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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...
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Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | Fortune
The state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.
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no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Your springs of joy are dry.
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 28/09/2026
Does anyone else say "Make it so!" to your AI model, or it just me and Jean-Luc?
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Alan Perlis’s Programming Pearls @programmingpearls.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some. #programming #pearls
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The fifth is He that made all things for love; be the same love it is kept and shall be withoute end. The sixth is that God is al thing that is gode, as to my sight, and the godenes that al thing hath, it is He. (4/5)
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 10/09/2026
Disappointingly, I have figured out how to sort of cheat at Outlier, and got the 36th highest score using an anonymous account. Using my own skills alone, I seem to be getting worse. Perhaps I just need to learn lots of UK dialect words. This is my Wordle meltdown all over again.
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no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
How stands the case with you?
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 09/09/2026
I think my very favorite feature of the new iPhone Duo is you can turn it into a $2,000 bedside alarm clock.
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Andy Masley @andymasley.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I think one of the most interesting under written about things right now is "What is our general epistemic situation with AI progress? Is it possible to think seriously about it at all? What are the meta-rational moves we should be making to try to figure out what's actually up in the near future?"
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 07/09/2026
US Labor Day special issue of Vital Sparks. #sacredharp
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Labor is sweet
US Labor Day, 2026
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Blaise Pascal @pascalbot.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. #Pensees
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 04/09/2026
New quotebot: Alan Perlis’s Programming Pearls. bsky.app/profile/prog...
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 03/09/2026
Handwriting:Fonts :: Writing:ChatGPT ?
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 01/09/2026
I found a Rarity-68 word worth 89 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 841 points · 10 rare words. Only 58 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 7 finds no one else found today. playoutlier.com/s/QYN4SN (Thanks @emckean.bsky.social!)
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OUTLIER · Day 104
willf scored 841 on Day 104. Can you beat them?
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 01/09/2026
It's September, and my Vital Sparks column is back after a summer break. I hope to write some short bios of other Sacred Harp poets. First up is Harriet Auber, the poet behind 431 NEW BETHANY. vitalsparks.beehiiv.com/p/harriet-au...
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Harriet Auber: From everlasting Thou art God
AUBER, HARRIET (4 August 1773 – 20 January 1862).
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 01/09/2026
So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag.
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Also in this He shewed a littil thing the quantitye of an hesil nutt in the palme of my hand, and it was as round as a balle. I lokid there upon with eye of my understondyng and thowte, What may this be? And it was generally answered thus: It is all that is made. (3/4)
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 26/08/2026
Revived my "Michigan Detention Awareness" site thanks to new data from the Deportation Data Project. Over 1,200 people at Baldwin alone! cc: @deportationdata.bsky.social
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Michigan ICE Detention Census
Explore weekly census data for ICE detention facilities across Michigan.
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Julian (of Norwich) @shewings.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The Trinite is our maker and keeper, the Trinite is our everlasting lover, everlasting joy and blisse, be our Lord Jesus Christ; and this was shewed in the first and in all, for where Jesus appereith the blissid Trinite is understond, as to my sight. (2/5)
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no context sacred harp @sacredharpbot.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I want a sober mind,
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 19/08/2026
I’m so sick of hot takes.
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 14/08/2026
Created this bot, which will post Pascal's Pensees
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 14/08/2026
Created this bot, which will post Julian's Shewings.
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 14/08/2026
What’s up with local.ai? Going to try it out. Here is a referral link as well: local.ai/willwhim/inv...
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local.ai — Independent Local AI Benchmarks
Independent benchmarks comparing AI model intelligence, speed, energy use, and hardware across Apple silicon and NVIDIA GPUs.
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John Wiseman @lemonodor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This is an excellent and all-too-plausible description of how an AI- and data-driven kill chain can make tragic mistakes. ai-killchain.airwars.org Via @aeroscout.bsky.social
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Interactive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill Chain
Breaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 28/07/2026
Crossing the new Gordie Howe International Bridge.
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 25/07/2026
I made some additional changes to my SQLite Studio app for Mac. It can now show images! www.glaze.app/app/sqlite-s... #glazeawards
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Glaze: SQLite Studio
View and manage SQLite databases
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 25/07/2026
Realizing that clinicians prefer the TINNitus pronunciation of tinnitus because there’s no -ITUS/swelling going on. And I think that’s a swell reason to use it.
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 24/07/2026
Hey, I wrote an app using @raycast.com 's Glaze system. It's a really nice editor for SQLilte databases, including natural language to SQL translation. That is, "Top 5 artists by sales" executes a SQL query (see translation in response).
glaze.app
Glaze: SQLite Studio
View and manage SQLite databases
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 23/07/2026
Yes, I was building functional AI-powered chatbots in 1994.
Dialog interface for Casper: a type-in box, showing how a student could type in a question and see the best match.
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 17/07/2026
Interestingly ambiguous “with” here.
Image from Facebook of a robot camera. You can take a picture with it.
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 15/07/2026
AI is everywhere.
AI (or perhaps A1) steak sauce for sale.
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Tom Creighton @tom.party · 05/04/2026
Startup swag has tragically ignored the commemorative plate
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 06/07/2026
The image attached uses a macron over a vowel to indicate an n — something I haven't seen before. It is from a reprint of Browne's 1557 A treatise of reformation without tarying for anie. I think this is used only in this (hypothetical) quotation, which is set in italics. Anyone seen this before?
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 04/07/2026
I recommend @natedimeo.bsky.social’s Memory Palace podcast. Go, listen, on this 4th of July, to the episode “Rush, Hall, Bartlett, and Thornton,” which is about the 4 physician-singers of the US Declaration of Independence. And also about making histories and about memory.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
be a catechism, not a cateschism.
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Sarah M @lore.house · 01/07/2026
I’m averse to low-wage foreigners too. We should at least give them mid-wages.
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29/06/2026
BREAKING: More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the U.S. hours before the earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapsed.
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More than 100 Venezuelans who were deported from the US hours before the earthquakes are missing
Survivors say more than 100 people just deported from the United States were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble.
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Dahlem Center for Linguistics @dclberlin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
#OTD 268 years ago, Clotilde Tambroni (1758–1817) was born 🥳 A classicist, linguist, and poet, and a member of an academy, she was among the first women to hold a salaried professorship in Greek language and literature at the University of Bologna. #WomenInLinguistics #LinguisticBirthdys #Histlx
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.
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Climate.us Home
independent, nonprofit, and immune to politics
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 17/06/2026
Simple treebank viewer, made with Gemini, showing coordinate structures. willf.github.io/snippets/tre...
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Treebank viewer
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 17/06/2026
I am unsure why Spielberg remade Close Encounters and didn’t include mashed potatoes
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 02/06/2026
Honestly very excited that this is finally available in the US.
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Dr Danny Bate @dannybate.com · 02/06/2026
A day of nerves for me: the US release of WQNU! Lots of US-based content is due to land this month, and lots of time and money has gone into this launch – so, if there’s something you can do to help a book find its readers over there, it will for sure be appreciated x dannybate.com/2026/06/02/w...
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Why Q Needs USA!
A personal newsflash: today (June 2nd) sees the US release of my bestselling banquet of historico-linguistic nerdery, Why Q Needs U – that book about the alphabet and the English language that came…
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 26/05/2026
Ai skill to incorporate principles from Leo’s latest encyclical: www.linkedin.com/posts/lingui...
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Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) | Russell Horton
I reviewed the original GitHub Copilot for abuse potential before release, and before Responsible AI was a thing (at least as far as I knew). In the days before aggressive model alignment fine-tuning,...
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Evelyn Lamb @evelynjlamb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Become ungovernable.
A great blue heron is standing in a pond with a big fish in its mouth. There is a sign outside the pond that says “Notice: All fishing is catch and release.”A great blue heron flying with a fish in its mouth
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 12/05/2026
Ready for my talk at #ICMS #Kalamazoo
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 30/04/2026
My old department!
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 29/04/2026
vibe-coded a static Greek NT interlinear. First pass: willf.github.io/interlinear/
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MSB Interlinear Viewer
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Will Fitzgerald @willwhim.com · 21/04/2026
Ken Church writes about moving computing away from the cloud. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Emerging trends: Supercomputers and clouds are so last century | Natural Language Processing | Cambridge Core
Emerging trends: Supercomputers and clouds are so last century - Volume 32 Issue 2
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