Not from around here, but a real square little fellow.
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@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyI think we're all bozos on this bus.
Pinto Colvig
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinto_Colvig?wprov=sfla1
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@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@dougmerritt And the guy really sounded like Eric Burdon -- same phrasing, same angst. Wonder if the lyrics are a close translation.
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyListening to J1 Gold, a Japanese oldies station, and they're playing Please Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood. But it's in Japanese and I don't understand it. Or do I? It's all a bit too meta for a Saturday afternoon.
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyNoted with pleasure: stopping the runs in your stockings with science.
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyPoincaré Seashell No. 14 #origami @origami
From a circle. The creases are arcs on a Poincaré circle or straight lines, if you were folding paper in #hyperrogue.
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@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyGreat, now Coraline's Other Mother comes in AI flavor:
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThe Vietnam war began the day before It's a Wonderful Life was released.
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyRE: https://beep.town/@ghibli/117332037168750820
Remember well adults who would mistake my youthful efforts at a model for something else.
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy#Origami news from the Princeton labs:
https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2026/08/06/new-system-makes-building-robots-snap
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy#Origami satellite news:
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyRuth Sienkiewicz-Mercer's wordboards. #DisabilityAdvocacy #wordboards
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyIt was not growing up with the Mercator projection, as such, but growing up playing the manifestly zero-sum board game, Risk, that gave him the exaggerated notion of Greenland's strategic importance. Note that it borders three other nations.
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@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy@dougmerritt That's quite true. My father was a newspaper editor and I can remember him cutting up copy with long scissors, pasting it together with rubber cement, adding lots of markup and handing it off to the lintotype operators. They moved to thin client word-processing in the 70s. And I […]
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyFrom a Dictionary of Slang and Colloquial Usage, 1912. Kind of surprised the concept predates word-processing.
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy#IsaacAsimov A story about feeding text to an LLM. From Infinity #ScienceFiction, August, 1956.
https://archive.org/details/Infinity_v01n04_1956-08/page/n25/mode/2up
@oschene.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyThe Asimov story I can't remember too well is Reason.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_%28short_story%29?wprov=sfla1