Developer and linguist based in Chicago. PhD from Berkeley. I've also taught at McGill and UBC. I pretend to hate puns but I really don't
Joined October 2011
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The Quiet the Sea Allows
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JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
Some of you were alive when that happened.
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“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.
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I think it’s rather interesting that despite being far wealthier in absolute terms than a Vanderbilt or Carnegie or Stanford, and being directly positioned in an industry that could benefit from it, no tech elite has ever founded a university, and few have even given endowments
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The 10,000 San Franciscans who are about to become millionaires in 2026 are going to fund a new generation of art, architecture and ideas that will shape the world
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I wanna do this for Chicago
This is wonderful. This page turns New York into a massive, zoomable, SimCity-style pixel art map. You can explore the city block by block: streets, skyscrapers, parks, waterfronts, bridges and neighbourhoods. A beautiful rabbit hole for map nerds: isometric.nyc/
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Took him 10 years to figure out how to frame sucking up to the man who spread dirt about his wife’s mental illness as an act of masculine will, but he did it
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After he lost to President Donald Trump in 2016, US Sen @tedcruz said some told him to take his ball and go home.
“You aught to behave like a petulant little bitch,” Cruz said of the advice.
But he said he refused and became one of Trump’s best allies in the US Senate
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This is the America I believe in
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The University of Kansas band learned the Algerian National Anthem to welcome the team before training. 🇩🇿
Absolutely incredible…
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God I love humans
My favorite stupid history fact is that the Cerne Abbas Giant, the 1,000-year-old monument in England famous for its enormous dong, likely was wearing pants when it was originally carved and locals may have just added the boner in the 17th century as a prank. I'm not kidding!
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this is genuinely making me patriotic. i believe the US can be an incredibly beautiful and multicultural and democratic socialist society!!!!
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Bad dude I think tbh
Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
currentaffairs.org/news/how-…
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Jun 12
if you or someone you know in nyc wants to vibe code:
come to the val town office next thursday!
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If you want to migrate to this quickly, use this helper function that claude wrote for me:
val.town/x/nbbaier/migrate-b…
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sure, we had blobs, but not scoped blobs, it's very important to scope blobs to vals because of agents and vibecoding, the blobs are scoped now
blog.val.town/scoped-blob-st…
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This is why real democracies have that pesky thing known as due process.
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One top military officer provided a plausible explanation, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, The Intercept has learned. In the briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.
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Just use @ValDotTown
we did something similar on cloudflare
we have these internal apps that use cf primitives like workers, sqlite, r2
and they're all fronted by cloudflare access which requires SSO
100% vibed by opencode
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I want to go here so bad
🏺The Grand Egyptian Museum by Heneghan Peng Architects in Cairo, Egypt
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Today, dolphins swim in what used to be oil slicks 55 years ago, yet some want to defund the EPA.
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what are your go-to free-tier tools when you're starting a new project? Not counting Cloudflare. Things like creating a project-specific discord, etc
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How does this thing fly
At @ILA_Berlin, we introduce the Airbus U145: an uncrewed, fully autonomous variant of the H145. Optimised for cargo with no cockpit, an integrated nose door, and full autonomy, its first flight is set for late 2026.
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“It was one of the most monumentally unselfish things one group of people did for another.”
-#DDay veteran Andy Rooney on the young 🇺🇸 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy 82 years ago.
Required watching for every young person today!
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No country should be allowed to host the World Cup while imposing discriminatory rules on qualified and participating teams.
This ought to be a very basic requirement.
Jun 6
Iran’s World Cup squad has been notified they must enter and leave US soil on the same day of their matches played in America, says Tehran’s ambassador to Mexico.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/x8ky2u
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