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Lower is better, like golf, right? (I have no doubt his golf score is higher than his IQ.)

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No planned release in Japan? What, it made too much money elsewhere so they don't want to release it here? (Coyote v. Acme, if that's not showing up properly.) www.imdb.com/title/tt1756...

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Japan's weak currency is also making it harder for us to travel out.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There is a woman sitting across from on the train wearing a pink baseball cap that says CAN SOAP GET DIRTY?

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Just three years ago today Robert Prevost was made a Cardinal. Pope Francis knew full well he was creating his successor.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yes every woman has been harassed, many assaulted. But every woman has also experienced invisible loss from moments she avoided harassment. She felt a space becoming unsafe, so she left, while men stayed on. And in leaving, she lost: opportunities, experiences, learning, promotions, even simply fun.

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qubric.bsky.social @qubric.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚀 QuBriC officially starts today! QuBriC is building the foundations of scalable, fault-tolerant quantum computing while training the next generation of quantum researchers. 🎓 15 funded PhD positions! Interested? Explore the vacancies and join the future of quantum computing🔗 www.qubric.eu

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without asking the owners. It didnt work & led to a terrible war. Imagine it happening today....

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Not sure when ramen, soba noodles and udon were invented/brought to Japan, and too lazy right now to look it up. (Bedtime here.) But if you've seen Seven Samurai, the poorest people are stuck eating millet -- used today as bird seed.

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What we recognize as sushi was invented right around 200 years ago, in the late Edo Period. Until later than that, beef and pork were largely forbidden in Japan. Tonkatsu and numerous other things came from the missionaries and traders.

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I arrived in LA from WV in 1982, and LA was a revelation.

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The Devil Kitty @feles-diabolica.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Above rice? I thought rice was tops on that list. (Not that rice would go well in Ireland, from my nearly-zero knowledge of at-scale agriculture.)

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I strongly suspect you're right. One of the restaurants in Colonial Williamsburg that is dedicated to serving as authentic food for English colonists in Williamsburg, VA discovered most modern Americans found colonial food so bland as to be inedible. The chefs had to experiment a LOT.

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Gaijin Mommy @gaijinmommy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think you could eliminate the "almost"... I'm tempted to say "everywhere except modern-day Mexico" but even there there were limits, I'm sure. Tomato, potatoes, maize, chiles...much 21st century world cuisine is unrecognizable without things from the Americas (North and South).

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My goddess does it ever get tired of raining.

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arxiv quant-ph @arxiv-quant-ph.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

University of Tokyo has chosen its first woman president, Yuko Fujigaki.

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Yuika Kawatomi, Yukina Tatsuta, Kazue Kudo Solving Graph Coloring Problems Using Feedback-Based Algorithm for Quantum Optimization arxiv.org/abs/2609.30991

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I hope you're better at it than I am, because the industry has found my Achilles heel.

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It has rained for 34 straight days, my wife tells me.

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Just watched Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. I cried.

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The sea spoke forever, but its language was foreign to her. She did not understand.

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Caltech has produced Turing Award winners Knuth, Corbato, Hartmanis, Sutherland, Tarjan, McCarthy. Not a one of them studied CS. (In fact, Sutherland founded the department.)

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

("Make" implies we can directly create, which of course isn't true. At best, we can guide and instruct, but they are individuals with their own volition.)

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Rod Van Meter @rdvquantum.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our job as faculty is not to make better workers, it's to make better people, better citizens, better humans. Not only does a well-rounded approach make better individuals, it makes better outcomes for society. Thiel's "let's skip college" approach leaves out the human part.

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Dr. Adeene Denton @spacewhalerider.com · 27/09/2026

It's me, the mythical STEM PhD who not only took history classes but got a whole history degree! Studying history is arguably one of the most important things STEM students can do. Science isn't done in a vacuum, and students should investigate the people, places, and events that shape it.

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Once again, I gotta say: you cannot treat anything you’re feeding into an AI as anonymous. There are enormous ethics implications for, e.g. referees who are clearly uploading others’ unpublished papers without consent, let alone health care professionals or law enforcement

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More importantly, that storm is now being blamed for 13 deaths, mostly due to landslides.

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When typhoon 25 came through last week, it flooded big chunks of Chiba, and one koi ?rancher? (aquaculturist?) lost 100,000 fish.

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Ooh, I have those on hand. Will try!

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If I could afford something like pecorino, some shavings of that might be nice. Maybe some cream, I could afford that and can get it.

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Dinner tonight was butternut squash soup. SUPER easy and hard to screw up. Flavor was a little basic, trying to think how to punch it up a little. A drizzle of something next time? Add some spice I don't normally use? (My wife isn't big on truffles, or I'd consider truffle oil. Not that I have any.)

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