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Hugh Miller

@profugo.bsky.social

Retired philosophy professor, unretired philosopher, writer, painter, cook, son, spouse, father, brother, relentless critic of everything exisitng

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Take good care of yourself...

28.09.2025 02:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

27.07.2025 21:01 — 👍 8661    🔁 3616    💬 143    📌 717

In November of 2016, nearly 60 years after the paper was published internally, I had discovered the joke.

A few years later, I filed to have the paper declassified, and the NSA eventually agreed, and even put it up on their webpage:

media.defense.gov/2021/Jul/14/...

27.07.2025 21:01 — 👍 3412    🔁 219    💬 35    📌 10

@amllr.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

25.03.2025 18:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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With Trump heading for the White House, the Democrats must learn these lessons – and fast | Owen Jones An economic populism for the majority – irrespective of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation – is the way forward, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

Narrator: The Democrats did not learn these lessons fast.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

20.11.2024 18:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Putin issues warning to United States with new nuclear doctrine The updated doctrine outlines the threats that would make Russia, the world's biggest nuclear power, contemplate using such weapons.

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Sorry, T.S., with a bang

https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2024%2F11%2F19%2Fkremlin-brings-up-nuclear-doctrine-day-after-bidens-arms-decision-on-ukraine.html

19.11.2024 15:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI poetry out-humans humans as readers prefer bots to bards Uncultured swine prone to believe complexity of verse is machine-generated babble

"Meanwhile, it appears that people prefer AI poems because they are easier to understand. 'In our discrimination study participants used variations of the phrase "doesn't make sense" for human-authored poems more often than they do for AI,' the researchers said."

www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/a...

18.11.2024 02:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

... nuttin' but blue skies, from now on

17.11.2024 21:51 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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