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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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Watching “Sister Act״ while waiting for Fresh Direct (that seems to be my life recently, doing low-commitment activities while waiting for someone to call/arrive/finish) and it’s taking me back in time more than I anticipated. I first saw this movie back then and the circumstances were emotional.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Read this 🧵for yet another reason you want to follow @cpsc.gov !

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 14 hours ago • 524 comments

THIS! NYC primary voters, please make sure to rank more than just your top choice, preferably fill all 5 slots. Part of the problem last time was that too many voters who didn’t want Adams (or Yang) failed to rank enough choices.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Vaccines are rigorously tested, they are effective, and they save lives. More than 150 million lives have been saved in the past 50 years thanks to vaccines! But you may be worried about what's in them? So, let’s break it down ⬇

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

#Songoftheday youtu.be/YUUhDoCx8zc?...

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

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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 day ago • 633 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 1 day ago • 2 comments

#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 1 day ago • 13 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments