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from my link log —
Elizabeth I and the 'Blackamoors': the deportation that never was.
https://www.mirandakaufmann.com/blog/elizabeth-i-and-the-blackamoors-the-deportation-that-never-was
saved 2025-0…

Elizabeth I and the 'Blackamoors': the Deportation that never was
Today I am compelled to blog. There is a wrong I must right. The world simply cannot be allowed to continue to believe that Elizabeth I expelled Africans from her realm in 1596.  This is perhaps...

As a Comedy Store degenerate in Hollywood in my 20s, this was fascinating. I'd met every single one of the people they mention.
▶️ Ari Shaffir and Bobby Lee Break Down the "Natasha Leggero Incident"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=5BlwSgC52Iw&si=zCH3_JTgPey…

People complaining do not become friends with each other...
I complain...you find it aggressive and you mute or block me...now I haven't blocked you nor muted you but when you also start complaining I go like:
"This guy/gal hates EVERYONE, including me"...ok I guess I'm muting or blocking.
I guess the reason my follower count has remained mostly stable recently is because I always throw in a complaint here or there...
just to make sure nobody likes m…

We are a stupid species.... Here is my county government trying to create a Rube Goldberg class blockchain based system to deal with a problem that could be solved by printed lists of paper
The crypto/blockchain mindset certainly contains a big element of "if all you have is a hammer then everything looks like a nail".
(By-the-way, our county government is dumb in other dimensions - for year the emergency response command center was in a basement next to, and and *below…

Santa Cruz County quietly abandons blockchain program once touted as bleeding edge
Santa Cruz County has shelved its ambitious blockchain wallet project after two years, citing complexity and low public adoption. Officials now plan to pursue simpler digital tools they say are better suited to resident needs.

It's so weird that the Brexit UK government in buying OneWeb, after blocking UK companies from Galileo, has ended up in a tech partnership with France that became more valuable as counties started looking at non-US communications services.
https://www.…

UK Gov Boosts Eutelsat's OneWeb LEO Broadband Satellites by £140m
The UK Government has agreed to commit a further £140m (€163.3) of public investment to help Eutelsat grow and expand its constellation of OneWeb ultrafast b

Pierrepont Holme Hall, February 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #blackandwhite #bnw

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.stat-mech. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.stat-mech/new
[1/1]:
- Random Polymers and Generalized Urn Processes
Simone Franchini, Riccardo Balzan

#AI is inevitable, which means it cannot fail - it can only be failed. But it's not *your* fault if wreckers are deliberately sabotaging your innovative digital transformation. It's those pesky millennials, who hate productivity.
As always, the instinct of management is to control and punish.
#llm