Dr B Learned Hand @pvsundarb@social.cleverlibre.org
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Things are negative space.
A hammer isn't a hammer because it hits nails well. Many things hit nails well, many things do that (pipes, wrenches, rocks, tungsten cubes). What makes a hammer a hammer is that it does everything else poorly. It becomes defined by the only remaining thing it's good at.
So if you're looking for what a thing is, check the contours of what is can and can't do. Therein lies it's identity
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That Ernest Shackleton, a polar explorer most well known for the Endurance Expedition, when he led his entire crew out of the Antarctic ice after their ship had been crushed, was one of the men who testified at the British inquiry into the Titanic disaster.
https://www.titanicinquiry.org/BOTInq/BOTInq26Shackleton01.php
Thucydides found that nations go to war for three reasons — interests, fear, and honor. Carter understood that the DPRK, facing economic collapse, famine, and isolation after the collapse of the Soviet Union and China’s own lurch westward, was in desperate straits.
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Just got back from the grocery store. Bought a bottle of wine and a young guy came over to check my ID. He noticed I was born in 1948.
"Orvil Wright was still alive in 1948," I informed him.
"No kidding," he said. "The popcorn guy?"
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Robert Smalls: "He participated in drafting the constitution of the state in which he had been a slave."
This life of #BlackHistory forged in battle and lawmaking is so full that even a concise bullet-point list of titles and positions alone won't fit in 500 characters. See alt text for the rundown.
Visit Old Salt Blog to read more about a vast inventory of accomplishment delivered in spite of all odds.
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"K. Leroy Irvis became Pennsylvania’s first Black speaker of the House in 1977, and the first Black speaker in any state legislature since reconstruction. We examined how Irvis’ rise to the speaker’s rostrum, which has some striking parallels to today’s state House, could provide lawmakers with a precedent on how to chart a path forward through gridlock, disagreement and confusion."
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A recent article by Chinese researchers, has caused quite a buzz in the #quantum world. These researchers claim to have discovered a new #FactoringAlgorithm, which is sublinear in the number of #qubits it requires. Learn more: https://ilphotonics.com/unravelling-the-chinese-factoring-algorithm-is-our-current-encryption-still-safe/
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Still working through white US history.
Q: Why are so many Black folk early adopters of tech like Uber and Amazon? Sometimes this willingness to try new tech early backfires on y'all, like the whole crypto scam. Tech companies don't always love you back. So... why so eager? Is it because of Deltron 3030 and André 3000? 🤔You're... you're going to say racism aren't you?
A: Yep! Racism. And go ahead and add Sears to that list of "technology" companies.
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The next time you see a female pilot any female pilot - remember Bessie Coleman, the first African-American/Cherokee Female Aviator.
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A man, who was allegedly part of a gang trying to steal money from cash machines by blowing them up, accidentally 'pocket-dialled 999' during one of the raids https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bumbling-attacker-pocket-dialled-999-29111263
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Why has audio #AI lagged behind image and text based AI?
I know AI is evil, but I want to hear Eddie Van Halen jamming with Louis Armstrong.
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Barbara Walters has reportedly died. This is all the prompting I need to share the factoid that Barbara Walters, Martin Luther King Jr., and Anne Frank were all born in the same year -- something that really shouldn't be surprising, but somehow is.
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* You can now select your language when posting, to let others filter and translate toots better! Or, if you do not select anything, the language will be set according to your keyboard language.
* You can now select text from toots after you open them.
* Adding line breaks and pasting them in image descriptions should work now.
* Fixed an animation glitch on the buttons below toots.
* A rare crash when viewing direct messages has been fixed.
* A crash when playing audio has possibly been fixed.
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BREAKING: Judge rules from the bench and REJECTS the election contest brought by Abe Hamadeh (R) and the Republican National Committee challenging Hamadeh's loss for AZ attorney general, saying "the bottom line is you just haven't proven your case." https://www.democracydocket.com/cases/arizona-attorney-general-election-contest-ii/
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Lawmakers are pretty upset that TikTok spied on my friends and me!
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NOW: The January 6th committee's final report is out and available to the public, you can read it here https://january6th.house.gov/sites/democrats.january6th.house.gov/files/Report_FinalReport_Jan6SelectCommittee.pdf
PDF clocking in at 845 pages.
Stay tuned for more updates.
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In August, we reported that >300 TikTok and ByteDance employees had worked for Chinese state media organizations, which really puts in perspective the fact that TikTok is the only major platform in the US that doesn’t label Chinese state media.
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