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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Can reference the "before vs. after" via TimesMachine.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This reminds me that the late, great writer Jorge Luis Borges was denied the right to translate some of his own work from Spanish to English, due to "translation rights" being separate from copyright. He was a master of several languages, so that was doubly unjust.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Generally agree w/your prescient chat from earlier, also per Thurston's quote (paraphrasing) that theorems aren't everything. But it's not all/nothing for bots v. humans like the Kasparov/Deep Blue moment mentioned by Tristan B., or folks wouldn't still be playing chess: cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Well if you dislike the seemingly "ad hoc finiteness" of "4 colo(u)rs suffice!" you won't dig complete solutions for checkers or the 20-turn spoiler for the 3x3x3 Rubik's cube. But humans *have* learned much along the way to those solution states (from Singmaster to Thistlethwaite for the latter).

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

But you can, and here's a picture of it, simulating a Universal Turing Machine, which can be programmed with anything (including LLMs): www.rendell-attic.org/gol/utm/

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A Universal Turing Machine in Conway's Game of Life

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Agree. In the game of "mutual assured destruction", there is leverage available to other actors. E.g. for our beloved Canada, if Trump gets too insane, they can just switch off electric power to the U.S. in an instant. The "bricking" that Doctorow bemoans is not patented by a single state.

You've raised many great points. But to get around the "chokepoint capitalism" of the app store duopoly, there are (possibly quaint) things called websites to "route around damage" (tip to John Gilmore). This is at least true for ICE raid trackers like those from: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Only for the next eight weeks.

Darling | macOS translation layer for Linux

Well, if you want to run Linux stuff on Apple, you can also run Apple apps on Linux, viz. Darling (see below). My personal take is that it's all strange since Linux is a clone of (AT&T/BSD) Unix. www.darlinghq.org

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Darling — macOS translation layer for Linux

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As much as I respect Byrne (and disrespect Musk), I didn't know there was an Oscar "race" to compose for 4-hour films.

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And to think that historically (until 2010), blood donors in Ireland were handed bottles or glasses of stout like Guinness, ostensibly to replace the iron and vitamins to help rebuild red blood cells. Ask your local AI about this practice.

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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Ditto to usurp the insidious Electoral College. Instead of a constitutional amendment for that, there's the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, now 82% approved, now coming to a state near you: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationa...

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I totally envision Trump renaming the San Andreas Fault to Joe Biden’s Fault, and I am just putting this out there so I can say I predicted it one day.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In general, yes, except for UPS/FedEx-specific customer invoice refunds. But the new section 301 tariffs are now substituting for the old illegal ones, until the Supremes may or may not overrule some or all months from now. Yup, a scam, but what's an affected corp supposed to do now w/301 in play?

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Some further context from this morning at a popular politics junkie site, about seven paragraphs in, covering earlier recent resignations, censorship (cartoons, but also AP wire service (?!)) at the 165 year-old institution: www.electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Item...

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This Week in TrumpWorld: Operation Veteran Fury Is Progressing Nicely

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

This much is publicly known, that they (some or all?) were (or still are?) in the hands of "private investigators", with statements from the House Oversight committee about it all: spectrumlocalnews.com/us/snplus/po...

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Garcia calls on investigators who took computers from Epstein's home to testify

“There could be critical information about what Jeffrey Epstein did, what he recorded, how he blackmailed people all in these videos and files,” California Rep. Robert Garcia said.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Shh ... don't tell anyone that while Amazon + Meta want to burn gas, Google is doing this with solar+wind+batteries (read @mzjacobson.bsky.social) while avoiding connection queues and wait times for turbines. Texas has no shortage of land for such: www.distilled.earth/p/google-is-...

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Point of information for those who read Prof. Abramson's output, often in book form, looking for original sources. For the 2019 Congressional Report about nuclear shenanigans with Saudi Arabia (Tom Barrack, IP3 etc.) see the late Elijah Cummings oversight work: www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Because demand for fossil fuels is peaking. E.g. "Peak gasoline" happened 3 years back due to EV uptake. With the Hormuz shock, countries that have depended upon Mideast oil (Japan etc.) have instantly cut back 20% equalizing the supply. It's a new world of renewables, despite Trump ignoring that.

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Good one, @EXPLORE (cough) AI (cough) W26

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Because of exemptions (IP67 water resistance + already good cycle life), this doesn't apply to at least the iPhone in 2027, per: appleinsider.com/articles/26/...

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Then surely you've discovered their National Treasure singer Cesaria Evora -- all hail to her (dial up anything by her on Youtube)!

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Wait, the Bitcoin miners are disappearing first! Remember how it was said that those actual fraudsters were on track to consume 3% of the nation's electricity, or some such? At least that crap is on its way out.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

For San Francisco, although the electrification of 150- and 400-passenger ferries is quite admirable, the real action will be with the 30-passenger Candela P12 catamarans. Sausalito to SF in 15 minutes. Private vs. public, so higher-cost, but highly efficient requiring much less infrastructure.

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Reading the good professor's revised edition now. It's clear that his tome influenced Bill McKibben's "Here Comes the Sun", where M. Z. Jacobson made an appearance. It's sad that Hormuz now has galvanized appropriate action plans around the planet, but wind/water/solar has indeed won.

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Calloway performed (in his 80s, but still dancin') in my hometown SF with his daughter also singing scat--all the rest were local in different eras, moving from folk to punk. Can also date myself seeing the Kinks, The Incredible String Band, Devo, Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Laurie Anderson, the Residents

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Cab Calloway Captain Beefheart The Beatles Sun Ra The Dead Kennedys Jefferson Airplane w/Grace Slick Richard & Linda Thompson The Supremes David Bowie The Byrds

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

In Florida, would this be just one doctor’s signature, with time extensions until a conservatorship can be obtained? Might require Secret Service cooperation — or maybe they could arrange their own coup with this as a side effect.

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

obligatory cat/trump video to add:

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

oil prices are about to make polyester a noble fiber

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That is so heroic (but as an ex-NASA knowledge worker, I'm biased)! I've cited this graph to many on ye olde eX-Twitter, now an anti-social website. Extending the Michael Mann hockey stick curve even further back via ice cores is incredible. Internet Archive hopefully will preserve no matter what.

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Agreed -- even though the odds are inherently great for this I will always leave it to Chance!

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Despite initial enthusiasm from a failed mathlete, I must take back the "notoriously difficult" part vis-a-vis the IMO. I've since learned that altho Putnam is college-level vs HS, it tests the knowledge base in a shallower way vs. IMO's multi-hour problem-solving. Hence 120/120 scores now from AI.

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Although Nobel economist Paul Krugman doesn't mention state power to investigate trades (Illinois for Chicago-based CME futures market, and NY state for NYMEX trades), his article on how the insider trades were treason resonates: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in...

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TACO Monday, Part I: Iran

Yes, since futures contracts are traded on the Chicago-based CME, the Illinois AG can investigate, per: www.electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Item...

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Thx for feedback; indeed I don't know you and am also an apt. dweller. Interested in the ideas whose time has come amid senseless oil wars. The real lecturers would be folks like Prof. M. Z. Jacobsen for "Still No Miracles Needed". I can shift my enthusiasm elsewhere--congrats for a low-C footprint.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

(2/2) So, ride/drive EVs when you don't walk, bike or take public transport, use heat pumps, install solar when possible, and wash your clothes with cold water. Little of that is hard, so no need to "sacrifice" by wearing the Jimmy Carter sweater in winter, or driving at 55mph. Read Bill McKibben.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

(1/2) It's a good thing that renewable solar/wind/water/battery energy has already won against fossil fuel--95%+ of new utility-scale power installations around the world use renewable energy, because it's economically cheaper. Some peeps don't want you to know this, but it's the way of the world...

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It can also be ended by just a few votes in the U.S. House of Reps to impeach & 20 Senators to convict. Until this simple thing happens, the less than two dozen people are enablers of war crimes (and complicit in many other senseless deaths, e.g. from ICE + USAID/vaccine/climate change denial).

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Thanx. I'm sympathetic; I live in a major city where Tourette syndrome occurs in public enough to evoke reactions, whether or not it is properly understood. Here the irony is that although the syndrome is "uncontrollable", it takes much self-control to make a TikTok vid to present it unvarnished.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ah, the year when both "The FBI" (starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) and Jack Webb's "Dragnet" were playing on TV. Alas, this was before his time.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Serendipitously, I was just reading about Climategate (p. 69-70) in your great collaboration with Prof. Hotez "Science Under Siege". Sad about her, not just wrongheaded about hockey-stick verification, but so opportunistic about other areas you've highlighted. Did she know in advance about JE?

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The excess COVID deaths caused by DJT-encouraged vaccine hesitancy were estimated at 200,000-300,000. Agree that USAID stoppage estimates result in more annually per simulations, only to be attenuated by gap filling by other governments or intl. actors. Climate change death is another horrorshow.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Impeachment of any cabinet-level official still requires 2/3 of the Senate for removal. Sad — only takes a simple majority to confirm, as Cassidy did for Kennedy but now regrets.

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Further amplifying the statistical snark (the rest of the political junkie site (long-running for over 20 years) is often this way, too): www.electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Item...

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This Week in Schadenfreude: Melania Documentary Is Officially a Flop

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Some folks at Sun pronounced HP UX "Hockey pucks", especially the hockey-enthused CEO Scott McNealy.

Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Ah, ye olde Unix wars, with every vendor (Sun, HP, DEC, IBM, SGI, etc.) having their own version. Now it's settled -- Unix clone Linux wins for most commercial server hardware, while Apple runs with BSD Unix for consumer goods.

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Loquitur @loquitur.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Hopefully, the FERC estimates for the next several years won't be too impacted by the active sabotage of renewable energy by DJT, outlined here (NYT gift article): www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/c...

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A Trump ‘Blockade’ Is Stalling Hundreds of Wind and Solar Projects Nationwide