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Free?

Homebuilt?

Self-repaired?

Open source?

Outside the oligarchic ecosphere?

Kicks Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon,
Google, et. al., hard in the nuts?

Bring it.

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Free?

Homebuilt?

Self-repaired?

Open source?

Outside the oligarchic ecosphere?

Kicks Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, Amazon,
Google, et. al., hard in the nuts?

Bring it.

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A comfortable reclining ginger cat beckons with his right paw like Don Corleone calling forward Amerigo Bonasera. The view is down the fat cat's nose, his whiskers poking us; we can sense he's not the trivial sort anyone would ever want to fuck with. 

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Trump is no Napoleon.

Excerpt from 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines.

#uspol #politics #cdnpoli #alttext #science

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Trump is no Napoleon.

Excerpt from 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines.

#uspol #politics #cdnpoli #alttext #science

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Excerpt from book 'Jacquard's Web' on Joseph-Marie Jacquard, who pre-dated IBM by over a century in using punched cards to issue instructions to machines. Quote follows. 

The aspects of Napoleon’s personality and vision that mattered most to Jacquard were unconnected with the new leader's political or military success. Rather, they were related to his respect and admiration for science. This, like the intensity of Napoleons own personal ambition, lay at the core of his personality. Indeed, once Napoleon became the undisputed ruler of
France in 1799 he deliberately set out to give an enormous boost to French science and industry. 

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A fabulous baseball/legal rabbit warren I stumbled upon last night—while watching the incredible Dodgers-Orioles game—into which one can dive and spend hours better understanding both baseball and law, amongst various and sundry related (and wholly unrelated) time-wasting matters[1]:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co mmon_Law_Origins_of_the_Infield_Fly_Rule

1. I found myself sorely tempted to footnote much of the foregoing, but somehow managed to resist.[2]

2. Note 1 supra.

#sports #mlb #infieldflyrule #law #arcana

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A fabulous baseball/legal rabbit warren I stumbled upon last night—while watching the incredible Dodgers-Orioles game—into which one can dive and spend hours better understanding both baseball and law, amongst various and sundry related (and wholly unrelated) time-wasting matters[1]:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Co mmon_Law_Origins_of_the_Infield_Fly_Rule

1. I found myself sorely tempted to footnote much of the foregoing, but somehow managed to resist.[2]

2. Note 1 supra.

#sports #mlb #infieldflyrule #law #arcana

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If mathematics is functional vision in a cosmos of energy and momentum, what abstract practice is it that allows us to perceive and process the deeper messages woven into what we see through proof & calculation?

The infinities, the limits, the bumpy smoothness, the funhouse symmetries (maybe real?), the utterly confounding illogical puzzles…

#science #physics

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If mathematics is functional vision in a cosmos of energy and momentum, what abstract practice is it that allows us to perceive and process the deeper messages woven into what we see through proof & calculation?

The infinities, the limits, the bumpy smoothness, the funhouse symmetries (maybe real?), the utterly confounding illogical puzzles…

#science #physics

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One man’s awakening:

Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

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#environment #climatechange #politics

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One man’s awakening:

Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.

I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.

1/

#environment #climatechange #politics