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Content warning: uspol, shitpost, do not read In a procedure performed yesterday at Walter Reed Hospital, a disgustin...
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@ 11011110 Please consider boosting this. I think you would help it reach people who would find it useful.
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▲ 0 · Jul 11
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The full catalog page for # icm2026 is very unhelpful. It lists titles, but to get descriptions you have to click the...
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▲ 0 · Jul 11
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Content warning: uspol Apparently nobody told him. Thanks everyone!
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▲ 0 · Jul 11
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Content warning: uspol, shitpost I don't understand why Trump doesn't just rename the Strait of Hormuz to the...
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▲ 0 · Jul 11
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I had a good Claude success yesterday. I wanted a diagram to demonstrate Euclid's Proposition 36, that if you hav...
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▲ 0 · Jul 10
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I wonder if it really isn't clear why whales should have ear wax. I think the reason why humans have ear wax is: ...
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▲ 0 · Jul 10
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I just flipped open my copy of "The Blue Machine" by Helen Czerski and the first sentence that fell under m...
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▲ 0 · Jul 10
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I think the real reason I could never remember is that I didn't want to. It sucks that I have to write ω² + ω·2 +...
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▲ 0 · Jul 10
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After years of mixing up 2·ω (which is equal to ω, and so uninteresting) and ω·2 (which isn't) I have at last tho...
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▲ 0 · Jul 10
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@ nikitonsky In my mind there's a general principle that forms and such should be defined so that the user can go...
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▲ 0 · Jul 9
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Re previous, just a few callouts: “We’re doing a sequel to the post about how there are too many sequels.” “We would ...
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▲ 0 · Jul 9
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This article by Adam Mastroianni is unusually good, and so uniformly so that I couldn't find anything specific to...
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▲ 0 · Jul 9
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The Ferengi First Law of Acquisition is “once you have their money, you never give it back”. But they don't seem ...
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▲ 0 · Jul 9
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“[Saunders Mac Lane] began inserting a space into his surname because his first wife found it difficult to type the n...
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▲ 0 · Jul 8
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I had a phone meeting today with a woman named Preetha. I asked: “Is that pronounced /ˈpriːθə/ or /ˈpriːtʰə/?” Her: “...
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In my mind, I'm still the guy on the left
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And here we are.
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As a very young man, seeing these two pictures side by side made a deep impression on me. It was the first time I rea...
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Former industrial lot in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood to get Miawaki forest with 1500 trees. https:// w...
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"Even among readers who will happily accept faster-than-light travel and aliens and the collapse of everything w...
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“Prediction markets are ‘truth machines,’ in the sense that they give people incentives to figure out what is true an...
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“You can make money on Kalshi, now, not just by manipulating stock or Bitcoin or whatever markets, but by manipulatin...
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▲ 0 · Jul 7
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RE: https:// mastodon.online/@tomstafford/1 16872628699722973 “Despite the disruption on the strike days, the benefit...
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▲ 0 · Jul 6
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I went to some trouble, and spent two precious characters, to rearrange an expression to include a hidden Fnord.
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▲ 0 · Jul 6
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Ha ha, silly me, I've been reading Isle Royale as “eel royAHL”, but no, it's actually “aisle ROYal” because t...
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I hadn't previously noticed that little island in the northwest corner of Lake Superior. It turns out that it&#39...
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Today I wondered: Why is there a disconnected portion of Michigan? Why isn't that area part of Wisconsin, which i...
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# beethoven on hearing a report that a violinist complained one of his string quartets was too hard to play: "Do...
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I thought this probably wouldn't work with recent Perls, but i tried it with 5.38.2 just now and was delighted to...
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▲ 0 · Jul 5