If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Oooh, this is super interesting for nerds like me...

¡IEEPA, IEEPA! ¡Ándale, Ándale!

Your point reminds me of a very astute Twitter thread about shame, by David Rees (of Get Your War On fame), from early in Trump's first term. It's hard to find now, so I'm going to post the whole thing here.

this is very funny www.foxnews.com/media/jd-van...

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

Things are grim. But in more frivolous news... @jamesbrandecon.bsky.social and I have been chipping away at `dbreg`, a 📦 for running big regression models on database backends. For the right kinds of problems, the speed-ups are near magical. Website: grantmcdermott.com/dbreg/ #rstats [1/2]

Graham Greene was one of those actors whose presence was absolutely, 100% guaranteed to make whatever movie or TV show he was in better. He added instant gravitas and authority, reliable stealthy humor and depth beyond whatever was on the page. Should've been Emmy nominated for "Reservation Dogs."

This, actually works. For me at least.

Check in on your economist friends today. We are not ok!

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller May 25,1959

I was browsing the repo for the @economist.com github page and found this little marvel of setting up a repo. github.com/TheEconomist...

It’s kinda wild following the South Korea situation on BlueSky and Threads; on BlueSky the coup attempt is over and on Threads Henry Blake received an honourable discharge and is about to fly home to the States.

I still haven’t posted anything yet.