Interested in history, languages, software, dogs, dog software, and weird stuff from the internet. Swagless normie. Email me: john@jvining.com

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everyone wants to philosophize and no one wants to live in a barrel
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learning now that Bosnia and Herzegovina are allowed to field 22 players combined?
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Tag Thyself. (The Hoosier Yearbook, 1925)
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the aristophanes, if I remember correctly, translates some greek yokel as if he were scottish
National Review, 1965
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Largest stadiums in the world according to wikipedia: 1. Ahmedabad 2. Pyongyang 3. Ann Arbor 4. College Township 5. Columbus
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NPR on sports
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one cartographical error with this map is that there now is a bar on lake winnebago so it probably shouldn't be totally white
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This is our version of the Notre-Dame de Paris fire
the blue culvers barn has fallen
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Not speaking for Dario, but Anthropic has a strong writing-as-thinking culture, and we would internally filter out anything like “Claude write my 2026 policy brief, make no mistakes”, just because the human thought/effort wouldn’t match the importance.
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"Police Capture Alleged Bad Man", *The Superior Telegram*, 1910.
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Spiritually, the modem is a sort of frog
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1929 yearbook
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From the Keokuk Year Book, 1929
A dreary Sunday morning in Keokuk, Iowa
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"Activities". 1929 yearbook.
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1929 yearbook
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The wisdom of the parent is knowing why grilled cheese (butter, wheat, cheese) is real food and the goldfish (butter, wheat, cheese) is not
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The suburbs of language
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not a good thing to read from the robot overlord (related to cameras, don't worry)
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if you have 600k you can live on this island and get this chapel (along with a house and barn)
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