Sarah M 🫖

Just finished The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet.

Probably will start A Memory Called Empire next but why are all these books so long? I am so sad I’m out of Murderbot novellas.

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

They’re all a bunch of farm kids. They were probably all thinking it

When my husband was in HS, a truck ran a stop and t-boned the bus, which ramped over a ditch and into a field. There were concussions (including him), cuts, and two kids had messed up backs, but the first words when the bus finally stopped was a kid saying, "Well there goes an acre of beans."

screenshot of a recipe from an old newspaper Flap-Jacks Mince the breast of a chicken with some lean ham, half an anchovy, a little parsley, three or four shallots, and lemon-peel. Season with pepper, salt, cayenne, and beaten mace.

Now I'm looking up historical flapjack recipes. Pure chaos.

from the South Durham Herald, 5 July 1890

The CARC project now has a website (Ryland-generated of course):

jtauber.github.io/CARC/

She’s writing about late fall, when Nebraska is briefly pretty great.

I do not share her appreciation.

Safe travels!

The stars ✨

I can think of a few scholars on here who could probably estimate what the average number of unique lemmas per, say, 100k tokens might be in a standard English text

Is the variety of unique tokens per x-amount widely different from English? Machine language has such a limited vocabulary that it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s more extreme than Zipfian distribution

Okay, the LEAST COMMON byte value across the current Apple II disk image corpus is $9B.

The top five from fifth most common to most common:

$80
$FF
$A0
$20

and by a whopping amount (the distribution is NOT Zipfian)

$00

Even before I extract files from these disk images, make any distinction between code and data, or do any disassembly does anyone want to make predictions about the distribution of byte values, repeated n-grams, etc?

Surely you can code a robot that will throw stuff in boxes for you

You pervert (complimentary).

Yaaaas we are having a major cabbage rolling party next weekend for my Grandma’s 90th birthday

Of course in my mind the opposite of chill is warmth so I’m not going to be raging this November, but I want to be a warm embrace for people who need it rather than a cool bystander.

Thinking about doing No-Chill November, where instead of trying to be cool about things that disgust me in this country, I’m going to do something small every day to try and improve things, whether it’s writing letters to people in power or volunteering or donating things.

Good engraving software don’t exist, as far as I know. It’s all been downhill since we stopped literally engraving plates.

In between sorting clothes for the move, worked out how to hook up the ESA's tracking network to @space-missions.com: space-missions.com/estrack/

This had its origins in Search Tolkien but has been improved (like the ability to group by speaker) and those improvements will make it back to Search Tolkien soon!

Leo questioned a world where the wealth of the elite grows "exponentially" while many "millions of people die of hunger or survive in conditions unfit for human beings." He also criticized "ideologies that defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation," with false promises "that a free-market economy will automatically solve the problem of poverty." Leo described a "new tyranny," which shuns any kind of oversight and where the economy is structured "in such a way that sacrifices are demanded of the masses in order to serve the needs of the powerful." The poor, he wrote, are only allowed "drops that trickle down." The pope openly challenged "prosperity theology" and called Christians to the practice of giving charity. "It will not solve the problem of world poverty, yet it must still be carried out, with intelligence, diligence and social responsibility," he wrote. Popular movements that challenge "the empire of money," invite people to take on the cause to combat poverty alongside the poor, instead of on their behalf, and "make history," the pope said. It our duty, Leo said, to "make their voices heard, albeit in different ways, in order to point out and denounce such structural issues, even at the cost of appearing foolish or naïve."

Pope Leo is spitting.

www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

Drawing of Gandalf and Frodo in front of the Doors of Durin, with a Spirit Halloween sign hanging over it.

In retrospect, there was a big sign that something was wrong at Khazad-dûm #Tolkien #art

Not at all! This is such a relief to read!

They are both so great!

Earlier today, DNS Madrid seemed to be communicating with Juno!

Yes please I’d like to have my muted terms set up in advance

No this is the one with Lesley Ann Warren

Also movie costumes have only gone downhill since this movie