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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 1d

Excellent biography of the radical, brave, batty, mercurial, brilliant, mystical 19th-C. feminist Victoria Woodhull: www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/mary-...

Notorious Victoria

“A remarkable biography . . . Well written and researched, this book warrants a spot on every serious American history student’s bookshelf.&rdquo...

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 1d

Kelsey Roman performing with aerial silks hanging from the West Trapps cliff in the Gunks, at sunset and moonrise. emptysqua.re/blog/aerial-...

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 1d

My review of a classic of Argentine sci-fi comics, now a Netflix series in Spanish. emptysqua.re/blog/the-ete...

Versions of The Eternaut

A classic of Argentine sci-fi comics, now a Netflix series in Spanish.

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 4d

Went apple picking today. You never know where you’ll find unpatched OpenSSL in the wild.

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 6d

Victoria Woodhull Armstrong Davis, our Chinese hamster.

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 6d

Sunset in the Mohonk Preserve.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 6d

Rock Rift Crevices trail in Mohonk Preserve.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 8d

And if you want more than one short paper:

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Discover our MongoDB Database Management courses and begin improving your CV with MongoDB certificates. Start training with MongoDB University for free today.

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Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social · 10d

[ASPLOS'25] Fusion: An Analytics Object Store Optimized for Query
Pushdown
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Tightly integrating an Iceberg catalog with an object store means that one could make file-format aware erasure coding decisions, to permit pushing down filters and aggregations.

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 9d

Chris climbing Ridicullissima, a tall classic 5.10d in the Gunks. I photographed him while hanging from a rope anchored at the top. I experimented with anchoring the other end to the ground. It was awkward; I have a lot to learn. At least having two attachments prevented me from spinning.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 10d

Me climbing Directissima (5.9) in the Gunks today.

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 10d

My little temple New Paltz Zen Center had an Eye Opening ceremony and now we're an official Zen temple. Here's Jo An Sensei opening the eyes of the bodhisattva on the altar. emptysqua.re/blog/npzc-ey...

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 16d

Dustin Portzline's "Falling and Commitment" clinic in the Gunks

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 16d

I finally cobbled together a way to belay with prescription glasses: YY Vertical Clip-Ups, but superglue the rubber tips on so they don't slide off, and replace the flimsy carrying case with a beefy OneTigris case. Here's everything I used: emptysqua.re/blog/how-to-...

How To Belay With Prescription Glasses Or Sunglasses

A cobbled-together solution that works for me.

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 20d

Saint Pancras. Is it a train station? A castle? An organ under the liver?

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 21d

Today I learned that Yahoo! is an independent company with over 8000 employees in 2025. I wonder what they all do?

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 23d

I rewatched it a few years ago and realized it's not about computers, it's an allegory for realizing you're gay and finding your people.

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 25d

I stumbled into a right-wing rally in London.

A few lads wearing the UK flag or the St. George's Cross flag as capes face a line of British police in riot gear with plastic shields on a rainy London sidewalk.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 28d

Eiffel Tower from a bateau mouche.

A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · 29d

I use the Halide app for photos, it exports RAW.

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · Sep 8

New ship of Theseus just dropped, but now it has conscious thought

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · Sep 8

That’s right, I’ve found it. The holy grail, the one feed to rule them all, the aggregator for your whole Internet. None of these walled-garden rent-seeking websites want you to have it, but I’ll share it with you. emptysqua.re/blog/how-to-...

How To Check All Your Feeds With One Tool

RSS, Bluesky, Discord, anything at all....

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · Sep 4

VLDB just published my friend Aleksey Charapko's paper on a new consensus algorithm.

PVLDB @pvldb.bsky.social · Aug 1

Vol:18 No:8 → HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication
👥 Authors: Zhiying Liang, Vahab Jabrayilov, Abutalib Aghayev, Aleksey Charapko
📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p2505-charapko.pdf

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PVLDB @pvldb.bsky.social · Aug 1

Vol:18 No:8 → HoliPaxos: Towards More Predictable Performance in State Machine Replication
👥 Authors: Zhiying Liang, Vahab Jabrayilov, Abutalib Aghayev, Aleksey Charapko
📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p2505-charapko.pdf

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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re · Sep 1

VLDB has published my colleagues' terrific paper MongoDB distributed transactions: how they work, how we checked them with TLA+, how we checked that our code conforms to our TLA+ spec.

PVLDB @pvldb.bsky.social · Sep 1

Vol:18 No:12 → Design and Modular Verification of Distributed Transactions in MongoDB
👥 Authors: William Schultz, Murat Demirbas
📄 PDF: https://www.vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p5045-schultz.pdf

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