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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 15h

Was it on TV a lot or something? Seems like it became a cultural touchstone despite no one actually knowing anything about the move beyond a couple images.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 18h

Miles Davis was also a fan of Willie Nelson. Named one of his own songs “Willie Nelson” in the 70s, and there was apparently talk of the two of them making a record together when Miles died.

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Totes Grody @berkprotocols.bsky.social · 18h

see also, per Ron Asheton, Miles Davis: “I like The Stooges—they’ve got spirit” (while snorking a mound of coke with them post-show)

Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

This plus a weird on-again-off-again nihilism, just a default assumption that medical researchers don’t know anything and son anything they do couldn’t have _real_ consequences that they’re responsible for

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Brittany ♨️ @sameoldstory.co · 1d

This is so weird though. I know people keep confidently responding “they are eugenicists” and I’m sure this is true, but that alone feels insufficient to describe the behavior

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

I think it makes sense to include the solo records because they usually have a bunch of other wu tang members. But they were never a band, they were a collective. Members drift in and out and back in again. It’s a different thing.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Massive multiway wrestling match trying to get out one last post under his account

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

They refer to Tel Aviv as a “mixed city” but that’s only in comparison to the smaller towns, which are frequently a Jewish town and an Arab town side by side, while Tel Aviv is segregated by neighborhood.

Mixed cities - Wikipedia

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

If it’s what I’m thinking of, they’re not legally prohibited but practically speaking it’s strongly segregated

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

One study observed it on infants under 1 hour old! Considering that it’s their first hour seeing shapes, period, I think it’s pretty much accepted that some kind of recognition is baked in. The debate now is whether the mirroring is interaction or a reflex.

Neonatal imitation in the first hour of life: Observations in rural Nepal.
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Reissland, N. (1988). Neonatal imitation in the first hour of life: Observations in rural Nepal. Developmental Psychology, 24(4), 464-469. https://doi.org/10.1037/0012-
1649.24.4.464
Neonatal imitative responses were studied in 12 Maithil neonates (6 boys and 6 girls) during their first hour postpartum. No drugs were administered prior to or during labor, and the delivery was concluded without complications. The neonates observed two modeling conditions: lips widened and lips pursed. It was found that neonates moved their lips significantly more often in accordance with the model's lip position than at variance with the positions. These results suggest, when considered in the light of studies of Caucasian infants of North American and European parentage, that imitative capacity is present at birth.
(PsycInfo Database Record (C) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Which makes us able to do much more abstract reasoning, with the tradeoff of learning much much slower than most animals. Few animals take as long to become self-sufficient as humans.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

I definitely wouldn’t say most, but it’s interesting that there’s anything at all. And it makes sense evolutionarily. We evolved from simpler creatures with smaller brains and worse senses. I think the theory is that humans have actually shed a lot of the pre-wired information most animals have.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

And the proprioception - newborns who have never seen a mirror can mimick their parents actions, which means they’re both recognizing humans by sight and connecting what they see to their own bodies, which they’ve never seen

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

The facial recognition is what convinced me, eye tracking studies show that babies are drawn to photos or even minimalistic cartoon drawings of faces when they’ve barely seen a real one

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is one of the ways we’ve been able to get a definitive answer to whether the brain is a complete tabula rasa or if some knowledge about the world is pre-loaded. Babies can make logical connections within days or hours that they just don’t have enough time to discover by trial and error.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

People were saying that? Tiktok is both the most heavyhanded and the most opaque with what they allow and what they take down.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

So the place that should be most worried is stackoverflow?

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

This one included caliper measurements lol

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

I wanted dim flashlights for camping with kids, since kids can’t help shining the light in your eyes to see your face, and now I can’t escape in-deph reviews about flashlights with moonlight mode and side-panel lanterns

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Some of the new flashlights have review embargo dates

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve been getting ads about new flashlight releases and ngl some of them are kind of exciting

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 1d

We've strategically placed mediocre hacks at the top of every political and business organization, let's see what happens next

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Me when things are good: something bad is going to happen
Me when anything bad happens: I predicted this

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

An image of Roboute Guilliman in his full sci-fi Roman Emperor regalia, gloriously gesturing into the future, overlaid by the text from tumblr user "so many orcs which reads: " *voice of someone craving even the tiniest sliver of control* i could make a spreadsheet,

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah I think it sprung up from the Appalachian parks. Which do have a weird history where they bought people out and slowly turned some of the clusters of homes into ghost towns. So I can kind of imagine some of the local stories that it might have grown out of.

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