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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 5m

This week in "Music That Is So Specifically My Thing That I'm Surprised It Gets Released":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TpQ...

St. Paul & The Broken Bones - Ooo-Wee (Official Visualizer)

YouTube video by StPBrokenBonesVEVO

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone agrees that we're currently in a dotcom era-like AI bubble. People disagree what sort of bubble it is.

There are 3 stories one can tell about the dotcom crash: a startup story, a telecom story, and an accounting fraud story.

My take: it's giving Enron
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

It's Giving Enron

On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash

open.substack.com

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

i am so ready for quantum to be the next dumb buzzword the tech industry forces everyone to pretend to care about. "how are you incorporating quantum into your daily work?" i'm not but it's so refreshing you asked me a new and different stupid question

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 1d

They scanned the book and shared a PDF on the course's Moodle page.

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 1d

I assigned an old pop-science book as background reading before a guest lecture yesterday, which accidentally had a fun message about the messiness of science: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

Great Failures and Accidental Successes

On the benefits of reading old pop-science

open.substack.com

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 1d

[Oliver Cromwell has entered the chat]

pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

Now I’m not saying regicide is the solution, but it’s clear that so far the reign of King Charles has been an absolute disaster

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 1d

It's amazing how many other contexts you can find in which to use the ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN line "The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."

Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · 1d

Investors are betting big bucks on the idea that AI will create an explosion of leisure time...e.g. it was a key part of the public rationale for the massive $55bn takeover of video games maker Electronic Arts. But are they right?? (short thread linked to my column today www.ft.com/content/4011...)

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River Ave. Blues @riveraveblues.bsky.social · 1d

This double play is so ridiculous I'm surprised the Yankees didn't hit into it.

MLB (Bot) @mlbbot.bsky.social · 1d

One of the most remarkable double plays you will EVER see 🤯

#NLCS

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 1d

The illustration is so good, look at the dude’s hat flying off

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

I don't understand why U.S. reporters so regularly seem to let politicians get away with 'I haven't seen that' about stuff a) they obviously know and b) is directly relevant to their job. Did they sign some kind of agreement never to ask a follow-up question?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

REPORTER: We know the president moved forward with mass layoffs. We're also learning there were significant cuts to staff at special education services. Are you comfortable with those cuts?

MIKE JOHNSON: I haven't seen the specifics of that and I don't know

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 2d

a lot of people read like LLMs generate text: they don't actually comprehend the words so much as make a guess at what they think they are based on a few recognizable terms

pork, cheese, broccoli rabe @garlicbuffalo.gobirds.biz · 2d

so one of the things I’ve started to realize with having a notable following On Here is exactly how much of a reading comprehension problem we have in this country

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BUM CHILLUPS AKA SPENCER HALL @edsbs.bsky.social · 2d

Get in fellas we’re sitting on some cars

armyhrguy.bsky.social @armyhrguy.bsky.social · 2d

I wanted to make fun of America for ending up with Joe Montana but then found this glorious photo

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 2d

A nice taxonomy of administrative duties

Stuart Shapiro @stuartshapiroblou.bsky.social · 2d

I generally describe the job as "managing in" - dealing with events and challenges at the school, "managing out" talking to donors and maybe reporters, and "managing up" going to meetings and fulfilling university functions. Circumstances dictate which dominates in any given day/week.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 2d

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 2d

On the bright side, there's no chance that giving the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to some guys for connecting economic growth to technological innovation will produce galactically stupid Takes On Here. Nope. Nuh-uh.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 3d

Build the whole offense out of it

Coach Dan Casey @coachdancasey.bsky.social · 3d

Washington State running a 2-QB Boot

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 4d

Today's 13/10:

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 4d

A bastard burgled my house while I was at work. Saw it all on my home CCTV & called the police. The police caught the burglar because he was having so much fun playing with our Golden Retriever, Daisy, that he didn't realise the cops had surrounded the place.

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Michal J A Paszkiewicz @michalyoudoing.bsky.social · 4d

Who actually dropped balls from towers?

Who dropped them best?

A list of experiments purportedly perforned with dropping balls from towers. It is unlikely Galileo ever dropped balls from a tower.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 5d

i've got over 70k kills in the "meeting buddha on the road" minigame. it's tough at first but once you master the spin kick you can get the hammer you need to break the wheel of samsara pretty quick

Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 5d

”im addicted to this Buddhism game” —things someone who is good at buddhism would say???

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The Onion @theonion.com · 5d

Third Amendment Rights Group Celebrates Another Successful Year https://theonion.com/third-amendment-rights-group-celebrates-another-success-1819569379/

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 5d

All-time social media graphic from ESPN

An image of a Giants player back flipping with the text

He’s genuinely an idiot.
GUNNER OLSZEWSKI
on Cam Skattebo

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static klinger @jessespector.com · 5d

if jazz chisholm married cam skattebo he could change his name to jazz skattebo, i suppose he could do this anyway, nobody’s stopping him, but i want these two to find love

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Chad Orzel @orzelc.bsky.social · 5d

I've enjoyed these two immensely in their brief run with the Giant, but I do have to admit that they look like the villains in an 80's teen movie.

News 📰 @some-news.bsky.social · 5d

Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo help the New York Giants to a 34-17 win over defending Super Bowl champions the Philadelphia Eagles.

New York Giants 34-17 Philadelphia Eagles: Jaxson Dart & Cam Skattebo shine for Giants

www.bbc.com

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