I've had this tab open since July 4th and finally got around to reading it, realized I'd never actually read the Declaration of Independence in full before. appreciated this framing of it, particularly the analysis of its place in history (and how inspirational it was for revolutions worldwide)!

Collections: On the Declaration of Independence

Hello again all. It is once again the week of July 4th and so, as is customary here, I am going to use this week’s post to talk about the United States. This is going to be a bit more of an o…

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all the vegans and vegetarians, i have one question: if meat disappeared tomorrow, could you still get through an entire workday without hamburgers, beef steaks, or any other succulent meats? imagine meat was suddenly banned. would you actually be willing to give it up?

they're worshiping woims

K. Wroten 🍏@jukeboxcomix.bsky.social · yesterday

inflation hitting everyone hard, $30m can't even buy a single democratic primary anymore

Emily Wilson gets one more piece on The Odyssey and then she needs to move on and let us know what she thinks about Mallrats

hey boss. yeah i'm gonna be late again for my job in Myst world, where we live. i forgot which combination of the sixteen valve handwheels in my apartment opens the front door again

@lifewinning.com lotta great sentences in here www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/bay-area-hor...

The Undervalley

Why is the Bay Area emerging as the preeminent setting for underground labyrinth horror?

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this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

sign at the house show last night (i lived)

“You don’t have to refrigerate that” Ok maybe not but the refrigerator is where the food lives, he is happier with his friends in there

Extremely fun long read for your Sunday morning taxa.substack.com/p/how-to-sur...

How to survive boiling water

A probiotic paradox

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A great thing about being a human is because we needed a nervous system tuned to avoid getting eaten by sabertooth cats and giant sloths or whatever I now lay awake at night stressing about absolute meaningless bullshit.

happy birthday to all horses in the southern hemisphere

"The machine, in its quest to sound authoritative, ended up sounding like a KCPE graduate who scored an 'A' in English Composition. It accidentally replicated the linguistic ghost of the British Empire."

If you know you know@privatechand.bsky.social · 5d ago

I keep thinking about this gorgeous essay about how LLMs- so often trained by inheritors of colonial English- has now rendered the kind of language that is natural to us (“fancy” vocabulary, passive voice, reduced relative clauses) artificial and suspect. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

aunt fritzi died here and the rest of Nancy ever since has been a jacob's ladder scenario

NANCY COMICS BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER@nancycomics.bsky.social · 7d ago

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller July 30,1945

if it doesn't have 190% of my daily suggested dose of sodium i don't want it

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d ago

I need to live my truth. I like cheap unhealthy ramen noodles better than fancy healthy ones.

i smoked some jazz lettuce and got explosive Chick Corea FOLKS

The cool thing about having once donated to a political campaign is a never-ending stream of text messages and emails which all say shit like “Coda, it’s me — Gunt Plunther — and you’ll never believe what Hordy Tordenport just said. Give me $5 by midnight and I’ll slap him. Or the world ends.”

Anyway, shoutout @puzzmo.com , an app that also has good word games and whatnot that isn’t referenced by name in legislation pushing trans people out of public life

This actually sucks. There is nothing fundamental about computers that means they should be like this

skelly tayne@ohnoether.bsky.social · last wk.

give a man a hosted platform, he'll say he can do it better for a lifetime let a man self-host a platform, he'll rejoin your hosted platform in 3 months

should be more of a scandal that the FCC is banning a ton of electronics in the US (routers, cameras, drones, roombas) unless they go through a murky process to get an exception, and which largely only right-wing-friendly companies (SpaceX) seem to have managed

I wish I could have been in the room when Destiny's Child came up with "automo bills"

i want drawings of my cat in this style

Luke Knox@lukeknox.me · last wk.

just became aware of William Howard Taft’s 1908 campaign poster

i love this extremely brookyln lawyer at the hotel bar yelling at his client about why he's a fuckin coward for not wanting to take the stand and saying "you're gonna make me look like a fuckin asshole in front of the judge"

photos I took in my friend's flower garden I hope you enjoy

the hawk attack is good

Filippo Valsorda@filippo.abyssdomain.expert · last wk.

I'm seeing folks draw the wrong conclusion (in good faith or not) from the HAWK attack. HAWK is a scheme that 1. cryptographers were suspicious of and 2. was still in the assessment process. A break is GOOD. It means the process is useful, and it INCREASES confidence in the selected algorithms.

out of all the pentameters, iambic gotta be in the top 5

LLC stands for Ladies Love Companies

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where the oleander grows@nonblnary.bsky.social · 5mo ago

this is my EVIL RULES-HEAVY and STORY-LIGHT ttrpg framework focused on RIGIDITY, LACK of PLAYER AGENCY, SOLIPSISM, and MEANINGLESS decision making

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