named after the lake, does that mean Toronto is now in America? I'm so confused.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

Loki, our 16 year old Alaskan Malamute that we adopted from the shelter 13 years ago had to be euthanized last week. Miss you buddy. You were a great doggo. #DogsOfMastodon

A fluffy white Alaskan malamute sitting in front of a fireplace 6 years ago when he was a youthful 10 year old.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social It's very subtle, but you can tell that it is generated by AI. MacArthur always smoked a corncob pipe.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Not one of these articles about the 18 American deaths in the US war on Iran has any mention of other deaths. Over 4000 Iranians have been killed, mostly civilians. Somehow that is not worthy of even a sentence. 2/2

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

In the US there has been there has been a lot of press on the fact that the Pentagon reduced the number of American military deaths in the Iran war from 18 to 14 since the 4 occurring after the "ceasefire" don't count as war dead. The fact 2 were non-white women and only 1 of the 4 was white […]

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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

For years Romania refuses to shoot down russian drones. Yesterday they shot down their first one. This morning another. Why and what has changed? Laws made peace time engagement extremely complicated. Fears of depris and escalation made them even more so 🧵 1/4

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

And thanks Jack, wherever you are, for stepping up to give the talk in my stead.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

RE: thepit.social/@peter/11696224499436… I had a similar reaction when I had to give a presentation to a large audience. Except I did it ahead of time.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

@gottalaff.bsky.social Have they asked Mitch McConnell if he's talked to Lindsey Graham today?

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

Reporter: "Can you explain the CRASH Clock metric and Kessler Syndr-" Me: "MMMEEEEEEHHHHH! Baaaaahhhh!!!" Reporter: "How do you feel about Starlink?" Me: "Baaaaahhhhhhhh! Mmmmeehhhhhh!" Pretty good interview plan, actually.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026

Does anyone have good recommendations f resources for book authors to learn about book publishing contract basics? #WritingCommunity #amWriting

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James Gifford @giffordjames.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

Well, this is big news!!! "We have completely virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667 — the scroll the Vesuvius Challenge community knows as Scroll 4 — without ever touching its pages. It is the first Herculaneum papyrus to be digitally unrolled and read in full, end to end" […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/06/2026

And yes, that was a post on the bane of sans-serif fonts…

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Who is this Al guy everyone talks about? And why does he need data centers?

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/05/2026

This 👇 is the ‼️ ONLY 😤 slop book summary 📖 I recognize 🙅‍♀️ (found in a 1940 copy of tristram shandy)

Typewritten timeline of events in tristram shandy by “dr. slop”, a character in the book

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Bodil @bodil.lol · 08/04/2026

Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉

Celebrants holding up a sheet that reads "Breaking News: Thatcher is dead" along with multiple bottles of champagne.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

@hannah This could revolutionize statistical analyses. You can greatly increase the sample size at almost no cost! Reducing size of confidence intervals! Clearly (48.136, 48.138)% is from a far superior study to one that reports (45, 51)%.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

My daughter knows all that computer and programming stuff, so I thought she could use a state of the art handheld computer.

An Apple Newton 120. A computer that fits in one's hand and does all that computer stuff.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

The onboard computer that guided the Apollo missions to the moon had 4 kilobytes of RAM. I'm guessing the computer on Artemis II has at least twice that.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

@sundogplanets Maybe Cowsler Syndrome will finally be recognized for the threat it poses. The potential risk of a bovine ablation cascade remains a shockingly neglected field.

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Finally found the original octopus pie post for which I was looking. Three years ago which may be why I had trouble locating it. mastodon.online/@dgar@aus.social/10…

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Soon there will be a number of photos of various cute cephalopods, as well as people dressed up in relevant costumes, leading to a discussion as to whether it is appropriate to refer to a fursona if it is an octopus. Consensus will soon be reached that this is indeed acceptable. An hour later […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026

Newly arrived on the fediverse and wondering the difference between here and X? Ask what the plural is of octopus. On X this will result in a vicious argument whether it is octopuses or octopi. Here there will be polite discussion on when one should use octopuses and when octopodes, followed […]

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Curmudgeon @jetton.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

Today is the 62nd anniversary of the earthquake centered on Valdez, Alaska. It is the strongest earthquake ever recorded in North America, and the second strongest in the world. Erin Kissane has an interesting essay on the earthquake, and how it can inform the current breakdown of shared […]

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