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Dylan Beattie is my new favorite nerd on YouTube.

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On Glyph Anatomy, Type Families, Classifications, Design, and more.

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“The Raster Tragedy” is absolutly everything one would ever need to know about rendering fonts on computer screens.

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Texan Lawsuit, filed by disgraced attorney who posted videos of himself at the Capitol Attack, cites “The Lord of the Rings” as justification for the removal of the new President and stewardship by the old President’s cabinet.

It would appear that my collection of batshittery is far from complete.

“Gondor has no king,” the lawsuit states, a footnote providing an explanation of the woeful fate of Tolkien’s entirely imaginary land populated by dragons, wizards, hobbits and elves, all threatened by a baleful Dark Lord backed up by an army of orcs and with famously little time for due democratic process.

The suit explains how Gondor’s throne was empty and its rightful kings in exile, presumably positing the idea that Trump is the true king of America – a land happily monarch-free since 1776.

“This analogy is applicable since there is now in Washington DC a group of individuals calling themselves the president, vice-president and Congress who have no rightful claim to govern the American people,” the case states.

It adds: “Since only the rightful king could sit on the throne of Gondor, a steward was appointed to manage Gondor until the return of the King, known as ‘Aragorn’, occurred at the end of the story.”

The lawsuit then suggests that America’s version of the stewards of Gondor should be selected from among – surprise, surprise – Trump’s cabinet members, who should run the country.

“‘Gondor has no king’: pro-Trump lawsuit cites Lord of the Rings”, The Guardian

Nope. Not delusional at all.

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“Elite Strike-Force Team” deemed “clownish” by Client’s Attorney General.

“These things aren’t panning out,” Barr told the president, standing beside his chief of staff Will Levi. “The stuff that these people are filling your ear with just isn’t true.” Barr explained that if Trump wanted to contest the election results, the president’s internal campaign lawyers would have to do it.

The Justice Department, he continued, had looked at the major fraud allegations that Trump’s lawyers had leveled. “It’s just bullshit,” Barr told the president. Cipollone backed up Barr by saying the DOJ was investigating these claims.

Trump pointed at the TV and asked if Barr had been watching the hearing. Barr said he hadn’t. “Maybe you should,” the president said. Barr reiterated that the Justice Department was not ignoring the allegations, but that Trump’s outside lawyers were doing a terrible job.

“I’m a pretty informed legal observer and I can’t fucking figure out what the theory is here,” he added. “It’s just scattershot. It’s all over the hill and gone.”

“Maybe,” Trump said. “Maybe.”

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An Owl’s Eye Color is Related to When It likes to Hunt.

Dark Brown or Black: Nocturnal (helps with camouflage.) Orange: Dawn and Dusk. Yellow: Daytime. There are no Blue-Eyed Owls.

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Tesseract is an Open-Source OCR Engine

Here’s a short overview but I found it as easy as

brew install tesseract

# See output.txt
tesseract -l eng input.png output

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Ned Batchelder on Big-O, or “How Code Slows as Data Grows”

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The “Standardizing Testing and Accountability Before Large Elections Giving Electors Necessary Information for Unobstructed Selection” Act

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“Elite Strike-Force Team” Client Leaves Office with his Lowest Ever Approval Rating at 29%

Nicely played, team. I’d say Mission Accomplished 🍾 That being said, I really hope I don’t have to collect Shitkraken stories anymore (for “completeness.”)

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Stable Genius Client Halts Payments to Fearless Leader of his “Elite Strike-Force” Legal Team.

Not sure if this has to do with The Client’s legendary ethics and history of non-payment (one, two, three, four, five, and many, many more) or the Strike Force’s whopping 1.5% success rate. Or maybe The Genius finally realized:

“Your typical role as legal counselor is to tell your client the hard truth and walk them away from risk,” Matthew Sanderson, a Republican political lawyer based in Washington, said in an interview. “Rudy instead seems to tell his client exactly what he wants to hear and walk him toward risk like they’re both moths to a flame.”

Matthew Sanderson, Republican Lawyer, “After 2 Impeachments, Giuliani Vows to Continue His Fervor for Trump”, The New York Times

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“Elite Strike Force Team” Vanishes from State Television.

Surely can’t the bad-for-ratings hair dye, the insane and casually racist witnesses, or the amazing 1.5% success rate?

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This is the best octopus fossil ever found.

It was found in 1982 in France. It’s 165M years old. Researchers reconstructed it in 3D using “synchrotron microtomography.” I was unable this reconstruction because the system of scientific journals is a money-grubbing bullshit system run by greedy people. Here she is though ♥️

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The Elite Strike-Force Team is at 1-64 a week before inauguration.

This is a success rate of ~1.5% 🥇

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Twitter permanently suspends account of Sidney Powell, ex-member of the “Elite Strike-Force Team”.

I’m really tired of this saga of ineptitude and batshittery but will continue to scrapbook these stories for ‘completeness’.

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A Custom “Linux Router, Firewall and IDS Appliance”

The focus of this project is to build a super reliable, durable, and stable network device from tried and tested tech. This is not a project for pushing the limits or testing out flashy new stacks. This affinity for ‘boring’ technology will reflect on most of the choices made here, from the hardware to the way we configure services and daemons.

Sounds lovely. (Cached)

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Hazel for macOS is an automation tool that lets you watch folders and apply all sorts of rules to them.

By a single dev. At $42, an absolute steal for all the things you can do with it. Perpetual license, no bullshit subscription model. 😍

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Conversion Table by Prof. Kieran Healy

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Decoding the flags and banners seen at the Capitol Hill insurrection

Confirmation that I did, indeed, see a “No, Georgia the country, idiot” flag. And then there’s this surprising tidbit:

The flags of Canada, Cuba, Georgia, India, Israel, South Korea, and South Vietnam were spotted in the mob. It’s unclear why many of these flags appeared, though a number of the white supremacist and militia groups that were present have international chapters.

India? Ah, yes of course

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“He was delighted.”

“And I’m sure you’ve also had conversations with other senior White House officials, as I have,” Sasse continued. “As this was unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was as you had rioters pushing against Capitol Police trying to get into the building.”

Sasse added: “He was delighted.”

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE)

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“Dominion sues pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, seeking more than $1.3 billion”

In a 124-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Dominion said its reputation and resale value have been deeply damaged by a “viral disinformation campaign” that Powell mounted “to financially enrich herself, to raise her public profile, and to ingratiate herself to Donald Trump.”

You don’t say.

As Powell’s accusations about Dominion spread after the election, the company’s employees were stalked, harassed and received death threats via email, text and phone: “we are already watching you,” read a text message to one Dominion employee, according to the complaint. “Come clean and you will live.”

[…] She has claimed that Dominion’s voting system was created in Venezuela to rig elections for former Venezuelan leader Hugo Chávez and has said that secret algorithms in Dominion machines were used to manipulate votes in favor of Biden in 2020. She has accused the company of bribing Georgia officials to win a no-bid contract with the state. She has promised to tweet a video of Dominion’s founder — Poulos — saying he could “change a million votes, no problem at all.”

No such video ever materialized.

Shocked.jpg. Reddit user @Cycad:

Turns out the real Kraken was the enemies we made along the way…

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“Stump the Bookseller” is a lovely, crowd-sourced book-sleuthing service.

It’s run by the fine folk at Loganberry Books, costs a nominal $4 per submission, and has a very admirable 50%+ success rate. Here’s my submission 🤞 Via CK ♥️

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Adjust Zuckbot 5000′s Humanness with this easy-to-use app.

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Explaining Software Development Methods by Flying to Mars

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If The World was Created by a Programmer.

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TIL that the US Department of Defense is the largest employer in the World (3.2M)

Followed by the Chinese Army (2.3M), Walmart (2.1M), McDonald’s (1.9M), and the NHS (1.7M). The Indian Railways comes in eighth with 1.4M people.

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An Infographic of the Deepest Places on Earth with their Elevations.

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How to Tell a Raven From a Crow.

By the Audubon Society. Ravens are beefier, gauche, and less ‘refined’. They’re also relatively solitary. They have curvier beaks, wedge-like tails, and soar instead of flap. Here’s what a raven and a crow sound like.

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This is a very, very, very long resource on Sleep

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A Biographical Memoir of the Mathematician Harish Chandra

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“Where Profits Come From”

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Why Isn’t 1 a Prime Number?

(cached)

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A List of Ebert’s Favorite Films you can stream off Amazon Prime.

Here’s how the author made that list. Here’s a cached version.

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“Essays On Programming I Think about a Lot”

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A Lovely, Illustrated Guide to Event Sourcing

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“TRUISMS (1978 - 1983)” by Jenny Holzer

Here are her website and Wikipedia page.

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“Quantum computing for the very curious”

by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen

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Indian man wears gold face mask to ward off coronavirus

And here’s our man, Shankar Kurhade, modeling my 2021 strategy given how confident I am in my state’s government fucking up vaccine distribution.

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Benjamin Button Reviews The New MacBook Pro

Gone is the gimmicky TouchBar, gone are the four USB-C ports that forced power users to carry a suitcase full of dongles. In their place we get a cornucopia of developer-friendly ports: two USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt 2 ports, a redesigned power connector, and a long-awaited HDMI port.

Photographers will rejoice at the surprising and welcome addition of an SDXC card reader, a sign that Apple might be thinking seriously about photography.

The new MagSafe connector is a bit of Apple design genius. The charging cord stays seated securely, but pops right off if you yank on it. No more worries about destroying your $2k laptop just by accidentally kicking a cord.

😭

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Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly

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Ten Lessons I Wish I Had Been Taught by Gian-Carlo Rota

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This is a looooong exploration of Static Typing (in TypeScript).

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How Audemars Piguet makes their lovely ‘tapisserie’ pattern.

They use a pantograph to etch things out, after which they ‘tampograph’ the logo (at 1:45.)

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“Seeing Theory” is a visually lovely Introduction to Basic Probability and Statistics.

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A List of Hacker News ‘Classics’

When you’re following a bunch of feeds, it’s easy to forget that the web is the greatest library in the history of the world—and that a good library doesn’t just have a rack of newspapers, it has a vast collection of books and archives: the stacks.

These are stories that get reposted a lot. Many of them truly are classics.

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The “Mathematics Subject Classification” should help one appreciate, at least cursorily, the age, breadth, and depth of the subject.

That’s from 2010. Here’s the 2020 revision.

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EXPOSURE is a publishing platform for photographers.

Bit pricey but appears to generate lovely layouts. Via Ash Furrow’s photography site.

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Build Your Own Lisp.

Learn C and build a basic Lisp #VALUE 😍

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How to Drive in Iowan Winters

If you rarely drive on snow, just pretend you’re taking your grandma to church. There’s a platter of biscuits and 2 gallons of sweet tea in glass jars in the back seat. She’s wearing a new dress and holding a crock pot full of gravy.

@Chadsu42

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Werner Herzog Reviews a Hotel on Yelp.

“Am I truly controlling anything?” (cached)

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