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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 3h

Columbigenous People’s Day

Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 5h

(The official name of MSP is Wold-Chamberlain Field. Lindbergh is just the main terminal. Wold-Chamberlain Field was an early local manufacturer of automatic cat-scratchers.)

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 5h

Charles Schulz grew up in St. Paul and started the Peanuts here, before moving to California after it reached massive success. And yet I don't think we have a *single* institution named after him. Certainly not an airport. Personally I think he's more deserving than that Lindbergh fellow.

Cathy Gellis @cathygellis.bsky.social · 5h

Spent the day biking between institutions named for Charles Schulz.

About 18 miles total, there and back.

Front door of the Charles M. Schulz museum.

Welcome sign and control tower and terminal (it's a small airport...) of the Charles M. Schulz Sonoma County Airport.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 7h

Yea at least that’s what they say

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 7h

No, Robinhood claims they actually have some kind of equity stake in the companies. Probably buying shares from employees or something. They aren’t clear about what they’re actually doing though.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 7h

To sell shares publicly in the US, you have to be a public company. You can’t just sneakily sell shares off to the side. One case where the US has much better regulations than Europe.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 7h

Robinhood actually offers tokenized equity already in Europe. These tokens are made without the original company involving or approving it, but are supposed to move roughly with the company’s valuation. They can’t do this in the US because it’s illegal AF.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 9h

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 1d

TIL Claude's new code interpreter mode has a /mnt/skills/public/ folder full of prompt instructions and Python utilities for creating and manipulating pdf, docx, pptx, xlsx files - and you can ask Claude for a copy and learn a TON about working with those formats

simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/...

simonw/claude-skills

One of the tips I picked up from Jesse Vincent's Claude Code Superpowers post (previously) was this: Skills are what give your agents Superpowers. The first time they really popped …

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · Mar 13

Kill your TV, burn your newspaper, throw your clothes into the fire. Scream without words and gesture without meaning

No prayer will find you no shelter will protect you no sword can save you from the whirlwind

If there is a single stone standing on another, run from that place

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 12h

Beer

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ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 13h

ACARS Message From: N228JQ / YX5816

Message: TURTLELISHIOUS DUDE.... HANG 10 AT 280 ..300 SUCKED LIKE SHREDDER IN THE OOZE OF 2. SENSAY

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N228JQ

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #N228JQ #YX5816

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 13h

Remember, they could have done this with or without the shutdown. It’s not a negotiation. It’s a hostage situation.

Amy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 15h

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone.

Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · 16h

The lens reveals: the model does NOT go directly from amore to "amor" or "amour" by just dropping or adding letters!

Instead it first "thinks" about the (English) word "love".

In other words: LLMs translate using *concepts*, not tokens.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 19h

Pilots only do this when they are very distressed

ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 20h

ACARS Message From: N761AJ / AA0705

Message: YES SUCKING THE SEAT CUSHION UP MY BUTT WORRYING ABOUT GAS IS NO BUENO

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N761AJ

Area: Maidstone, UK

#acars #vdlm2 #N761AJ #AA0705

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 23h

My god. What is the world coming to. Black suit with brown shoes!

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

ooooOOOOoooooOOO

ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 1d

VDLM2 Message From: N812VL / XP1195

Message: EVERYONE ON GUARD TALKING ABOUT WEIRD LIGHTS TO THE WEST OF US WE CANT SEE ANYTHING.

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/N812VL

Area: Philadelphia, PA, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #N812VL #XP1195

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

I thought about posting this on X but I think they'd banh mi.

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1d

It depends on how much buoyancy is assigned to the PERP when it's regenerated. If the borogoves have a high enough mimsy ratio, then the mome raths will outgrabe

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Newer planes have disco mode

ACARS Drama @acarsdrama.bsky.social · 1d

ACARS Message From: CFJFZ / QK8787

Message: CABIN LOG SIDEWALL LIGHT AT 21DF AND 22DF KEEP CHANGING MOOD LIGHT COLOURS UNCOMMANDED

Track Aircraft: https://www.flightradar24.com/CFJFZ

Area: Gaithersburg, MD, USA

#acars #vdlm2 #CFJFZ #QK8787

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Why doesn’t the media ever cover crypto even though it’s a huge part of the economy now?
Because it makes absolutely no sense and everything sounds like something 14-year-old on cocaine invented

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Why is it that every time I learn more about crypto it’s more terrifying than the last time

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

The trades are also in PERPs not real crypto so … it’s very confusing

As I understand it a PERP can be auto-sold even with no input from the owner in order to keep the market running, so who even knows which transactions were intentional

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Also another big disclaimer, this is all happening on the Hyperliquid exchange which is relatively new and small. Given the level of honesty that’s typical in crypto companies, all the trading could be fake.

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

Should say person or institution, it could well be a hedge fund or something these days

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 1d

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