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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 3h

I was workshopping "Choking the Basilisk" but it didn't really work

Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 5h

"...but you see, after the computer gains sentience it'll punish anyone who wasn't gooning towards it"

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Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · 9h

"Dunbar's Number" is a zombie that lives forever in the science press it seems. Estimates of Dunbar's Number with 95% intervals, for a range of model specifications (from doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... ):

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 16h

i call that my menchies

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 16h

Boasting they can keep a trophy without it being stolen

Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 17h

I presume the fraud charge was dropped when they realised that setting fire to one's own belongings was just part of the Eels culture in that era

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 18h

Tinder profile I believe

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 18h

@nickmgreen.bsky.social used to tell people that was him

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 20h

You can't make a huge amount of money off your overinsured and strangely flammable printing plant any more, on account of woke

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 21h

Is this a show about Hanson or the Beegees?

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 1d

Heh, banger pasta

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 1d

I think the problem is a sufficient skeptical case is "this clearly doesn't work well outside niche purposes when I try it" but you're never going to fill a newsletter with that

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 1d

*Reading this as a dispassionate thinker* it seems cryptocurrency does not actually solve contract problems www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Man allegedly kidnapped, thrown in car and forced to drive across Australia

The man was allegedly grabbed outside his Adelaide home and told he was being taken to Sydney. A mistake by his abductors let him escape 1000 kilometres later, police allege.

www.smh.com.au

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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna start a thread of articles I re-read every time I have an excuse, because after this thread I am thinking a lot about @cormacmccafe.bsky.social‬'s "No Yanks on the Thread" piece.

Feel free to add your own.

I Should Be Able to Mute America

The rest of the world should not have to know the name Bari Weiss

www.gawkerarchives.com

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 1d

He discovered England and in Hyde Park disproved the hitherto unassailable Eora truism "All swans are black"

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brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 2d

Gently poking my keys in with a frown

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

Groundsman inspects a crater in the middle of the pitch at Old Trafford cricket ground after a German bombing raid on December 22nd 1940.

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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 2d

On this day 1971, boxer Muhammad Ali visited Tesco at Stretford’s Arndale shopping precinct to promote Ovaltine.

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 2d

SEO brain

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 2d

This car was going exactly 0kph, but I'm not sure where it was

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John Avocado 宇杰 @supercroup.com · 3d

You, an idiot: goon bag.

The Chinese, a nation of intellectuals:

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 3d

I feel sorry for old timey strong men, or guys like just liked having muscles and lifting heavy things, since influencers and tech CEOs have made being built so intensely loser coded

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 3d

Ancient memes get resurrected by gen alpha so Payman might have a shot

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 3d

Gene Ray: that is why no-one will remember your name

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Richard 塚正ー緑 @rhtebooks.bsky.social · 4d

Should really look into princess tomato fandom