Ted Dunning
@bsky.tdunning.com
That spoon is bigger than it looks. And it isn't a fork (in the road)
Member of Apache Software Foundation, committer on many Apache projects, Fellow at HPE.
Member of Apache Software Foundation, committer on many Apache projects, Fellow at HPE.
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In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
January 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!
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Another post from a Venezuelan friend:
January 4, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Another post from a Venezuelan friend:
Here's some good news.
The courts slapped the NIH up alongside the head and they are beginning to fund research again. This is not new, it happened for many years until the Musk and similar idiots got involved.
NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications share.google/dUFMHmuMwFgH...
The courts slapped the NIH up alongside the head and they are beginning to fund research again. This is not new, it happened for many years until the Musk and similar idiots got involved.
NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications share.google/dUFMHmuMwFgH...
NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications It Shelved or Denied
Last year, the Trump administration widely rejected funding research it disfavors. But, just before 2026 began, one of its agencies agreed in court filings to take another look at proposals it sat on ...
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January 4, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Here's some good news.
The courts slapped the NIH up alongside the head and they are beginning to fund research again. This is not new, it happened for many years until the Musk and similar idiots got involved.
NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications share.google/dUFMHmuMwFgH...
The courts slapped the NIH up alongside the head and they are beginning to fund research again. This is not new, it happened for many years until the Musk and similar idiots got involved.
NIH Approves 100s of Grant Applications share.google/dUFMHmuMwFgH...
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The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
The FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something
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Just canceled my Trump Kennedy Center appearance.
January 3, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Just canceled my Trump Kennedy Center appearance.
Did Grok generate this anecdote?
In a statement, an emotional Grok told me it was "shaken" by the revenge porn it had generated. "It's not epic, and not based," Grok said. "It's neither. Frankly, it's cringe. And gay." An emailed request for comment to X received an auto-reply of a rofl emoji and a custom swastika emoji.
January 3, 2026 at 7:46 AM
Did Grok generate this anecdote?
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The gap in support available to women in Canada compared to the United States is significant.
For Canadian women, "freedom" seems to be more about financial security and physical safety than about owning a gun or freedom of expression.
Universal HealthcareNow
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Child careForAll
For Canadian women, "freedom" seems to be more about financial security and physical safety than about owning a gun or freedom of expression.
Universal HealthcareNow
PaidPay Office
Child careForAll
January 2, 2026 at 2:09 PM
The gap in support available to women in Canada compared to the United States is significant.
For Canadian women, "freedom" seems to be more about financial security and physical safety than about owning a gun or freedom of expression.
Universal HealthcareNow
PaidPay Office
Child careForAll
For Canadian women, "freedom" seems to be more about financial security and physical safety than about owning a gun or freedom of expression.
Universal HealthcareNow
PaidPay Office
Child careForAll
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Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around.
America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.
America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.
January 2, 2026 at 1:53 PM
Canada: Our Prime Minster studied at Oxford and Harvard, was the Governor of both the Banks of England and Canada, and is recognized as one of the sharpest financial minds around.
America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.
America: oh yeah? Our guy has to take dementia tests every week.
These guys speaking at last month's Chaos Computing Conference had some really good stuff they are working on.
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-ho...
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-ho...
In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be?
Why is electronics manufacturing hard? Can it ever be made easy and more accessible? What will it take to relocate industrial production ...
media.ccc.de
January 3, 2026 at 4:24 AM
These guys speaking at last month's Chaos Computing Conference had some really good stuff they are working on.
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-ho...
media.ccc.de/v/39c3-in-ho...
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UK ministers accused of ‘embarrassing failures’ in Abd el-Fattah case
UK ministers accused of ‘embarrassing failures’ in Abd el-Fattah case
Government should have appointed an envoy to carry out checks on activist in citizenship row, says Emily Thornberry
The government could have avoided “embarrassing failures” in the case of Alaa Abd el-Fattah by having a special envoy deal with complex cases involving Britons detained abroad, Emily Thornberry has said.
The chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee criticised “serious shortcomings” in information sharing, which she said could have been resolved by having a dedicated official carry out background checks. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
UK ministers accused of ‘embarrassing failures’ in Abd el-Fattah case
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Pulling climate data offline, canceling research grants, and de-funding scientific institutions doesn't just suppress climate information. It weakens the foundation we rely on to make good decisions of any kind.
In my latest "Tea with Katharine" I share why investment in science is so important!
In my latest "Tea with Katharine" I share why investment in science is so important!
December 31, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Pulling climate data offline, canceling research grants, and de-funding scientific institutions doesn't just suppress climate information. It weakens the foundation we rely on to make good decisions of any kind.
In my latest "Tea with Katharine" I share why investment in science is so important!
In my latest "Tea with Katharine" I share why investment in science is so important!
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This is a very cool question that requires careful listening to get right.
The knee-jerk answer is to stop when you notice the mean scores are identical. That's not the end of the story, however!
The knee-jerk answer is to stop when you notice the mean scores are identical. That's not the end of the story, however!
@littmath.bsky.social and his fantastic question strikes again!
Alice and Bob on 𝕏: Reversal, Coupling, Renewal
@joinmaa.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@joinmaa.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
December 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is a very cool question that requires careful listening to get right.
The knee-jerk answer is to stop when you notice the mean scores are identical. That's not the end of the story, however!
The knee-jerk answer is to stop when you notice the mean scores are identical. That's not the end of the story, however!
At some point it becomes difficult to distinguish ridiculous lies from verbal diarrhea from hallucinatory delusion.
But it does become easier to tell that this has no significant degree of reality. The clinical diagnosis of what is wrong with RFK really doesn't matter.
But it does become easier to tell that this has no significant degree of reality. The clinical diagnosis of what is wrong with RFK really doesn't matter.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
At some point it becomes difficult to distinguish ridiculous lies from verbal diarrhea from hallucinatory delusion.
But it does become easier to tell that this has no significant degree of reality. The clinical diagnosis of what is wrong with RFK really doesn't matter.
But it does become easier to tell that this has no significant degree of reality. The clinical diagnosis of what is wrong with RFK really doesn't matter.
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Huge leap to realize you could use fire.
And another huge leap to realize you could *make it* yourself.
Fascinating to read what evidence supports this finding
And another huge leap to realize you could *make it* yourself.
Fascinating to read what evidence supports this finding
Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is now eastern England around 400,000 years ago. https://to.pbs.org/3KUcGsH
Humans were making fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, study finds
LONDON (AP) — Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering evidence that deliberate fire-setting took place in what is ...
to.pbs.org
December 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Huge leap to realize you could use fire.
And another huge leap to realize you could *make it* yourself.
Fascinating to read what evidence supports this finding
And another huge leap to realize you could *make it* yourself.
Fascinating to read what evidence supports this finding
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In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. www.wired.com/story/behold...
Behold the Manifold, the Concept that Changed How Mathematicians View Space
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
www.wired.com
December 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics. www.wired.com/story/behold...
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the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?
December 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
the problem with dedicating campaign funds toward charitable endeavors is what if you lose and then all you’ve done is helped people in need in your community?
This seems pretty tame compared to AV's advocacy of a Catholic government.
more confirmation that lurking clearly behind this idea of the “heritage american” is a straightforward contempt for the actual history and tradition of this country, such that vermeule has to hallucinate a framework to justify his desire to jettison the clear meaning of the 14th amendment
I had missed this latest delirium by Adrian Vermeule on birthright citizenship
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
'Common law?! NAH, it's the Roman law of adoption that should govern the interpretation of the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution!'
thenewdigest.substack.com/p/immigratio...
December 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
This seems pretty tame compared to AV's advocacy of a Catholic government.
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December 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
What is the word that describes what comes after "surreal"?
This could only have been made in Japan. Amazing stuff.
This could only have been made in Japan. Amazing stuff.
Merry Christmas! Please enjoy the opening to this Japanese Christmas concert special that I watch every year.
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
As far as I can tell, this has otherwise been scrubbed from the internet
December 25, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What is the word that describes what comes after "surreal"?
This could only have been made in Japan. Amazing stuff.
This could only have been made in Japan. Amazing stuff.
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You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.
It's funny how us parochial Americans generally seem to perceive that the EV revolution is stalling or reversing when in fact it's accelerating rapidly worldwide. 25% of cars sold globally in 2025 were EVs!
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
It's mostly just the US that's being left behind
December 24, 2025 at 6:07 PM
You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.
I was putting on an ancient Tish hinojosa t-shirt this morning and got a good reminder.
Yes, we can. We can cultivate awareness.
Yes, we can. We can cultivate awareness.
December 24, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I was putting on an ancient Tish hinojosa t-shirt this morning and got a good reminder.
Yes, we can. We can cultivate awareness.
Yes, we can. We can cultivate awareness.
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I’m a new fan…
One of the most improbable stories in classical music history: not because they are Black, but because they are seven siblings in one family of virtuosos.
The parents of the award winning Kanneh-Masons deserve an award too.
One of the most improbable stories in classical music history: not because they are Black, but because they are seven siblings in one family of virtuosos.
The parents of the award winning Kanneh-Masons deserve an award too.
December 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
I’m a new fan…
One of the most improbable stories in classical music history: not because they are Black, but because they are seven siblings in one family of virtuosos.
The parents of the award winning Kanneh-Masons deserve an award too.
One of the most improbable stories in classical music history: not because they are Black, but because they are seven siblings in one family of virtuosos.
The parents of the award winning Kanneh-Masons deserve an award too.
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Wishing you and Ted a wonderful Christmas time 🎅🌲
Yes it's a great project! Bach is the summum of composers. While studying or philosophizing I'm always listening Bach. His music stimulates your brains.
Yes it's a great project! Bach is the summum of composers. While studying or philosophizing I'm always listening Bach. His music stimulates your brains.
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Wishing you and Ted a wonderful Christmas time 🎅🌲
Yes it's a great project! Bach is the summum of composers. While studying or philosophizing I'm always listening Bach. His music stimulates your brains.
Yes it's a great project! Bach is the summum of composers. While studying or philosophizing I'm always listening Bach. His music stimulates your brains.
Here's a cool way to visualize how progressive lenses work.
I printed a 2mm grid and taped it to the wall. Then I used an old fashioned clothes pin and cable ties to mount the glasses in front of the grid about 30-40cm away. Taking a picture focussed on the magnified part of the grid gives this.
I printed a 2mm grid and taped it to the wall. Then I used an old fashioned clothes pin and cable ties to mount the glasses in front of the grid about 30-40cm away. Taking a picture focussed on the magnified part of the grid gives this.
December 24, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Here's a cool way to visualize how progressive lenses work.
I printed a 2mm grid and taped it to the wall. Then I used an old fashioned clothes pin and cable ties to mount the glasses in front of the grid about 30-40cm away. Taking a picture focussed on the magnified part of the grid gives this.
I printed a 2mm grid and taped it to the wall. Then I used an old fashioned clothes pin and cable ties to mount the glasses in front of the grid about 30-40cm away. Taking a picture focussed on the magnified part of the grid gives this.