Emails show Amazon colluding with other firms to raise prices, California authorities allege The previously redacted messages were unveiled as part of an antitrust battle with California’s attorney general

banging my antitrust pots and pans now and always

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Presto! In Chicago, a High-End Magic Palace Appears

I was invited to a special pre-opening last week. It was beautiful!

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Ooh! Niftiness 🤩
Two Studies Reveal Sun's Magnetic Engine Deep Beneath Its Surface

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Happy World Storytelling Day!

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What is wrong with some humans that this is seen as a good idea?!

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Also, hooray for a diagnosis!

OMG! I loved that cartoon 🤩

I just made a friend watch this movie recently! 🙂

I'll Still be a Geek After Nobody Thinks it's Chic (the Nerd Anthem), by Marian Call from the album Got to Fly

In honor of one of my favorite celebrations of geekitude, why not listen to my friend, @mariancall.bsky.social singing her song "The Nerd Anthem"

#nerdigras #nerdanthem

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Yay! It's the 5th of March. In US notation, 3/5. 35 is the square root of 1225, so today is the square root of Xmas - also known as the 1st day of Nerdi Gras! #nerdigras #sqrtofxmas

A giant florescent orange email with a rainbow shell stand in the background. Barely in front of it is me. For scale, I am 1.81 m or about 5'11". And the snail's shell and antennae rise to around twice my height.

I went to the Morton Arboretum and met a giant new friend #mortonarboretum #giantsnailsculpture

I completely forgot that I hadn't bought a ticket until I saw your post. I rectified that immediately.

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The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

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The best synthesis I have seen so far of things I knew or had put together from various sources but had not really seen pulled together 🧪

Importantly, I don’t think these academics were an aberration. I think a lot of scientists would have entered these circles, given the option.

I've been taking an Intro to Jazz Guitar class at Old Town School of Folk Music.

I don't know if my fingers will ever forgive me… but I'm enjoying it as much as performing magic.

This is the greatest thing I have read today 😁

Yikes! This happened to me last year. I hope you'll be okay 🫂

cartoon wonder woman pointing angrily at ICE officer who looks afraid

Wonder Woman did this in the 1940s as well…

#iceout #BeGood

There have been times when your writing has been escape for me. There have been times when your writing has been a rope out of a pit of depression. Especially when it made me think or feel outside of my norm.

So… 96 is abnormal, I take it? Great. Yet another way that I fail to live down to the expectations of my society 🤪

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bunmerrrrr

a very worthwhile short read

I will never use LLM for anything to do with my writing. Even my research is driven by good research practice, not AI. Why would I? I like the work. If you don't like doing the work, ask yourself why you're not actually doing something you do like to do, instead.

Watch the niftiness…!

Just like the Good Old Days - Seth Boyer and Marian Call YouTube video by Marian Call

please to enjoy this holiday treasure that Seth Boyer invited me to cowrite some years ago:
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Bandcamp Discover amazing music and directly support the artists who make it.

It's Bandcamp Friday. If you stream music, this is your chance to pay some penance: go find the indiest artist you love at bandcamp.com and purchase their record, and tip.

They get 100% of proceeds and it will likely be more than their streaming revenue for the month.

I'm listening to the audio from the committee meeting right now, and all I can think is "WTAF?!"

Every single sentence in this video… especially the ending.

My favorite holiday gift advice this year: Give your money to anyone who isn't a billionaire.

Bugwick looks like it will be fun! And I'm really enjoying RiverBank 😁

And you're one of my favorite humans…!