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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6d

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your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 6d

AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

science shows as true what you thought was only 99% true

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVf7... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251015-ai-... - podcast

time: 5 min 57 sec

people with big "wow!" smiles and VR headsets with tentacles coiled around their heads and necks

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 5d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · 6d

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Photo Dump - Early Autumn 2025

A slump but I must persist

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · 6d

Not mentioned is Maureen Tucker.

John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · 6d

I found this article after @doughenwood.bsky.social quoted Iggy on Reagan. I like rock well enough but it is entirely believable that so many of its (white, male) lyricists would be attracted to the triumphal (often incoherent) polemics of the right. SAD.

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · 12d

Yes, when I worked there, they had a DigiStar II projector, which is probably what you're thinking of. Not as bright or sharp as the opto-mechanical ball it replaced, but way more versatile.

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · 13d

but good luck finding one of these, let alone two of them. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidophor

Eidophor - Wikipedia

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · 13d

I worked at a planetarium that briefly tried to revive a few of their multimedia/electromechanical shows before moving to full-dome video. They kept using CRT projectors because LCDs didn't have a dark enough black to blend in with film transparencies.

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · 17d

youtu.be/AjGq5CSsZ4w?...

no reason this couldn't/shouldn't be a web app.

Apple says it has removed an app that allows users to track ICE agents

YouTube video by NBC News

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · 27d

Reminds me of a clip I saw of Rubenstein giving a master class. The student played a brief passage and he said "Too much Czerny!" Meaning the timbre was too strident and the notes sounded too separate.

phys.org/news/2025-09...

Pianists' subtle finger movements influence variations in timbre, according to new study

While it is known that auditory characteristics like loudness and tempo are associated with the physical movements of musicians, more subtle features, like timbre (also known as the "tone color" or to...

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 28d

Ahem the guy who invented the term "evidence based medicine" just rebuked the most prominent anti-trans health lobby group in the world www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trans health care "skeptics" lost a key ally—now they're having a meltdown

The godfather of evidence-based medicine on rejecting anti-trans "misuse" of his work.

www.motherjones.com

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Sep 20

The simple machine that visualised atomic orbitals
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-...

The simple machine that visualised atomic orbitals

In 1931, Harvey Elliott White developed a device that traced out the shapes of electron clouds by approximating solutions to the Schrödinger equation

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Sep 16

End of summer photo dump.

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#nyc #photography

Photo Dump - August & September 2025

Odds and ends from around the city

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Sep 12

Favorite cloudscapes from summer 2025.

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The Clouds of Summer 2025

Simply the best

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Sep 12

This isn't about you know who or who you know. It's about putting my hand in Prospect Park Lake to take pictures of duckweed at sunset.

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Prospect Park Lakescapes

Putting my hand in it so you don't have to

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Sep 5

Camped at Tom Jones shelter in Harriman in 2020. Was very insistent with my buddies to do a proper bear hang. Disappointed to hear there are more bear encounters since the uptick of bad camping/littering since the pandemic. abc7ny.com/bear-attack-...

John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Yesterday I listened to a segment from the excellent signalhill.fm audio magazine, "Pie Down Here", where oral historian Robin Kelly listens back to recordings of interviews he conducted with Communist organizers in Alabama. A particular phrase from Nannie Washburn stuck with me: "I love people."

Issue One

The first transatlantic radio signal ever received hit an antenna attached to a kite attached to a wire attached to a tower on top of Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada on December 12th, 19...

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Sep 2

Writing up the 4 days I spent on my bike riding up through western MA and the Green Mountains. Researching AT shelters, somewhat unrelatedly. The Kay Wood shelter is named after a beloved ATC member and the plaque on the side ends with "Enjoy - Please Remember Others".

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John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Aug 31

So is "Malwario" NOT a bad guy?

John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Aug 21

And also: "I love that large, heavy, dangerously powerful, expensive, antisocial metal box that ruins cities, lives, and the environment."

John Michael Swartz @graphographer.bsky.social · Aug 14

Relistening to Cindy Lee's beguiling 2024 "Diamond Jubilee". So unusually generous and beautiful. Within the first handful of tracks, I can't help but to hear little bits and pieces of "Here Come the Warm Jets". The first verse is reminiscent of "On Some Faraway Beach" lyrically and melodically.