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John Conor Ryan
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o, no no no: canna be an explicit quid-pro-quo. It has to be a nice "thank you", gratuity after the fact.
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Physicist, writer, learning to play jazz on cello.
Coming soon: the Sustainable Development Initiative.
Co-steward of getdweb.net/principles/ ... values for the Web we deserve.
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John Conor Ryan
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o, no no no: canna be an explicit quid-pro-quo. It has to be a nice "thank you", gratuity after the fact.
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Chris Geidner
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Steve Bannon is in prison for contempt and Rudy Giuliani just lost his N.Y. law license, but John Roberts insists that invisible ink in the Constitution prevents Donald Trump, the ringleader, from facing charges for virtually anything that Trump can claim was an official act.
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Tom the Dancing Bug, by Ruben Bolling
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Tom the Dancing Bug from 2019, when the notion of presidential immunity was a laughably ridiculous argument made up by Trump's lawyers.
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Pwnallthethings
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Supreme Court rules 6-3 American Revolutionary War was incorrectly decided
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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John Pfaff
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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.
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John Conor Ryan
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Trying quite hard to forget.
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John Conor Ryan
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Hieronymous Bosch: that'd be Jerry Wood. Apropos of even less: I suspect "wood" is the basis of the most common names. Bosch. duBois. Bosco. Wald. Lin, Lim (Chinese). Hayashi (Japanese).
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Django Wexler
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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation
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John Conor Ryan
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I was once in Beijing and my laptop warned (summary) "hey, someone unauthorized is trying to access your files". Option 1: do a stateful shutdown? Option 2: turn machine over and remove battery? Easy choice.
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John Conor Ryan
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We live far apart, but under the same stars. We await your healthy recovery and return.
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John Conor Ryan
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I *might* watch @sarahcpr.bsky.social (not really here but) lip-synching the weirdest parts after the fact. Not going to watch tonight, since I care for my health and wouldn't even vote for him if a gun was pressed to my head.
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John Conor Ryan
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One of my favorite non sequiturs is that use of "but". Imagine: I'm not a racist BUT ... I'm not in favor of everything Trump does BUT ... Everyone likes your work at this firm BUT ... Everything before (and including) "BUT" is a lie. Always.
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John Conor Ryan
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Very nice of them to provide clear instructions in how to bribe them. 1. Lunch at Chipotle, before judgement: BAD 2. Any explicit and documented quid-pro-quo: BAD 3. Wink-and-a-nod, unlimited YES YES YES! Send over the limos, the private flights, stays with oligarchs, motorhomes.
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John Conor Ryan
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Saw Best play a few times as a kid. Mostly, he looked bored, tired (probably hungover). But once he did things with his body and with the ball I knew and know are Actually Impossible. And the other side, and their fans, knew: this was greatness.
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John Conor Ryan
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Georgie!!!!!
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John Conor Ryan
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Proud that you got her that gift.
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John Conor Ryan
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Perhaps someone is creating nonsense images either inside Zillow to trick people scraping the data or somewhere else to trick Zillow. (Akin to how map makers - including Google Maps! - have for centuries created non-existent streets and ponds.)
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John Conor Ryan
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I spend my hours studying externalized costs and their consequences. I don't align fully w/ the IMF using the word subsidies to cover all externalized costs. But they are big and somewhat mighty, so I defer to them, kind of.
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John Conor Ryan
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Go on ...
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John Conor Ryan
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Indeed he would, but likely with language more coarse than is now tolerated. My best story: I once got to see Marlowe's Tamurlaine the Great, performed on the unearthed stage of The Rose. The audience also sat on the old stage ... where Shakespeare had once acted in ... Tamurlaine the Great.
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John Conor Ryan
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And the bawdy lines and those riffing on current events, lampooning famous / powerful people. Few or none of the Dukes, and lauded writers of the era (or, likely Lanier) seem likely to have written those in.
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John Conor Ryan
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Lanier wrote her own poetry and plays but where I align with you (and ack: this is all 100% speculation) it seems plausible that Shakespeare got to read in Lanier's library and she'd interpret (literally, for plays in Italian) and figuratively, just chatting ...
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John Conor Ryan
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Not disagreeing. And then: there are +/- 38 Shakespeare plays. 13 are set in Italy at least in part. And R&J derives in part from Giulietta e Romeo by da Porto ... which was likely in Lanier's library.
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John Conor Ryan
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In general the "who wrote Shakespeare" discussions are nuts BUT the one that catches me is that idea that a well-educated, ~Italian ~Jewish woman did so. In part because the women are often fully-drawn figures, in Lear, R&J, Macbeth and more.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_...
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John Conor Ryan
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O, c'mon: Printers would become magenta-ink-warning machines. Fancy, carbon-fiber bikes would be spandex-douche transporters Home fridges: mold experiments for the family! Cybertrux would be ... [insert laugh line here]
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John Conor Ryan
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The lawsuits against @archive.org aim to achieve for the written, published word that books (and music), in the Internet era, become transient, owned only and forever by their publishers. None of this permanent-part-of-culture nonsense!
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John Conor Ryan
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What happens when a ~continent becomes a museum to its own past?
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Randall Munroe
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Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948
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John Conor Ryan
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Hoping it's a talking parrot trained to shout obscenities or "this could have been an email!"
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Lawrence Wilkinson
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The horse changed human history; we now have a clearer idea of when humans began to transform the horse: "Scientists have traced the origin of the modern horse to a lineage that emerged 4,200 years ago" @larsonchristina @physorg_com
(Plus- Muybridge)
Mount up: roughlydaily.com/2024/06/15/a...
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John Conor Ryan
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Yup.
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John Conor Ryan
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For which painful service, I offer my heart and my thanks. (A young ~cousin was in his first couple of months in EMT training when he got a rotation to the sleepy little town of Sandy Hook. You can guess the rest.)
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John Conor Ryan
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I know a guy who (long story) had a contract with Trump. Wow. Not only did his company get paid $0.00 but the top brass were told that their payment in full was not being killed (in a singularly cruel way).
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Paul Waldman
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Every sentence of this report is jaw-dropping. No one who helps this man become the most powerful person on earth should ever be forgiven. EVER.
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Matt Shipman (he/him)
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A timely paper on generative AI. 🧪
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Joanna Bagniewska
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A new, lovely book appeared recently - "Infinite Life" by @juleshoward.bsky.social. It's about eggs and the evolution of life, and if you liked "Otherlands", you'll enjoy this one as well.
I reviewed it for the Times Literary Supplement, if you need more tempting.
www.the-tls.co.uk/science-tech...
🧪
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Internet Archive
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📚 Attention Readers & Researchers
More than 500,000 books have been removed from our lending library due to the publishers' lawsuit. Have you been affected? Share your story with us and help us fight to restore access. #LetReadersRead
👉 forms.gle/G2GXK6xwMZ3t...
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John Conor Ryan
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A Potemkin deal.
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John Conor Ryan
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It's Thurmodynamics Thersday or something. Actually: Maxwell's birthday, so here's a short note on the 2nd law.
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John Conor Ryan
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I led a 20,000-respondent project and getting the last 1,000 was a trip ... had to get a few more of one segment or another. Robocalls demolished paid panels, and off we went to lowest-common denominator nonsense. There's no point comparing current polls with those from 10 years ago.
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John Conor Ryan
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and the delta n (the alleged / imagined shifts) are, as you're pointing to: single digits. (old man voice): years ago, research firms maintained HUGE panels of known respondents, who were paid to fairly complete research questionnaires and could be balanced to get robust demographics. +1 more
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John Conor Ryan
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The wealth Joel Osteen amasses peddling egocentric nihilism in the name of a divine being, likewise.
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John Conor Ryan
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Mostly, I'm content with a modest life but ... I'd happily spend my Powerball winnings making music in San Francisco ~free: SF Symphony (but NOT Mahler), Jazz, Blues. And an Aston Martin.
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John Conor Ryan
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Proper noun, man, proper noun.
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James Kennedy ✊️
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Hey guys, this is a real long-shot but does anyone here have any connections to anyone in the movie industry? A friend, a relative, friend-of-a-friend, whatever. If so, please drop me a message so I can explain. Thanks guys! 🙏
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Jen Sorensen
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New comic: Billionaires Fund Human Intelligence www.dailykos.com/stories/2024...
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Stephen Hopkins
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Who wore it better?
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John Conor Ryan
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I can't help at all. Somebody?
(O, have you looked at books @archive.org ?)
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