Curtis Frye
@curtisfrye.com
Online course developer, writer and speaker. My company, Technology and Society, sponsors Atletico London FC (Tier 5, Eastern Region Women's Football League). techsoc.com.
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Curtis Frye
@curtisfrye.com
· Aug 15
I’m proud to announce that, through my company Technology and Society, my wife Ginny and I will sponsor women’s football club Atlético London for the 2025/26 season.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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The witch made him hot chocolate.
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The witch made him hot chocolate.
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
"They say I'm strong," he said. "And I am."
He took a sip.
"They say I can overcome any hardship."
"Mm," said the witch.
"And I can. I do."
The witch said nothing.
"But I shouldn't have to!"
"No."
The witch held the hero as he wept.
"No, you shouldn't."
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Can't wait for the eventual Moronberg Trials.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Can't wait for the eventual Moronberg Trials.
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So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.
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From the 1960s, brass promotional pins for the Swiss pencil company Caran D’Ache . www.presentandcorrect.com/products/cop...
November 26, 2025 at 6:35 PM
From the 1960s, brass promotional pins for the Swiss pencil company Caran D’Ache . www.presentandcorrect.com/products/cop...
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i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years
xkcd.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM
i’m not crying you’re crying
xkcd: Fifteen Years
xkcd: Fifteen Years
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My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
Selling Out Santa
Christmas is not just a day or a frame of mind as Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) imparts in Miracle on 34 th Street (1947); Christmas is also a vehicle for national mythmaking as an idealising mirror for...
www.degruyterbrill.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My new & first book, Selling Out Santa, is Open Access!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
If you like what you read and can, please consider buying a copy for you and maybe one for a history/film lover at Christmas (it's 40% off)!
It'll likely be my only income in over 2 years once royalties pay next July, so please consider it!
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice...
In some celestial voice...
November 24, 2025 at 11:41 PM
You can choose a ready guide
In some celestial voice...
In some celestial voice...
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If I didn't have a kid, I'd be bolting up to the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown to check out their exhibit on the art of Calvin and Hobbes. fenimoreartmuseum.org/future-exhib...
Exploring Calvin and Hobbes - Fenimore Art Museum
fenimoreartmuseum.org
November 24, 2025 at 6:44 PM
If I didn't have a kid, I'd be bolting up to the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown to check out their exhibit on the art of Calvin and Hobbes. fenimoreartmuseum.org/future-exhib...
In this week's Excel video, I demonstrate how to identify values that occur exactly once in a data set. One common scenario is finding customers who ordered from you exactly once...why did they order, and why did they stop? Knowing the answers to those questions can help your business!
Find values that occur exactly once
YouTube video by Curt Frye
youtu.be
November 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
In this week's Excel video, I demonstrate how to identify values that occur exactly once in a data set. One common scenario is finding customers who ordered from you exactly once...why did they order, and why did they stop? Knowing the answers to those questions can help your business!
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This week on Planetside… Explore how deterrence, brinkmanship, and strategic standoffs can enrich your speculative storytelling.
“Verisimilitude in Speculative International Relations with Game Theory” by @jdharlock.bsky.social: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/18/v...
“Verisimilitude in Speculative International Relations with Game Theory” by @jdharlock.bsky.social: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/18/v...
November 21, 2025 at 5:00 PM
This week on Planetside… Explore how deterrence, brinkmanship, and strategic standoffs can enrich your speculative storytelling.
“Verisimilitude in Speculative International Relations with Game Theory” by @jdharlock.bsky.social: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/18/v...
“Verisimilitude in Speculative International Relations with Game Theory” by @jdharlock.bsky.social: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/18/v...
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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“Now, I’ll pass things off to Jasper, who’s put together a PowerPoint for us. Jasper?”
“Thanks Jim, morning everyone.“
“Thanks Jim, morning everyone.“
November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
“Now, I’ll pass things off to Jasper, who’s put together a PowerPoint for us. Jasper?”
“Thanks Jim, morning everyone.“
“Thanks Jim, morning everyone.“
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"Thirty-eight years ago today a Chicago television signal was hijacked and the airing program was replaced by a stranger in a Max Headroom mask. The perpetrator has never been identified."
November 22, 2025 at 7:39 PM
"Thirty-eight years ago today a Chicago television signal was hijacked and the airing program was replaced by a stranger in a Max Headroom mask. The perpetrator has never been identified."
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Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Almost a year now since I received this absolutely classic burn from the Canadian government.
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i don't think your loan is getting approved
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
i don't think your loan is getting approved
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The classic text-based adventure game of incalculable influence will live on.
Microsoft makes Zork I, II, and III open source under MIT License
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office worked with Jason Scott to do it.
arstechnica.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The classic text-based adventure game of incalculable influence will live on.
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"Before I left the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board back in 2022, I created (along with Dan Iwrey and Rob Casimir) what might be the greatest municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived… or at the very least the ONLY municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived."
www.nyc.gov
November 21, 2025 at 5:09 AM
"Before I left the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board back in 2022, I created (along with Dan Iwrey and Rob Casimir) what might be the greatest municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived… or at the very least the ONLY municipal ethics-law-based D&D one-shot module ever conceived."
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8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
Man, everything is so bleak, anyone got a fun fact or little bit of trivia they want to share
November 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.
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THURSDAY BOOZE
The most sacred of Soho traditions.
The most sacred of Soho traditions.
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 PM
THURSDAY BOOZE
The most sacred of Soho traditions.
The most sacred of Soho traditions.
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MORE good news: A Canadian bill is just about to receive Royal Assent (yes this is a thing) and soon, if your parent is a Canadian citizen who spent 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada before you were born, you will be a citizen regardless of where you were born and where you live.
November 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
MORE good news: A Canadian bill is just about to receive Royal Assent (yes this is a thing) and soon, if your parent is a Canadian citizen who spent 1,095 days of physical presence in Canada before you were born, you will be a citizen regardless of where you were born and where you live.
THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!
WE HAVE A FRONT COVER!! 📖📚📘
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
Oh, it makes me so happy!
Available to buy from the 1 June 2026, but if you can't wait til then to dig into our research, the dataset is freely available here: zenodo.org/records/8070...
#skystorians #18thC 🗃️ #foodhistory #amwriting
uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
The King’s Dinner
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a large, open dataset of two royal household kitchen ledgers, the authors study the role and inf...
uclpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 PM
THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!
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Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt.
.
Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL
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Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …