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Whit
@whitandrews.bsky.social
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I literally use this feature daily. (The LLM thing. I couldn't win a chess game against a broken cinderblock.)
July 30, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just did a retailers' thing for that, because someone used my email for their account and I was trying to break the link. 10 times I placed the puzzle piece.
June 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Regrettably, I cannot relocate the NYTimes article. But I could find this example from the era that I remember seeing it from.

tech.yahoo.com/science/arti...
A 1912 news article ominously forecasted the catastrophic effects of fossil fuels on climate change
A short news clip from a New Zealand paper published in 1912 has gone viral as an example of an early news story to make the connection between burning fossil fuels and climate change. It wasn’t, howe...
tech.yahoo.com
June 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The first mention of greenhouse gases in the @nytimes.com is from the first decade of the 1900s. Remarkable. (Also, there's the whole arable land thing.)
June 16, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Usually a house finch in that location :)
June 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
This is true. But they also define the area nearby -- in many cases, a mimic's song serves as a proxy mechanism of demonstrating its "worldly" genetic fitness and diversity. Kinda how some humans find foreign accents hawt.
April 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I can recommend the nonfic Mozart's Starling without reserve.
April 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
keeps changing
March 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm on #7 unpublished. Wish me winged words
March 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
l'accent grave
February 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
is this also true of n-dashes
February 24, 2025 at 6:04 PM