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it's Sondheim completist weekend, I saw "Here We Are" and "The Frogs". "The Frogs" was surprisingly good, with fantastic choreography; if I have a complaint, it's that they played Shaw as too much of a sneering ass

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these threads are a lot of fun (still in progress if you’re the sort who wants to wait until things are complete)

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Incredibly bad (changes to N.S.F. funding for math):

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deeply disappointed that this development contains a finite, rational number of apartments

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do I now need to read Joshi’s papers?

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assume that land value tax has been implemented. how should houseboats be taxed? by mooring spots?

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Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

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Emily Tesh's "The Incandescent": why are academics Like That, with demons

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shoutout to the first pope subject to US income tax. I assume his old name goes on the 1040

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Are you in London TODAY evening?

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I am a modded version of a messaging app, Signal I’ve conversations confidential, archival, and criminal I know the DoD guys, and I make their chats transmissible From Pentagon to Tel Aviv, data protection: minimal

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I got commissioned to paint griddlehark imagined as a classic romance novel cover, which needless to say is one of the greatest commissions of all time and I had an absolute blast. #thelockedtomb

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RELEASED: Talmudifier, a Rust crate that typesets arbitrary Markdown text into Talmud-like PDFs. - Render beautiful page layouts with an internal TeX engine - Compile as an executable or a library - Supports marginalia and multiple fonts crates.io/crates/talmu... #rust #jewish #talmud #latex

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skeleton in a red suit is still ok, right?

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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“Getting off steam is the most challenging transition. This gives us an example.” Here's how the residents of this cooperatively owned 1962 New York City building opted to fully electrify the heating and cooling system:

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if you walk into a restaurant in [nice CT town] with a bike helmet you'll be assumed to be a delivery rider because why else would anyone ride a bike

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I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

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tricorns are out for the patriots day protest

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that probable cause exists to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt for willful violation of his March 15 orders regarding Trump's Alien Enemies Act proclamation and sets next steps toward possible prosecution. More to come: www.lawdork.com

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Andrew Cuomo's policy paper on affordable housing, released this weekend, was written with the help of ChatGPT and was released rife with typos, in some parts devolving into unintelligible gibberish. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

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I couldn't stop thinking about Abrego Garcia throughout the Maggid yesterday.

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And if Bukele refuses, he can debate the matter with the United States Marine Corps. I’m dead serious: there needs to be hard evidence that _even if another Trumpist regime takes power_ it is not worth the risk to play ball with them. Look around, consider your odds and let someone else go first.

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a maple-walnut chessboard I built ~20 years ago. incredible how much the maple has yellowed and the walnut has lightened #woodworking

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