Thanks! I must have been using an outdated link. Now, time to catch up on the last few episodes. :-)
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Thanks! I must have been using an outdated link. Now, time to catch up on the last few episodes. :-)
Hi, @jbf1755.bsky.social. Thanks for doing the History Matters podcast! The YouTube playlist has not been updates in a couple of months. Do you know if there are plans to update the playlist? That's a convenient way to find the talks if I miss them live. (My apologies if this is old news.)
Wilbur Wood in a red-pinstriped White Sox jersey in the 1970s, showing off his left-handed knuckleball grip
What a fucking legend. I used to stare at the back of Wilbur Wood's baseball cards with my mouth agape. Wilbur Wood was like something out of the 19th century. Or Mars.
May he rest in peace. Assuming he even needs the rest. Which, really, he probably doesn't. He'll give you nine tomorrow.
Loved The Hunting Wives!
They've just collapsed. Up to today, at least, the offense and played reasonably well. I feel bad for their hardcore fans.
Public universities FTW!
(Side note: The OU paper's tagline is "Know Sooner," which is great.)
I feel like @simon@simonwillison.net understands me:
"This is a /terrible/ way to assemble HTML, but I've stuck with it because it amuses me."
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/19/...
+1
Candide, Voltaire. When we face reality clearly and without the narcotic of false optimism, there is nothing left but the work in front of us. We must all tend to the garden.
Game 7 of the 1972 World Series.
Here is the students' @idsnews.bsky.social report out of Indiana University, where the student media director was fired today. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...
"You're all under the illusion that code can change the world on its own."
azhdarchid.com/jay-graber-c...
My state of residence continues to embarrass.
Go, Cincinnat!
Edward Ongweso Jr @bigblackjacobin .. Almost certainly the greatest misallocation of capital you or I will ever see. There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born. Random Walk @MosesSternstein • 11h Al-Capex is the everything cycle, now Just under 50% of GDP growth is attributable to Al Capex US real GDP growth contribution from tech capex Percent 3.5% Contribution from tech capex 3.0% 2.5% 2.0% - 1.5% - Contribution from rest of economy 1.0% 0.5% - 0.0% 023 2023 3023 4023 1024 2024 3024 4024 1025
Nominating "There's no justification for this however you cut it but the beatings will continue until a stillborn god is born." for perfect sentences, @lifewinning.com
Preach. To be honest, though, I love having a prep day with very little interruption from the campus community.
Excellent shot.
Wow, nice win for the Rainbow Warriors. Condolences to Stanford fans.
This week, I learned about Tyler Childers and his new album, Snipe Hunter, from a couple of posts by @stevenhyden.bsky.social. I listened to the album and liked it.
What I want to know is, why hadn't anyone already told me about the song "Bitin' List"? It's my new favorite.
The Replacements
The Big Chill
What About Bob?
Thumbs up. It felt like a strange mix of fever dream, over-the-top social advocacy, and sincere reflection on what it feels like to be a woman -- and a man -- in our culture.
I've seen enough Greta Gerwig films to know that I'll probably want to see whatever she does next. 2/2
I didn't know that 'Barbie' was available on Netflix until I learned that it was leaving Netflix this month. Fortunately we had one week's notice. Last night, we finally watched it. 1/2
"Taking this to its logical extent, we might reach a peculiar endpoint where the price of highly skilled labor tends to be set not by who will put it to its highest productive use, but who can best afford to destroy it."
matthewbutterick.com/chron/the-br...
And here I sit, a fan of the only team with fewer wins than the Pirates.
Finally read @sockpuppet.org 's article. It is the latest of several blog posts that are persuading me I need to dig into agentic coding. (*)
My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts
fly.io/blog/youre-a...
(*) Is it at least okay that I really dislike the new word "agentic"?
TIL about Paul Otlet, who spent years creating a Yahoo-like directory of all published knowledge at the beginning of the 1900s.
"The real benefit that reluctant young lawyers like Otlet get from their career is boredom. Their minds wander."
www.commonreader.co.uk/p/let-there-...
We made a tasty pot just tonight.
... in which I name-check @orzelc.bsky.social's book "Eureka".