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Here’s one for @manton when he’s stuck at home!\nRailpass simulates a train ride in your browser window using…

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@jauzfaktnevim.cz Nestačí Google Earth?

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@snazzyo.bsky.social That’s ok, us old farts will die off soon enough.

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@jysexton.bsky.social Of course they weren’t presenting themselves as the most magnificent specimen of physical fitness ever to hold office.

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@c0nc0rdance.bsky.social If you’re into eating literal bottom-feeders.

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@mary1kathy.bsky.social For that matter, what were his ancestors doing in South Africa?

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@beyerstein.bsky.social “Sand trap” sounds very unsafe to me.

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@stephenwest.bsky.social Well I haven’t heard you disavow the Neo-Assyrian Empire!

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@beyerstein.bsky.social It’s a Christmas movie.

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@melissjpeltier.bsky.social It’s mutual.

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@sethcotlar.bsky.social It’s not even biology, really, unless maybe it’s that famous 3% Neanderthal DNA.

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Canadian exporters looking beyond the US market: swift-passage.com

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@sharonk.bsky.social What else has national identity ever been?

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@carlquintanilla.bsky.social Yes, that’s how money works.

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What is it people love so much about Widow’s Bay? I don’t get it.

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@chkopp.bsky.social Be a shame if something were to happen to it.

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De minimis entry: the door is closing: swift-passage.com

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@kirbyconrod.bsky.social Now I want to know what the words are.

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@linguisticdiscovery.com Curious about the ‘d’ that appears before the proper nouns in the transcription.

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@chriso-wiki.bsky.social There’s a reason it’s rare.

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@chriso-wiki.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣

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@joelhs.bsky.social Unpopular opinion: being a rootless cosmopolitan urbanite is good, actually.

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@emperorblargus.bsky.social Reinheitsgebot. Nothing to do with the river.

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@robertscotthorton.bsky.social This is my surprised face.

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@coranch.bsky.social One of Obama’s biggest mistakes was not staking out a much more robust opening position at the beginning of negotiations for what became the Affordable Care Act.

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@philipboothmedia.bsky.social Glad someone still remembers Walker Percy!

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@ladyhistorian.bsky.social Hear me out, what if we stressed the first syllable?

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@whstancil.bsky.social For certain values of “we”.

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@gothamgirlblue.com Babylon Berlin

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PSA: An introduction to a book is a FOREWORD, not a FORWARD!\nNow back to our regularly scheduled programming.

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I just had Claude Code build me a Mac app to open individual markdown files in Obsidian by registering their enclosing folder as a vault (if it wasn’t already one). Took about 20 minutes including a couple of changes and testing.

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This makes me sad.\nxkcd: Aerospace Flowchart

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Photogs: check your horizon and keep it straight (unless you consciously don’t want it to be straight).

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Guess I’ll give Widow’s Bay another shot. Couldn’t get into it after the first 2-3 episodes.

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So, any tech support chatbot programmers on here? Make a note: the bot telling me it “understands my frustration” doesn’t help. On the contrary.

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I don’t mean to startle anyone, but in barely over a month it will be October.

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None of the lifelong experts in the field are doing this simple thing I just thought of. It must be because I am brilliant and they are stupid.

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The Texas STEP Deadline That Actually Matters Isn’t September 10: swift-passage.com

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The English-speaking world is sometimes called the anglosphere. For French it’s la francophonie. Is there an analogous expression for Spanish?

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In the rush to block / mute / filter out slop, let’s not inadvertently cancel people who aren’t native English speakers and are using AI translation to help communicate with you or the world at large.

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daringfireball.net/linked/20…

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Apple should merge the new improved Golden Gate Siri with Terminal. Siri should be smart enough to distinguish among chat prompts, searches, and CLI commands, or ask the user if there’s an ambiguity.

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Vive la France!

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www.lemonde.fr/en/france…

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Accidentally discovered a pretty great local singer this evening at a place I wasn’t even expecting to be a music venue.

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music.apple.com/us/album/…

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Inchoate thought: the way I’ve been using Claude Cowork with various MCPs makes me wonder how much longer “applications” as we know them will remain a useful concept. We still need visual representations of our data, but LLM harnesses will keep getting better at generating those on the fly.

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We don’t have a social media age verification requirement in Texas, do we? Bluesky being weird.

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Mary Heimann’s Czechoslovakia: The State That Failed is like the Fox News version of history and the Czechs are the Democrats.

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Inside the Gulliver

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Rawr!

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Steve Jobs might have been the boss from hell, but “If you can’t get this together, you will not have descendants” is a great line.

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geoffreycain.net/steve-job…

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