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… cunning linguist something something …
Headline: Chompsky had deeper ties with Epstein than previously known
November 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Duolingo private investigator calls for the release of the Epstein files
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Frederic Kaplan (quoted by Stiegler) on the economic dimension of autocorrect:
What do the actors of linguistic capitalism fear? Language that eludes them, that breaks, is 'misspelled', that becomes impossible to put into equations. When the search engine corrects on the fly a word that you have spelled incorrectly, it does not do so only to help you: most often, it transforms something without any significant value (a misspelled word) into a directly profitable economic resource.
November 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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So this is one of the “major events” chronicled on the White House website page devoted to Trump’s proposed ballroom addition
Trump admin posts racist / islamophobic image of Obama to White House website section devoted to the history of the building with the following text: “Muslim Brotherhood Visit Obama hosts members of the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that promotes Islamist extremism and has ties to Hamas. The Muslim Brotherhood is a designated terrorist organization by nearly a dozen nations.”
October 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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For generations the squirrels of these woods have kept a tally of the bears who fuck this tree. It’s said that every 40th new moon a bear-shaped acorn will fall from the canopy, granting its finder a dark and terrible power …
A tree with a vertical hollow
September 20, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Tired: google
Expired (but infinitely more fun): Henley’s
Photo of the cover page of a book: “HENLEY'S TWENTIETH CENTURY FORMULAS, RECIPES AND PROCESSES CONTAINING TEN THOUSAND SELECTED HOUSEHOLD, WORKSHOP AND SCIENTIFIC FORMULAS, TRADE SECRETS, CHEMICAL RECIPES, PROCESSES AND MONEY SAVING IDEAS A VALUABLE REFERENCE BOOK FOR THE HOME, THE FACTORY THE OFFICE AND THE WORKSHOP EDITED BY GARDNER D. HISCOX, M. E. A SCIENCE NEW REVISED AND IMPROVED EDITION INCLUDING USEFUL WORKSHOP AND LABORATORY METHODS”
July 30, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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At a moment of reflection on the relationship between big tech and right-wing politics, it’s interesting to recall the early days of ecommerce and the convenient affinity between libertarians and corps. From Simon Singh’s _The Code Book_, 1999
Possibly the greatest allies of the civil libertarian cause are the big cor-Porations. Internet commerce is still in its intancy, but sales are growing rapidly, with retailers of books, music CDs and computer software leading the way, and with supermarkets, travel companies and other businesses following in their wake. In 1998 a million Britons used the Internet to buy products worth $600 million, a figure that was set to quadruple in 1999. In just a few years from now Internet commerce could dominate the market-place, but only if businesses can address the issues of security and trust. A business must be able to guarantee the privacy and security of financial transactions, and the only way to do this is to employ strong encryption.
July 28, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Hulk Hogan did 9/11
July 24, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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From a profile of Jack Whitten in NYRB
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Visual art is about perception, he wrote, and our perception is changed by our technology in ways we probably cannot fully comprehend; painting, however, can grapple with those changes, record and combat them, hold the past and the future in relation. Whitten’s belief that painting can provide this essential service to the world partly accounts for the inexplicable vitality and ubiquity of painting today: we live in a world dominated by images, digitally dematerialized and endlessly proliferating on screens. But in painting we encounter images as embodied things; painting is a very old technology that we can use to work out our relationship with these images—something impossible to do within the infinitely flickering scroll.
July 6, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpr...
It seems fair to say that mathematicians are impressed with the current performance of models, and, furthermore, see interesting avenues for augmenting mathematical research using AI tools. However, many mathematicians view the rhetoric that “math can be solved”, extrapolating from progress on competition-style mathematics viewed as a game, as problematic at best, and at worst presenting a fundamental misunderstanding of the goals of research mathematics as a whole.
July 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Seen in the wild
June 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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internet on radio on internet
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May 5, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Find the toad
There’s a toad amongst the leaves
May 4, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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A white cat and an easter bunny tire of the camera’s gaze
April 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Meanwhile on Nextdoor
Nextdoor post asking for an Uber
March 19, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Omg they look like my guy. Probably just as sweet
March 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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March 1, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Google Photos lacks Cheers-level face recognition
Screen cap of google photos interface failing to recognize Cliff from Cheers, a fictional bar where everyone knows your name.
February 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Going through boxes looking for a birth certificate. Found this in an old Village Voice, 6/22/93.
Comic from village voice 1993, “Pot A to Z”
February 22, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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Hits different in 2025
Cover photo for Polvo’s 1994 EP “Celebrate the New Dark Age”
February 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Me, casually looking up some ancient Greek term, as one does.

Brill website: You can’t handle the nous!
Unreadable web site
February 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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It's difficult right now to talk about truth-telling in light of the genocide in Gaza. Everybody knows the truth. Many deny it, but everybody knows the truth. Filmmakers who have claimed to be committed to depicting the lives of the marginalized are not silent because they do not know the truth. Columnists who have otherwise been so eloquent about justice did not fall silent because they do not know the truth. I am not saying this in resignation, but we might have to stop talking about how to speak truth to power and figure out how to give the truth power.
February 16, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Bird feet or little trees?
Prints from bird feet in the snow, overlapping a boot print.
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Jacques doing his best snowball impersonation
February 9, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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This could literally be any of the DOGE staffers, including Elon, ofc
February 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM