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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2025-01-18 at 20:27

These two were rescued from LA by the Bellevue Humane Society. So we have kittens now #caturday

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-12-05 at 01:04

The responses to this are fascinating. What tips you off to AI writing?

https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/113597152041077551

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-11-20 at 14:47

It's Mandelbrot's birthday! Benoit Mandelbrot was born on this day 100 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoit_Mandelbrot

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-09-16 at 13:45

Sitka's recent internet outage provides another example of how resilience can work in communities when infrastructure fails.

Specifically:

1. The town doesn't immediately descend into lawless chaos. In no case has anyone mentioned that a gun was useful.

2. Resilience centers (mostly libraries, but also some individual homes) provide missing services to the community, and then become places where the community meets and connects as people.

https://www.northernjournal.com/in-internet-less-sitka-its-both-mayhem-and-a-golden-moment/

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-09-11 at 01:54

Currently reading @hober 's beautifully-rendered Federalist Papers site for the American Politics class I'm taking.

http://federali.st/10#p7

Thanks again for building this, Tess.

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-07-19 at 12:55

• wakes up*

• gets ready for flights home*

• notes there's a hashtag trending*

That's odd. I wonder what…

Dammit, #crowdstrike

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-07-10 at 01:07

I assume I'm late to this, but #Wikipedia put this delightful German tongue twister Tiktok sensation Barbara's Rhubarb Bar in front of me this morning, and I'm still happily lost in it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%27s_Rhubarb_Bar

Haven't even listened to the song. Don't need to.

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-07-07 at 16:17

Soft

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-06-30 at 21:03

[#]SilentSunday #BloomScrolling

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-05-25 at 15:45

Today’s #caturday mood is a bit pensive, a bit hopeful.

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-05-04 at 20:13

Yep, here's an image of the original ad: https://images.tedium.co/uploads/Rainbow-Technologies-Dongle-Ad.jpg That's definitely where I read it originally, and Don Gall has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-05-04 at 20:08

Today I learned that the word “dongle" did not in fact come from the name "Don Gall". That was an urban legend started by a 1992 ad in Byte magazine, which is probably where I came across it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dongle

Sometimes the truth can be disappointing.

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-05-03 at 13:49

It begins again.

https://draculadaily.com/

[#]DraculaDaily

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-04-20 at 21:14

[#]caturday

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-03-23 at 14:52

It’s a chilly morning, and Peggy doesn’t want to leave my lap. #caturday

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-03-20 at 23:32

Oh hey look at that! @treehousetea has a new pattern in the latest Knitty issue, for lace-knit arm warmers / shirt sleeves! https://knitty.com/ISSUEss24/PATTshirtsleeves/PATTshirtsleeves.php

[#]knitting

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-03-16 at 15:06

I didn’t want to get too close and wake him, but this guy

[#]caturday #catsofmastodon

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-03-02 at 17:03

[#]caturday

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-01-22 at 00:14

The author even drops in ludicrous claims like “your physics lecture delivered by Albert Einstein”, handwaving AI to make that seem even remotely plausible.

The author is probably being fed this stuff by the company pushing the new tech, but that doesn’t excuse such an uncritical take.

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Written by Chris Radcliff on 2024-01-22 at 00:13

I often like how thoughtful the Guardian is in its reporting, but this one’s a mess.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/21/hologram-lecturers-thrill-students-at-trailblazing-uk-university

It conflates an incremental improvement in display tech with some radical increase in student engagement, as though the trouble with university lectures is that the professor isn’t visible in enough detail.

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