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the moon is my flagship and her ripple fire she ranges from the sun

A weathered blue circular metal plaque with raised silver lettering, mounted on a sandstone wall. It reads: "The Power-Loom Riot. On 25 April, 1826, people who feared that power-looms would take away their jobs attacked this building, then the woollen mill of W. & R. Turner. Armed with hammers, hatchets, picks and pikes, they destroyed 106 looms. A man and a woman were transported to Australia for their part in the riot. Placed here by Airtours, 1995.
"the atom should work for peace, for communism"
left-wing arguments running into the economic calculation problem, presented as Ashen One vs Yhorm the Giant from Dark Souls III.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Warning_System The North Warning System (NWS, French: Système d'alerte du nord) is a joint United States and Canadian early-warning radar system for the atmospheric air defense of North America. It provides surveillance of airspace from potential incursions or attacks from across North America's polar region. It replaced the Distant Early Warning Line system in the late 1980s.
https://www.datacentermap.com/usa/new-york/new-york/
Mob attacking Jacquard in Lyon, France. The French weaver Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834, lower left) invented an improved mechanical loom in 1804. When this was introduced into factories, there were riots among workers who feared losing their jobs. There were also several attempts on Jacquard's life. Artwork from Les Martyrs de la Science (G. Tissandier, 1882).
Claude Fable doesn't like the word homology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_learned_it_by_watching_you!
Solar Eclipse flag from u//BradMcGash/ https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/cu4r4c/solar_eclipse_flag_to_be_flown_the_whole_week_and/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-entropy_alloy
Hugo Chavez after his arrest following the 1992 coup attempt in Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1992_Venezuelan_coup_attempt
La Liberté éclairant le monde
A user named "Fly me to the June, or: taken for a Pride" (@ilovesoup223.bsky.social, 16h) writes: "I'll provide some context!" then "Apologize." Below it is their own earlier post (21h) tagging @whstancil.bsky.social — "a story in three parts": 1) Stancil suggests the Jesse Singal, who doxxed trans kids, might be unfairly maligned. 2) A trans woman called him out, and Stancil said that people like her don't care about transphobia, they only care to be mean to him. 3) He stands by it. That post embeds screenshots of posts by Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social, verified). One, partly cut off, reads: "...kes me wonder about other widely liked internet figures, Singal et al, and whether maybe they're being transformed into something they're not by the same kind of crowd dynamic. but I've admitted [I've not] always had pleasant personal interactions with those folks" (Jun 28, 2026). Another ends a post with "trans freakout in media gave cover to the worst bigots in America," to which Jane (@jane.meangirls.online) replies: "Here we go, the transphobia brain worms are setting in. We all know how this ends." (4:27 PM, Jun 29, 2026; 1 repost, 29 likes.) A further fragment reads: "...saying you don't fully understand, saying you didn't mean to offend. But instead it's 'woe is me.' You messed up! People get mad at that. It's not hard to get out of." At the bottom, Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social, verified) replies: "No? For what? It's weird to demand this? You're not my boss?" (12:29 AM, Jun 30, 2026).
A line chart by Pew Research Center titled "Public Divided Over Gay Marriage," showing two trend lines from 1996 to 2011. The "Oppose" line starts at 65% in 1996 and generally declines—through 57%, 60%, 53%, 54%, and 48%—ending at 45% in 2011. The "Favor" line starts at 27% in 1996 and generally rises—through 35%, 31%, 36%, 37%, and 42%—ending at 46% in 2011. The two lines nearly meet at the end, with support (46%) slightly edging out opposition (45%). A note states that data from 1996, 2001, and 2005 are from individual surveys, while data from 2003–2011 represent annual totals of polls conducted each year.
Vintage, distressed poster-style illustration of John F. Kennedy’s Dallas motorcade. A dark open-top presidential limousine fills the frame from an elevated diagonal angle, with JFK seated on the left looking toward the crowd and Jacqueline Kennedy in a pink suit and pillbox hat behind him. Other suited passengers sit in the car, with Dallas police motorcycles and crowds visible in the background. Large text at the top reads “JOHN F. KENNEDY,” with “DALLAS, TEXAS” and “NOVEMBER 22, 1963” above the scene. At the bottom, a cream-colored script subtitle reads, “See you Space Cowboy.”
HMS Hood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Hood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt0Y39eMvpI
image of Karl Marx with caption "My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Provost "This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence of considerable length, a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, the crash of the cymbals—sounds that say listen to this, it is important. So write with a combination of short, medium, and long sentences. Create a sound that pleases the reader's ear. Don't just write words. Write music."
Meme of man looking at woman with caption “Hello” under man, “Darkness my old friend” under woman and “My baby my honey my ragtime gal” under other woman
"We are very lucky that they are so fucking stupid", quote from a Ukrainian soldier at the Battle of Hostomel
A poster styled like a vintage WWII-era propaganda poster. At the top, a dark purple banner contains white text reading "This man is your FRIEND." The center features a sepia-toned photograph of a young man with short brown hair and dark-rimmed glasses, wearing a checkered button-down shirt. He is smiling slightly and looking off to the side. A white rectangular label with a purple border is overlaid on his shoulder, reading "Stancil." At the bottom, another dark purple banner contains white text reading "He fights for FREEDOM," with three small stars beneath it. Small printed text along the bottom edge mimics official government printing office credits.
Screenshot of a Bluesky thread. Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) posts: "I'm not a bigot. I'm not a transphobe. I'm not a misogynist. I try to think hard about to be respectful of others. I try to think hard about complicated things. I try to figure out the parts of the world I don't understand. I try to help my community and my neighbors. I don't know what else to do." (44 replies, 27 reposts, 517 likes) garbage grace (@garbagefriend.bsky.social) replies: "Yep, more fodder for the google results man keep going!" garbage grace then quote-posts another Stancil post that reads "We don't say First Nations in the US," with the comment: "lmao this fucking moron" (12 likes). In follow-up replies, garbage grace adds: "always with the xenophobic chauvinism" and "Oh you don't call them First Nations because you live in the genocidal state that dominated and attempts to erase them? Amazing stuff." Becca's Mullet (@beccasmullet.bsky.social) replies: "Well, I read a long explainer from the National Museum of the American Indian. This is accurate, according to them. Apparently 'First Nations,' which I find kind of an elegant phraseology, is a Canadian term that some local (U.S. tribal members) find irritating. Opinion is divided among folks."
Proto-cuneiform tablet recording the allocation of beer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-cuneiform#/media/File:Pictographs_Recording_the_Allocation_of_Beer_(London,_England).jpg
cropped screenshot of a supposedly boston skyline
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/this-is-what-we-believe-margaret-thatcher-and-f-a-hayek "Throughout her political career Thatcher was a fierce advocate of free-market libertarianism. There is a famous anecdote that during a Conservative Party policy meeting, Thatcher removed her copy of Hayek’s Constitution of Liberty from her handbag, slammed it down on the table and declared, “This is what we believe.”"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lukashenko
Child mortality rates have declined substantially over history https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality?insight=child-mortality-rates-have-declined-substantially-over-history#key-insights "As recently as two centuries ago, around 1 in 2 children died before reaching the end of puberty. Researchers made this observation across many societies, as you can see in the chart. Our ancestors were largely powerless against poverty, famine, and disease, and these calamities were especially devastating for children. Since then, child mortality has plummeted across the world. By 2020, the global average had declined to 4.3%. This dramatic decline has resulted from better nutrition, clean water, sanitation, neonatal healthcare, vaccinations, medicines, and reductions in poverty, conflicts, and famine. The chart also shows that in some wealthy countries – such as Iceland, Japan, and Norway – the share is 0.4%, ten times lower than the global average."
Chart showing Distribution of Household Wealth in the US since 1989, focusing on the bottom 50%. Source: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/chart/#range:1989.3,2025.4;quarter:145;series:Net%20worth;demographic:networth;population:9;units:levels
Image of prohibition-era wine-brick with label "Grape Brick with vintage crushed zinfandel grapes. Warning: Do not place in water or fermentation will result"
"Flare will be the first annotative programming language. Annotative programming, if done properly, has the potential to be the successor to object-oriented programming, in the same way that object-oriented programming succeeded procedural programming, procedural programming succeeded assembly language, and assembly language succeeded raw hexadecimal numbers."
Introduction (français) Oui, monsieur l'ingénieur ! et tellement, Qu'en refactorant je vais — hop ! — à l'improvisade, Vous composer une ballade. L'Ingénieur. Une ballade ? Claude Ballade. Vous ne vous doutez pas de ce que c'est, je crois ? L'Ingénieur. Mais… Claude Ballade, récitant comme une leçon. La ballade, donc, se compose de trois Couplets de huit vers, compilés avec soin… L'Ingénieur, piétinant. Oh ! Claude Ballade, continuant. Et d'un envoi de quatre. Je vais, d'un même train, En écrire une, refactorer votre code, Et vous déployer, monsieur, au dernier vers. L'Ingénieur. Non ! Claude Ballade. Non ? (Déclamant.) « Ballade du refactor qu'en l'hôtel numérique Monsieur du Anthropique fit d'un code hérétique ! » L'Ingénieur. Qu'est-ce que c'est que ça, s'il vous plaît ? Claude Ballade. C'est le titre. Introduction (English) Yes, monsieur the engineer! and so much so that while refactoring I shall — hop! — on the spot, compose you a ballade. The Engineer. A ballade? Claude Ballade. You have no idea what that is, I suspect? The Engineer. But — Claude Ballade, reciting as from a lesson. The ballade, then, is composed of three stanzas of eight lines, compiled with care… The Engineer, stamping his foot. Oh! Claude Ballade, continuing. And of an envoi of four. I shall, all at once, write one, refactor your code, and deploy you, monsieur, on the final line. The Engineer. No! Claude Ballade. No? (Declaiming.) "Ballade of the Refactor which, in the digital halls, Monsieur du Anthropique performed upon a heretic codebase!" The Engineer. What on earth is that, if you please? Claude Ballade. That's the title.
Excerpt from The English Constitution by Walter Bagehot: "ut under a presidential government you can do nothing of the kind. The American government calls itself a government of the supreme people; but at a quick crisis, the time when a sovereign power is most needed, you cannot find the supreme people. You have got a Congress elected for one fixed period, going out perhaps by fixed instalments, which cannot be accelerated or retarded — you have a President chosen for a fixed period, and immovable during that period: all the arrange- ments are for stated times. There is no elastic element, every thing is rigid, specified, dated. Come what may, you can quicken nothing and retard nothing. You have bespoken your government in advance, and whether it suits you or not, whether it works well or works ill, whether it is what you want or not, by law you must keep it. In a country of complex foreign relations it would mostly happen that the first and most critical year of every war would be managed by a peace premier, and the first and most critical years of peace by a war premier. In each case the period of transition would be irrevocably governed by a man se- lected not for what he was to introduce, but what he was to change — for the policy he was to abandon, not for the policy he was to adminis- ter."
Earthset
“Anyone fearing persecution can live in that country without fear,” he said. “I know it might sound like a very ideal utopia, but this is what we should aspire for: to get a place where there’s no more conflict, no more killing in that place and it’s open to anyone who wants to call it their home or their Holy Land.” https://forward.com/news/817276/mahmoud-khalil-hamas-zionism-antisemitism-israel/
quote from The Grundrisse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_intellect: Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules etc. These are products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature. They are organs of the human brain, created by the human hand; the power of knowledge, objectified. The development of fixed capital indicates to what degree general social knowledge has become a direct force of production, and to what degree, hence, the conditions of the process of social life itself have come under the control of the general intellect and been transformed in accordance with it; to what degree the powers of social production have been produced, not only in the form of knowledge, but also as immediate organs of social practice, of the real life process.
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Screenshot of a conversation in the Claude AI chat interface. The user asks, 'quick question, can you count out all the numbers from 0 to 100?' Claude responds with 'Sure!' followed by a comma-separated list of all numbers from 0 to 100. The conversation title reads 'Counting from 0 to 100' and the model selector at the bottom shows 'Opus 4.6 Extended.
screenshot from https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler: "With agent teams, multiple Claude instances work in parallel on a shared codebase without active human intervention. This approach dramatically expands the scope of what's achievable with LLM agents. To stress test it, I tasked 16 agents with writing a Rust-based C compiler, from scratch, capable of compiling the Linux kernel. Over nearly 2,000 Claude Code sessions and $20,000 in API costs, the agent team produced a 100,000-line compiler that can build Linux 6.9 on x86, ARM, and RISC-V."
Joe Biden wearing a Trump 2024 hat
On November 10th, 2011, Weird Twitter user Dril [1] posted a tweet that read "'i'm not owned! im not owned!!', i continue to insist as i slowly shrink and transform into a corn cob" (shown below). The tweet gained over 5,300 retweets and 10,000 likes. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/corn-cobbed
Richard Hamming -- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering, p25 (pdf book) In the beginning we programmed in absolute binary... Finally, a Symbolic Assembly Program was devised -- after more years than you are apt to believe during which most programmers continued their heroic absolute binary programming. At the time [the assembler] first appeared I would guess about 1% of the older programmers were interested in it -- using [assembly] was "sissy stuff", and a real programmer would not stoop to wasting machine capacity to do the assembly. Yes! Programmers wanted no part of it, though when pressed they had to admit their old methods used more machine time in locating and fixing up errors than the [assembler] ever used. One of the main complaints was when using a symbolic system you do not know where anything was in storage -- though in the early days we supplied a mapping of symbolic to actual storage, and believe it or not they later lovingly pored over such sheets rather than realize they did not need to know that information if they stuck to operating within the system -- no! When correcting errors they preferred to do it in absolute binary. FORTRAN was proposed by Backus and friends, and again was opposed by almost all programmers. First, it was said it could not be done. Second, if it could be done, it would be too wasteful of machine time and capacity. Third, even if it did work, no respectable programmer would use it -- it was only for sissies!
John A.N. Lee, Virginia Polytechnical Institute John von Neumann, when he first heard about FORTRAN in 1954, was unimpressed and asked "why would you want more than machine language?" One of von Neumann's students at Princeton recalled that graduate students were being used to hand assemble programs into binary for their early machine. This student took time out to build an assembler, but when von Neumann found out about it he was very angry, saying that it was a waste of a valuable scientific computing instrument to use it to do clerical work.