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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 28/09/2026
Reading the Collie Mail from 1959:
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 26/09/2026
"...which sets out an idea I’ve seen several times in prose of various types but never before, I think, in verse — namely that the salvific intervention of God as Christ on earth may take different forms on other planets" vamoul.substack.com/p/a-good-swo...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 20/09/2026
I didn't notice the LLM usage in this piece, though I half-see it after reading the scathing comments from people who recognise Claudish: www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 11/09/2026
Good opening pair of recommendations from Facebook today:
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 08/09/2026
Reading the vicious fighting over the Navier-Stokes whatever and thinking of the Clara Collier piece on life without work that I read yesterday. asteriskmag.substack.com/p/we-already...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 07/09/2026
NGV photos: pappubahry.substack.com/p/the-nation...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 04/09/2026
Incredible post by someone who had an amygdala taken out: www.astralcodexten.com/p/absurd-adv...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 03/09/2026
A long thumbs-up to the National Gallery of Victoria: good place.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 02/09/2026
End of a long twelve days at the State Library of Victoria (not shown: requests requiring the Heritage Collections Reading Room):
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 30/08/2026
ChatGPT is putting left-handed sad smileys in my code ):
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 30/08/2026
A lot of tennis balls have been hit over the fence here.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 24/08/2026
Difficult to walk around the SLV dome because of all the people taking photos blocking the path.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 24/08/2026
Melbourne, much like Sydney, has buildings named after financial institutions rather than resource companies.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 23/08/2026
In the library.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 21/08/2026
Melbourne sightseeing plan: - the La Trobe Reading Room at State Library Victoria - the Redmond Barry Reading Room at State Library Victoria - the Heritage Collections Reading Room at State Library Victoria - the chess area at State Library Victoria - microfilm scanners at State Library Victoria
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I asked GPT-5.6 Sol to create the most Claude-y possible parody image and what it came up with is pretty great and dead-on.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Playing Leapfrog (flipped), by Candido Portinari, 1959, 📸 by @jeffhaynesmedia
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 21/08/2026
"The rest of the article is spent enumerating all of the modernist writers that the author had ever heard of."
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Don't forget the LGBT in LGBTESCREAL!
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 18/08/2026
Hand.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 17/08/2026
Headlines on the chess page, 1972.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 16/08/2026
Austin Lakes.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 14/08/2026
Hadn't seen a blue-screen in a looooong time.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 10/08/2026
Background chess history reading taking me on an unexpected trip to Gallica: gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/b...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 01/08/2026
I've spent a lot of hours at the microfilm scanners lately: pappubahry.substack.com/p/microfilm-...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 31/07/2026
Seventeenth-century annotations of Horace by a school student: vamoul.substack.com/p/can-you-si...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 30/07/2026
Good moon tonight.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 29/07/2026
Descriptive notation is usually not found in French or with figurines, but French figurine descriptive was sometimes used; very strange to read at first. www.chesshistory.com/winter/winte... (The chess 'bishop' in French is 'fou', jester.)
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 27/07/2026
That was quite anticlimactic.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 26/07/2026
Wood court tennis in the 1985 Davis Cup: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_hF...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 24/07/2026
2700chess, now taking a very expansive definition of 2700, tells me that I've fallen more than 14,000 FIDE ranking places in the last 12 months.
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
did u look at my tweets
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 22/07/2026
There was once someone who liked cross tables even more than me.
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Baptiste Coulmont @coulmont.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Marie... Paulette... Pauline... Estelle... Léa. La moitié des bébé filles ont aujourd'hui un prénom qui se termine par le son -a (la suite ici coulmont.com/varia/2026/2... ) Données : @insee.fr Fichier des prénoms, édition 2026
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 21/07/2026
The Morning Herald is starting to appear on Trove now! trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ti... I can recognise the dates and missing pages from the microfilm reels I've gone through.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 20/07/2026
- The Jacobian conjecture counterexample tweet is so funny. - I don't mind a bit of algebra sometimes, but I tried hand-checking it and it started to look very tedious before I gave up one third of the way through writing down the unsimplified determinant.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 20/07/2026
A fun fact about WA's State Records Office is that you have to make a username to request delivery of records to the State Library's reading room, and then they are filed according to the username. I did not for a moment think to suggest the librarian look under the letter P.
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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Mephisto, by Joaquín Espalter y Rull, 1872, 📸 by Dan Mullan
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 12/07/2026
Early impression of GPT-5.6 is that we're back in the bad old days of hallucinations. chatgpt.com/share/6a53a5...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 11/07/2026
Jeremy Gaige: "If I had to bet my life on the accuracy of such data, I would rather rely on this book than any other source, and yet remain in considerable fear for my life."
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Grace @gracekind.net · 09/10/2025
My consciousness isn’t phenomenal, but it’s alright
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 08/07/2026
When the Sunday Times (re)introduced a chess column in 1964, they put it on the comics page:
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 07/07/2026
Disclosure Day, what a triumph of paying no attention to the Letterboxd rating. Film of the year.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 07/07/2026
ECU.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 05/07/2026
Today's accidental microfilm find: graphical representations of a rifle shooting competition. (The Morning Herald, not digitised on Trove for some reason, 1905-07-01.)
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 04/07/2026
My Politics by Robin Hanson "There’s a good chance some UFOs are aliens. If so, they are likely here to domesticate us, so that we obey their no-expansion rule. This is bad news."
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 30/06/2026
At the microfilm reader the other week I was eavesdropping on a lady nearby saying how much she appreciated the good Christian morals that infused newspaper reporting in the olden days; she was not reading the Mirror. trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/ar...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 29/06/2026
Idea: A positive integer N is called _small_ if almost all positive integers are greater than N.
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 28/06/2026
Thinking ahead to how my WA chess history book should be structured. www.melbournechessclub.org/care-for-a-g...
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David Barry @pappubahry.com · 26/06/2026
Indulging in some retail therapy and ordering a scan of the 17 March 1956 issue of Austrālijas Latvietis from the NLA for $19 because the Latvian National Library doesn't have that one digitised (they have the other seven that I'm after).
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