James Truitt
@linguistory.bsky.social
Digital archivist at Swarthmore College. Testing out bluesky; more active on Mastodon as @[email protected]
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
Good at regular expressions; still working on irregular ones.
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Right now I'd like to shout out the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Right now I'd like to shout out the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
November 26, 2025 at 10:43 AM
You may be cool, but you'll never be as cool as these two cats wearing sunglasses in the window of an optician's Boulevard St Germain in 1925
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Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Today, in Utah, homeowners *or renters* can simply buy a solar panel at Costco, take it home, and plug it in to a wall socket, like an appliance. It just sits there & trims about 15-20% off a residential power bill. If you move to another apt., you can take it with you.
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big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
No more PJM data centers unless they can be reliably served: market monitor
The PJM Interconnection’s market monitor urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to rule that large data centers can only come online if the grid operator can still meet reliability metrics.
www.utilitydive.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
big late breaking news: the market monitor for the largest energy grid in the u.s., covering much of the midwest and mid-atlantic, has called to block new data centers connections to the grid, saying current course of growth assures regular blackouts
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KOSA is back again 📚
www.theverge.com/news/829492/...
www.theverge.com/news/829492/...
House overhauls KOSA in a new kids online safety package
It removes the duty of care from KOSA.
www.theverge.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:42 PM
KOSA is back again 📚
www.theverge.com/news/829492/...
www.theverge.com/news/829492/...
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There’s a deli in my neighborhood that advertises itself as using “exclusively Boar’s Head meat and cheese” and every time I’m tempted to go there I see that statement and think “Nah, we have sandwiches at home.”
Boar's Head has ANOTHER Listeria infected product, and this time it's cheese. I would not trust this company again without substantial changes.
www.eatingwell.com/boars-head-c...
www.eatingwell.com/boars-head-c...
Boar's Head Just Recalled Cheese Due to Listeria Contamination—Here’s What to Know
There’s an active recall on two Boar’s Head cheese products sold nationwide because of a Listeria risk. Read on for more information.
www.eatingwell.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
There’s a deli in my neighborhood that advertises itself as using “exclusively Boar’s Head meat and cheese” and every time I’m tempted to go there I see that statement and think “Nah, we have sandwiches at home.”
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November 26, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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Again, turkeys are 70-80% off from today onwards and last a year in the freezer.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
November 27, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Again, turkeys are 70-80% off from today onwards and last a year in the freezer.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
If you’ve got a chest freezer in the garage that’s good soup, stew, and smoker meat for the whole winter for a really good price.
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Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
This is the power of vaccines.
The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.
Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
Literally been saying this since Sarah Jeong's great piece last August:
"We briefly lived in an era in which the photograph was a shortcut to reality, to knowing things.… We are now leaping headfirst into a future in which reality is simply less knowable."
www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...
"We briefly lived in an era in which the photograph was a shortcut to reality, to knowing things.… We are now leaping headfirst into a future in which reality is simply less knowable."
www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...
November 28, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Literally been saying this since Sarah Jeong's great piece last August:
"We briefly lived in an era in which the photograph was a shortcut to reality, to knowing things.… We are now leaping headfirst into a future in which reality is simply less knowable."
www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...
"We briefly lived in an era in which the photograph was a shortcut to reality, to knowing things.… We are now leaping headfirst into a future in which reality is simply less knowable."
www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...
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I'm reading this book right now and while I knew it would be good, I didn't know it would be THIS delightful. Dictionaries: they are WILD!
Good morning, kids and people, today in book, we have a cover:
(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)
(Preorder this jawn at www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/555914... and use the Bookshop link if you can!)
November 27, 2025 at 1:13 AM
I'm reading this book right now and while I knew it would be good, I didn't know it would be THIS delightful. Dictionaries: they are WILD!
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I! M! L! S!
"The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect."
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
"The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect."
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I! M! L! S!
"The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect."
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
"The ruling nullifies the Administration’s actions to dismantle IMLS and permanently prohibits the Administration from taking such actions in the future. The ruling has immediate nationwide effect."
www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
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www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 23, 2025 at 11:40 PM
www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/h... "please, buy new phone. the economy is dying" is an incredible gaslight
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Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
November 24, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Amazingly, almost everything in this skeet is wrong. The myth of Spinoza's "excommunication" is mostly a product of twentieth century post-Christian wishful thinking.
I just got jump-scared because I'm working on editing a blog post that talks a lot about archivists as a profession, and someone right behind me on the train read aloud the words "historians and archivists" from a fantasy RPG
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I just got jump-scared because I'm working on editing a blog post that talks a lot about archivists as a profession, and someone right behind me on the train read aloud the words "historians and archivists" from a fantasy RPG
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Yiddish has great ways to say you’re annoying someone, like “banging them a teapot” (האַקן אַ טשײַניק) or “spinning them a hat” (דרײען אַ היטל) and other things I am doing to this dog
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Yiddish has great ways to say you’re annoying someone, like “banging them a teapot” (האַקן אַ טשײַניק) or “spinning them a hat” (דרײען אַ היטל) and other things I am doing to this dog
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"The other day Louise and I discovered at the same time that she's now tall enough to get her paws up onto the kitchen counter. We learned this when I turned my head for roughly 14 seconds and she ate an entire plate of raw chicken and a sheet of thawing puff pastry." 🎁 defector.com/beware-the-j...
Beware The Jingler | Defector
Louise is some kind of shepherd, a combination of shepherds, a Malinois, Groenendael, something. Belgian, Dutch, German. She came from a rescue in Tennessee; some damn fool bred a litter of puppies…
defector.com
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"The other day Louise and I discovered at the same time that she's now tall enough to get her paws up onto the kitchen counter. We learned this when I turned my head for roughly 14 seconds and she ate an entire plate of raw chicken and a sheet of thawing puff pastry." 🎁 defector.com/beware-the-j...
Re last boost—Yes, but editorial bias is an roughly as big an issue with search engines, right? Like, nothing stopping Google from suppressing critical results. The real problem is centralization, no?
November 24, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Re last boost—Yes, but editorial bias is an roughly as big an issue with search engines, right? Like, nothing stopping Google from suppressing critical results. The real problem is centralization, no?
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I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
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For real though, bibliographic terms make great nonbinary names. I have genuinely considered changing my name to Deckle
November 24, 2025 at 1:29 AM
For real though, bibliographic terms make great nonbinary names. I have genuinely considered changing my name to Deckle
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This is one of the reasons congestion pricing works.
i wonder how much of Americans' views on driving vs. transit would change if they had to pay for gas/insurance/etc every time they turned on the engine
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
"i'm not paying $5 to take the train to work twice a day when i can just drive" is a genuine opinion held by so many people
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
This is one of the reasons congestion pricing works.
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i love my city
Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.
November 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
i love my city
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Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.
Until a few years ago, ugly holiday sweaters didn’t exist. They’re ugly Christmas sweaters, with some generic Jewish iconography to be “inclusive.” But the truth is, when I have to buy one to wear to a work party, I feel like I’m in another culture’s drag.
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Your yearly reminder that “holiday” celebrations that only include Christian traditions are not, in fact, inclusive even if you don’t use the word Christmas, so tbh I’d rather you just say it’s Christmas.