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Up until about 10 years ago, www.unnecessaryquotes.com was a reliable source for this genre.
Ah, yes, the invaluable wisdom of the markets.
Important new literary term just dropped: “semantic ablation”
www.theregister.com/2026/02/16/s...
I wrote a metaphorical thing with silly jokes: blog.podsnap.com/agentic.html
I got Microwave Gourmet in the mid 80s when I was a grad student, and … it’s not that bad. It’s repetitive, like most themed cookbooks, but 40 years ago it was the first to note that μwaves are good for vegetables and risotto. A bit naive about halogenated plastics though.
Today on Volts: I'm joined by the great @michaelhobbes.bsky.social to discuss "reactionary centrism," an intellectual tendency that's come to dominate US public life. You know the type: would never view themselves as conservative, yet finds voluntary pronoun use vastly more aggravating than fascism.
‘Evidence of the old glazzies,’ grinned Billyboy. ‘Nothing up our sleeves. No magic, droog. A Job for two who are now of job-age. The police .’
Ad for a charcuterie board in the shape of a cow.
It’s like ad tech can read my mind.
tfw you are considering using some random java library and its github repo actually contains an hs_err file they accidentally uploaded 10 years ago.
a brown ink drawing of three hares arranged in a triangle, each sharing an ear with both of the other two hares
three hares (holy trinity) germany, 16th century
I think we’ve all noticed aspects of this: spectrum.ieee.org/ai-coding-de...
She mentions him I think on the podcast with @dannybate.bsky.social
This one m.youtube.com/watch?v=i8SD... seems especially up her alley.
Geoff=GeoffreyChaucer, not Lindsey.
And the 1600 jump is definitely the vowel shift.
I can pick up snatches here and there starting ~1000, much of it by the 1300s (thank you Geoff) and it’s crystal clear by 1600. After the first read-through, he did it again with subtitles in modern english and ipa - they start to plausibly match up at maybe 700.
This is cool. He reads a passage, starting in 6th century old English and gradually advancing up through the 20th.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=842O...
Slightly diminish a band:
The beetles
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) is now in the public domain. I guess I'm kind of biased, but I prefer the "international version" of the movie, which is basically a silent film with a recorded soundtrack of music and sound effects
just saw a billionaire pack all his things in a bindle and start leaving new york city on foot. he turned and looked at me with tears in his eyes and said “maybe one day when this city is safe we’ll return” before walking away
Time-lapse of an ultrasonic cheese cutter at Rodolphe Le Meunier fromager.
After forty years insisting that the prime number twins story in Awakenings was made up, sweet vindication!
has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane
This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.
I also declined Diary of a CEO’s invitation to have a “balanced and insightful discussion” about whether feminism “delivered on its promise of liberation for women.”
They ended up titling it, “Has modern feminism betrayed the very women it promised to empower?”
open.substack.com/pub/jessica/...
Much too fancy for cubical ice.
1/100 would mean the line hit 1000, but the y axis only goes to 800.
The Mayor is here at hand.
Tweet from Ella Devi: canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in the east village today and the actor who plays dr. strugis in young sheldon is in my canvassing group!! Photo of Ella with another canvasser and Wallace Shawn
On the other site, an 18-year-old Zohran canvasser described the legendary Wallace Shawn as "the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon" which is honestly adorable
