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Open Source, Mountain Time. Machine Learning. Linux Ops. Sometime painter. Friend to dogs. Cat servant. Book a call: https://cal.com/evelynmitchell Give me or the universe anonymous feedback: https://www.admonymous.co/evelynmitchell

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If you're a writing professional who'd rather *not* have random AI-generated articles attributed to you without your knowledge or approval, here's the opt-out email:

expertoptout@superhuman.com

It's insufficient and tacky af, but it's a start. Go ye thereforth, etc. etc. etc.

10.03.2026 19:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 169 ๐Ÿ” 104 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

lol I really need to stop using this ancient ~ but I keep finding lil surprises like this `-rw-r--r-- 1 atobey wheel 106007 Aug 20 2014 .spark_history`

it was a 2048 game demo with every move in cassandra and spark jobs and d3 and balanceboard support, typed with my paws like a cavewoman

10.03.2026 19:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

beginning to suspect that half the excitement about LLMs is the feeling of agency/control they give, because nothing else in the world is controllable at this point. not sure that's the right way to solve the problem!

10.03.2026 16:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Parseword - A tricky wordplay game Transform phrases through wordplay to solve cryptic crossword puzzles.

I've released a new word game called Parseword, that tries to make cryptic crosswords more accessible. You can play it here:

www.parseword.com

10.03.2026 15:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 73 ๐Ÿ” 25 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Heeey, look, it's me!

I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

09.03.2026 18:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 434 ๐Ÿ” 79 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 40 ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

NO NO NO YOU DONโ€™T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step โ€œdesigned for normiesโ€ kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

tell everyone you know

www.freetaxusa.com

09.03.2026 01:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 12444 ๐Ÿ” 7538 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

it really is shocking how much self deprecation is seen as a cultural requirement for 'serious art.' 'real' artists are not allowed to exalt their work and must present it publicly as a sort of 'i dont think this is very good but maybe you will get around to it.' HECK THAT. love yourself

19.02.2026 15:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 2471 ๐Ÿ” 875 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32 ๐Ÿ“Œ 41

A Boston Globe article on a clown convention reminded me of the time I walked into a hotel lobby, looked around at the people sitting there, and said to my friends, โ€œWhat is this, a clown convention?,โ€ then one of the people, who had heard me, indignantly yelled, โ€œWEโ€™RE MAGICIANS!โ€ ๐Ÿคก๐Ÿช„๐ŸŽฉ๐Ÿช–๐Ÿฐ

07.03.2026 14:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cat watching duck and goose.

Cat watching duck and goose.

Throwback to a Caturday spy in the house of love.

07.03.2026 23:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 95 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Pictured is "After hours Geordi La Forge." He's wearing a velvety cushy soft looking future space guy sweater and he's ready to chillax to the max. Also and always wearing his banana clip looking eye visor. Closed caption reads, "Maybe a little soft jazz."

Star Trek The Next Generation scene. Pictured is "After hours Geordi La Forge." He's wearing a velvety cushy soft looking future space guy sweater and he's ready to chillax to the max. Also and always wearing his banana clip looking eye visor. Closed caption reads, "Maybe a little soft jazz."

06.03.2026 19:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1423 ๐Ÿ” 274 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 23 ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
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Smooth Federation, by Andrew Allen 10 track album

I recommend Smooth Federation - A Star Trek Jazz Tribute by Andrew Allen.

covervillerecords.bandcamp.com/album/smooth...

07.03.2026 00:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Rendering of proposed six-story apartment building

Rendering of proposed six-story apartment building

Developer gets ball rolling to replace bearing plant in Allston with 'car-free urban living'
www.universalhub.com/2026/develop...

#Boston #housing

04.03.2026 17:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 22 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nancy 3/4/26 ๐Ÿ’…

04.03.2026 17:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 14368 ๐Ÿ” 3443 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 68 ๐Ÿ“Œ 141

thatโ€™s her emotional support ex boyfriend

04.03.2026 17:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 170 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nothing to see, just very powerful pattern matching. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

03.03.2026 23:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 217 ๐Ÿ” 44 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
A gothic castle in the transylvanian mountains.

A great bear of a man, waring a stovepipe hat and carrying a cane: "Now that you are my bride, you will never leave this castle!" 

His new bride replies "Wow! Your library is amazing!"

He continues "Beyond the castle is a high wall with no gate, and beyond that is a deep. Dark forest with no path."

She pulls a volume from a great bookcase, "I suppose it's my library too, now we're married."

He goes on "The forest is crawling with ravenous wolves, malignant birds and the spirits of long-dead travellers."

Ignoring him, carrying a pile of hardbacks "So many books! I can't believe My luck!"

He has sprouted wings, claws and cloven hoofs.
"When the sun sets, I transform into a wild beast and soar into the night, seized by a terrible bloodlust!"

She sits, examining her books as he flies out the window "Ok. I'll stay here and read. See you in the morning"

A gothic castle in the transylvanian mountains. A great bear of a man, waring a stovepipe hat and carrying a cane: "Now that you are my bride, you will never leave this castle!" His new bride replies "Wow! Your library is amazing!" He continues "Beyond the castle is a high wall with no gate, and beyond that is a deep. Dark forest with no path." She pulls a volume from a great bookcase, "I suppose it's my library too, now we're married." He goes on "The forest is crawling with ravenous wolves, malignant birds and the spirits of long-dead travellers." Ignoring him, carrying a pile of hardbacks "So many books! I can't believe My luck!" He has sprouted wings, claws and cloven hoofs. "When the sun sets, I transform into a wild beast and soar into the night, seized by a terrible bloodlust!" She sits, examining her books as he flies out the window "Ok. I'll stay here and read. See you in the morning"

'Castle'
One of the limited-edition prints in my shop
www.tomgauld.com/shop

03.03.2026 13:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 806 ๐Ÿ” 234 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

What I mean here is that every time oil & gas prices spike, it will inspire another wave of solar + storage + electricity substitution investment somewhere. That infrastructure is functionally permanent, and each wave of deployment will drive costs further down learning curves.

03.03.2026 19:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mary Beard โ€“ Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old Join one of the world's most acclaimed classicists as she discusses whether โ€“ and why โ€“ the classics still matter.

Join @wmarybeard.bsky.social at the British Museum as part of her #TalkingClassics tour as she discusses ancient history and its enduring relevance, from politics to pop culture.

๐Ÿ“ The British Museum
๐Ÿ“… Friday 1st May
๐Ÿ•ก 6:30โ€“7:30pm
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Via link below

02.03.2026 17:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 358 ๐Ÿ” 84 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Congratulations!

28.02.2026 19:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Your gentle reminder that when the Carrington event impacted on telecommunications it was largely a copper based network.

Todayโ€™s fibre and wireless doesnโ€™t give a ratโ€™s ass about solar activity.

Apologies to all civil defence exercise writers who have to rethink their scenarios.

28.02.2026 00:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 31 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

On the other hand you as an individual have some unique advantages:
- you care about your own variation
- your observations are naturally longitudinal
- you have deep and immediate experience with your context

24.02.2026 22:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 19 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think people need to design for their own learning the opposite of the way most scientists need to design their experiments HEAR ME OUT

24.02.2026 22:09 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
A painting of a bird beside the text "Glad to see that you still have terrible fucking opinions"

A painting of a bird beside the text "Glad to see that you still have terrible fucking opinions"

23.02.2026 14:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 343 ๐Ÿ” 55 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
A color-coded binary tree displaying how to expand (x+y)^3. There are 8=2^3 terms on the bottom, and by putting them in "alphabetical order" and grouping like terms, you see that (x+y)^3 = x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3.

A color-coded binary tree displaying how to expand (x+y)^3. There are 8=2^3 terms on the bottom, and by putting them in "alphabetical order" and grouping like terms, you see that (x+y)^3 = x^3 + 3x^2y + 3xy^2 + y^3.

My coauthor Dave Perkinson made this diagram to explain the binomial theorem and I think it's the perfect distillation. Here's our draft book, Discrete Structures, if you want more: kyleormsby.github.io/files/113spr... ๐Ÿงฎ

18.02.2026 17:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 52 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Seeing people use this to experiment w/turning Claude time from automated lecture into active learning & self-testing has brought me joy!

I added a Measure This resource to the repo, because my first thought was: how can you all get more credit for this at work??

github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

18.02.2026 15:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 6 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Todayโ€™s Ring of Fire solar eclipse in its stunning peak phase seen over Antarctica...

17.02.2026 16:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 573 ๐Ÿ” 102 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
Fired clay and pigment sculpture of many faces emerging from a singular face

Fired clay and pigment sculpture of many faces emerging from a singular face

Fragment of an anthropomorphic brazier. Aztec (c. 1300)

17.02.2026 23:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 474 ๐Ÿ” 126 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 27
Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Watching the Light No. 2605" 5"x5" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2026). A small textured painting with an orange-toned sunset sky with light blue cloud formations over a dark sea with a rocky shore, where water and rocks reflect light from the sky.

Original seascape oil painting by Tisha Mark, "Watching the Light No. 2605" 5"x5" oil on Ampersand Gessobord (2026). A small textured painting with an orange-toned sunset sky with light blue cloud formations over a dark sea with a rocky shore, where water and rocks reflect light from the sky.

A seascape for your evening.

Tisha Mark ยฉ2026, Watching the Light No. 2605, oil on gessobord, 5"x5"

Original is available:
tishamark.com/product/watc...

#art #painting #SciArt #bsnm #ArtSky

18.02.2026 00:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 186 ๐Ÿ” 39 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RDM Weekly - Issue 033 A weekly roundup of Research Data Management resources.

Issue 33 of #rdmweekly is out! ๐Ÿ“ฌ

โžก๏ธ Intervention to Improve Studentsโ€™ Knowledge of OS Practices @heeminkang.bsky.social and co-authors
โžก๏ธ Framework for Transparent and Responsible AI Use Mapped to the Research Process
โžก๏ธMaking Qualitative Data Reusable
and more!
rdmweekly.substack.com/p/rdm-weekly...

17.02.2026 14:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Weโ€™re ready for everyone!

16.02.2026 22:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 20 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0