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Jeffrey M. Binder
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Author of Language and the Rise of the Algorithm (U. Chicago Press, 2022). Intellectual historian/programmer, currently working in applied ML but still a humanities person at heart. PhD from CUNY. Opinions my own.
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There’s also Choco Leibniz, named after the inventor of choco calculus
Chocolate-covered Leibniz biscuits
September 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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My book made it to the Chicago Manual of Style! I don't know how I'm going to top this.
A page from the book Language and the Rise of the Algorithm reproduced as a figure in the Chicago Manual of Style.
September 24, 2024 at 12:17 AM
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If you see this, quote skeet with a famous landmark you’ve seen.
September 17, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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Thinking of the time when I bought two CDs from a stand at the WFMU record fair—"Momentum" by Monolake and "Jonathan Sings!" by Jonathan Richman—and the seller seemed to have trouble comprehending that the same person could want both of these albums.
Album cover of "Momentum" by Monolake. "Jonathan Sings!" by Jonathan Richman
September 8, 2024 at 1:10 PM
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I'm talking about this kind of thing
A Reddit post with the title "How some of you look like." A meme showing a man pointing at his reflection in the mirror. The text reads "My prompt is not the problem. Claude 3.5 is the problem."
September 6, 2024 at 2:21 PM
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If you see this, post something orange.
A poster on a lightpost in New York City reading, “Watch me eat this entire jar of cheeseballs / Union Square Park, April 27th 3pm.” The picture on the poster shows a person in a bright orange ski mask, lips pursed, holding a giant plastic jar of orange cheez puffs.
May 26, 2024 at 1:36 AM
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post a *perfect* album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
Music Has the Right to Children by Boards of Canada
May 22, 2024 at 1:41 AM
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Noted shit-talker Thomas Hobbes
May 9, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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I couldn’t reproduce this exact thing, but - is fruit a pumpkin?
AI-generated questions from a Google search results page, including: Is so a cucumber a fruit? Is fruit a pumpkin? What last name ends in O? What five letter ends in O? What food has 4 letters?
May 9, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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A hell of a way to start a book
A quotation from the frontmatter of Andrew I. Dale's book A History of Inverse Probability. It reads: PROLOCUTION It will be no strange thing at all for some to dislike the matter of this work, and others to be displeased with the manner and method of it. Easily can I forsee that my account will be too long and tedious for some, while others, perhaps, may be apt to complain of its being too short and concise. Edmund Calamy
February 19, 2024 at 4:45 PM
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Found the Windows 3.1 version of ChatGPT
An old software box for “2001 Letters That Work.” The copy reads: “Unleash the power of the written word with 2001 letters for every situation at work or at home. The ultimate collection of expertly written example letters and memos—PLUS writing guidelines and alternate phrases! Software with the Hard Part Done.”
January 3, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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I just switched back to MS Word after using Pages for a while, and I'm happy to find an old friend of mine in the File menu.
The "Save As..." menu item.
October 6, 2023 at 6:44 PM
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A panel from an old Batman comic. Robin is beginning to say, “I think I’ll read David Broo—.“ He is interrupted as Batman slaps him across the face, saying, “Never read David Brooks!”
September 21, 2023 at 11:37 PM
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Spotted lanternflies are hoppin’
Dozens of dead spotted lanternflies at the base of a tree
August 20, 2023 at 4:30 PM
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In honor of Gary Larson’s birthday, please share a Far Side that you love.

This one could have been the epigraph of my dissertation.
A ma has just finished labelling everything around him by painting on words: the tree, the house, the door, garbage can, shirt, pants, the cat, the dog. “Now!” He says . . . “That should clear up a few things around here!”
August 14, 2023 at 9:21 PM
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So it’s international cat day, then? Here’s a cat.
A cat, splayed on the carpet, staring at me as if I know what’s going on.
August 8, 2023 at 9:46 PM