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Dan Klyn
@danklyn.bsky.social
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Perhaps it would be better to look for once in awe at what is here, not with great learnedness but with warm understanding.

— Rudolf Schwarz (1938)

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He gives us all his love
Orion over my backyard, moving a bit westward each morning
November 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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wanna read:
GERALD COPE LESSONS IN ARCHITECTURE As told to me over lunch ELLIOTT CURSON ONA TRAIN TO NEW YORK WITH LOUIS KAHN LOUIS: What are you working on? GERRY: An enclosed shopping center in Cherry Hill. It'll be the largest in the country. LOUIS: Don't do it. You'll be successful. Gerry studied under Kahn at the University of Pennsylvania.
November 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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most of what got released today's gotta be OCR'd except JE's will
November 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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November 13, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Intro to IA class today: ontological designing and object-relational modeling

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title slide: Introduction to Information Architecture November 11, 2025
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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In class tomorrow we'll try out this new Object-Relational Modeling app:

informationagnosia.com/class/class5/
Visual and textual modeling of objects and relationships: OBJECTS (10): - Taco (1) - Sandwich (1) - Wrap - Protein (*) - Sauce (0..*) - Garnish (*) - Bread - Cheese - Guac - Pico RELATIONSHIPS: - Sandwich has { Wrap, Protein, Sauce, Garnish } - Sauce has { Guac, Pico } - Taco ← is a kind of ← Sandwich - Cheese ← is a kind of ← Protein - Bread ← is a kind of ← Wrap
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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My OTC Spice Racks Exercise app has been upgraded:

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Screenshot of Web App for making spice racks and knowing / talking about why you organize the way you do
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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My tiny ontology machine has been upgraded:

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Latour Litany showing in my Tiny Ontology Machine is sourced from the text of Joyce's ULYSSES
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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First snow of winter
A dusting of snow on the deck behind my house in Hudsonville MI
November 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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vibe coding in Gemini means seeing "isolating the New Bug" a lot Jeff Goldblum in The Fly aka New Bug
November 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.
Late For The Sky / Jackson Browne
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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#makesensemess
Sensemaking has a shadow side: 1. Identify the Mess 2. State an Intent 3. Face Reality 4. Choose a Direction 5. Measure the Distance 6. Play with Structure 7. Prepare to Adjust 1. Never Identify the Mess 2. Adopt Someone Else's Intent 3. Refuse to Face Reality 4. Don't Choose a Direction 5. Never Measure the Distance 6. Stop Playing with Structure 7. Forget Things Will Change
November 7, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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What could possibly go wrong?
Pasiphae and the baby Minotaur, red-figure kylix found at Etruscan Vulci, 4th century BC, Cabinet des Médailles, Paris
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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They misspelled "nationally recognized sex pest and disgraced former U-M president"

Naturally a U-M that chooses to deny healthcare to trans kids also chooses to spotlight and rehabilitate the reputation of a sexual harasser (not to mention shitty tip leaver)

record.umich.edu/articles/fro...
The rewards For Schlissel, a nationally recognized biomedical researcher, seeing the D. Dan and Betty Kahn Health Care Pavilion open its doors is a gratifying moment. "During all my years as U-M president, the ability to positively influence our health system was one of the most satisfying parts of my job," he said. Mark Bernstein, chair of the Board of Regents, is appreciative of Schlissel's leadership throughout the establishment of the hospital. "We are profoundly grateful to President Mark Schlissel. This building would not be here without his extraordinary vision and commitment to healthcare," he said.
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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information architecture 👇
Skeets with a screenshot of today's WaPo homepage Don Moynihan •@donmoyn.bsky.social • 9s Lot of weird blank spaces on the front pages of the Post. You would never know this paper was owned by someone who made his fortune building a website. Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social • 5m It's going-out-of-business day at WaPo.
November 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Made something spicy for Intro to IA class later today:

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detail of a UI for a browser based spice rack builder app
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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He gives us all his love
Orion nearly outshined by the nearly full moon
November 4, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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..like that moment when the U-M Health System decided to deny care to trans kids in order to please Dear Leader

#shame
#goblue
U-M needs to do less advertising and more ethics-finding IMO. Here is their shitty print ad "The U-M Was Built For Moments Like This"
November 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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You gotta make it thru the world

if you can
Van Morrison, A Period of Transition LP cover detail
November 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Yuge if true
Curtis Sliwa officiated a gay marriage while managing a Bronx McDonald's in the 1970s started acting, I worked at a McDonalds in the Bronx and my manager at the time was Curtis Sliwa. This was before Curtis founded the Guardian Angels and become a conservative radio talk show host. On one Saturday afternoon and evening, I slipped out of my parents house, where I was living, in order to attend the wedding of my co-worker Ralph, the fierce snapping queen of our McDonalds crew, from whom I first heard she pronoun "she" used in reference to a male. "Oh yes, my boyfriend Vinny? She and me is gonna be married. Oh yes, child. You're all invited. And Curtis, she's gonna do the service."
November 3, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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ah, ja ..

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6.7: Successive pulses from the first pulsar discovered, CP 1919, are here superimposed statistically. The pulses occur every 1.337 seconds. They are caused by a rapidly spinning neutron star. ### Pulsars **Discovery** The possibility that the degenerate pressure of neutrons might stabilize a self-gravitating object was first noted in the 1930s by L. D. Landau and F. Zwicky. W. Baade and F. Zwicky emphasized that they might exist as the stellar remnant of a supernova explosion. Interest in neutron stars was aroused by the discovery of X-ray stars in 1962. Because a neutron star is so small (radius of 10 km), in order to radiate energy at a rate comparable to the Sun it needs to have a much higher surface temperature, namely several million degrees. Radiation emitted by material at such a high temperature is X-radiation. It was thought at the time that some of these X-ray stars might be hot, cooling neutron stars. However, the variable luminosity of these stars made this hypothesis inconclusive. The situation changed dramatically with the discovery of pulsars (pulsing radio sources) in late 1967 by astronomers at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. The first one to be discovered, CP 1919 (an abbreviation for Cambridge pulsar at 19 hr 19 min right ascension), is a radio source which flashes regularly every 1.33730 seconds, with each flash lasting only a few milliseconds. In fact, the flashes are so regular that the pulsar could be used as a clock that is accurate to one part in a hundred million. Since then many more pulsars (about 200) have been discovered, with periods ranging from four seconds down to the pulsar in the Crab Nebula, which has a period of 33 milliseconds. This last-mentioned pulsar is of special importance, since it proved beyond all reasonable doubt that pulsars are magnetized neutron stars. The regularity of the pulsed radio signal is provided by the rapid rotation of such stars, and only a neutron star can rotate that rapidly (Figure 6.7). …
November 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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I have long wondered if Saville or whoever in the band saw it in here originally and then retconned the source to Scientific American..
Page with 4 diagrams including the pulsar stacked wave thingy Graphis Diagrams 1974
November 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Now whenever I see a text I wanna (and do) make a Tiny Ontology Machine outta it

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First Germans, unprostituted, a temptation, the Motorcars, this morbid swept, the unfathomable, this undress, that daft Dan, each Butterley.
November 2, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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This tiny ontology machine uses the text of Joyce's ULYSSES to make Latour Litanies

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Marmalade, neatly thunder, Dante, reasonable London, this field, liberal gunwale, nervous spunk, brief smile.
November 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Tutorial: here are urls for ontographic units and adjectives I scraped from the Heritage Foundation's website. Try loading these in the Tiny Ontology machine:

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Indication, intellectual infamy, filth, that toe, some metro, an arrival, sin, robber.
November 1, 2025 at 2:15 PM