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The United States when left in the fridge for a week
December 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The United States when left in the fridge for a week
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Seriously one of the sources I used was a set of journals that a guy in town had found in his attic when he bought his house. I sat at his dining room table one day and read them.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
December 22, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Seriously one of the sources I used was a set of journals that a guy in town had found in his attic when he bought his house. I sat at his dining room table one day and read them.
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The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice where the holes are — what *hasn’t* been observed, questioned, investigated. You synthesize it into something that has never existed before.
December 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
The work that scholars and researchers actually do is the work that people *think* AI is doing. You read all sorts of things. You make connections. You notice where the holes are — what *hasn’t* been observed, questioned, investigated. You synthesize it into something that has never existed before.
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Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
December 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Amazing work from whoever was up in N6914W over Ohio … www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...
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Solar noon shadows in Anchorage on the winter solstice.
December 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Solar noon shadows in Anchorage on the winter solstice.
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Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Things are Terrible, but this isn't.
Be weird.
Be weird.
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It's the winter solstice, and time for your annual reminder that you can sing the poem from "The Dark is Rising" to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw."
And now, please continue with your day.
And now, please continue with your day.
December 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
It's the winter solstice, and time for your annual reminder that you can sing the poem from "The Dark is Rising" to the tune of "Turkey in the Straw."
And now, please continue with your day.
And now, please continue with your day.
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Classical billiards can compute.
With Isaac Ramos, we show that 2D billiard systems are Turing complete, implying the existence of undecidable trajectories in physically natural models from hard-sphere gases to celestial mechanics.
Determinism ≠ predictability. 🎱🧠 @upc.edu @ricardsole.bsky.social
With Isaac Ramos, we show that 2D billiard systems are Turing complete, implying the existence of undecidable trajectories in physically natural models from hard-sphere gases to celestial mechanics.
Determinism ≠ predictability. 🎱🧠 @upc.edu @ricardsole.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Classical billiards can compute.
With Isaac Ramos, we show that 2D billiard systems are Turing complete, implying the existence of undecidable trajectories in physically natural models from hard-sphere gases to celestial mechanics.
Determinism ≠ predictability. 🎱🧠 @upc.edu @ricardsole.bsky.social
With Isaac Ramos, we show that 2D billiard systems are Turing complete, implying the existence of undecidable trajectories in physically natural models from hard-sphere gases to celestial mechanics.
Determinism ≠ predictability. 🎱🧠 @upc.edu @ricardsole.bsky.social
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So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
December 20, 2025 at 11:36 PM
So reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) can't fly, but they are VERY MAGICAL.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
For example, their EYES CHANGE COLOR during the year & they're one of the few large mammals that can see UV. Golden brown in summer, deep blue in winter.
Let's talk about the unique visual adaptations of Rudolph and company.
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Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.
September 1, 2024 at 12:14 PM
Those new to Bsky need to be made aware of one of the greatest skeets ever, deleted long before its time.
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The Trump DOJ deleted a literal drawer full of Trump photos from the Epstein files.
The Trump loyal DOJ have removed at least 16 files, including images of Donald Trump, from the Epstein Files web page after initially releasing them.
There has been no explanation from the government and no notice to the public in regards to why the files were removed. #OpDeathEaters
There has been no explanation from the government and no notice to the public in regards to why the files were removed. #OpDeathEaters
December 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The Trump DOJ deleted a literal drawer full of Trump photos from the Epstein files.
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This image (File 468 in the Epstein records), showing Donald Trump, was part of the DOJ’s Friday release and has since vanished from the agency’s website. Funny how that works. Someone must have missed that redaction, oops.
December 20, 2025 at 10:27 PM
This image (File 468 in the Epstein records), showing Donald Trump, was part of the DOJ’s Friday release and has since vanished from the agency’s website. Funny how that works. Someone must have missed that redaction, oops.
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Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
December 20, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Oh my god oh my god oh my goddddd the local aquarium has three new born otters and they CHIRP
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Superb video included in today's JPL update for #PerseveranceRover (www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p...). With synthetic frames and obviously, the rover doesn't move that fast, but the final result is impressive.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
December 18, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Superb video included in today's JPL update for #PerseveranceRover (www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p...). With synthetic frames and obviously, the rover doesn't move that fast, but the final result is impressive.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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When racists build the algo, the algo will be racist.
December 20, 2025 at 3:30 PM
When racists build the algo, the algo will be racist.
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"young boys are lonely and it's causing them to become influenced by misogynists on the internet" has anyone considered maybe it's the other way around? maybe the boys are lonely because they act like andrew tate
December 20, 2025 at 7:36 AM
"young boys are lonely and it's causing them to become influenced by misogynists on the internet" has anyone considered maybe it's the other way around? maybe the boys are lonely because they act like andrew tate
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Jake Paul should fight a Battlebot next, like one of them roomba looking ones
December 20, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Jake Paul should fight a Battlebot next, like one of them roomba looking ones
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Nerd alert!!!
"While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist"
discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...
"While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist"
discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...
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While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/...
discuss.systems
December 19, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nerd alert!!!
"While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist"
discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...
"While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist"
discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...
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This thread on insults from around the world 🧵
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 9:52 PM
This thread on insults from around the world 🧵
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There’s an old Kenyan proverb, often used when someone is being loudly ignorant, that goes something like this… “Unlike the stomach, the brain does not alert you when empty.”
December 19, 2025 at 12:33 PM
There’s an old Kenyan proverb, often used when someone is being loudly ignorant, that goes something like this… “Unlike the stomach, the brain does not alert you when empty.”
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Incidentally, I am by no means a doomer, but it does feel a little doomy to me that Mitt Romney and Bill Kristol are taking political positions well to the left of the highest-ranking congressional Democrats.
Going back in time to 2009 and telling myself Bill Kristol is the Republican president’s harshest critic and Mitt Romney is begging the government to raise his taxes and watching as 2009 me goes into a coma.
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Incidentally, I am by no means a doomer, but it does feel a little doomy to me that Mitt Romney and Bill Kristol are taking political positions well to the left of the highest-ranking congressional Democrats.