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EDM stands for Electronic Danse Macabre
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
EDM stands for Electronic Danse Macabre
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There's a particular screwdriver in my cupboard that is only ever used for poking horrible things. The amount of horrible things I've poked with it over the years suggests to me that "horrible thing poking device" is maybe a tool they should be selling in shops
November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
There's a particular screwdriver in my cupboard that is only ever used for poking horrible things. The amount of horrible things I've poked with it over the years suggests to me that "horrible thing poking device" is maybe a tool they should be selling in shops
A while back I was invited to help train a machine learning model for transcribing yiddish handwritten manuscripts. They even wanted us to pay to use it. Pay us and we'll let you use the Replace-You-Machine
You know what we won't need once handwriting recognition software has done its thing? Archivists, curators, conservators, catalogers, codicologists, or paleographers. We won't need archives either. We won't need diplomatics, editorial theory, book or media history, or material culture studies 🗃️🧵
November 27, 2025 at 8:34 AM
A while back I was invited to help train a machine learning model for transcribing yiddish handwritten manuscripts. They even wanted us to pay to use it. Pay us and we'll let you use the Replace-You-Machine
two things I've managed to avoid engaging with over the years: Snow Patrol and Paw Patrol
November 27, 2025 at 12:46 AM
two things I've managed to avoid engaging with over the years: Snow Patrol and Paw Patrol
Honorary doctorate is such a funny concept. They should extend it to other things. Honorary drivers licence. Honorary liquor licence
November 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Honorary doctorate is such a funny concept. They should extend it to other things. Honorary drivers licence. Honorary liquor licence
My 2025 unwrapped shows I only indulged in 156/298 passions this year
Before you indulge in any holiday mirth, remember that Peter of Damascus (12th century) warns against 298 passions mentioned in the Bible: harshness, trickery, malice, perversity, mindlessness, mindlessness, licentiousness, enticement, dullness, lack of understanding, idleness, sluggishness (1/?)
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 PM
My 2025 unwrapped shows I only indulged in 156/298 passions this year
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Before you indulge in any holiday mirth, remember that Peter of Damascus (12th century) warns against 298 passions mentioned in the Bible: harshness, trickery, malice, perversity, mindlessness, mindlessness, licentiousness, enticement, dullness, lack of understanding, idleness, sluggishness (1/?)
November 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Before you indulge in any holiday mirth, remember that Peter of Damascus (12th century) warns against 298 passions mentioned in the Bible: harshness, trickery, malice, perversity, mindlessness, mindlessness, licentiousness, enticement, dullness, lack of understanding, idleness, sluggishness (1/?)
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the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot!
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
arxiv.org
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
the genAI bubble relies on you conflating the genuinely tremendous potential of using machine learning for e.g. image recognition in radiotherapy, protein folding, simulations in power systems etc with the child abuse image generators and schizophrenic delusions generators
oyster vending machine
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
oyster vending machine
Missing from the book piracy debate is any mention of predatory academic publishing conglomerates like Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, De Gruyter Brill et al: all of which are massively profitable and don't pay anyone (authors, peer-reviewers) who made the bulk of their money extorting libraries
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Missing from the book piracy debate is any mention of predatory academic publishing conglomerates like Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, De Gruyter Brill et al: all of which are massively profitable and don't pay anyone (authors, peer-reviewers) who made the bulk of their money extorting libraries
I believe coffee goes colder faster than soup. Is there a scientific explanation behind this or is something to do with ghosts?
November 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I believe coffee goes colder faster than soup. Is there a scientific explanation behind this or is something to do with ghosts?
the means justify the end
November 25, 2025 at 1:51 PM
the means justify the end
the record on the Voyager probe, but it's just Cotton Eye Joe
November 25, 2025 at 12:24 PM
the record on the Voyager probe, but it's just Cotton Eye Joe
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eating gyoza but shaking my head the whole time so people know i disagree with japan's imperialism
November 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
eating gyoza but shaking my head the whole time so people know i disagree with japan's imperialism
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given meat flavoured crisps never contain meat - they are perfectly positioned to offer human meat flavoured crisps, they should do this for Quorn products too, give veggies something exclusive, bust down this taboo
November 25, 2025 at 12:38 AM
given meat flavoured crisps never contain meat - they are perfectly positioned to offer human meat flavoured crisps, they should do this for Quorn products too, give veggies something exclusive, bust down this taboo
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Imaging sitting next to some guy on the plane, minority reporting his newspaper a little two enthusiastically and slapping you in the face
November 25, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Imaging sitting next to some guy on the plane, minority reporting his newspaper a little two enthusiastically and slapping you in the face
when tech guys talk in a super vague abstract way about their forthcoming device that will replace the smart phone, you know that thing is going to be forgotten in 3 months
November 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
when tech guys talk in a super vague abstract way about their forthcoming device that will replace the smart phone, you know that thing is going to be forgotten in 3 months
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Pacino is amazing, I think James Caan is terrific, both of those roles just seem obviously well performed and then there’s a big cartoon cat
November 24, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Pacino is amazing, I think James Caan is terrific, both of those roles just seem obviously well performed and then there’s a big cartoon cat
I love the needlessly changed titles of old translations. Dalkey? Fuck that, just put Dublin
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
I love the needlessly changed titles of old translations. Dalkey? Fuck that, just put Dublin
Wagenblast is top-tier nominative determinism for this job
One of my favorite things is getting to tell friends who are new to NYC that the subway "stand clear of the closing doors please" voice is a trans woman named Bernie Wagenblast and she's amazing.
November 24, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Wagenblast is top-tier nominative determinism for this job
there should be a "mute this user's recurring bit" button
November 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
there should be a "mute this user's recurring bit" button
I was helping out a friend who's looking for publishers to submit her translation (into French) and it was really eye opening how all the French indie presses I looked at had detailed transparent and open submissions guidelines compared to their anglophone equivalents
November 24, 2025 at 11:44 AM
I was helping out a friend who's looking for publishers to submit her translation (into French) and it was really eye opening how all the French indie presses I looked at had detailed transparent and open submissions guidelines compared to their anglophone equivalents
some people will say: "oh, God, If I had a cup of coffee now I'd be up all NIGHT, Imagine! I'd get no sleep at all and I have work tomorrow" instead of saying: "no thank you"
November 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
some people will say: "oh, God, If I had a cup of coffee now I'd be up all NIGHT, Imagine! I'd get no sleep at all and I have work tomorrow" instead of saying: "no thank you"
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