rik
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rik
@electronicartifacts.com
computer scientist, family man, lapsed academic, bicycle/motorcylist, open source/access/society/… zealot, music lover.
The NBA Timberwolves did mark the murder.
www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...
And then Steve Kerr said right words about that:
www.nytimes.com/athletic/695...
I always like basketball better anyway.
Steve Kerr on government response to ICE shooting in Minneapolis: 'Shameful'
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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Video of federal agents getting run out of Lyn Lake this afternoon. Agents drop a gas can at the end and someone kicks it back at them.
January 12, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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Peter Godfrey-Smith discusses degrees of consciousness in Metazoa. He says that many people find it hard to imagine, but it helps to think about when we're half-awake as an analogy for what other organisms may experience.
January 4, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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(Developmentally constrained.)
January 1, 2026 at 5:53 AM
+1! what he said!
December 28, 2025 at 6:27 AM
They made the AI echo chamber as large as they could
December 28, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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I gather (from JFK files) that old school redaction would be to retype everything with a code word, so the code word is the redaction. That solves the alphabetical snafu, too, because then the index indexes the code word alphabetically, and not the underlying true text.
December 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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ICE's deportation agenda is not possible without state & local collaboration. Learn more from our latest briefing 👇

www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/12...
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Reddit is growing because it's just a collection of forums and people like their niches. Substack is something else and I'm bored even writing this sentence about it. All I know for sure is the reporters and commenters who spend their whole day on Twitter in 2025 have to go to a hospital.
December 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM