Colin Rowat
@rowat-c.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
a man wearing sunglasses and a red and white checkered shirt, by Stefan Lochner, pexels contest winner, sails and masts and rigging, wearing adventuring gear […]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@rowat_c on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
[bridged from https://mastodon.social/@rowat_c on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
An unexpected gift, especially to Chieu, who left me a puzzle that summer she sat my flat.
(Comments very welcome! This is a #puzzle in progress.)
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(Comments very welcome! This is a #puzzle in progress.)
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December 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
An unexpected gift, especially to Chieu, who left me a puzzle that summer she sat my flat.
(Comments very welcome! This is a #puzzle in progress.)
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(Comments very welcome! This is a #puzzle in progress.)
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Bishop Sasse of Thuringia was first in line... His telegram to Hitler has been preserved: "My _Führer_, I report: in a great historic hour all the pastors of the Thuringian Evangelical Church, obeying an inner command, have with joyful hearts taken an oath of loyalty to _Führer_ and Reich... One […]
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December 19, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Bishop Sasse of Thuringia was first in line... His telegram to Hitler has been preserved: "My _Führer_, I report: in a great historic hour all the pastors of the Thuringian Evangelical Church, obeying an inner command, have with joyful hearts taken an oath of loyalty to _Führer_ and Reich... One […]
"dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself" - Tom Stoppard, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html
November 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
"dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself" - Tom Stoppard, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/theater/tom-stoppard-dead.html
Would you rather fight:
(A) one recursive subroutine, or
(B) Would you rather fight:
(A) one recursive subroutine, or...?
(A) one recursive subroutine, or
(B) Would you rather fight:
(A) one recursive subroutine, or...?
November 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Would you rather fight:
(A) one recursive subroutine, or
(B) Would you rather fight:
(A) one recursive subroutine, or...?
(A) one recursive subroutine, or
(B) Would you rather fight:
(A) one recursive subroutine, or...?
@pierrealquier.bsky.social your move!
November 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
@pierrealquier.bsky.social your move!
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
what sort of checks should there be on the world’s richest man building a robot army? I appreciate [Musk's] concession that it should be possible to fire him if he goes insane, but. But. I submit to you that if you hop on a call with investors to say “hey guys just to interject here, you need to […]
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October 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
what sort of checks should there be on the world’s richest man building a robot army? I appreciate [Musk's] concession that it should be possible to fire him if he goes insane, but. But. I submit to you that if you hop on a call with investors to say “hey guys just to interject here, you need to […]
Wondering how long it will be before we talk about 'American medicine', a set of practices by people calling themselves doctors, with certificates on their walls, a range of techniques, interventions, and stories of success after 'mainstream medicine' failed.
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Wondering how long it will be before we talk about 'American medicine', a set of practices by people calling themselves doctors, with certificates on their walls, a range of techniques, interventions, and stories of success after 'mainstream medicine' failed.
Small hopes against great horrors:
<quote>Nicola ... noticed an unusual detail. One of the men had been found with some tiny buttons from the Newcastle Corporation Tramways.
"That was obviously quite unusual for a Scottish soldier." ...
"My great-grandfather was the chief inspector of […]
<quote>Nicola ... noticed an unusual detail. One of the men had been found with some tiny buttons from the Newcastle Corporation Tramways.
"That was obviously quite unusual for a Scottish soldier." ...
"My great-grandfather was the chief inspector of […]
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mastodon.social
September 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Small hopes against great horrors:
<quote>Nicola ... noticed an unusual detail. One of the men had been found with some tiny buttons from the Newcastle Corporation Tramways.
"That was obviously quite unusual for a Scottish soldier." ...
"My great-grandfather was the chief inspector of […]
<quote>Nicola ... noticed an unusual detail. One of the men had been found with some tiny buttons from the Newcastle Corporation Tramways.
"That was obviously quite unusual for a Scottish soldier." ...
"My great-grandfather was the chief inspector of […]
Sheinbaum evoked the #holocaust, saying “many of my relatives ... were exterminated in concentration camps.”
“I can only watch with horror the images of the Israeli bombing of #gaza,” she wrote. “Nothing justifies the murder of #palestinian civilians. Nothing, nothing, nothing, can justify the […]
“I can only watch with horror the images of the Israeli bombing of #gaza,” she wrote. “Nothing justifies the murder of #palestinian civilians. Nothing, nothing, nothing, can justify the […]
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mastodon.social
September 23, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Sheinbaum evoked the #holocaust, saying “many of my relatives ... were exterminated in concentration camps.”
“I can only watch with horror the images of the Israeli bombing of #gaza,” she wrote. “Nothing justifies the murder of #palestinian civilians. Nothing, nothing, nothing, can justify the […]
“I can only watch with horror the images of the Israeli bombing of #gaza,” she wrote. “Nothing justifies the murder of #palestinian civilians. Nothing, nothing, nothing, can justify the […]
In response, Albanese reposted support for the #icc on social media, saying she came from the court's founding country #italy where lawyers and judges had "defended justice at great cost and often with their own life".
"I intend to honour that tradition," she added in the post […]
"I intend to honour that tradition," she added in the post […]
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August 21, 2025 at 5:45 AM
August 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"How Congress Designed the Federal Reserve to Be Independent of Presidential Control"
Gary Richardson
David W. Wilcox
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 39, no. 3, Summer 2025
(pp. 221–38)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20251447
@aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers #econsky #fomc
Gary Richardson
David W. Wilcox
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 39, no. 3, Summer 2025
(pp. 221–38)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20251447
@aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers #econsky #fomc
How Congress Designed the Federal Reserve to Be Independent of Presidential Control
(Summer 2025) - Conventional wisdom traces the origins of the Federal Reserve's independence to the 1951 Treasury-Fed Accord. That rendition of history is inaccurate. The principal source of the Fed's monetary-policy independence is the Banking Act of 1935, which created the Fed's modern leadership structure and placed monetary-policy decisions beyond Presidential control. Congressional intent is clear in this case because the initial draft of the bill vested control of monetary policy with the President. After extensive debate, Congress amended the legislation and crafted the institutional features that enshrine the Fed's independence. The central role of the Banking Act of 1935 suggests that only an act of Congress or a Supreme Court ruling could fundamentally strengthen presidential influence over monetary policy.
www.aeaweb.org
August 16, 2025 at 6:26 AM
"How Congress Designed the Federal Reserve to Be Independent of Presidential Control"
Gary Richardson
David W. Wilcox
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 39, no. 3, Summer 2025
(pp. 221–38)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20251447
@aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers #econsky #fomc
Gary Richardson
David W. Wilcox
Journal of Economic Perspectives
vol. 39, no. 3, Summer 2025
(pp. 221–38)
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.20251447
@aaronsojourner.org @justinwolfers #econsky #fomc
I was struck, reading the bios of the Al Jazeera journalists assassinated by Israel, by how many of them had already had first degree relatives killed by Israel: al-Sharif's father, Qreiqeh's brother, Noufal's mother and brother […]
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August 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I was struck, reading the bios of the Al Jazeera journalists assassinated by Israel, by how many of them had already had first degree relatives killed by Israel: al-Sharif's father, Qreiqeh's brother, Noufal's mother and brother […]
London's Metropolitan Police arrest over 500 people under Terrorism Act "for displaying placards in support of #palestine Action".
Their largest number of arrests "on a single day in the last 10 years".
"The average age of those arrested was 54, and the most arrests ... were of people aged […]
Their largest number of arrests "on a single day in the last 10 years".
"The average age of those arrested was 54, and the most arrests ... were of people aged […]
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August 11, 2025 at 6:43 AM
London's Metropolitan Police arrest over 500 people under Terrorism Act "for displaying placards in support of #palestine Action".
Their largest number of arrests "on a single day in the last 10 years".
"The average age of those arrested was 54, and the most arrests ... were of people aged […]
Their largest number of arrests "on a single day in the last 10 years".
"The average age of those arrested was 54, and the most arrests ... were of people aged […]
Greenblatt: "I don’t think it’s a genocide. Because that’s a legal definition which means an intentional effort. I don’t have the dictionary in front of me."
Garcia-Navarro: reads definition.
Greenblatt: "So in fairness, I don’t have that definition in front of me, and I haven’t read it like […]
Garcia-Navarro: reads definition.
Greenblatt: "So in fairness, I don’t have that definition in front of me, and I haven’t read it like […]
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August 10, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Greenblatt: "I don’t think it’s a genocide. Because that’s a legal definition which means an intentional effort. I don’t have the dictionary in front of me."
Garcia-Navarro: reads definition.
Greenblatt: "So in fairness, I don’t have that definition in front of me, and I haven’t read it like […]
Garcia-Navarro: reads definition.
Greenblatt: "So in fairness, I don’t have that definition in front of me, and I haven’t read it like […]
There are some more gentle anecdotes about him, such as when he was a helicopter pilot and ferried a group of soldiers from a rifle range and decided to put down on the Sandringham estate.
Queen Elizabeth II, who was in residence, was said to have looked at the guns being toted by these […]
Queen Elizabeth II, who was in residence, was said to have looked at the guns being toted by these […]
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August 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
There are some more gentle anecdotes about him, such as when he was a helicopter pilot and ferried a group of soldiers from a rifle range and decided to put down on the Sandringham estate.
Queen Elizabeth II, who was in residence, was said to have looked at the guns being toted by these […]
Queen Elizabeth II, who was in residence, was said to have looked at the guns being toted by these […]
1. Baghdad, spring 2002, ICRC offices
Corruption was rampant, he said, as Iraqis had been forced to hustle to get by. Still, he thought, the bureaucrats at the top were old school. What, he wondered, would happen when they retired?
2. US, over the past decades
Average Americans profoundly […]
Corruption was rampant, he said, as Iraqis had been forced to hustle to get by. Still, he thought, the bureaucrats at the top were old school. What, he wondered, would happen when they retired?
2. US, over the past decades
Average Americans profoundly […]
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July 12, 2025 at 4:27 AM
1. Baghdad, spring 2002, ICRC offices
Corruption was rampant, he said, as Iraqis had been forced to hustle to get by. Still, he thought, the bureaucrats at the top were old school. What, he wondered, would happen when they retired?
2. US, over the past decades
Average Americans profoundly […]
Corruption was rampant, he said, as Iraqis had been forced to hustle to get by. Still, he thought, the bureaucrats at the top were old school. What, he wondered, would happen when they retired?
2. US, over the past decades
Average Americans profoundly […]
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/massachusetts-baptist-archive-slavery-abolition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU8.iqzm._OMx674BYpot&smid=url-share
Compassed about by a cloud of witnesses.
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Compassed about by a cloud of witnesses.
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July 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/us/massachusetts-baptist-archive-slavery-abolition.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VU8.iqzm._OMx674BYpot&smid=url-share
Compassed about by a cloud of witnesses.
✊🏽
Compassed about by a cloud of witnesses.
✊🏽
If a key tenet of socialism, as seen from the US, is that the government should own the means of production, then isn't Trump...
Oh, never mind.
https://www.wsj.com/business/mp-materials-enters-multibillion-dollar-partnership-with-defense-dept-c8f9f806
Oh, never mind.
https://www.wsj.com/business/mp-materials-enters-multibillion-dollar-partnership-with-defense-dept-c8f9f806
July 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
If a key tenet of socialism, as seen from the US, is that the government should own the means of production, then isn't Trump...
Oh, never mind.
https://www.wsj.com/business/mp-materials-enters-multibillion-dollar-partnership-with-defense-dept-c8f9f806
Oh, never mind.
https://www.wsj.com/business/mp-materials-enters-multibillion-dollar-partnership-with-defense-dept-c8f9f806
Different statements about different stories; same vibe:
(a) "She was saying the entirety of all the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes," Leavitt told reporters. "That's what the attorney general was referring to, and I'll let her speak for that." […]
(a) "She was saying the entirety of all the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes," Leavitt told reporters. "That's what the attorney general was referring to, and I'll let her speak for that." […]
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July 7, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Different statements about different stories; same vibe:
(a) "She was saying the entirety of all the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes," Leavitt told reporters. "That's what the attorney general was referring to, and I'll let her speak for that." […]
(a) "She was saying the entirety of all the paperwork, all of the paper in relation to Jeffrey Epstein's crimes," Leavitt told reporters. "That's what the attorney general was referring to, and I'll let her speak for that." […]
I knew that changes are being made to the #mastodon protocol, but did not expect these: https://consequence.net/2025/07/final-black-sabbath-concert-mastodon-rival-sons-anthrax-halestorm-lamb-of-god/
Final Black Sabbath Concert Kicks off with Mastodon, Rival Sons, Anthrax, Halestorm & Lamb of God
Mastodon, Rival Sons, Anthrax, Halestorm, and Lamb of God each took turns paying tribute to Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath in the early hours of the "Back to the Beginning" concert.
consequence.net
July 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I knew that changes are being made to the #mastodon protocol, but did not expect these: https://consequence.net/2025/07/final-black-sabbath-concert-mastodon-rival-sons-anthrax-halestorm-lamb-of-god/
So good! If an #ai ever comes after us with #paperclips, we can strike back with #tungsten cubes: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1
Vend 项目克劳德能经营一家小店吗？
Project Vend: Can Claude run a small shop? (And why does that matter?) (www.anthropic.com)
00:09 ↑ 112 HN Points
www.anthropic.com
July 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
So good! If an #ai ever comes after us with #paperclips, we can strike back with #tungsten cubes: https://www.anthropic.com/research/project-vend-1
