Russ Ted Fugal
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Russ Ted Fugal
@russ-fugal.smart-knowledge-systems.com
www.smart-knowledge-systems.com
Founding Editor of SARA’s Books LLC
Award Winning Children’s Book Author
@social.sara.ai
#kidlit indie publisher
Imagine the end of the story where the president did wait (the DNSA pushed for it), and it’s a dud or a dummy/sick joke. The movie ends. The world lives on another day… in a house of dynamite. You're going to quote Oppenheim but not Bigelow? I mean, come on…
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October 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
First, the setup is the least of my worries, but the “flaw” you’re able to hit the hardest. It’s actually addressed in the movie, with characters discussing why a single missile would be launched. It doesn’t matter; it’s not central to the subject matter. The Zoom call of doom happens either way.
October 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
New blog posts up, but also a new blog homepage. Filter by (multiple) tags! Built this in minutes with Claude Code then spent an hour tweaking design.

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July 6, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Thanks for following me back, @annaborghi.bsky.social !

Hopefully we can have some productive conversations in the future.
May 5, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Each tile has multiple visual elements. These elements can be about as complex as a letter or more so (i.e. as complex as some 部首, e.g. 飛). While playing, I find myself giving each of the Topeka tileset's elements an identity, sometimes a personality or even a name, just as I did 部首 when learning 字
March 2, 2025 at 9:15 PM
I was playing @nytgames.bsky.social’s Tiles today, and realized it was a perfect example of combinatorial object construction and how it relates to orthography. Last month, D. Share published the combinatorial model in Reading Research Quarterly, in which he said …
March 2, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Ah, but does he mean it?

When he says he’s going to pardon all the seditionists, did he mean it?

When he says you have to fight like hell, does he mean it?

When he said he was going to be a dictator on day one, did he really mean it?

Is just plain unacceptable language, yet accepted by all. 🤷
February 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
2025 goal—I’m going to publish this year in Reading Research Quarterly. Tentative title:

Social Objects and Perceptual Symbols: A Sociocognitive Model of Reading in Perceptual Space
February 5, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I’m trying to fund a study of either (human aided or tech aided). Tech has some nice affordances that I’m working on for making a determinate sight vocabulary legible and serviceable, but a human shadow is better UX.

Anecdotally, by age 7 my first EAR student had read more than 5 million words.
January 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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January 30, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Additionally, Synthialog is a collaborative abstracting tool integrating structured discussion and democratic decision-making principles into the content creation workflow. It is used to condense Dialogues into Abstracts.
February 17, 2024 at 10:52 PM
I want a platform that prioritizes meaningful conversations over individual posts, so I’m creating Dialogue.

Dialogue is a forum that is pseudonymous by default that can serve #atproto content. Dialogue allows for highlighting key responses and allowing for upvotes and downvotes.
February 17, 2024 at 10:50 PM
Just an aspiring startup founder journaling my marketing and launches.
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February 17, 2024 at 1:56 PM