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Didn't realize I was older than you. I read "The Fine Art of Small Talk" by Debra Fine almost 10 years ago that helped me a lot to understand why small talk even made any sense.

Back in Chicago. Immigration agent told me I've global entry, I had completely forgotten. Guess I missed the opportunity to use it for the first time.

Traveling to Cambridge, UK between Sat Jan 31 and Fri Feb 6, say hi if you are around.

Traveling to Cambridge, UK between Sat Jan 31 and Fri Feb 6, say hi if you are around.

#TIL about duti that can mass select default apps for documents and URL schemes on macOS

github.com/moretension/...

Surprised that Google is showing grokipedia among the top results. They should be completely blacklisting it as a source.

grokipedia.com/page/qir

"Fact-checked" What a massive #fail!

If you're thinking of applying to PLISS, you've got three days left! pliss.org/2026/registr...

ACM DL site open to an article with the sidebar ads, alert box, upgrade nagger, and AI summary covered in red boxes

FYI if you want to remove all the useless things on the ACM DL website, you can use these uBlock rules:

dl.acm.org##aside[data-core-aside="right-rail"]
dl.acm.org##div.edition-badge-wrapper
dl.acm.org##div.upgrade-banner
dl.acm.org##span.premium

A featured Wikipedian I have met in person!

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#publicdomain #culture

I didn't even get an email. I believe I registered?

Ah, that explains mine too.

Video: Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis An analysis of footage from three camera angles shows that the motorist was driving away from — not toward — a federal officer when he opened fire.

The paper of record is, thank heaven, fulfilling its responsibility this time. That really matters
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

oops, I didn't see what the hashtag was being used for. Perhaps we need an intersection of the list+hashtag or another more unique hashtag.

Do PL people prefer the PLSky feed to be activated only if they use the hashtag #PLSky? Or are we okay with a simple allowlist from bsky.app/profile/k4rt... as it currently stands? Or a union of both?

*requirement

Perhaps I should remove you if you don't mind lol

I like the idea of hashtags/emoji but it's hard to communicate that as a retirement to a diverse group of people. I'll wait on that until I gain more feedback.

Currently yes. This is the first time I've created a feed. If you have tips to improve it, I'd appreciate them.

If you have a suggestion to filter or curate better happy to hear it.

Added you to the list bsky.app/profile/did:...

I believe I need to add them to the associated list. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Following this discussion, there's now a PLSky feed at bsky.app/profile/did:...

Thanks to @bandukwala.me for the source starter pack.

Okay, here's the feed everyone: bsky.app/profile/did:...

I couldn't keep up with the fractured mastodon instances, so I'm here. I also do miss the PL activity from old Twitter.

> This year updated me in favor of taking more seriously the aggressive pronouncements—the “roadmaps”—of Google, Quantinuum, QuEra, PsiQuantum, and other companies about where they could be in 2028 or 2029.

Seems like @quantinuum.bsky.social and QC in general ended 2025 on a really good note.

> The two approaches that had the most impressive demonstrations in the past year are trapped ions (especially Quantinuum but also Oxford Ionics) and superconducting qubits (especially Google but also IBM), and perhaps also neutral atoms (especially QuEra but also Infleqtion and Atom Computing).

More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent” These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is immi…

I almost missed this from Scott Aaronson:

> Meanwhile, Quantinuum took a victory lap, boasting of their recent successes in a way that I considered basically justified.

scottaaronson.blog?p=9425

cc: @quantinuum.bsky.social

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Today, I’m proud to sign the Northern Illinois Transit Authority Act into law.

Our new regional authority will modernize Illinois’ transit systems — and we’re doing it with no new statewide taxes.

The term "qubit" was born out of a joke between Ben Schumacher and Bill Wootters!
@perimeterinstitute.ca