do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

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This is mathematically very pleasing, although it does make me wonder about the usefulness of the OWL format for representing my ontology. I am almost done with the initial stages of my research and may stop posting to this log soon

This recalculation has made the serendipity slider a much more impactful input on my website

Found a new way to calculate subclass relations with a fuzzy boolean algebra

Finally tweaking the UI to include the spinnable "glass beads"

*I get it that the guy is a Russian spook, but how much longer can he remain in this liminal state of dead-or-alive? There can't be that many people who know one way or the other. What if they all die? Does Averyanov permanently vaporize, a permanent missing-person report?

We're going to fire you and replace you with one of Jabir ibn Hayyan's magic squares

*Hmmm. I'm not sure that "expanding the limits of knowledge" even counts as a "job"

*I don't doubt that people can do that, it's just that R&D is considered an expense rather than a revenue source

A little known fact is that every time you spell "America" with a "k" you make it 0.0001% more likely that there is a full communist decolonisation of Turtle Island (in a way that is, somehow, also good for Black people with a capital B) and if you do it with three "k"s you decolonise Australia too.

It really is quite specific on the theme “we are marching to our deaths but for abolition it’s worth it”

Ministers explore triggering break clause in Palantir’s NHS contract Government is under pressure to eject the controversial American company from NHS England data systems

That UK government ever considers asserting its contractual rights against a major supplier is rare and welcome.

And here, this is especially welcome.

This will not be easy but it can be done, but it is good it is being seriously considered at all.

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Just leaving DC after a quick stop. Seeing the words EQUAL JUSTICE UNDER LAW atop the Supreme Court bldg. was infuriating; all four words have been made into a lie by the Roberts Court. But the cherry trees were in full bloom

Increasingly starting to think the Unicode Consortium should establish a Strategic Emoji Reserve of a number of new emojis they keep back, that can be rolled out in conjunction with vital security updates in order to get users to actually install them promptly.

I somehow missed this until just now. It means a lot! Thank you for everything you taught me at #CityLIS it was a great preparation 😊

Thank you Lyn!

Biggest complaint about the Alexandria Quartet?

At least they did not start this madness in September

Ah. Realizing that everyone needs to start making plans for how to survive next winter if there is no LNG. How very 19th century

I am finishing up a PhD in Canada now, fully funded as an international student. Were you looking at undergrad programs? Only disadvantage I have had here is not qualifying for tri-council grants, although even that is changing now.

Controversial but - students *perceive* they have been failed when what has happened is they have failed to understand information retrieval is a skill requiring effort. I don't believe a zero friction experience is realistic or desirable in learning, actually.

Big congrats to Doctor Jack Kausch @realcharacterlanguage.world who passed his thesis defense today! “A 21st century essay towards a real character language" Thanks to @gnoli.eu @lukestark.bsky.social @brimwats.com @danlizotte.bsky.social Grant Campbell, Shengnan Yang and @westernufims.bsky.social

One lap and then it starts again. On March 13, at 10:35 a.m., amidst the waves, Arthur (not his real name), a young officer in the French Navy, was out for a run, circling the deck of the ship where he worked. To record his performance — a little over 7 kilometers covered in thirty-five minutes-he used the smartwatch on his wrist. The data collected was then uploaded to the internet. Because Arthur has a profile on the sports app Strava, and it's "public": anyone can view it. The young man has therefore just reported, almost live, the exact position in the Mediterranean Sea of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its escort, northwest of Cyprus and about a hundred kilometers from the Turkish coast, as Le Monde has observed .

truly incredible that strava leaks are still happening after all this time

In 2003 it was fantasy WMDs in 2026 it is fantasy objectives

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

I’ve spoken to lots of New School friends over the past yrs, months, weeks. They’re dreading the impending cuts + mourning the end of an aspirational mission we all activated through our labor and creativity — but which A Trump Within has decided to terminate. This is more than…

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

is everybody just hypnotized into believing that the only thing you can send towards the input is a gradient and the only thing you can send towards the output are activations