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All the stories about how horribly we in the US deal with the problems of homelessness are gutwrenching; this one about homelesss folks living in underground tunnels, in Las Vegas and beyond, hit me super hard.
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Datuak torturatzea: IQ testetan emakumeek hobeto ematen dutela? Ezabatu ditzagun galdera horiek galdetegitik...
"There's lies, big lies and statistics". Eta #datuak ez dira biltzen, baizik ekoizten, etab. etab.
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Let me remove your excuses for not using #PerlCritic or #PerlTidy:
1) Use `## no critic` to fence in legacy or experiments in #Perl coding standards from perlcritic https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/view/bin/perlcritic#BENDING-THE-RULES
2) Use `#<<<` and `#>>>` to fence in legacy or experiments in code formatting from perltidy https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy#Skipping-Selected-Sections-of-Code
3) Use Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive to gradually enforce coding standards https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive
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Let me remove your excuses for not using #PerlCritic or #PerlTidy:
1) Use `## no critic` to fence in legacy or experiments in #Perl coding standards from perlcritic https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/view/bin/perlcritic#BENDING-THE-RULES
2) Use `#<<<` and `#>>>` to fence in legacy or experiments in code formatting from perltidy https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy#Skipping-Selected-Sections-of-Code
3) Use Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive to gradually enforce coding standards https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive
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Let me remove your excuses for not using #PerlCritic or #PerlTidy:
1) Use `## no critic` to fence in legacy or experiments in #Perl coding standards from perlcritic https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/view/bin/perlcritic#BENDING-THE-RULES
2) Use `#<<<` and `#>>>` to fence in legacy or experiments in code formatting from perltidy https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy#Skipping-Selected-Sections-of-Code
3) Use Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive to gradually enforce coding standards https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive
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Let me remove your excuses for not using #PerlCritic or #PerlTidy:
1) Use `## no critic` to fence in legacy or experiments in #Perl coding standards from perlcritic https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/view/bin/perlcritic#BENDING-THE-RULES
2) Use `#<<<` and `#>>>` to fence in legacy or experiments in code formatting from perltidy https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy#Skipping-Selected-Sections-of-Code
3) Use Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive to gradually enforce coding standards https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive
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Let me remove your excuses for not using #PerlCritic or #PerlTidy:
1) Use `## no critic` to fence in legacy or experiments in #Perl coding standards from perlcritic https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Critic/view/bin/perlcritic#BENDING-THE-RULES
2) Use `#<<<` and `#>>>` to fence in legacy or experiments in code formatting from perltidy https://metacpan.org/dist/Perl-Tidy/view/bin/perltidy#Skipping-Selected-Sections-of-Code
3) Use Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive to gradually enforce coding standards https://metacpan.org/pod/Test::Perl::Critic::Progressive
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You know that “do one thing and do it well” advice to software designers? Well, your own bodies are laughing at you
> ‘Mind-blowing’: Iron-rich **immune cells** help homing pigeons **navigate**.
Take that software theorists, with your “coupling” and “cohesion” and “On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules”. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/361598.361623
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Note: I take no side in the “I’m a dog person” vs. “I’m a cat person” ideological battle. Our next door neighbors’ cats are self-obsessed, ruthless, stalking psychopaths. But at least they’re *quiet* self-obsessed, ruthless, stalking psychopaths.So yeah, maybe I am a cat person in the sense of preferring prostate cancer to Ebola.
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Was reminded of the 1964 Berkeley “Bodies on the Gears” speech¹:
"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part!”
Their griping seems quaint now. At least they weren’t graduating into an economy that is so much about grift, deception, or giving consumers no other option but to pay economic rents².
¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Savio#%22Bodies_Upon_the_Gears%22_speech
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There’s that thing in biology where some species follow the “spew out a bunch of offspring, expecting enough will survive” and others follow “spew out a few and devote a lot of resources to keeping them alive.”
I swear search terms around “K and r replicators” should find the Wikipedia page for that, but this exceeds my search skills. Help?
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Red letter day: I was passed by a motorcycle that had a muffler and/or was not modified to be artificially loud I mean manly.
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@GeePawHill I’d be interested in your opinion of Tracy Chapman. She seems like she’d be right up your alley, female-vocalist-wise – though you hear things in vocals that I can’t even approach.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYF16U8Gbdk
Chime in, people who follow us both.
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“An infinite, hallucinated encyclopedia. Every link leads to an entry that does not exist yet — until you click it, at which point an LLM pretends it has always existed and writes it for you, in the deadpan register of a 19th-century scholarly press.”
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“The Society for the Prevention of Unnecessary Tuesdays (SPUT) is a clandestine organization founded in 1887 by a group of disgruntled chronologists and calendrical reformers. Its primary, albeit largely theoretical, objective is to eliminate the occurrence of superfluous Tuesdays, a phenomenon believed by its members to cause significant disruption to the global temporal flow and individual productivity.”
https://halupedia.com/the-society-for-the-prevention-of-unnecessary-tuesdays
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An encyclopedia that grows as people suggest topics and an LLM makes up the answers: https://halupedia.com/
> [Charlie] Kirk is perhaps most famously associated with the protracted Whistlewick Dispute, a complex series of legal and public-relations skirmishes that occurred between 1377 and 1382.
> The Great Pigeon Census of 1887 was an ambitious, if ultimately misguided, undertaking by the Royal Society for Avian Enumeration (RSFE) to meticulously count every gold-crested rock dove
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“History is Written by Losers: winners are busy swimming in vaults full of gold, having a nice dinner and drinks, and going to bed with bevies of cute people, losers have time and grudges and writing is cheap. Thucydides, Polybius, Sallust, and Sima Qian were not winners.” – Sean Manning, https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/01/11/knowing-things-is-hard/ (“Knowing things is hard, even about the past. Over the years I have compiled pithy names for some of the reasons why this is.”)
Via Andrew Gelman https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/16/sean-mannings-lexicon/
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Science fiction author Peter Watts developed a whole theory of how vampires are plausible – as a bit of background for his novel /Blindsight/.
He also made a faux-corporate presentation called "Taming Yesterday's Nightmares for a Better Tomorrow" that goes medium-deeply into how “Homo sapiens whedonum” could have existed.
If I were him on his deathbed, I’d look back on that video and think, “I did something excellent.”
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"Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts." — James Nicoll
Dammit, that means I may never read /Starfish/ or /Blindsight/ again.
https://reactormag.com/that-was-awesome-starfish-by-peter-watts/
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I still think it’s awfully risky to take a customer base with enormous brand loyalty and be so unsubtle about fleecing them. I wonder if Eric Trump has a strategy for “cooling the mark out.” https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2002/10/31/cooling-the-mark-out/ His dad needs his base, if only to be able to keep elected Republicans in line with threats of primaries.
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There’s an alternative, though. Dr. Bruce Hull (RIP) taught Dawn the surgeon’s motto: “get in, get done, get out.” That’s a more appropriate model for many businesses – think NFTs. I’d guess that’s the business model behind Trump Mobile, whose T1 phone sells for $499 but is a reskinned cheap Android that sells for 3-4 times less. (I’ve seen both $128 and $169.) https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/trump-mobile-t1-phone-failed-launch-1796039
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Drucker meant “keep” in the sense of “create loyalty by continuing to show you deserve it.” In the modern “sucker economy,” it’s meant in the sense of keeping a zoo animal: provide barriers to exit. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty
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Peter Drucker (1909-2005) famously said that “the purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer.” Here’s a nice little piece comparing Drucker’s attitude with the profit maximization attitude of Enron: https://haas.berkeley.edu/responsible-business/blog/posts/peter-drucker-on-the-purpose-of-business/
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Spiderworts are my spirit plant.
I don’t have a spirit animal.
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CW: uspol, supreme court
RE: https://toad.social/@krystyna/116574594303838247
“We have moved into a situation in which we can have civic democracy in this country, or we can have this Supreme Court. I choose civic democracy.” – Josh Marshall
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/podcasts/the-josh-marshall-podcast/wake-up-and-smell-the-court-reform/
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Although most of my work-time has been spent on #Zettlekasten¹ and related work, I am still doing research on the Republic of Letters with an aim of reimplementing it.²
I discover other people also inspired by the Rep. Letters: "This project […] proposes to reënact this concept for the purposes of exchange of visions of the future of Europe.”³ They're more about broadcast than point-to-point, it seems.
¹ https://blog.oddly-influenced.dev/2025/10/30/hypertext-zettelkasten.html
² https://blog.oddly-influenced.dev/2025/09/06/a-proposal-to-resurrect-the.html
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Dedicated #GeneWolfe rereaders will often skip Dr. Talos's play in /Claw of the Conciliator/. Well, some people actually recorded it as an audio-only play. They did a good job. It's more entertaining than in the book. Feels less confusing.
Direct download: https://rangedtouch.com/2023/08/25/dr-taloss-play-eschatology-and-genesis/
Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-taloss-play-eschatology-and-genesis/id1691199979?i=1000625648337 -
Are there myth/story traditions where there's more than one Trickster character? If so, are there stories of the Tricksters encountering/tricking each other?
All the stories I can think of are a Trickster faced with a mundane.
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Are there myth/story traditions where there's more than one Trickster character? If so, are there stories of the Tricksters encountering/tricking each other?
All the stories I can think of are a Trickster faced with a mundane.