Gregory Primosch☸️
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“What is will power?” asked Toad.
“Will power is trying hard NOT to do something that you really want to do,” said Frog.
“Will power is trying hard NOT to do something that you really want to do,” said Frog.
November 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“What is will power?” asked Toad.
“Will power is trying hard NOT to do something that you really want to do,” said Frog.
“Will power is trying hard NOT to do something that you really want to do,” said Frog.
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🚨 There’s still time to support the transit bill:
1. Fill out your contact information
3. Under "firm/business" put "self"
4. Under "representation" put "self"
5. Under "position" choose subject matter "SB2111" and "proponent"
6. Under "testimony" choose "record of appearance only"
7. "Submit"
1. Fill out your contact information
3. Under "firm/business" put "self"
4. Under "representation" put "self"
5. Under "position" choose subject matter "SB2111" and "proponent"
6. Under "testimony" choose "record of appearance only"
7. "Submit"
Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
Welcome to the Official government website of the Illinois General Assembly
ilga.gov
October 31, 2025 at 12:24 AM
🚨 There’s still time to support the transit bill:
1. Fill out your contact information
3. Under "firm/business" put "self"
4. Under "representation" put "self"
5. Under "position" choose subject matter "SB2111" and "proponent"
6. Under "testimony" choose "record of appearance only"
7. "Submit"
1. Fill out your contact information
3. Under "firm/business" put "self"
4. Under "representation" put "self"
5. Under "position" choose subject matter "SB2111" and "proponent"
6. Under "testimony" choose "record of appearance only"
7. "Submit"
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all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene
October 18, 2025 at 6:47 AM
all these seemed the strange calm things preluding some riotous and desperate scene
Reposted by Gregory Primosch☸️
We've open sourced QuackStore - a block-based caching extension for DuckDB! 🦆
QuackStore dramatically speeds up queries on remote data by intelligently caching only the blocks you need.
Now available as a DuckDB community extension: github.com/coginiti-dev...
QuackStore dramatically speeds up queries on remote data by intelligently caching only the blocks you need.
Now available as a DuckDB community extension: github.com/coginiti-dev...
GitHub - coginiti-dev/QuackStore
Contribute to coginiti-dev/QuackStore development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
October 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
We've open sourced QuackStore - a block-based caching extension for DuckDB! 🦆
QuackStore dramatically speeds up queries on remote data by intelligently caching only the blocks you need.
Now available as a DuckDB community extension: github.com/coginiti-dev...
QuackStore dramatically speeds up queries on remote data by intelligently caching only the blocks you need.
Now available as a DuckDB community extension: github.com/coginiti-dev...
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Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order Friday to authorize medical professionals to provide updated COVID-19 vaccines to nearly anyone who wants it in Illinois, despite an effort by federal officials to limit access to the life-saving shot.
to.wttw.com/41MG4Xd
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Pritzker Signs Order to Get Around US Limits on COVID-19 Vaccine
“This is about making sure no family in Illinois is left wondering if they can protect themselves against preventable serious illness,” Gov. JB Pritzker said. “When the federal government abandons its responsibility, Illinois will step up.”
to.wttw.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order Friday to authorize medical professionals to provide updated COVID-19 vaccines to nearly anyone who wants it in Illinois, despite an effort by federal officials to limit access to the life-saving shot.
to.wttw.com/41MG4Xd
to.wttw.com/41MG4Xd
Labor day is as good occasion for a John Brown speech as any youtube.com/watch?v=dmys...
John Brown’s Last Speech Performed by David Strathairn
YouTube video by ZinnEdProject
youtube.com
August 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Labor day is as good occasion for a John Brown speech as any youtube.com/watch?v=dmys...
Another good use of juries to solve political problems in a truly representative manner.
The answer is: independent citizen commissions. They work like a jury. They gather for a specific task, do the task, and then disband.
They build fairness between the parties, they make sure communities are represented, and they build competition!
They build fairness between the parties, they make sure communities are represented, and they build competition!
August 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Another good use of juries to solve political problems in a truly representative manner.
We need to enforce traffic laws to protect pedestrians and bicyclists.
Between September 2017 and January 2025, a minimum of 4,028 Chicago children were injured by a car while walking or biking.
These injuries didn't happen at random. 29% occurred between 7-9 a.m. or 3-5 p.m. on school days. Kids should be able to walk or bike to school without fear.
These injuries didn't happen at random. 29% occurred between 7-9 a.m. or 3-5 p.m. on school days. Kids should be able to walk or bike to school without fear.
August 26, 2025 at 12:04 PM
We need to enforce traffic laws to protect pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Illinois stands with Ukraine today, and always.
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini!
August 25, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Illinois stands with Ukraine today, and always.
Slava Ukraini!
Slava Ukraini!
I’ll take it but 30 minutes on the weekends would be better.
Metra to expand weekend schedule
Route through Evanston will have hourly departures most of each day.
Route through Evanston will have hourly departures most of each day.
Metra to expand weekend schedule
Route through Evanston will have hourly departures most of each day.
evanstonnow.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I’ll take it but 30 minutes on the weekends would be better.
Sortition is superior to elections in many ways, not the least because it ensures that legislative bodies reflect the entire population, not just the minority who win elections.
August 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Sortition is superior to elections in many ways, not the least because it ensures that legislative bodies reflect the entire population, not just the minority who win elections.
Where my epistemologists at?
“Fact is what is. Truth is what it means. So facts are objective. Truths are personal. They depend on perspective, culture, values, beliefs, context. One AI can learn and know the facts. But how does one AI know the truth for everyone in every country and every background?”
For more information：
For more information：
Sam Altman Shows Me GPT 5... And What's Next
YouTube video by Cleo Abram
www.youtube.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Where my epistemologists at?
Every transit stop not surrounded by high rises is a policy failure.
June 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Every transit stop not surrounded by high rises is a policy failure.
Podcasts describing the philosophical foundations of disordered thinking
I’ve published several threads on disordered discourse, how it captures democratic systems, and how we might counter it.
For those who want to know more, the following playlist takes you through the philosophical ideas that have shaped much of my thinking.
open.spotify.com/playlist/3NJ...
For those who want to know more, the following playlist takes you through the philosophical ideas that have shaped much of my thinking.
open.spotify.com/playlist/3NJ...
Philosophical Foundations of Disordered Discourse: A Structured Listening Guide
open.spotify.com
March 23, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Podcasts describing the philosophical foundations of disordered thinking
Looking at this photo I hear the sound of electric train motors revving up.
Never gets less beautiful no matter how many times I see it
March 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Looking at this photo I hear the sound of electric train motors revving up.
Village Enterprise is charity founded on helping people form self-sustaining businesses.
The current U.S. administration is proof that empathy and understanding cause & effect aren’t universal traits
To help those most at risk after USAID’s dismantling, I donate to Doctors Without Borders, GiveDirectly, Village Enterprise, and Charity: Water, a small way to counter needless suffering.
To help those most at risk after USAID’s dismantling, I donate to Doctors Without Borders, GiveDirectly, Village Enterprise, and Charity: Water, a small way to counter needless suffering.
March 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Village Enterprise is charity founded on helping people form self-sustaining businesses.
Sending hundreds of thousands of friendly people back into bombed out war zone or into the hands of their enemies is harmful both for them and the long term interests of the USA.
Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Exclusive: Trump plans to revoke legal status of Ukrainians who fled to US, sources say
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration is planning to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, a senior Trump official and three sources familiar with the matter said, potentially putting them on a fast-track to deportation.
www.reuters.com
March 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Sending hundreds of thousands of friendly people back into bombed out war zone or into the hands of their enemies is harmful both for them and the long term interests of the USA.
Good to see innovation in language model architecture
Unlike traditional models that create text word by word—such as the kind that powers ChatGPT—diffusion-based models like Mercury produce entire responses simultaneously, refining them from an initially masked state into coherent text.
New AI text diffusion models break speed barriers by pulling words from noise
New diffusion models borrow technique from AI image synthesis for 10x speed boost.
arstechnica.com
March 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Good to see innovation in language model architecture
Good explanation of the buzz around DeepSeek youtube.com/watch?v=gY4Z...
youtube.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Good explanation of the buzz around DeepSeek youtube.com/watch?v=gY4Z...
New Peter Pringle track drops and we partying like it’s 1600 BCE youtube.com/watch?v=82Fp...
youtube.com
January 16, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New Peter Pringle track drops and we partying like it’s 1600 BCE youtube.com/watch?v=82Fp...
Dostoevsky’s Demons is as relevant in today’s morally disconnected times as it was when it was first written podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
Episode #220 ... Dostoevsky - Demons
Podcast Episode · Philosophize This! · 01/13/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
January 15, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Dostoevsky’s Demons is as relevant in today’s morally disconnected times as it was when it was first written podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
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62 Evanston merchants + "avid cyclists" signed letters opposing Chicago Avenue PBL, although it would only convert about 1/4 car parking spots. 250+ businesses, residents signed a letter supporting the project.
Here's a good LTTE in support. 1/X
evanstonroundtable.com/2024/12/05/l...
Here's a good LTTE in support. 1/X
evanstonroundtable.com/2024/12/05/l...
Letter to the editor: Build the Chicago Avenue bike lane - Evanston RoundTable
My fellow Evanstonians, There has been some community discussion regarding the Chicago Avenue corridor project, which would extend the protected
evanstonroundtable.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:11 PM
62 Evanston merchants + "avid cyclists" signed letters opposing Chicago Avenue PBL, although it would only convert about 1/4 car parking spots. 250+ businesses, residents signed a letter supporting the project.
Here's a good LTTE in support. 1/X
evanstonroundtable.com/2024/12/05/l...
Here's a good LTTE in support. 1/X
evanstonroundtable.com/2024/12/05/l...
Bottom up abstractions don’t work; engines need to think from their users perspective.
youtube.com/watch?v=gWR9...
youtube.com/watch?v=gWR9...
youtube.com
November 12, 2024 at 12:00 PM
Bottom up abstractions don’t work; engines need to think from their users perspective.
youtube.com/watch?v=gWR9...
youtube.com/watch?v=gWR9...
Now I have to try to to find my follows again...
August 3, 2023 at 8:48 PM
Now I have to try to to find my follows again...