Tim Milligan
@timdiggerm.bsky.social
Marylander, ambivalent Presby, Computer Science teacher, etc.
"If the use of a computer is a new idea, then a newer idea is not to use one."
"If the use of a computer is a new idea, then a newer idea is not to use one."
There are a few things that I gained an affection for from my parents & having newspapers in the house as a child
- Calvin & Hobbes
- The Far Side
- Adventure serials like The Phantom & Prince Valiant
- Peanuts, and other comics
- Dave Barry
- Movie reviews
Notably absent are op-eds and actual news
- Calvin & Hobbes
- The Far Side
- Adventure serials like The Phantom & Prince Valiant
- Peanuts, and other comics
- Dave Barry
- Movie reviews
Notably absent are op-eds and actual news
December 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
There are a few things that I gained an affection for from my parents & having newspapers in the house as a child
- Calvin & Hobbes
- The Far Side
- Adventure serials like The Phantom & Prince Valiant
- Peanuts, and other comics
- Dave Barry
- Movie reviews
Notably absent are op-eds and actual news
- Calvin & Hobbes
- The Far Side
- Adventure serials like The Phantom & Prince Valiant
- Peanuts, and other comics
- Dave Barry
- Movie reviews
Notably absent are op-eds and actual news
Me, assigning projects: This rocks
Me, later: Wait I actually have to grade these and give feedback?!?!?!
Me, later: Wait I actually have to grade these and give feedback?!?!?!
December 12, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Me, assigning projects: This rocks
Me, later: Wait I actually have to grade these and give feedback?!?!?!
Me, later: Wait I actually have to grade these and give feedback?!?!?!
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Yes this also includes social media
December 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Yes this also includes social media
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You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...
Roger Marshall: "We want patients to become consumers again. We want patients to see what the actual prices are. We believe that if we would add the price tags to this bill, that it would save the country a trillion dollars a year."
December 11, 2025 at 3:09 PM
You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...
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Headlines definitely land differently if your brain is accustomed to reading AI as Artificial Insemination! e.g. www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
Airbnb turns to AI to help prevent house parties
The short-term rental giant is now using artificial intelligence to try to prevent troublemakers.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Headlines definitely land differently if your brain is accustomed to reading AI as Artificial Insemination! e.g. www.bbc.co.uk/news/busines...
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A reminder that bikes are Patriot Transit
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
A reminder that bikes are Patriot Transit
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MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
December 11, 2025 at 4:00 AM
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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ICE being evil enough they start angering famously racist police departments was really not a turn I was expecting
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
ICE being evil enough they start angering famously racist police departments was really not a turn I was expecting
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It's fine to be skeptical of this, but some folks don't understand what this information means.
It may sound silly, but oceanic freedom of navigation is predicated on "flying the flag of a sovereign state." Any ship caught flying false colors can be legally fucked with by any state's navy.
It may sound silly, but oceanic freedom of navigation is predicated on "flying the flag of a sovereign state." Any ship caught flying false colors can be legally fucked with by any state's navy.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
December 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse.
Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.
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Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
Federal agents are arresting American citizens.
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
This isn’t about public safety - it’s about stoking fear.
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Brett Kavanaugh's "minor inconvience" now includes beating people up and cutting off their wedding rings for [checks notes] "observing ICE from a distance."
Loses an election. Appointed to a higher office. 🙄
🚨BREAKING: Former school board president Shebra Evans will replace Gabe Albornoz on the Montgomery County Council through December 2026 www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...
Shebra Evans to replace Gabe Albornoz on County Council
Former school board president Shebra Evans will fill the at-large Montgomery County Council seat vacated this month by Gabe Albornoz.
www.thebanner.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Loses an election. Appointed to a higher office. 🙄
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
Given how many new books I read in 2025 (very very very few), it is a mystery why I go through End Of Year Book Lists and save so many titles to Goodreads. And yet
December 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Given how many new books I read in 2025 (very very very few), it is a mystery why I go through End Of Year Book Lists and save so many titles to Goodreads. And yet
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Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
December 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Nobody. I do not think you can eat chair
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🚨New book announcement!🚨 Renowned mathematician and Fields medalist Terence Tao’s (@teorth.bsky.social) SIX MATH ESSENTIALS is coming fall 2026. Tao’s first popular math book introduces six core ideas that have guided mathematicians from antiquity to the frontiers of what we know today.
December 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🚨New book announcement!🚨 Renowned mathematician and Fields medalist Terence Tao’s (@teorth.bsky.social) SIX MATH ESSENTIALS is coming fall 2026. Tao’s first popular math book introduces six core ideas that have guided mathematicians from antiquity to the frontiers of what we know today.
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
@bleary.off-the-records.com I have a music question: Is there a term for what Randy Newman does? What I mean is the kind of song writing where it's like he's writing for a musical that doesn't exist? In-character, I guess.
December 8, 2025 at 2:39 PM
@bleary.off-the-records.com I have a music question: Is there a term for what Randy Newman does? What I mean is the kind of song writing where it's like he's writing for a musical that doesn't exist? In-character, I guess.
Advanced warning: This coming December 31 will mark 30 years since the final Calvin & Hobbes
December 7, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Advanced warning: This coming December 31 will mark 30 years since the final Calvin & Hobbes
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I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 7, 2025 at 7:24 AM
I'll say again: we are oddly selective about the government services about which we will say, they operate at a loss.
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
We say Amtrak and the post office "lose money" but we never say highways, the court system, the Pentagon, etc lose money
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Woolly mammoths have two sets of tusks that grow continuously throughout life, about 6 inches per year. They have growth rings that are similar in appearance to growth rings of a tree. The rings can also be used to reveal which month the animal died.
December 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Woolly mammoths have two sets of tusks that grow continuously throughout life, about 6 inches per year. They have growth rings that are similar in appearance to growth rings of a tree. The rings can also be used to reveal which month the animal died.
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Who has made this 🤣
December 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Who has made this 🤣
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This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.
December 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
This will always and forever be the most on point and prescient thing that Fukuyama ever wrote.
Somehow, in 1996, in "Blue Mars", Kim Stanley Robinson correctly predicted the practice of intentionally leaving your smartphone behind for a day of solitude.
December 6, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Somehow, in 1996, in "Blue Mars", Kim Stanley Robinson correctly predicted the practice of intentionally leaving your smartphone behind for a day of solitude.