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Cory
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There and Back Again
in the depths of that leaf-encumbered forest, the soul
Though I sang in my chains like the sea
I am not done with my changes
in des Welt-Atems wehendem All
And for all this, nature is never spent
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longnow.org
Times of fragmentation call for a legible sense of order.

We’re pleased to introduce the 02025 issue of Pace Layers, Long Now’s annual print journal of long-term thinking. It explores the ancient past and distant future of the present moment.

A preview of what's inside ->
November 19, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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damonagnos.bsky.social
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately Taco Bell decree:
Where Blast, the Baja river, ran
So everyone across the land
   Could live both más and free
January 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
We've added 100 new CDs to our collection of press CDs from GamePro magazine, with thousands of pieces of game art, screenshots, and more

So, what's the GamePro press CD collection? We put together an explainer
The art of GamePro | VGHF Library Highlights
YouTube video by The Video Game History Foundation
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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erikahall.bsky.social
This isn't the book I was looking for, but gaze upon this amazing cover

A New Guide to Artificial Intelligence (1991)
A New Guide to Artificial Intelligence by Derek Partridge a red and white cover with Intelligent Machines connected by a dotted line to Philosophy of Mind and a bunch of offshoot subdomains labeled in black boxes
November 9, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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yappelbaum.bsky.social
BREAKING: Mark Wolf, appointed to the federal bench by Ronald Reagan, writes that he is resigning as a judge to have the freedom to speak out against the president's assault on the rule of law.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
November 9, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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jackjenkins.me
UPDATE: Reached out to the Rev. Hannah Kardon, a United Methodist minister who was there that day and has been active in religious demonstrations at Broadview.

“They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer … it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil.”
They are making it clear that they are scared of prayer and all the diverse faith witness that has been at Broadview because it is powerful - it speaks the truth that what they are doing in that building is evil. But we will not stop until the evil stops. They have stolen our neighbors, they cannot steal our love and prayers for their return.
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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dustinbwright.com
Which, whose, and how much knowledge do LLMs represent?

I'm excited to share our preprint answering these questions:

"Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Collapse in Large Language Models"

📄Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04226
💻Code: github.com/dwright37/ll...

1/10
October 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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regretteruane.bsky.social
Philip Larkin’s this be the verse mangled into Ozymandias, the text reads They Oz you up, your mandyias. They may not mean to, but they do. They give you vast and trunkless legs A sunken shattered visage too. But they were Ozzed up in their turn By Mandyias upon the sand Who half the time had wrinkled lips And half in sneering cold command. Oz hands on mandyias to man. Like mighty works atop a shelf Look on them early as you can Ye mighty and despair yourself
October 30, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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leastactionhero.bsky.social
Dominos meme White Sox fan forced to accept Cubs jersey Assyrian bishops refuse to condemn Nestorius's 431 challenge to the use of the title Theotokos ('Bearer of God'") for Mary.
October 28, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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shannonvallor.bsky.social
I want you to imagine what you would have said in 2005 if someone told you a company would do this and not only get away with it, but evade wide public outrage
justinhendrix.bsky.social Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 28d
"OpenAI twice loosened ChatGPT’s rules for discussing suicide in the year before 16-year-old Adam Raine took his own life using a method the chatbot advised him on, according to an amended lawsuit filed by his parents on Wednesday."
OpenAI Loosened Suicide-Talk Rules Before Teen’s Death, Lawsuit Alleges
An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement.
www.wsj.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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archive.org
We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....
Greg Newby
October 22, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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worklesshard.bsky.social
"Southeast Asia traditionally uses longer TTLs for DNS" is a really fascinating statement of econo-technocultural anthropology.
October 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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edutecheditor.bsky.social
“Since 1991, the video game Civilization, now in its seventh installment, has become one of the most successful game franchises ever. That means millions of kids have grown up with Civ as one of their formative ways of thinking about history.” (via @jstor.bsky.social) #AcademicSky
History and Civilization - JSTOR Daily
The Civilization video games may not convey actual history very well, but they’ve encouraged generations of young people to learn more about the past.
buff.ly
October 11, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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rachael1918.bsky.social
Almost ten years on, it’s amazing to me that the Reylo fights in the sequel trilogy are often discussed solely in terms of a scoreboard. Those scenes aren't about who has the higher power ranking - the focus is on their emotional states. Let’s look at the main fight in each film to illustrate.
September 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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tomayac.com
In #WebAssembly spec news, #Wasm 3.0 is complete 🎉! Read all about it in Andreas Rossberg's article: webassembly.org/news/2025-09....
Wasm 3.0 Completed - WebAssembly
WebAssembly (abbreviated Wasm) is a binary instruction format for a stack-based virtual machine. Wasm is designed as a portable compilation target for programming languages, enabling deployment on the...
webassembly.org
September 18, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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internetarchive.eu
@internetarchiveca.bsky.social signs the Four Digital Rights Statement & helps us launch a French version of the Statement! 🇫🇷
Want to help translate? Email: campaigns@internetarchive.eu
Our blog: www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/17/i...
#DigitalRights #Libraries #Archives
Internet Archive Canada Signs the Four Digital Rights Statement - Internet Archive Europe
The Our Future Memory movement to secure digital rights for memory institutions has taken another step forward. Internet Archive Canada has signed the Statement on the Four Digital Rights of Memory In...
www.internetarchive.eu
September 17, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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theferocity.bsky.social
YIKES!!!
September 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:
September 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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aricohn.com
1/ This week, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer demanded that the Wikimedia Foundation hand over information on editorial policies & individual contributors to help the committee investigate "propaganda" on Wikipedia.

These demands are offensive to 1st Amendment values
Screenshot of letter on congressional letterhead
August 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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chrisbrockett.bsky.social
I am delighted to report that the following paper, written by my former team at Microsoft, has been published in PNAS.

Echoes in AI: Quantifying lack of plot diversity in LLM outputs. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Echoes in AI: Quantifying lack of plot diversity in LLM outputs | PNAS
With rapid advances in large language models (LLMs), there has been an increasing application of LLMs in creative content ideation and generation. ...
www.pnas.org
August 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie
If I’m asked to explain anything that happens in the world, this is my go-to answer
jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · Sep 29
67% of men and 25% of women would rather give themselves electric shocks than be alone with their thoughts
August 25, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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amybrown.xyz
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me? Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.
August 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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rcallahanwaco.bsky.social
Imagine standing in an auditorium, hands raised, eyes closed singing “spirit lead me where my trust is without borders”while surrounded by people you can’t trust not to call ICE & try to have you deported across the border because your skin’s too brown.
August 21, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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vghistory.bsky.social
illusion of time, magazine screenshot, snes (1995) archive.org/details/supe...
red caped, purple suited, blonde haired protagonist is standing on a platform, which happens to be the top of a face statue's head. rock face is on either side.
May 21, 2025 at 2:45 AM