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And was that not the point of a marriage? To love a person more than they can love themselves?

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🥰

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hardcover.app/books/the…

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@manton Friend of mine argues for official institutions (like governments) to remove X from their websites: they are just advertising. However, he recognizes that they must go where the people are and so thinks it is okay to cross-post to X. I am calling this “Presence not Promotion”

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Using a small locally-hosted quantized chinese language model to brainstorm research into my ancestors' mennonite roots with great success… what a world

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@ngerakines.me お疲れ様でした

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@tomflood.bsky.social 🙋‍♂️ Dad here. Collecting glasses and mugs as I turn off all the lights in empty rooms.

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Related: one of my fav Tom Cardy songs!

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BXg…

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After a long time reading I finally finished the first Great Khandhaka. Shifting gears a bit and re-reading The Dhammapada by Gil Fronsdal 📚 for the first time in 10 years! Looking forward to seeing what I get out of it this time round after having started my training in earnest.

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@bnewbold.net Wow! Congratulations to the both of you!

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@j4ck.xyz There are some great jazz and classical bars in Kyoto with super good sound where you can go and get a coffee or a drink and nobody is allowed to talk. Just listen.

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@schlage.town Congratulations!🎉 🥳

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@me.justwisdomthings.com That’s a follow! 😉

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@cozylittle.house Oh man you need to print a TON of these and bring them to ATmosphereConf! Great sticker!

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If I were in Taiwan on this warm evening I would be at the pool (photo from Apr 27 2024) #memories

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\"Find the others\": micro.chadkohalyk.com

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@burrito.space Amazing view. Jealous for Ladakh!

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Back home in Surrey after a few days in the Okanagan. Sad to say bye to friends and family, but glad to be breathing clean air again. Here was driving by Merritt. You couldn’t even see the town at all. 😵‍💫 AQI there is currently 366. Kelowna is about 200-250 😷

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@tobiasharris.bsky.social Wow he did pretty good!

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Pretty smoky in Kelowna today for Day 1 of our summer holiday. Here is a comparison of the view with a shot from the past

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@jmcelroy.bsky.social I am currently in Kelowna. Can’t see across the lake

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Made it to the Smokanagan. Here is crossing over the bridge with downtown on the left. Happy summer holidays! ⛱️👙😎🔥

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@ruperts.world Right. Modals cover everything and might want to refer to another item in the list for naming.

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@chadkoh.com “Quirky distributed group” covers a LOT of my history 😅

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@thisismissem.social Oh that’s excellent! 🌬️

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@aka.dad and the ONLY social share is X💩?!

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About to be Spider-Man: Brand New Day 3D’d with Daughter 2 🕷️

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@dame.is I only know it because I have teens in the house.

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Powell Street Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary. We spent the afternoon there, saw some friends, ate some food, listened to some drumming, and painted some fish (https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/gyotaku-japanese-fish-printing)

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Yeah it’s 3am but I been going down a Northeast India rap hole. Kim bring the pen game and Reble is a revelation! 💎

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youtu.be/u6KDqfCco…

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@brookie.blog Just in time! My newsletter goes out tomorrow! Thanks @buttondown.com

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This looks cool → digshibuya.com Shibuya opens its streets as an urban laboratory… issues a global open call to artists and innovators. Applications in En open to 31 Aug. Last years' fest had 470,000 people! #Japan #art #tech (h/t @z-space.ca)

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Mother and daughter worked together this morning 👩🏻👧🏻 to make snacks for daughter’s school potluck today. Looking forward to pics of all the other food! 🥘 🍱🍲

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Is there no good biography of Sundar Pichai out there? 🧐

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@ngerakines.me Nous, the design, cron jobs.

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But it is Baby’s First Harness. If you have reccos I will take them, as long as I can use it with local models (which I serve using LM Studio)

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@ngerakines.me Agree with Kye. I watched the openclaw bus go by, but jumped on Hermes when it came round

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@nevint.bsky.social Can they do it over Zoom though? My connect can. 😏

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Today on my walk under the wild green trees and amber setting sun I started listening to The Bright Sword by Lev Grossman 📚

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@julietshen.bsky.social I think this post should be framed and put on the Atmosphere Clubhouse Wall. There is so much going on! 🤣

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“effective extractivism” 🔥🔥🔥

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Why this philosopher turned down Anthropic: The AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questions

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Woke up to the earthquake news in Kumamoto. I remember the last big one that hit the mainland in Kumamoto. 😬

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@alex.bsky.team Just want to go on the record that I am a father with 2 children and bought my first car in 2024 at the ripe old age of 46 and… it is a Prius. Hashtag validation

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@chadkoh.com I just want to format blog posts or draft emails… hence the emphasis on minimal and light. Nimbalyst is wayyy too hardcore for that.

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@chadkoh.com vmark is almost it! Very compact, minimal UI, has multi-cursor support, and I like the potential for local llm integration (if I can get it working). Still some UI and other jankiness but so close! Keeping my eye on this one 👀 Thanks for sharing!

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@chadkoh.com Nice! Will check those options out

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Started CIRCE by Madeline Miller 📚

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#AmReading

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Anglo-Saxon maxxing: micro.chadkohalyk.com

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Been consuming The Odyssey meta all day: podcasts, interviews, behind the scenes, Emily Wilson’s reaction to the film. It is a very impressive feature, and totally worth watching on a big screen if you can. I have decided to move Circe by Madeline Miller up to my next book read!

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I’ve been IMAX 70mm’d!

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Wow… gonna have to sit with this achievement for a bit. It was a real… journey… or as one might say, an Odyssey

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About to be Odysseyed! 🐴

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There is a LOT of great material in here (read the extensive refs in the shownotes!) but I want to highlight an important piece of WISDOM from Erin:

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“refusing contempt in favour of inquiry”

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That’s a bar 🔥

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Listen to the ep: atproto.com/off-proto…

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For the latest Off Protocol conversation, @jimray.bsky.team had a delightfully wide-ranging talk with @kissane.myatproto.social about so many things and ultimately a desire to make better mistakes

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After the Goodbot.ca summer BBQ took a selfie with the big World Cup Ball before they take it down. Lovely hot evening in Vancouver tonight.

\n\"Chad\n

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On the weekend I drove to my hometown deep in the Rockies for a 30 years grad reunion. It has been 10 years since I have been back. Realized how I took these stupendous mountains for granted.

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