misplacedthings.bsky.social
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Angry vet. (Col)lapsed academic. (Un)civil servant. I have fifteen friends. 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦
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strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."
Statements — AHM
www.ahmath.org
October 9, 2026 at 12:01 PM
strong statement from the Association for Human Mathematicians. "Releasing over 700 files at once is not a demonstration of scholarship, but a demonstration of power. We urge mathematicians to discontinue their work with OpenAI and to return to a vision of science that centers human understanding."
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W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process.
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www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
Lutnick says Trump’s $5,000 checks for Americans wouldn’t rely on taxpayer funds
A top White House official suggested Congress would use a budget process to fund them. Vice President JD Vance had said tariff revenues.
www.nbcnews.com
September 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM
W/o getting drawn into the "seriously or literally" / "it'll never happen" trap, we need to stomp *hard* on the continuing effort to undermine Article 1 power of the purse by saying that this or that revenue stream makes something outside the normal budget process.
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www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
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Column: We memorialize 9/11 reflexively and habitually. But we have learned to overlook the more sinister and lasting changes — the loss of public space, the universality of surveillance, the fortification of our buildings and infrastructure.
Column | The architect of 9/11 built the world we inhabit today
The changes to our urban design, architecture and everyday life are so profound we can hardly see them.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 11, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Column: We memorialize 9/11 reflexively and habitually. But we have learned to overlook the more sinister and lasting changes — the loss of public space, the universality of surveillance, the fortification of our buildings and infrastructure.
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Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.
Wendell Berry, Writer Who Extolled America’s Agrarian Past, Dies at 92
A Kentucky farmer, he railed against agribusiness and championed small family farms and the environment, winning widespread acclaim.
www.nytimes.com
September 1, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Thank you for so many strong essays, poems, ideas, stands, principles, examples, Wendell Berry. Thank you for loving the land, the country, the language. Thank you for living your principles. Quoted you in my talk yesterday, pulled these from my quotes collections.
They left us many years ago, but memories of the boys still bring me joy.
July 19, 2026 at 2:06 AM
They left us many years ago, but memories of the boys still bring me joy.
D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...
This is a genuinely great article about a genuinely amazing moment in time and band and person.
This is a genuinely great article about a genuinely amazing moment in time and band and person.
D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2026 at 2:21 AM
D. Boon’s Death Shook Punk Rock. 40 Years Later, Minutemen Look Back. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/a...
This is a genuinely great article about a genuinely amazing moment in time and band and person.
This is a genuinely great article about a genuinely amazing moment in time and band and person.
I just asked my son where his best friend in the whole world is going to college next year and the boy said: “One of those fancy colleges that start with a P.”
February 19, 2026 at 5:58 PM
I just asked my son where his best friend in the whole world is going to college next year and the boy said: “One of those fancy colleges that start with a P.”
Regarding tomorrow’s OPM status:
Not to repeat my self, but, dicks.
People of low character and cruel intent, who lack compassion and fellow-feeling, who seem indifferent to or gleeful about famine or war, will also have no trouble fucking with your commute.
Not to repeat my self, but, dicks.
People of low character and cruel intent, who lack compassion and fellow-feeling, who seem indifferent to or gleeful about famine or war, will also have no trouble fucking with your commute.
January 28, 2026 at 2:12 AM
Regarding tomorrow’s OPM status:
Not to repeat my self, but, dicks.
People of low character and cruel intent, who lack compassion and fellow-feeling, who seem indifferent to or gleeful about famine or war, will also have no trouble fucking with your commute.
Not to repeat my self, but, dicks.
People of low character and cruel intent, who lack compassion and fellow-feeling, who seem indifferent to or gleeful about famine or war, will also have no trouble fucking with your commute.
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Naming US Navy aircraft carriers after presidents is an atrocious and un-American convention that must die.
January 23, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Naming US Navy aircraft carriers after presidents is an atrocious and un-American convention that must die.
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i like how this person thinks this is an own instead of the fact that Japanese-Americans believed in America more than the fucking idiots that interned them
January 22, 2026 at 5:52 PM
i like how this person thinks this is an own instead of the fact that Japanese-Americans believed in America more than the fucking idiots that interned them
Horrifying and amazing. I can’t imagine what Tsurkov went through but to the be able to write about it like this…I hope folks will read it.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
I Was Kidnapped by Idiots
An academic trip to Iraq unexpectedly turned into an immersive field study on the ways authoritarian regimes use brutality.
www.theatlantic.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:02 AM
Horrifying and amazing. I can’t imagine what Tsurkov went through but to the be able to write about it like this…I hope folks will read it.
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
What about Mississippi? You know, where they burn synagogues.
Oh, maybe this is about easier access for Nick Fuentes?
What about Mississippi? You know, where they burn synagogues.
Oh, maybe this is about easier access for Nick Fuentes?
US reportedly considers granting asylum to Jewish people from UK
Trump lawyer Robert Garson told the Telegraph he discussed refuge for those leaving UK over antisemitism
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:53 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
What about Mississippi? You know, where they burn synagogues.
Oh, maybe this is about easier access for Nick Fuentes?
What about Mississippi? You know, where they burn synagogues.
Oh, maybe this is about easier access for Nick Fuentes?
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like do i trust bernie would oppose the annexation? yes. do i think this is good messaging that is what EU allies need? no
January 19, 2026 at 4:08 AM
like do i trust bernie would oppose the annexation? yes. do i think this is good messaging that is what EU allies need? no
January 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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All Greenland party leaders have issued a united statement about not wanting to be annexed:
siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
Inuiattut ataatsimoorpugut – Siumut
siumut.gl
January 10, 2026 at 12:26 PM
All Greenland party leaders have issued a united statement about not wanting to be annexed:
siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
DC does this right. Good write up too. Wish I’d been able to make it.
DC does this right. Good write up too. Wish I’d been able to make it.
Following Wednesday's ICE killing, D.C. residents take to the streets, chanting "ICE out now"
A protest at 14 and U streets in Washington, D.C., stopped traffic for roughly an hour on the evening after an ICE agent killed Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM
open.substack.com/pub/chrisgei...
DC does this right. Good write up too. Wish I’d been able to make it.
DC does this right. Good write up too. Wish I’d been able to make it.
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these gangsters cannot be trusted
January 7, 2026 at 1:43 PM
these gangsters cannot be trusted
One of the pictures I took on Jan 6, before disgust and anger drove me back home. I walked from my home, curious and wanting to bear witness after seeing people moving down my street all day.
January 7, 2026 at 3:29 AM
One of the pictures I took on Jan 6, before disgust and anger drove me back home. I walked from my home, curious and wanting to bear witness after seeing people moving down my street all day.
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probably worthwhile thinking what a post-American concert of democracies looks like
January 3, 2026 at 11:06 PM
probably worthwhile thinking what a post-American concert of democracies looks like
Tomorrow may be the best feast day of them all for the peoples of the American South. For me anyway. Simple; full of possibilities. Cow peas, collards, and cornbread, maybe a bit of pork. A glass of something with friends and family popping in and out of the house. Love all the way.
December 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Tomorrow may be the best feast day of them all for the peoples of the American South. For me anyway. Simple; full of possibilities. Cow peas, collards, and cornbread, maybe a bit of pork. A glass of something with friends and family popping in and out of the house. Love all the way.