cynwhite
@cynwhite.bsky.social
Former book publisher. Governance expertise with nonprofit boards. Upland bird hunting. StL City SC. Learning the cello in my 60s. Husband, dad, dog person.
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After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
December 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
After what we're seeing at CBS, if today is not the perfect day for everyone to find some independent journalism & nonprofit newsrooms to support... what day could be better?
I had a blast working simplex equations and linear programming by hand (with my trusty TI BA-II) back in business school. Now I can take delight in the assurance the worst outcomes require making the wrong choice at every decision point and randomness means this almost never happens.
The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. www.wired.com/story/resear...
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better.
www.wired.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
I had a blast working simplex equations and linear programming by hand (with my trusty TI BA-II) back in business school. Now I can take delight in the assurance the worst outcomes require making the wrong choice at every decision point and randomness means this almost never happens.
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It’s irritating regardless. All US citizens are equally American. There is no place for classes of citizenship or belonging in our country.
December 21, 2025 at 12:28 PM
It’s irritating regardless. All US citizens are equally American. There is no place for classes of citizenship or belonging in our country.
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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Good news: You're getting a $1,776 check.
Bad news: It's coming out of your housing allowance.
Bad news: It's coming out of your housing allowance.
So… he’s giving them their own money?
Where’s the tariff money?
Where’s the tariff money?
December 18, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Good news: You're getting a $1,776 check.
Bad news: It's coming out of your housing allowance.
Bad news: It's coming out of your housing allowance.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
The capital gains tax cut was supposed to cause revenue loss of about $160 million in the current fiscal year, w/ongoing losses at $111 million. The state now expects $500 million loss this year and $360 million annually. #moleg #mogov
Missouri faces budget crunch as capital gains tax cut hits harder than expected • Missouri Independent
The capital gains tax cut passed this year by Missouri will cost far more than expected and shrink state revenues, a new estimate shows.
missouriindependent.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
That’s gonna leave a mark.
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Your failure to experience art the same way I do, and your insistence on expressing yourself about it on a platform designed for idle self-expression about art, are unacceptable to me
December 13, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Your failure to experience art the same way I do, and your insistence on expressing yourself about it on a platform designed for idle self-expression about art, are unacceptable to me
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Easing financial regulations late in a cycle with frothy markets seems to happen again and again, always with the same result. Insert Arrested Developement "it might work for us" gif.
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Easing financial regulations late in a cycle with frothy markets seems to happen again and again, always with the same result. Insert Arrested Developement "it might work for us" gif.
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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SLSO oboe & bassoon play the sounds of smiles at the Sheldon 🎼🎺💫
🖋 Chris King for St. Louis American
📸 Jeff Scott's Instagram
https://www.stlamerican.com/arts-and-entertainment/living-it-arts-and-entertainment/slso-oboe-and-bassoon-play-the-sounds-of-smiles-at-the-sheldon/
#SLSO #STL #stlamerican
🖋 Chris King for St. Louis American
📸 Jeff Scott's Instagram
https://www.stlamerican.com/arts-and-entertainment/living-it-arts-and-entertainment/slso-oboe-and-bassoon-play-the-sounds-of-smiles-at-the-sheldon/
#SLSO #STL #stlamerican
December 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
SLSO oboe & bassoon play the sounds of smiles at the Sheldon 🎼🎺💫
🖋 Chris King for St. Louis American
📸 Jeff Scott's Instagram
https://www.stlamerican.com/arts-and-entertainment/living-it-arts-and-entertainment/slso-oboe-and-bassoon-play-the-sounds-of-smiles-at-the-sheldon/
#SLSO #STL #stlamerican
🖋 Chris King for St. Louis American
📸 Jeff Scott's Instagram
https://www.stlamerican.com/arts-and-entertainment/living-it-arts-and-entertainment/slso-oboe-and-bassoon-play-the-sounds-of-smiles-at-the-sheldon/
#SLSO #STL #stlamerican
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I have never seen a more vivid solo performance before an orchestra…
🖋 Chris King for The St. Louis American
📸 Kian Soltan. Photo by Marco Borggreve
#SLSO #STLLivingIt #StLouis #stlamerican
🖋 Chris King for The St. Louis American
📸 Kian Soltan. Photo by Marco Borggreve
#SLSO #STLLivingIt #StLouis #stlamerican
Kian Soltani burns on Haydn cello concerto without stealing thunder from Shostakovich
The program the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra is performing this weekend opens, deceptively, with a blast of quintessential feel-good music: Three Romances for orchestra by Clara Schumann. This is lush romanticism with a wall of violins, so consistently orchestrated (by Benjamin de Murashkin) it would serve as a good sleeper conductor’s audition. You want your conductor to […]
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December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I have never seen a more vivid solo performance before an orchestra…
🖋 Chris King for The St. Louis American
📸 Kian Soltan. Photo by Marco Borggreve
#SLSO #STLLivingIt #StLouis #stlamerican
🖋 Chris King for The St. Louis American
📸 Kian Soltan. Photo by Marco Borggreve
#SLSO #STLLivingIt #StLouis #stlamerican
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crescere aude
Vandy is LinkedIn posting reports from Economists on why they deserve to be in the Playoff.
The CFP needs this energy.
The CFP needs this energy.
December 7, 2025 at 3:34 AM
crescere aude
December 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
My assignments (in addition to other duties as sous chef) were the cranberry sauce, pan-roasted potatoes, and at the end of the day - starting the turkey stock.
November 28, 2025 at 2:39 AM
My assignments (in addition to other duties as sous chef) were the cranberry sauce, pan-roasted potatoes, and at the end of the day - starting the turkey stock.
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Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Let’s talk about sedition and treason, because the most powerful yet inadequate man in the world is having a tantrum about it, and his soulless, spineless sycophants are boosting his message.
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Do you want to hear sounds of nature and people talking about nature and the seasons? Then check out the new KAXE Season Watch podcast. It's an extension of Phenologist John Latimer's observations of the seasons. www.kaxe.org/season-watch
Season Watch
"Season Watch" is a KAXE podcast for the curious, filled with the delights of nature in Northern Minnesota. Hosts are Charlie Mitchell, Heidi Holtan, John Latimer and a rotating cast of characters, of...
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November 16, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Do you want to hear sounds of nature and people talking about nature and the seasons? Then check out the new KAXE Season Watch podcast. It's an extension of Phenologist John Latimer's observations of the seasons. www.kaxe.org/season-watch
This is the way
a big runoff last night, in New Orleans:
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet.
So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.
Calvin Duncan wins Orleans clerk of court race - Verite News New Orleans
Duncan, a political newcomer and former prisoner, defeated incumbent Darren Lombard by a wide margin in Saturday's runoff.
veritenews.org
November 16, 2025 at 4:16 PM
This is the way
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If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
November 13, 2025 at 5:56 AM
If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.
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A *Bach-keyboard-suite*-themed novel was advertised in the American Bach Society newsletter. I don’t see how I can call myself a scholar of the Bach keyboard suites and not read this. I’ll report back.
November 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
A *Bach-keyboard-suite*-themed novel was advertised in the American Bach Society newsletter. I don’t see how I can call myself a scholar of the Bach keyboard suites and not read this. I’ll report back.
A good aurora light show even this far south in western St. Louis County, Missouri. These are from my phone, but the red is faintly visible with the naked eye.
November 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
A good aurora light show even this far south in western St. Louis County, Missouri. These are from my phone, but the red is faintly visible with the naked eye.
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....
Mike Johnson: "What happened last night is blue states and blue cities voted blue. We all saw that coming. And no one should read too much into last night's election results."
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
And also every single county in Virginia shifted blue, two statewide posts in Georgia went blue (for the first time in two decades), three Pennsylvania judicial races went blue, a Maine vote went blue, a Mississippi state senate seat went blue ....
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My annual plea to leave the damn clocks alone, and why morning people are the worst:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Overthrow the Tyranny of Morning People
Leave the clocks alone.
www.theatlantic.com
November 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My annual plea to leave the damn clocks alone, and why morning people are the worst:
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.
November 1, 2025 at 4:29 PM
There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.