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Bill Tucker

@imbilltucker.bsky.social

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Pretty amazing conversation about making a music composition tool .. that’s used by the blind.

Content warning: lisp

95a74d1e2f4d Bobbi Towers

Podcast Episode · defn · 11/12/2025 · 1h 19m

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December 19, 2025 at 1:30 AM

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Hannah Alpert-Abrams

@halperta.bsky.social

Today I remembered that there is a resource that is just a list of almost one hundred humanities PhDs who have transitioned to other careers and are available to talk about it.

You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Alt-Ac Support network

docs.google.com

December 16, 2025 at 2:26 AM

Bill Tucker

@imbilltucker.bsky.social

Making images for vim cult.

The salt girl from Morton salt has the word them across her chest, and she slowly spilling salt out as she walks. Beneath her feet are the words“eclipse Delenda est “

Which means eclipse must be destroyed

December 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM

Bill Tucker

@imbilltucker.bsky.social

Terrors of Yule involve a lack of coffee

A French carafe is now empty of coffee. Leaning against this is a small plastic ornament of Cthulhu wearing a Santa hat

December 7, 2025 at 3:05 PM

Bill Tucker

@imbilltucker.bsky.social

Feels like a real life Kill Doctor Lucky layout. Here I am in the hedge maze of azaleas..

Colonial manor in the background. Foreground of shaped bushes framing a brick walk towards the manor.

November 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM

Bill Tucker

@imbilltucker.bsky.social

Don’t see a lot of these anymore

A pay phone in a vertical half cylinder. A green light shines down from within the cylinder.

November 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM

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Charles Johnson

@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com

i’m not crying you’re crying

xkcd: Fifteen Years

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com

November 25, 2025 at 1:58 AM

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Laura Abbott

@labbott.name

Oxide is hiring in the embedded space. If you enjoy baffling choices by hardware vendors and debugging performance issues come join me.

oxide.computer/careers/sw-e...

Embedded Systems Engineer / Oxide

oxide.computer

November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM

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Bryan Cantrill

@bcantrill.bsky.social

The video for my #taloscon2025 keynote is now up!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cum5...

November 13, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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Ruth Malan

@ruthmalan.bsky.social

The next #PapersInSystems discussion is Monday Dec 1, 1-2pm Eastern, Josh Reynolds will lead, and the paper is "The Architecture of Complexity" by Herbert Simon.

More info/sign up (free of course): ti.to/bredemeyer/a...

Some quotes to tease the appetite for reading this 1962 paper:

"Metaphor and analogy can be helpful, or they can be misleading. All depends on whether the similarities the metaphor captures are significant or superficial."

"In such systems, the whole is more than the sum of the parts, not in an ultimate, metaphysical sense, but in the important pragmatic sense that, given the properties of the parts and the laws of their interaction, it is not a trivial matter to infer the properties of the whole. In the face of complexity, an in-principle reductionist may be at the same time a pragmatic holist."

"Most physical and biological hierarchies are described in spatial terms. We detect the organelles in a cell in the way we detect the raisins in a cake — they are “visibly” differentiated substructures localized spatially in the larger structure. On the other hand, we propose to identify social hierarchies not by observing who lives close to whom but by observing who interacts with whom. These two points of view can be reconciled by defining hierarchy in terms of intensity of interaction, but observing that in most biological and physical systems relatively intense interaction implies relative spatial propinquity.”

November 4, 2025 at 8:14 PM

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Jer Thorp

@jerthorp.bsky.social

(I've got some fun holiday-themed things coming over the next couple of weeks for people in the paid membership tiers, if you happen to have a bit of extra $ that has "pay artists" written on it)

October 22, 2025 at 8:47 PM

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clyde bruckman free link's ghost of xmas future's last repost

@ultralaser.bsky.social

terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.

October 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM

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Joseph Fasano

@josephfasano.bsky.social

Who will hear voices like this?

September 16, 2025 at 4:01 PM

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Jer Thorp

@jerthorp.bsky.social

A steal of a deal for the impulsive among you:

Sign up for my Data Art In The Jungle™ retreat which starts in 13 days and I'll give you free registration to the autumn Binoculars to Binomials course! A $645 value!

www.jerthorp.me/btb-retreat-...

Flights are super affordable to Colombia right now!

BtB Retreat 2025 | jerthorp

Spend five days in the lush and bird-filled jungle of Santa Marta, Colombia with Jer Thorp and a small group of curious bird + data + art enthusiasts. We'll wander the forest with local guides, learn ...

www.jerthorp.me

August 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Frank Wiles

@fwiles.bsky.social

If you told 90s me that there would be professional documentaries about any programming language I would have accused you have taking too many drugs at Lollapalooza!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH...