Adam Aaronson
@aaronson.bsky.social
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Knows the alphabet (in order) Aaronson.org
My thoughts on Elon's Grokipedia as a Wikipedia editor, and—because Grokipedia has copied nearly verbatim many of my Wikipedia pages—inadvertently, a Grokipedia editor. (a thread)
17 days ago
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I'm giving a talk here! Come see me talk about Square Theory with some never-before-presented twists
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24 days ago
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I'm giving a talk here! Come see me talk about Square Theory with some never-before-presented twists
add a skeleton here at some point
24 days ago
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Got a puzzle triple header today - Crossword for
@nytimes.com
- Crossword for
@billboard.com
(kicking off Latin week) - Alphadots for
@bloomberg.com
(where all 7 puzzles this week will be by me)
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26 days ago
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Here's a crossword I made
#nytxw
26 days ago
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This one's for the all the numerologyheads
www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...
about 1 month ago
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My second crossword for
@billboard.com
! Taylor Swift week continues apace
about 1 month ago
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Had a blast at the inaugural WikiGameJam this past weekend hosted by
@wikimediafoundation.org
@wikimedianyc.bsky.social
! Great crowd of creative tech + wiki + game people, and a great chance to lock in on a project (which won the "Most Likely to Keep Me Coming Back for More" award!)
about 1 month ago
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NEW NEWS: I'm making music-themed crosswords for
@billboard.com
! Solve the inaugural one, constructed by me and inspired by a certain album that dropped today:
www.billboard.com/p/billboard-...
about 1 month ago
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parker higgins
2 months ago
🎉 new release today: fill harmonics is a weird music machine thing made from the bones of crossword puzzles. put it together with my pal
@natanlast.bsky.social
read more:
parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill...
and play around with it:
fillharmonics.com
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Fill Harmonics, the crossword puzzle music machine
Today I’m releasing Fill Harmonics, a music machine that takes its rules and styling from the world of crossword puzzles. The name is a pun: in crossword lingo, “fill” is the stuff that goes into the ...
https://parkerhiggins.net/2025/09/fill-harmonics-crossword-music-machine/
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Josh Dzieza
2 months ago
I wrote about how Wikipedia became the factual foundation of the web and why it's under attack
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Wikipedia is under attack — and how it can survive
The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.
https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales
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I made a trombone for HTML Day
@htmlenergy.bsky.social
aaronson.org/trombone/
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3 months ago
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I'm in this! Along with lots of other fun and cool people!
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4 months ago
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Waxy.org
4 months ago
Adam Aaronson drank every cocktail: or, at least, all 102 listed in the International Bartenders Association's official list
https://aaronson.org/blog/i-dr...
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I Drank Every Cocktail
The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bartending industry has to a canonical list of cocktails, akin to the American Kennel Club’s registry of dog breeds or a jazz musician’s Real Book of standards.
https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail
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I drank every cocktail on the IBA official cocktail list, and I wrote some words about it
aaronson.org/blog/i-drank...
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I Drank Every Cocktail
The International Bartenders Association, or IBA, maintains a list of official cocktails, ones they deem to be “the most requested recipes” at bars all around the world. It’s the closest thing the bar...
https://aaronson.org/blog/i-drank-every-cocktail
4 months ago
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Just a couple of guys who made a crossword.
#NYTXW
5 months ago
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Made another
@newyorker.com
crossword. This one's for the bookworms
5 months ago
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Borg chart
5 months ago
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Jim Acosta macOS Tahoe 🤝 MACOSTA
5 months ago
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How it started / how it's going
@rickycruz.bsky.social
6 months ago
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New blog post! At the intersection of language and... abstract math
aaronson.org/blog/square-...
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Square Theory
The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, som...
https://aaronson.org/blog/square-theory
6 months ago
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Made my
@bloomberg.com
Businessweek magazine debut with a stock-flavored word puzzle! Catch it on the last page of the June issue
6 months ago
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PUZZLE: Two complementary crossword tournament solving divisions anagram to European capitals. What are they? (no spoilers)
6 months ago
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New crossword on
Aaronson.org
! And yeah—it's a "tricky" one
aaronson.org/crosswords/b...
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Blues Clues
Bonjour-hi from Montréal! I made this entire puzzle aboard the 11-hour Amtrak ride here from New York City. There’s something about Amtrak rides that get my crossword juices flowing. I guess they put ...
https://aaronson.org/crosswords/bluesclues/
6 months ago
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Helium balloons float because He is risen
7 months ago
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STATUS: cannot stop listening to the new YHWH Nailgun album (and made a Wikipedia page for it)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_Pounds
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45 Pounds - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45_Pounds
7 months ago
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The owner of In-N-Out LYNSI SNYDER has the crazy palindrome YNSISNY hidden in her name
7 months ago
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Went into
#ACPT2025
with the sole goal of finishing all the puzzles error-free, so in that sense I won. Placed 3rd alphabetically (my worst yet) and 36th by score (my best yet). So proud to witness
@gppasco.bsky.social
pull off the back-to-back championship!
7 months ago
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Gonna start an Etsy shop that sells sorting algorithms. They're made to order
8 months ago
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My new
@newyorker.com
crossword answers the age-old question: what if crossword, but for nerds?
www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-...
8 months ago
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Total appearances of secondary intercardinal direction entries in the New York Times crossword
8 months ago
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I realized there wasn't a great website for making custom text-based emoji for Slack or Discord, so I cooked one up last night Here's Emoter:
aaronson.org/emoter/
8 months ago
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USC USC 🤝 Being a 1 seed in the women's bracket
8 months ago
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Total appearances of various "Makes sense to me!" entries in the New York Times crossword
8 months ago
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The Beatles in alphabetical order by first name (George, John, Paul, Ringo) are the same as in alphabetical order by last name (Harrison, Lennon, McCartney, Starr)
8 months ago
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At the intersection of wherever books are sold and wherever you get your podcasts
9 months ago
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The same is true of DEKALB AVENUE
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9 months ago
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It's really remarkable how you hear "the thing is, is that" more often than "the thing is that". My headcanon for why this is is that we internalize "the thing is" as a noun phrase instead of a subject+verb because it co-occurs so often
9 months ago
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Jersey Mike's Amazing Hard Hot Honey Mayo Lemonade
9 months ago
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Read this as a cute way of saying HERE like SAMESIES
9 months ago
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NFL wordplay game: name the words/phrases whose only consonants are N, F, L Custardy dessert (4) Like lions and panthers (6) Herb with a bulb (6) Button-down material (7) Side of a baseball diamond (8) Recurring credit card charge (9) 1964 Beatles single (9)
9 months ago
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Brian Moore
9 months ago
made this little tool,
govwayback.com
. add “wayback.com” to “.gov” on any US gov website and it’ll redirect you to that page on
@archive.org
… from before January 20th 2025
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It's really funny how Apple quietly forces iPhone users to obey its style guide by autocorrecting "tapback" to "Tapback" and "Apple store" to "Apple Store"
9 months ago
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If you're craving some more puzzling, I dropped this Sporcle quiz yesterday. I think it's pretty neat
www.sporcle.com/games/BanjoZ...
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Country Anagrams
Can you name the answer described by each clue AND the country that each answer anagrams to?
https://www.sporcle.com/games/BanjoZebra/country-anagrams
9 months ago
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And now, a crossword
9 months ago
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Grammy Award
10 months ago
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[sees a farm with animals on it] this is so Orwellian
10 months ago
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Happy year of the snake! Now you have to play my game Snaclops that I made in high school. It's like Snake but the snake has one eye:
aaronson.org/snaclops/
10 months ago
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7th Street Burger needed a Wikipedia page so I wrote one. Officially 10% of the way to the achievement of "write one Wikipedia article starting with each digit from 0 to 9"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Str...
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7th Street Burger - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7th_Street_Burger
10 months ago
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Palindromic ramen review: Tonkotsu: just ok—NOT!
10 months ago
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