Who called it swearing and not cursive talking?
10.03.2026 10:14
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Who called it swearing and not cursive talking?
Oh no
Despite being one of the few law professors to write about Claude Shannon (first in 2016), I didn't know, until I read this, that Claude.ai was named after him. Shannon was a truly amazing figure. As a Bell Labs engineer, he created information theory and the first modern communication theory model.
A: I don’t know that you can destroy a culture in a year. That said, you can destroy structures in a year.
Q: And a country, it turns out.
A: It sometimes feels that way, that’s for sure.
It’s about 186th on the list of terrible things he’s done but I can never quite get over the casual acceptance that a president should be able to swear like this, particularly in front a country which has previously been so (sometimes ridiculously) censorious about this sort of thing.
never forget Douglas Feith
When I was 8 or 9 I bought a cooler full of sodas and upsold them to people in line to buy gas. I should look into that again, more dignified than lawyering.
who says he’s trapped
“Ranger Rick,” now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time
I remember painting while listening to Virgin Radio’s top 500(?) of all time and it was very different from what a US list would have been
oh absolutely
If only Samuel Fuller had latter-day special effects
it's that simple, is it
BIG RED ONE ftw
Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon
Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman
remember when he was considered a serious foreign policy person
behold the awesome power of actually reading the Constitution
how straight are the knees
if they'd space it out properly you'd never run out of free Experian
i am asking yet again how it is legal for a company to send me a letter saying "sorry somebody stole all your personal information from us and now they have all of your personal information. sucks to be you! bye!" and then they receive no consequences and it happens again a week later
He hasn’t the time to learn the language of Belize
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Note that when the tattoo story first came out, I was inclined to wonder whether it wasn’t the sort of thing people sometimes do when they’re really messed up by combat. I didn’t start out being on Team Bash Platner; I got there because the weight of the evidence changed. Which it DID.
We built the United Nations, with all its flaws, with the hope of never having World War II again and we're going to have to build a new set of multilateral institutions with the hope of never having Donald J. Trump again
"Over the past decade, the Boring Company has dug only a few miles of operational tunnel. It has never cracked $23 million in reported annual revenue…Yet, for reasons inexplicable to anyone who doesn’t worship at the altar of high finance, it is valued at $7 billion."
you're cooking today
the advertiser-clarion
"is that a good 'oh'," I asked and no, no it is not
great minds &c