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Putting it out there since it is books-as-gifts time: I have two books in print and in paperback that answer many burning questions about why cities look the way they do geni.us/designofchil...
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Putting it out there since it is books-as-gifts time: I have two books in print and in paperback that answer many burning questions about why cities look the way they do geni.us/designofchil...
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Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
New issue of my newsletter: "The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition" — One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved, and it's a good use of AI newsletter.dancohen.org/archive/the-...
The Writing Is on the Wall for Handwriting Recognition
One of the hardest problems in digital humanities has finally been solved
newsletter.dancohen.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Nearly-perfect printed and handwritten text recognition is the most consequential technical contribution to the study of human culture of the last fifteen years, and it's not even close.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
It fundamentally changes our (both lay and expert) relationship with the written past.
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ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
plenoptic horizon
November 25, 2025 at 6:12 PM
plenoptic horizon
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calling it now: this US Pavilion selection is a chaotic, corrupt scandal and a disgrace, and anyone not investigating and reporting it as such is normalizing ideological and cronyist poison as American cultural policy. In an even slightly more just world, it would be abandoned in shame.
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
calling it now: this US Pavilion selection is a chaotic, corrupt scandal and a disgrace, and anyone not investigating and reporting it as such is normalizing ideological and cronyist poison as American cultural policy. In an even slightly more just world, it would be abandoned in shame.
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The NYPD will continue to park on the sidewalks in front of their precincts, everyone else be damned.
EXCLUSIVE: NYPD Rejects Ending 'Self-Enforcement' Scandal at Precinct Houses - Streetsblog New York City
Police brass are refusing to implement a major reform recommended by city probers earlier this year. And the agency won't say why.
buff.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The NYPD will continue to park on the sidewalks in front of their precincts, everyone else be damned.
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I miss old Twitter, where we could yell at brands. I could have had this sorted out with a handful of tweets and DMs by now, back in the old days.
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 PM
I miss old Twitter, where we could yell at brands. I could have had this sorted out with a handful of tweets and DMs by now, back in the old days.
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Adding the original French wording (from ‘Un rapport presque maniaque avec les instruments graphiques’, in volume 4 of the Œuvres complètes), partly because contemporary English could do with adopting the phrase ‘pisse-copie’:
November 25, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
This poem, Gray, by C. V. Cavafy sure blew the world wide open today.
hypno bouba
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
hypno bouba
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And here's how to order Killing Spree. Thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Killing Spree
A new collection from the Pulitzer Prize winner Jorie Graham, whose “great body of work . . . has so much in it, more of life and of the world than that of...
us.macmillan.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:59 PM
And here's how to order Killing Spree. Thanks @fsgbooks.bsky.social
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
ponderous horizon
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
ponderous horizon
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"Nothing could be worse than betraying this secret rule."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
November 24, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"Nothing could be worse than betraying this secret rule."
- The Ecstasy of Communication
- The Ecstasy of Communication
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"i'm 81 years old. i haven't won an election in thirty years. you should listen to me for... reasons"
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
"i'm 81 years old. i haven't won an election in thirty years. you should listen to me for... reasons"
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A legend, RIP
Anyone who’s known me for a while knows how important this man and his work were to me. RIP, Jimmy Cliff. 🖤
November 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A legend, RIP
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November 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Current* conditions near Fair Haven, MI:
November 24, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Current* conditions near Fair Haven, MI:
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Use your markers with gusto or they’ll dry on their own sad and unused, ime, imo
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Use your markers with gusto or they’ll dry on their own sad and unused, ime, imo
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I look forward to hiring a Chief AI Officer whose job will be to just tell anyone who suggests using AI for anything to shut the fuck up.
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 AM
I look forward to hiring a Chief AI Officer whose job will be to just tell anyone who suggests using AI for anything to shut the fuck up.
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Version 0.1.7 of p5.plotSvg, a p5.js library for plotter-oriented SVG export, has been released: github.com/golanlevin/p... #p5js #plotterArt
GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.
A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting. - GitHub - golanlevin/p5.plotSvg: A p5.js library for exporting SVG files tailored for pen plotting.
github.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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I constantly forget the name of Charles Dockum and his MobilColor projections and then spend forever googling adjacent concepts to find him again
November 23, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I constantly forget the name of Charles Dockum and his MobilColor projections and then spend forever googling adjacent concepts to find him again
reflection here is a contemporary nod to Holbein's Ambassadors
November 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
reflection here is a contemporary nod to Holbein's Ambassadors
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Otto Piene, Pure Energy, I, 1958
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135416
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135416
November 23, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Otto Piene, Pure Energy, I, 1958
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135416
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1135416
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Either way we are sad.
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Either way we are sad.