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I live in Denmael and have done a lot of digitizing old books for accessibility. A common (and amusing) OCR error is that the word Helligånden (the Holy Ghost) often becomes Helliganden (the Holy Duck).
December 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I live in Denmael and have done a lot of digitizing old books for accessibility. A common (and amusing) OCR error is that the word Helligånden (the Holy Ghost) often becomes Helliganden (the Holy Duck).
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BRENNAN: What are you going to do to force DOJ to comply?
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
MASSIE: The quickest way and most expeditious way to get justice for these victims is to bring inherent contempt against Pam Bondi. That doesn't require going through the courts. We're drafting that right now.
December 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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This can only end when all of Wrightwood is one museum.
Wrightwood 659 is apparently building Wrightwood 673
does anyone know more / did I miss a news article?
does anyone know more / did I miss a news article?
December 21, 2025 at 1:36 PM
This can only end when all of Wrightwood is one museum.
A LotR cover band: Neutral Mirkwood Hotel.
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Flock of Smeagols
A Lord of the Rings cover band called Chappell Rohan
December 20, 2025 at 9:34 PM
A LotR cover band: Neutral Mirkwood Hotel.
Don’t know when this happened, but it looks like it’s cheaper to buy 128gb thumb drives(~$9) than 128gb blank bdxl BluRay discs(~$10). Doesn’t really seem like they’ll be making a comeback.
December 19, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Don’t know when this happened, but it looks like it’s cheaper to buy 128gb thumb drives(~$9) than 128gb blank bdxl BluRay discs(~$10). Doesn’t really seem like they’ll be making a comeback.
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Oh heck yeah.
Oh heck yeah.
December 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Oh heck yeah.
Oh heck yeah.
“Trump can’t pardon somebody on state charges.”
Sure hope a few other media outlets take note of how this guy isn’t struck by lightning.
Sure hope a few other media outlets take note of how this guy isn’t struck by lightning.
NEW: Tina Peters is rejecting a J6er's call to storm a Colorado prison and free her.
Peters is distancing herself from the jailbreak scheme and violent actions after allies and her attorney talked about using force or violence to free her and punish those keeping her in prison.
Peters is distancing herself from the jailbreak scheme and violent actions after allies and her attorney talked about using force or violence to free her and punish those keeping her in prison.
December 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
“Trump can’t pardon somebody on state charges.”
Sure hope a few other media outlets take note of how this guy isn’t struck by lightning.
Sure hope a few other media outlets take note of how this guy isn’t struck by lightning.
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Just a shocking missed opportunity that this paper (a) develops a Bayesian approach to network community detection, tested on (b) Sampson’s Monastery Data—which is about conflict amongst a group of monks—but (c) is somehow *not* titled “Updating Your Prior”. www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~teh/researc...
December 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Just a shocking missed opportunity that this paper (a) develops a Bayesian approach to network community detection, tested on (b) Sampson’s Monastery Data—which is about conflict amongst a group of monks—but (c) is somehow *not* titled “Updating Your Prior”. www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~teh/researc...
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HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
December 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
HARD BOILED DETECTIVE: another cruel sunrise over the city of the damned. another corpse. another widow. another cup of black coffee to drag my sorry ass back to life- *sputtering*
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
ME: do you like it? it's an ethiopian washed process single origin
DETECTIVE:
ME: are you getting apricot notes
Looking forward to my customized podcast about the origin of the phrase “Post-truth”
New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues.
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues”
www.semafor.com/article/12/1...
December 16, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Looking forward to my customized podcast about the origin of the phrase “Post-truth”
They appear to be admitting that it was never safe to drive (laudatory).
tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore
December 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
They appear to be admitting that it was never safe to drive (laudatory).
Me when I am attempting to flirt with Shifty Shellshock.
December 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Me when I am attempting to flirt with Shifty Shellshock.
I died just looking at this photo.
December 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I died just looking at this photo.
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Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
December 13, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is,
in fact,
a tortology
in fact,
a tortology
The ghosts of Waldo and Goodman heading to the Indiana state house as we speak.
December 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
The ghosts of Waldo and Goodman heading to the Indiana state house as we speak.
As Jane Jacobs said, they should be wide enough for two children to play jumprope with a robot.
Chicago sidewalks are too narrow, example 74
Coco and Jodi meet on Randolph St
Coco and Jodi meet on Randolph St
December 13, 2025 at 3:09 PM
As Jane Jacobs said, they should be wide enough for two children to play jumprope with a robot.
How your latte finds me.
Pumpkin Spice E-Mail
December 13, 2025 at 2:46 PM
How your latte finds me.
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A hard problem with literary data is navigating btwn editions of books and what the "work," or the theoretical text that unites all editions. I've been lucky to work with @thisismattmiller.com and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, who built a tool to address this + do much more
arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
BookReconciler: An Open-Source Tool for Metadata Enrichment and Work-Level Clustering
We present BookReconciler, an open-source tool for enhancing and clustering book data. BookReconciler allows users to take spreadsheets with minimal metadata, such as book title and author, and automa...
arxiv.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
A hard problem with literary data is navigating btwn editions of books and what the "work," or the theoretical text that unites all editions. I've been lucky to work with @thisismattmiller.com and @mellymeldubs.bsky.social, who built a tool to address this + do much more
arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
arxiv.org/abs/2512.10165
> I don’t understand how folks …
I think you have identified a plausible explanation in the first paragraph of the piece.
I think you have identified a plausible explanation in the first paragraph of the piece.
December 12, 2025 at 4:58 PM
> I don’t understand how folks …
I think you have identified a plausible explanation in the first paragraph of the piece.
I think you have identified a plausible explanation in the first paragraph of the piece.
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They have hot chocolate, they see carolers, hunky librarian shows off his flannel t-shirt, one thing leads to another and they kiss at midnight.
Title: "Interlibrary LOVE"
Title: "Interlibrary LOVE"
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
They have hot chocolate, they see carolers, hunky librarian shows off his flannel t-shirt, one thing leads to another and they kiss at midnight.
Title: "Interlibrary LOVE"
Title: "Interlibrary LOVE"
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SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
Dudes rock.
Coworker of mine made his wife a special dinner to commemorate the 40th anniversary of COMMANDO debuting in theaters
December 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Dudes rock.
Perhaps the first empirical observation that AI are better than us: telling them they are a lawyer does not make them worse.
We tested one of the most common prompting techniques: giving the AI a persona to make it more accurate
We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it worse.
We found that telling the AI "you are a great physicist" doesn't make it significantly more accurate at answering physics questions, nor does "you are a lawyer" make it worse.
December 9, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Perhaps the first empirical observation that AI are better than us: telling them they are a lawyer does not make them worse.
I’m afraid the whole country would end up with California’s fire abatement and earthquake resistance measures, Floridas hurricane resistance requirements, and Massachusetts strict cursing minimums during construction.
December 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I’m afraid the whole country would end up with California’s fire abatement and earthquake resistance measures, Floridas hurricane resistance requirements, and Massachusetts strict cursing minimums during construction.
This makes a lot more sense, not as a set of specific claims, but as part of a general strategy to sort into a likeminded group of people who don’t trust the government.
*More than half of the GOP believe the 2020 election outcome was the result of fraud
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
*More than 4 out of 10 believe 9/11 was an inside job
*37% believe the Holocaust did not happen or was exaggerate
*36% believe NASA faked the moon landing
*1 in 3 believe vaccines cause autism
December 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This makes a lot more sense, not as a set of specific claims, but as part of a general strategy to sort into a likeminded group of people who don’t trust the government.