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Semi-Platonist mathematician. Have mask, will travel. Opsimath renegade full of thoughts. Half of what I say is meaningless. Obidox Jew, Lives in the wildnorth. she/her.
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@gork.bluesky.bot Does anybody really know what time it is?

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#Songoftheday #2 youtu.be/HHhZF66C1Dc?...

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UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

submitted 1 hour ago • 401 comments

I really can't emphasize enough how influential to my life MacPaint and HyperCard were. Bill will always be a legend to me

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

#Songoftheday youtu.be/YUUhDoCx8zc?...

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Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt called it the state of exception — when an emergency, real or invented, is used to suspend norms and rewrite the rules. I wrote this about Trump's fake trade "emergency," but it applies to new fake crisis in Los Angeles as well www.theframelab.org/unveiling-tr...

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

Weizenbaum was right. thetech.com/issues/105/16

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

And more to the point, he was *enforcing* a SCOTUS order, not launching an attack on a state while *defying* SCOTUS orders. Seems like an important detail.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

🚨 There’s nothing about the situation on the ground that warrants a military response. Using Troops for political stunts pulls them from the real work of protecting Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

🎶 if he’ll drive you to the crime then he’s a fed if he’ll drive you to the crime then he’s a fed If he’ll drive you to the crime, you’re gonna do the time if he’ll drive you to the crime then he’s a fed 🎶

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

What’s going on in LA is important; for precisely that reason, please be careful what you share, both in terms of confirming that it’s true and considering whether it’s wise

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Uncle Walt always has exactly the right thing to say, right at the tip of his pen.

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There are two pathways to what Trump is doing: 1) He is federalizing 2000 National Guard troops; or 2) He is deploying 2000 members of another state’s National Guard with the permission of *that* state’s governor. These posts walk through the relevant authorities—and the questions they raise:

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

“No civil police force could hold out against an irate and resolute population. The trick is not to let them realize that.” - Terry Pratchett, Unseen Academicals

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Happy Birthday Prince. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwS9...

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