The Ravens are the organization formerly known as the Cleveland Browns but who couldn’t keep the name. That explains a lot.

fascinating!

Nice animation at the link, too. (can see the 100 Years War - likely the Black Plague too, and Napoleon)

we are up in: Best Rock Artist - Group • Femi and the Foundation Best Rock Album • Wrong Side of the Sun Best Funk song: • Letting Go Best hip-hop song AND best blues song (two categories!) • Walk on By feat. Clifford Cartel wammiesdc.awardsplatform.com?brid=MXemqud...

it's a very nice feature! appreciate @bsky.app helping send people to @citytv.boston.gov livestreams. we have used this a few times since October, helpful for sending people to official, existing livestream infrastructure.

Inferno, Metamorphosis, Smooth Operator?

The Good Place, Love (Apatow)

I will happily run a crash course on military history and theory for liberal policy people. It is not hard stuff, but it is important stuff.

greetings from the intersection of clean treated water and an icy Lake Erie.

Post the best visualization of “opening chords”

I still play with LLMs to see if they've gotten better. I just asked one for a summary of a condition I'm not familiar with. Went OK. Then I asked for a DOI. It made up -- and I'm still impressed by this -- THREE studies. One after the other. And sent FIVE DOIs, all of them invented. USELESS.

pulling up on the timeline because, it’s like some people want to get serious and are all jostling and meanwhile the replies are strong in number

Post a song to read Ms Biba’s skeet by youtu.be/KnHw_1h0-fE?...

Jordan and Patrik Laine on loving the ‘timeless charm’ of Old Montreal montrealgazette.com/sports/hocke...

Love the portmanteau Have you met Mr Brolig? No, not Peyton -Eli… no, Archie

Really important, brilliant observation

This particular point produces an alarm in me the same way the vision relayed by Michael Garfield (“The future is indistinguishable from magic”). I replied in a post that I had this reaction and he asked my why and I really couldn’t articulate it well. But here it is. … +

I’ll extend this warning

Brilliant Maps is just #temptingfate now

Eileen Clancy’s Maxim, “Report *Then* Block” is going to come handy here over the next few days.

@thephantomastic.bsky.social todo bien por ahí?

The bar falls silent as we hear the clanking of silver spurs and the heavy rhythmic stomping of heels on the planks; the batwing doors burst open, the stranger tips his Stetson, and through clenched pony teeth biting a toothpick’s end. says, in a Sam Elliott voice: -It’s *Skeeting*

If you want more about lingering institutions of the republic in the imperial period, I wrote about them here: acoup.blog/2024/11/08/c... If you specifically want to know more about the imperial Roman Senate, R.J.A. Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome (1984) is the one-stop-shop book for you.

Hi I’m a drunk cattle trucker who fell asleep on a road on an embankment in the Pampas

As someone born in Argentina, it was so interesting to learn from @dhmontgomery.com at @thesiecle.com about an important original driving force behind the Monroe Doctrine. thesiecle.com/episode19/

Queens

I may have to step offline because it’s one banger after another and the zeitgeist recommends deletion

As someone born in Argentina, it was so interesting to learn from @dhmontgomery.com at @thesiecle.com about an important original driving force behind the Monroe Doctrine. thesiecle.com/episode19/

If you're in Aberdeen on 21 Jan., I'll be speaking about why Ukrainian history is global. 5:15pm at the Sir Duncan Rice Library Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/professor-...

Perfectly encapsulates today.

You want to find out what your favorite politicians are saying today. Good day to pay attention to that.

These are doable, too

1. Headlines everywhere today read "Grok apologizes." This is bullshit. A chatbot is not something that can apologize. Pretending otherwise is simple laundering these companies' bullshit about what AI is, while diffusing blame away from the human beings that developed and released this system.

Yannick Nezet-Seguin has a great rapport worh the inimitable Wiener Philarmoniker, Happy New Year! youtube.com/shorts/WTLMf...

Fast charging an EV at a commercial charging station should be 10-30 minutes for a full charge. I think this is an actual sweet spot to turn these into “third spaces.” I would love to have to take 20 minutes to charge while I have a coffee with croissants.

This is the future I'm voting for.

The bodega has a Bluetooth enabled bong for sale and I asked the girl behind the counter what the benefit of Bluetooth was and she shrugged and said I dunno and it’s very expensive. I’m never going to buy one but if anyone here knows what the Bluetooth does can you just tell me I’m curious

Metro North fares at least on New Haven line, and ticketing procedures, are changing. On-board purchase goes up by $8, 10-ticket fares are being sunset, round-trip tickets being replaced by an all-day pass expiring at 04am (of the next day)… just fyi in case you are going to NYC

Apparently a hand-made pair of shoes may take anywhere from 20 to 150 hours. Design is not free, and neither is shipping. A cobbler would work very hard at basically marginally above minimum wage in order to produce a shoe at, say, 40% of the retail price.

New York City Metro is 34 Wyomings, population-wise.

Well we barely made it back but how did EVERYBODY from the Dominican know the lyrics to Lamento Boliviano?

Somewhere there is an insurer’s conference with a workshop on increasing margins via denial of coverage, although probably entitled “DOC* is not just for food: leveraging operational opportunities for increasing return on investment”

(the one that is funny because it’s not natural is the “watch the little island!” one, because I don’t think the island was going anywhere and there wasn’t a live event going on)

Looking… like I have some work ahead of me

😂 Insert MANY places in MANY lands, to the point of being universal

One of my favorite college football memories was the whole Rose Bowl on New Year’s Day, with the parade followed by a full Rose Bowl game with Pac10Big10 pride on the line, sun (not this year I see), and the feeling that the air is warm and the people happy… +

I love this for us

type 45^2 in your calculator

Adding Ms Houbolt to the great trove of poets (Fuertes. Sorni, Borges. Cortázar, Neruda) I discovered yesterday!