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Steve Canon
@stephencanon.bsky.social
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Not-a-number sommelier, purveyor of fine zeros and infinities.
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evanbernick.bsky.social
yo, even John Yoo thinks that this shit is illegal www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
As an official in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, I was at my desk on Sept. 11, 2001. I advised that the U.S. could wage war against al-Qaeda without blurring the distinction between crime and war. After 9/11, the U.S. declared that it would wage war for the first time against an organization, rather than a nation. But the drug cartels alone do not present a similar challenge that rises to the level of war.
October 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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musicnotation.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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slim.bsky.social
(I)ntensional / (E)xtensional
(N)ominal / (S)tructural
(T)ype-theoretic / (F)irst order
(J)udgmental / (P)ropositional
November 24, 2024 at 8:01 PM
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pizzareport.bsky.social
SURGE in pizza traffic across nearly all pizzerias nearby the Pentagon.

As of 2:24pm ET
June 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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katef.bsky.social
Zeno: okay team, we're half way through the sprint
round.is Maxim Leyzerovich @round.is · Jun 9
sisyphus at daily standup: i had to roll back some changes
June 10, 2025 at 6:39 PM
stephencanon.bsky.social
A very cool thing that Nate has been cooking up for the last little while: github.com/apple/swift-...
GitHub - apple/swift-binary-parsing
Contribute to apple/swift-binary-parsing development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
June 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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airspeedswift.bsky.social
Lots of great Swift content coming soon, starting with What's New in Swift with @hborla.bsky.social and @tshortli.bsky.social

developer.apple.com/videos/play/...

#swift #swiftlang #wwdc
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June 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
stephencanon.bsky.social
Construction update x-post from masto, with apologies to Kate Wagner
A birds-eye view of the somewhat-extra staircase for our under-construction house, labeled in the style of McMansion Hell.
May 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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edzitron.com
looks absolutely nothing like him. An insult to Jim Davis.
samghoward.riliberator.com Sam G. Howard @samghoward.riliberator.com · Apr 29
Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...
Michael Shannon is James Garfield Nick Offerman is Chester A. Arthur
May 8, 2025 at 10:31 PM
stephencanon.bsky.social
Jen got me tickets to the Bill and Ted Waiting for Godot, this is gonna be a great birthday.
May 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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npr.org
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
Detained on verge of U.S. citizenship, Mohsen Mahdawi speaks from Vermont prison
Speaking to NPR in his first media interview since his detention, lawful permanent U.S. resident Mohsen Mahdawi finds peace in meditation and hopes "America will fulfill its promise."
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April 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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rcs.bsky.social
April 26, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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thelouvreof.bsky.social
‪Matthew Yglesias‬ ‪@mattyglesias.bsky.social‬ · 1d Some of the big ideas I’ve been associated with in my career: 1. Supply and demand applies to housing 2. People like politicians who take popular positions 3. Police help prevent crime 4. The Orange Man is bad 5. China’s large population matters a lot for power politics ‪Matthew Yglesias‬ ‪@mattyglesias.bsky.social‬ · 1d I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true. The Gripe Gazette ‪@gripegazette.bsky.social‬ Follow Forgot to switch to a sock puppet account? April 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
April 14, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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dirtydapperdan.bsky.social
Fantastic.
Literally Me
March 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
/2 The article presumes the Right’s devotion to free speech on campus when it benefited conservative speakers was a sincere value, which is why it pretends that it’s discordant when the GOP is supporting censorship. That’s because the author is a big credulous dummy.
March 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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lynninfilm.bsky.social
Stephanie of Wilton: proof that not all heroes wear capes.
wellingtonista.bsky.social The Wellingtonista @wellingtonista.bsky.social · Mar 20
Occasionally it’s worth reading the letters to the editor. Tautoko Stephanie of Wilton!
uld er, ve ig aboulk, like a sack of ponild occasiong able perhaps to take a child te a Trish McBride, Crofton Downs Cheap insults I feel very sad that our current Government seems so determined to brand themselves as "anti-woke". Like its forerunner insults, "political correctness" and virtue signalling" - it basically means being a decent person. You know: calling people by the names they want to be called by, giving hungry kids a feed, caring for the destitute and the ill, letting those with talent from all parts of the country rise into jobs they are skilled at. It's disturbing that they're escalating their vice signalling right now - when the United States is using the same rage to dismantle their economy, their alliances, and their social contract with each other. The thing about being a decent person is: it's quiet. It takes self-control to not make cheap insults about someone who disagrees with you. It takes thinking ahead, and humility, and paying attention to your instincts vs your intellect. It takes - sometimes - helping out someone who's making choices you disagree with. And it also pays off ten-fold in better relationships with people, with thriving families, with strong communities - and strong economies. I don't like Chris Luxon's vision of the country as a dog-eats-dog world. We're Kiwis. We can do better. Stephanie Pegg, Wilton
March 20, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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graydon-pub.bsky.social
(That is, confront the fact that you have "addresses" at the same time as you've got "locations"; don't let the reader wonder if you failed to notice the seeming duplication. They're not duplicates. The address identifies the location, as a street address identifies a house, but _is not the house_.)
March 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
stephencanon.bsky.social
www.wpri.com/news/local-n...

Pour one out for the madman who decorated every dorm room in providence.
‘Mad Peck,’ artist known for his Providence poster, dies at 83
The Providence poster artist, cartoonist, DJ and record collector known as “The Mad Peck” died at the hospital on Saturday after a sudden illness. He was 83.
www.wpri.com
March 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
stephencanon.bsky.social
Happy almost-spring
A bouquet of Hyacinths on our dining table.
March 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
stephencanon.bsky.social
With heavy heart, I must announce that Atlas is chasing voles somewhere else tonight. He had been declining for some time, and died peacefully at home with Riley holding his paws.
A glamour shot of Atlas (a cat) in his prime.
March 13, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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migueldeicaza.bsky.social
The Metal backend to Godot authored by @stuartcarnie.bsky.social is pure bliss.

Godot apps on iOS and Mac just feel so much smoother in 4.4.
March 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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champl.in
Screenshot ✨ AI Overview "Get in, Loser - We're seizing the means of production" is a phrase attributes to Karl Marx
February 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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leyawn.bsky.social
where does the new york times even find these people
A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”
January 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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thebasement.nz
Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?"
Me: "That's the documentation deliverable."
Manager: "What's the status of that?"
Me: "We're halfway there"
Manager: "Why is progress so slow?"
Me: "You fired Tommy"
Manager: "So?"
Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
February 23, 2025 at 9:12 PM
stephencanon.bsky.social
Grocery stores should have a paint-can agitator to homogenize peanut butter at the time of purchase. #vpofideas
February 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM