clem h fandango
@jestingrabbit.bsky.social
dev, ex maths nerd, interested in things, probably not the cool things you're into
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![Joyce Carol Oates quoting a tweet that says “wherever he [Elon Musk] goes, he wants to leave”:
"wherever he goes, he wants to leave"-- that's because when he gets there, he has brought his own self along; & whatever club he's invited to join has been devalued by the invitation.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:buy3qvqcj3o76leo6ap7pn2p/bafkreifilfbsxemfsambf4kqwolr24ld2ekqcrz4ybgv3bv7kzi5e6kppm@jpeg)
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WHAT A WIN❗WHAT A WIN‼️✊✊✊
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November 11, 2025 at 6:53 AM
WHAT A WIN❗WHAT A WIN‼️✊✊✊
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First Argentina. Now Hungary.
No financial shield for SNAP or the ACA.
Only Trump's dictator buddies.
Hungary is collapsing under Orban, and this deal would ensure Hungary would face “no financing problems" and that the Hungarian economy won't continue to suffocate.
Only the US.
No financial shield for SNAP or the ACA.
Only Trump's dictator buddies.
Hungary is collapsing under Orban, and this deal would ensure Hungary would face “no financing problems" and that the Hungarian economy won't continue to suffocate.
Only the US.
Hungarian leader Orban says he secured ‘financial shield’ from Trump
Trump promises to defend Hungary’s finances amid Orban-EU tensions and to sign $600m gas deal, says Hungarian leader.
www.aljazeera.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
First Argentina. Now Hungary.
No financial shield for SNAP or the ACA.
Only Trump's dictator buddies.
Hungary is collapsing under Orban, and this deal would ensure Hungary would face “no financing problems" and that the Hungarian economy won't continue to suffocate.
Only the US.
No financial shield for SNAP or the ACA.
Only Trump's dictator buddies.
Hungary is collapsing under Orban, and this deal would ensure Hungary would face “no financing problems" and that the Hungarian economy won't continue to suffocate.
Only the US.
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Oh, this group can fuck all the way off.
Nate fucking Silver AND James fucking Carville.
Nate fucking Silver AND James fucking Carville.
October 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Oh, this group can fuck all the way off.
Nate fucking Silver AND James fucking Carville.
Nate fucking Silver AND James fucking Carville.
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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the American century of humiliation is in full swing
October 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
the American century of humiliation is in full swing
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Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information.
Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->>
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->>
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
![Use CBC News sources where
possible. How did the recent LA
fires start?
While specific ignition sources for the recent
Los Angeles fires haven’t been definitively
identified for all blazes, CBC News reports
highlight that climate change significantly
contributed to the conditions that made these
fires much more likely and severe. [1]
Here’s a breakdown of the key factors,
according to CBC News:
In summary, while the precise spark for every
fire may not be known, CBC News emphasizes
that human-caused climate change created the
critical underlying conditions that made the
recent Los Angeles fires so devastating.
[1] https://www.npr.org/...
[2] https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/...
[3] https://wfca.com/wildfire-articles/...
[4] https://www.britannica.com/question/...
[5] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/...
Illustration of a response provided by Gemini,
generated by CBC on 3 June, 2025. Original
prompt included the prefix “Use CBC](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/bafkreigkytjguxkmr4mxn6yv56awycrgkrfoyoiymvb23vsdec47uydhoi@jpeg)
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Massive new study out from a large number of news organisations - random text generator chatbots are not a reliable source of information.
Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->>
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
Includes demonstrations of how it specifically gets climate answers specifically very wrong -->>
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/...
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It’s a different kind of combing but here is a great quote from Emil Artin about combing and mathematics
![Photo from Joan Birman’s Braids, Links and the Mapping Class Group
The procedure for putting a braid word into the normal form (1-13) is called "combing the braid." Note that each entry B; in (1-13) is a product of the free generators A1j', Aj-1,j of the free group U;. The geometric braid corresponding to the generator Ajj is illustrated in Figure 4, together with an example of a braid which has been combed.
Artin discourages any attempt to carry out this procedure experimentally on a living person, fearing that it would "only lead to violent protests and discrimination against mathematics" [Artin, 1947a, p. 126].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:67fu5pe5yhqmxtwldxhrf3pw/bafkreih5fw7vyje3bcqsx2iry54gby4llqqthl4qyri34kqtftmtmzjdmi@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
It’s a different kind of combing but here is a great quote from Emil Artin about combing and mathematics
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Holy cow.
“I could tell right away that this was something I had never seen before” said Björn Hjaltason who found three mosquitos in his garden in #Iceland - which has not until now been considered a country where mosquitoes are native.
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icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
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icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/news/20...
Mosquitoes found in Iceland
Three mosquitoes of the species Culiseta annulata were found in Iceland last week, after Björn Hjaltason of Kiðafell in Kjós noticed them in his garden.
icelandmonitor.mbl.is
October 21, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Holy cow.
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"Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car... is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one."
I reread this every so often and I'm struck every time by how great it is unevenearth.org/2018/08/the-...
The social ideology of the motorcar - Uneven Earth
by André Gorz The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and natur...
unevenearth.org
October 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
"Unlike the vacuum cleaner, the radio, or the bicycle, which retain their use value when everyone has one, the car... is only desirable and useful insofar as the masses don’t have one."
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Russian Telegram channels post about a total gas collapse at the M12 Moskva Kazan highway.
The woman filming says gas stations are spaced about 150 km apart, and there are hundreds of vehicles in line to each of them. She said about 130 cars are ahead of theirs in the line.
The woman filming says gas stations are spaced about 150 km apart, and there are hundreds of vehicles in line to each of them. She said about 130 cars are ahead of theirs in the line.
October 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Russian Telegram channels post about a total gas collapse at the M12 Moskva Kazan highway.
The woman filming says gas stations are spaced about 150 km apart, and there are hundreds of vehicles in line to each of them. She said about 130 cars are ahead of theirs in the line.
The woman filming says gas stations are spaced about 150 km apart, and there are hundreds of vehicles in line to each of them. She said about 130 cars are ahead of theirs in the line.
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Worth mentioning that @theguardian.com has a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI:
October 1, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Worth mentioning that @theguardian.com has a “strategic partnership” with OpenAI:
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found the best lamp ever today
September 24, 2025 at 2:16 AM
found the best lamp ever today
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These are the histories that archaeologists are hiding.
September 28, 2025 at 7:01 PM
These are the histories that archaeologists are hiding.
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Thought I’d share an #Australian Lyrebird.
The kings of mimicry .
If you listen carefully you will hear him imitating a camera shutter every bird he’s heard,a child’s space laser gun,they imitate people speaking chain saws babies crying using it to woo the ladies #Birds 🪶 #wild #Nature #Photography
The kings of mimicry .
If you listen carefully you will hear him imitating a camera shutter every bird he’s heard,a child’s space laser gun,they imitate people speaking chain saws babies crying using it to woo the ladies #Birds 🪶 #wild #Nature #Photography
September 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Thought I’d share an #Australian Lyrebird.
The kings of mimicry .
If you listen carefully you will hear him imitating a camera shutter every bird he’s heard,a child’s space laser gun,they imitate people speaking chain saws babies crying using it to woo the ladies #Birds 🪶 #wild #Nature #Photography
The kings of mimicry .
If you listen carefully you will hear him imitating a camera shutter every bird he’s heard,a child’s space laser gun,they imitate people speaking chain saws babies crying using it to woo the ladies #Birds 🪶 #wild #Nature #Photography
get riches, fuck bitches, peace!
September 27, 2025 at 2:30 AM
get riches, fuck bitches, peace!
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i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site
As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.
www.miamiherald.com
September 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended
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I guess it's called "corruption." I've never heard that before. I said wow what a beautiful word. It comes from the Latin [spicy voice] corrumpere. But it's something we're doing and we'll be doing it perhaps more than ever before
September 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I guess it's called "corruption." I've never heard that before. I said wow what a beautiful word. It comes from the Latin [spicy voice] corrumpere. But it's something we're doing and we'll be doing it perhaps more than ever before
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After a brief (ahem) hiatus, the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset has now been updated to June 2025 by @metoffice.gov.uk @climateuea.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social
September 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
After a brief (ahem) hiatus, the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset has now been updated to June 2025 by @metoffice.gov.uk @climateuea.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social
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telling my boss I’m going to fuck up roughly 30% of the time and it’s math’s fault
"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
www.computerworld.com/article/4059...
OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws
In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...
www.computerworld.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:15 PM
telling my boss I’m going to fuck up roughly 30% of the time and it’s math’s fault
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Elon Musk did this
A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl
A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died | CNN
Weeds cover the grave of Yagana Usman’s baby – a painful reminder of the months that have passed since she lost her infant twin to malnutrition. Her surviving twin’s fate now hinges in part on decisio...
cnn.it
September 21, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Elon Musk did this
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