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Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1h

Yeah. And how do you beat a rocket base with monorail and piranha tank in a hollowed out volcano with a retractable roof that looks like a lake from above?

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1h

My favorite Bond movie.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1h

The helicopter with the giant magnet picks up the carful of Spectre agents who are trying to harsh Bond's mellow and ruin his vibe and drops it in a hippie commune where they drop acid and dance and make fun of Blofeld.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1h

Tiger Tanaka's private subway train is a party train!

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 2h

I'd definitely take Winnipeg over Edmonton.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 4h

"Oh uh receipts yeah uh I gave them to Frodo to turn in when he got back from Mordor and he accidentally threw them into Mount Doom by accident... can you just give me a per diem?"

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5h

Seriously, no one would do that if say they were trying to solve a science or engineering problem. But when it comes to policy, the opinion of some rando on the internet is apparently just as valid as someone who has been studying the problem for years.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 13h

But did he come back with 17 years' worth of receipts that took the finance office two years to reimburse?

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 13h

Yep. Like most people who come to social media to 'ask questions' or 'debate', going back to USENET in the 1990s. Seriously, how does someone with some kind of business empire have so much time to spend posting?

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1d

The Lighthouse is a Christmas tree?

Ted Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 1d

And Tiny Tim did NOT die, but was sustained by a feeling of brightness visible to others only as a soft phosphorescence — seeing the world more clearly and precisely than he had ever seen it before.

Annihilation is a Christmas story. Peace on Earth.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, joined the crew of a spaceship sent to Jupiter after the discovery of a monolith on the Moon, but the ship's computer killed everyone else, so he disabled the computer and then took a freaky pod journey, and then he ended up in a weirdly decorated hotel suite.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, his body surrendered to the sand in a slow, irreversible negotiation with eternity. Where a boy had been, a vast segmented body took shape, ring after ring locking into immortality.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was immortal. From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last.

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, his body surrendered to the sand in a slow, irreversible negotiation with eternity. Where a boy had been, a vast segmented body took shape, ring after ring locking into immortality.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was immortal. From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last.

Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 1d

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, now has a machine gun. Ho. Ho. Ho.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1d

This is a great essay on the relationship between traditional history and quantitative history, and the implications for digital and computational history. Well worth a read.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 1d

Schmidt on how the Time on the Cross debate shaped the rise of digital history. He uses a fantastic Ash Chen and Naidu paper as a contrast to what digital history isn’t - but argues that it’s mostly a good thing. Super fascinating if you follow digital humanities or social science history debates.

Two Volumes | Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Computational Humanities brings together leading experts to consider what counts as digital humanities scholarship, offering nuanced discourse centered around theories of knowledge and power. Providin...

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 1d

Schmidt on how the Time on the Cross debate shaped the rise of digital history. He uses a fantastic Ash Chen and Naidu paper as a contrast to what digital history isn’t - but argues that it’s mostly a good thing. Super fascinating if you follow digital humanities or social science history debates.

Two Volumes | Computational Humanities | Debates in the Digital Humanities

Computational Humanities brings together leading experts to consider what counts as digital humanities scholarship, offering nuanced discourse centered around theories of knowledge and power. Providin...

dhdebates.gc.cuny.edu

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1d

Rather than 'asking questions', why not follow people with expertise in whatever it is you're interested in? Lots of academics, journalists, and policy experts here share their insights. Following them is more efficient than 'asking questions' and then waiting for replies to come in.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 1d

Wouldn't that make Fistful of Dollars a Christmas movie?

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 3d

My main memory of Palo Alto and for that matter Menlo Park is that when I was there 2022/2023, by 8pm the restaurants were empty and if we were still eating the wait staff were all giving us the stinkeye.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

This should be carved into stone and stored in a geologically stable underground chamber to be preserved for all time. Long after humanity is extinct, aliens exploring the ruined and desolate Earth will come upon it and transport it to their home planet, then propagate it throughout the galaxy.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

If his character appears in a scene wirh the hot sauce in the next movie the resulting infinite recursion could collapse the time-space continuum. We must not let this happen.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

Has anyone trained an AI with the text of his speeches and Truth Social posts? I wonder if it could past a sort of Turing test where we had to decide whether it was him or the AI.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

"I'd like to check out." "Oh, you'll have to wait, there's no receptionist on duty. And the airport shuttle isn't running. Why don't you have some ice cream?"

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

In a few years we're going to be getting invitations to all inclusive resorts we've never heard of, with 24/7 buffets and no gym, free with the condition that we don't tell anyone where we are, don't bring mobile phones, and don't bring Ozempic. "You'll stay for the rest of your life!"

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

Seems like an ideal place for Ann Arbor's equivalent of Frank White or Tony Montana to own, so he can stand on the balcony and survey his domain, taking comfort in the fact that every racket with the area bounded by 14/23/94 is his.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 5d

Glad to know that if I want a gaudily decorated 5000 square foot penthouse apartment I'm not limited to cities like SF, NYC, LA and HK.

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 6d

2001 reboot is looking promising

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 6d

Fact check: ✅️

A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 6d

Ross Douthat looks like a discarded first draft of JD Vance

Ross Douthat, a stupid asshole that sucks

A K @aklingus.bsky.social · 6d

Ross Douthat looks like a discarded first draft of JD Vance

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 6d

Some of these redactions are almost like modern art

Cameron D. Campbell 康文林 @camerondcampbell.blog · 7d

I can understand your disappointment. Obviously he should have selected "Only Time Will Tell".

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