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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 8h

Meaning if you somehow have not jumped on this yet, you have just enough time to finish books one and two before three comes out

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 10h

NIMBYs in my town love to scream, "Where's the parking!!!" whenever new housing or mixed use is proposed downtown. The parking is literally everywhere. It's never full. It's all free. You may have to walk a few hundred feet though and that's not allowed.

Two large parking lots that are actually fairly full

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 11h

We congratulate Anne Carson, winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson is a contributing editor at Granta and a regular writer for the magazine. In celebration, we have lifted the paywall on all her contributions to our pages. granta.com/contributor/...

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 12h

Oh that happened to me yesterday and I was so irked

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Asif Siddiqi @historyasif.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

RIP Margaret Hamilton, the brilliant computer scientist whose contributions to software for the Apollo Guidance Computer were absolutely crucial to the Apollo Moon landings. She also helped shape the discipline of computer engineering while at MIT's Instrumentation Lab: news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

wait it's the SAME REPORTER is it possible to like clockwork-orange her eyes open until she's read that whole issendai rabbit hole thing ( issendai.com/psychology/e... )

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Down the Rabbit Hole: The World of Estranged Parents’ Forums – Issendai

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I daresay _arxiv_ can't control whether AI bots can read its papers, though I imagine it really wishes it could...

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 07/10/2026

Calling my election nerds from the SRCCON years and beyond! This looks wildly interesting.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also I cannot stress enough that if the prep DOES sound bad to you, but you’re low risk and don’t mind doing some science, you can get a Cologuard prescribed and do a lil’ poop lab at home

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

i mean admitting zero of them is A Choice, specifically and literally

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Also it is WILD to me that actually zero of the people of unknown gender were admitted. Just thinking about Mx19's college application process and uhhhhhhhhhh nonbinary people are not exactly UNREPRESENTED. Particularly at nerdy/neurodivergent colleges which, historically, was very much Chicago??

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Ugh. I guess they always ran that risk but that is extremely a bummer. (i applied there, alumni are wildly overrepresented among my friends, so I appreciate their good qualities a lot, but cannot deny certain risks)

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

“In short, the degrees of male students are enhanced by the luster of a selective process to which they were not equally exposed.” 🔥

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

but theorems output as the collateral exhaust fumes of model evals give you facts, not insights. At least not directly. Only by studying those facts intensively can you relate those facts back to genuine insight. And that's the heart of the fissure between labs and the mathematical community.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This (in the context of its thread) dovetails with what I was hashing through about LLMs from a tech lead perspective; deliverables can be made fast but the often-social and meat-based process of generating understanding can’t, and we still NEED that for stuff I do like proofs too though

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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately

Hello Bone Colleagues,
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans.

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

this also seems to me like a very big tradeoff, because your point is very valid, but also a lot of sites are falling apart under the load from these AI scrapers, and I 100% get them wanting to make the scrapers pay the costs for keeping the site up...

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

not saying that today's content is a pure and shining example of quality race and gender portrayals but there are some real differences in how people talk about these things and what gets talked about at all So. "train on public domain" encodes a pretty big tradeoff.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

To be honest, I have very mixed feelings on public domain materials as a training set. I mean. Obvious yay for the IP/respect-for-creators issues! But also the public domain is strongly biased toward old stuff and ummmm have you seen the attitudes about, say, race and gender in old newspapers

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"the future of truth is falsehood" does, unfortunately, check out

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Wow, sounds like some really gonzo science (not sorry)

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I HAVE read bluesky but I HAVEN’T read the news, so my understanding is that trans muppets have won the Nobel prize in physics??? Cool cool

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/10/2026

One thing all New Yorkers can agree on? It’s time to get your flu shot! Go to nyc.gov/healthmap to find all the free locations.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Friendly piano amendment: at an arts festival this spring I saw a gigantic, winged, sparkling pink penis. How about that, but heavier.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

chat, does it go great when the commander-in-chief disses a city known for its large military population

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*nods along* Yes, yes, this is for sure what Russian literature is known for

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I love how all cats are weird lil guys in their own way except when it comes to boxes. All cats are weird lil guys in exactly the same way about boxes.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Ok this is a WILD Wikipedia page. The number of twists I did not see coming… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_Z... (Yes, he was known as the Elvis of Afghanistan.)

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Ahmad Zahir - Wikipedia

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

(eyebrows skyrocket into hairline) uh WOW

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Saw someone wearing a Columbia sweatshirt in public yesterday and thought, wow, that is certainly a choice

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have been underwhelmed with local models. Which bums me out.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Same here honestly. My libby timeline is the closest I’ve got and only because it happens automatically. Sometimes I read things not from Libby though.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 04/10/2026

how am I gonna explain to my therapist that 149,000 people on twitter want me dead

tweet that says “we need to go back in time and kill the wendys social media manager from 2017”

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Always did seem to me that we should have a better collective notion of what exactly to do about that mural. And why.

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

And in the 90s (as the good folder will tell you) they restored it and had a re-unveiling ceremony at which there were local dignitaries, such as a pastor representing Medford's historically significant Black community The newspaper does not record what he was THINKING about this

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There have been debates over the years as to what exactly ought to be done about the mural and no one ever really gets anywhere. Last I heard they had put a tarp over it so they didn't have to think about it but also they didn't have to SEE it. Decades ago actually it had fallen into disrepair +

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

a map of the Atlantic with LINES OF ACTUAL GOLD connecting New England, Africa, and the Caribbean Unmistakably what he thought it was. At some point I went to the Medford historical society and was like, so, uh, the mural, WTF, and they said, ah, you want THAT folder They have a good folder. +

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

so there we were getting baby's first passport , and no one ever looks up but my husband looks up, and asks, is that...what I think? So I look up and there's a big ol' WPA-style mural with a fancy-dressed white dude leaning against a pillar while black dudes do agricultural things and also +

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Well as long as you’re here in Cambridge being an expert on confederate portrayals…have you encountered the Medford post office mural?

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ooooh I keep hearing good things about this show

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Liam Dillon @liamjdillon.com · 02/10/2026

Years ago I interviewed Houston Mayor Annise Parker who told me one of the main reasons the city was able to cut homelessness by so much is she forced all the governments and nonprofits into a room and made them use the same data system. Meanwhile in LA www.latimes.com/california/s...

The agencies use different data systems, and even different Google spreadsheets, to produce their reports and often have different bureaus within them managing different housing programs.

For example, a senior director for Bass told the interviewers that the Inside Safe program uses an internal Google spreadsheet to manage its occupancy records and does not have access to the Homeless Management Information System, the countywide database that tracks street contacts with homeless people and housing placements

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh man I’d probably just go off on how much Melvil Dewey sucked and why, and like what classification systems encode Idk though, some days I’d talk about why día is masculine

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Equations are…. Symbolic but not like THAT Unless you’re going to say the value of AI is zero? That’s an option I guess

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Andromeda Yelton @thatandromeda.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Imagine going to middle school in any of those places

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.

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