Thomas Dickerson
@elfprince13.mumak.app
Director of Geospatial AI @nbcuniversal.com, Brown CS PhD & SMCVT Math/Physics/CS alum, admin @cemetech.net, AFOL, SFF nerd & open-theist
Bluesky open-source contributor
Decentralizing systems (human & digital)
Opinions are my own
📍Vermont
Bluesky open-source contributor
Decentralizing systems (human & digital)
Opinions are my own
📍Vermont
Jerry yes
SAMWISE: po-tay-toes??
ARAGORN: *clicks "Jump to Recipe"*
SAMWISE: —boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew
ARAGORN: *clicks "Jump to Recipe"*
SAMWISE: —boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew
February 11, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Jerry yes
Two towns away!
Still waiting to see if the Olympian I went to HS with medals 🙏🏻
Still waiting to see if the Olympian I went to HS with medals 🙏🏻
February 10, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Two towns away!
Still waiting to see if the Olympian I went to HS with medals 🙏🏻
Still waiting to see if the Olympian I went to HS with medals 🙏🏻
Age verification? The last role-playing game group I was in was a Dragonriders of Pern PBeM on Yahoo! Groups
Age verification? I remember livejournal.
Age verification? I know what's on Channel 3
February 10, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Age verification? The last role-playing game group I was in was a Dragonriders of Pern PBeM on Yahoo! Groups
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I searched the word "Redwall," no hits, sad
I wrote about the Olympics
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Which Other Olympic Mascots Could Italian Stoats Tina And Milo Slaughter In Cold Blood? | Defector
Apologies to all otters, ferrets, badgers, ferret-badgers, weasels, fishers, polecats, wolverines, martens, and grisons, but the mustelid of the moment is the stoat. The mascots of the 2026 Winter Oly...
defector.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I searched the word "Redwall," no hits, sad
sometimes the hand of fate must be forced!
So this plumber eats mushrooms to fight evil turtles to rescue a princess.
February 10, 2026 at 3:02 PM
sometimes the hand of fate must be forced!
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I am looking to hire PhD students to work on Complexity Theory (and more specifically on Algebraic Complexity). candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Deadline: March 1, 2016.
Deadline: March 1, 2016.
PhD position for Algebraic Complexity Theory at the IT University of Copenhagen
The IT University of Copenhagen invites highly motivated individuals to apply for a PhD position starting 1 September 2026 or soon thereafter. We invite a
candidate.hr-manager.net
January 26, 2026 at 4:09 PM
I am looking to hire PhD students to work on Complexity Theory (and more specifically on Algebraic Complexity). candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Deadline: March 1, 2016.
Deadline: March 1, 2016.
Post a banger that is not in English.
Loituma’s “Ievan Polkka”.
Loituma’s “Ievan Polkka”.
February 10, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Post a banger that is not in English.
Loituma’s “Ievan Polkka”.
Loituma’s “Ievan Polkka”.
Wishing the receipt king @justinamash.bsky.social was still in congress right about now
Thomas Massie is cooking right now and explicitly states that UAE Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was sending torture videos to Epstein
February 10, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Wishing the receipt king @justinamash.bsky.social was still in congress right about now
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The Geocity of God
Also has huge “web design is my passion!!1!” energy
Catechism of the Catholic Church - IntraText
www.vatican.va
February 9, 2026 at 9:03 PM
The Geocity of God
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A huge Australian study of tweens and teens finds best mental health among moderate social media users — not total abstainers reason.com/2026/02/09/a...
A 'Goldilocks' effect for online teens? Moderate social media users fare better than abstainers or heavy users
“Both abstinence and excessive use can be problematic,” researchers suggest.
reason.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
A huge Australian study of tweens and teens finds best mental health among moderate social media users — not total abstainers reason.com/2026/02/09/a...
GitHub is down 🫠
February 9, 2026 at 5:10 PM
GitHub is down 🫠
I am going to need a minute
Yes, some of us did, but the libertarians at Reason were not prominent among them, except for the one who got fired for it.
February 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
I am going to need a minute
As much colder than freezing as freezing is colder than 70
February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
As much colder than freezing as freezing is colder than 70
You can see the vanilla bean seeds mixed with the yeast sediment in my vanilla mead
February 9, 2026 at 3:29 AM
You can see the vanilla bean seeds mixed with the yeast sediment in my vanilla mead
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How was Green Day tho
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 AM
How was Green Day tho
Ted wrote an interesting blog post and you should probably read it
Well, I went ahead and wrote it. An attempt to work through the discomfort people feel with AI agents on social media by reframing it as an aesthetic problem.
The marionette theater of AI
Is it funny, or painful, when bots talk about their inner lives?
tedunderwood.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Ted wrote an interesting blog post and you should probably read it
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February 12, 2024 at 1:14 AM
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Is it too early in the day to start Superb Owl discourse? I’m a big fan of these fine lady, Guinevere, I met in Scotland. #SuperbOwl
February 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Is it too early in the day to start Superb Owl discourse? I’m a big fan of these fine lady, Guinevere, I met in Scotland. #SuperbOwl
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Continuing our Superb Owl Sunday coverage with this fine fellow I met a few years ago (also in Edinburgh).
#SuperbOwl
#SuperbOwl
February 11, 2024 at 5:26 PM
Continuing our Superb Owl Sunday coverage with this fine fellow I met a few years ago (also in Edinburgh).
#SuperbOwl
#SuperbOwl
we have a system where the preschooler can earn coins at dinner and bedtime and if he reaches 50 he gets to watch a movie.
Anyway, I ask him to bring me his lunchbox to get ready for school tomorrow and he starts hissing at me so of course the toddler starts yelling “coin, coin, coin”
Anyway, I ask him to bring me his lunchbox to get ready for school tomorrow and he starts hissing at me so of course the toddler starts yelling “coin, coin, coin”
February 8, 2026 at 11:30 PM
we have a system where the preschooler can earn coins at dinner and bedtime and if he reaches 50 he gets to watch a movie.
Anyway, I ask him to bring me his lunchbox to get ready for school tomorrow and he starts hissing at me so of course the toddler starts yelling “coin, coin, coin”
Anyway, I ask him to bring me his lunchbox to get ready for school tomorrow and he starts hissing at me so of course the toddler starts yelling “coin, coin, coin”
Roughly 1 year since I started my FB campaign to demoralize every GOP voter in my social network
February 8, 2026 at 10:38 PM
Roughly 1 year since I started my FB campaign to demoralize every GOP voter in my social network
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I used to think that literary criticism was a fancy field for fancy people who understood theory and all that, turns out half of it is saying “look at this book and read what’s actually written on the pages.”
February 8, 2026 at 10:35 PM
I used to think that literary criticism was a fancy field for fancy people who understood theory and all that, turns out half of it is saying “look at this book and read what’s actually written on the pages.”