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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

poets.org/poem/little-...

"A Little Tooth"
by Thomas Lux, 1946 – 2017.

Your baby grows a tooth, then two,
and four, and five, then she wants some meat
directly from the bone. It's all

over: she'll learn some words, she'll fall
in love with cretins, dolts, a sweet
talker on his way to jail. And you,

your wife, get old, flyblown, and rue
nothing. You did, you loved, your feet
are sore. It's dusk. Your daughter's tall.

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Keith @mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Leaving everyone deeply unsatisfied and mad by building the RamanuJev model that can quickly, cheaply, and almost unerringly, answer whether any math conjecture is likely true, but cannot explain why.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Adaptation is our birthright, and any robust fulfilment already had to contend with the prospect of falling apart and having the capacities by which one is accustomed to being useful diminished. If we have no answers to new futures, we had none to the futures we already inherited.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think that can be part of it, genuinely. But I still think that the problems of human happiness will by and large be familiar ones: we already face loss and diminution of capabilities, we already close chapters of our lives earlier than we planned, we already ask existential questions.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

They're doing chicken hypnosis with baby chicks over on Chick Chalk TikTok.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I try to "update all the way" but the world doesn't run on "all the way" and we have to live in the meantime.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

In the early 1950s, France was producing 2 gigaliters/year more alcohol than they could sell. As a point of reference, the largest water tower in the world, then and now, holds 0.045 gigaliters. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tala_tank

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The ends don't justify the means, which are condemned by their second-order ends.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

"Not Our Good Luck" by Robinson Jeffers.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

"The breaking of Ryan's law spread like a plague. What if that very night, he knew, that the web would be empty, that the search results would all be spam. Our age of open internet is collapsing. Maybe he couldn't bear to see the ruins of what he had done, anywhere, least of all on his own domain."

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Most alfalfa grown in the US stays in the US and most alfalfa grown in Arizona stays in Arizona. The problems with irrigating alfalfa fields in the Southwest are mostly not about the export market.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

If you thought my last post didn't have enough birds, or enough math, or enough math about birds, I have the post for you. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/08/14/f...

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Fairly Ranking the Most Brilliant Birds

Finding beautiful birds with data, and the ethics of converting preferences into math

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

But other than that, Dr. Faust, how was the bargain?

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

People have all kinds of takes on why conversation pits stopped being a thing but the real answer is just that Americans eat fewer beans.

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Derek Newsome @derek.space · 02/07/2026

Atlas V is an incredible rocket, and one I will miss dearly. Last night the final Atlas V 551 put on a show that can only be described as breathtaking. I have had one shot in mind for this variant for years, and not only did I finally get it on my last chance, it might be my best work yet.

A close up view of an Atlas V launch showing the detailed engine exhaust under the aft of the rocket. Smoke obscures most of the bottom of the frame with the launch mast barely visible behind the rocket at the top of the frame

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Chilari @chilari.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

There's no backwards compatibility anymore

A search bar with the question "will GTA be on antikyth..." And an AI summary reply saying "no. Grand theft auto will not be playable on the antikythera mechanism. The device is a 2000 year old ancient greek analogy computer and orrery used exclusively to calculate the positions of celestial bodies like the sun, moon and...". There is a picture of a bronze machine made of circular parts

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

A plot of the most colorful birds.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

The "high" in "highwaymen" stands for "high trust."

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

The signs said "road work ahead" but actually road no work ahead.

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I have computed the bird chromaticity convex hull: Asian Green Broadbill Crimson Seedcracker Emperor Fairywren Fork-tailed Woodnymph Golden-crowned Kinglet Green-winged Pytilia Long-tailed Sylph Mountain Velvetbreast Orange-breasted Bunting Paradise Tanager Violet-tailed Sunbird Violet-tailed Sylph

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

I sometimes enjoy reading ancient history as it was known to later ancients. Plato had an understanding of environmental history which I find interesting both for what he knew and for what he didn't know.

A page of Greek text from Plato's Critias as it appears in this book in the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b2900049x_0009/page/272/mode/2up

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Kicked out of the Turing test for being too interested in goblins.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This calls to mind a time when one mathematician I know sat on a proof he found unsatisfying in the correct belief that another mathematician would, within a year, produce a better proof of the same result.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

My personal bugbear is the "wildlife numbers have declined by 73% in 50 years" line people get from WWF. That is a fact about a set of populations but not a fact about their sum! Its relationship to what you're thinking of is highly sensitive to the relative sizes of the populations involved!

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

We are Discovered. Flee at once.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I've been seeing more people talking about how poorly our corn ethanol policies serve us and it makes me happy.

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post malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

nature occasionally red in tooth and claw but quite frequently just wants scritches

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Most alfalfa grown in the US stays in the US and most alfalfa grown in Arizona stays in Arizona. The problems with irrigating alfalfa fields in the Southwest are mostly not about the export market.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The problem is that it's too easy.

A speech bubble extends downward from the fox in the fable about the fox and the sour grapes.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Another day, another phone call for the person who had my number 20 years ago.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

You get a transparent truth predicate T, but in the T-free subsystem everything looks classical. The nonclassical system asks you to give up uniform substitution and cut, but you can keep them in the classical subsystem and cut is eliminable there anyway. The Liar and Curry become failures of cut.

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David @yonderdavid.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should wither the curiosity of one of these little ones with the UX from hell and the problem queue from lesson one extending into eternity.

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