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@bourgwick@heads.social
2026-01-18 01:46:06

bob dylan, having a totally normal one & posting excerpts from what purports to be a forthcoming science fiction novel to his instagram (though doesn't exactly say who wrote it or when it might be forthcoming). instagram.com/p/DTnwybFEXwi/

THE ACADEMY
By Larry Morrison
(character from a forthcoming science fiction novel "Fool's Gold")
I came to believe that societies decay not
because they lack talent, but because they
elevate the wrong kind.
They reward caution over courage, repetition
over creation, politeness over force of will.
Institutions, I concluded, do not exist to
cultivate greatness; they exist to domesticate it.
From that premise, everything else followed
naturally.
My ambition shifted. I no longer sought
admission. I…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.social
2026-01-10 09:17:39

enjoying the highest form of Japanese politeness: being left in peace

@bencurthoys@mastodon.social
2025-12-05 20:48:28

I was proving the Uniqueness of Prime Factorisation to my older daughter (11) yesterday, and it turned out to be trickier than I remembered. I had to do Euclid's lemma, and that involved explaining proof by induction, and I was just worried that I was losing her when she said "Oh! Like John Finnemore's biscuits?" and the day was saved.
So: A toast to John Finnemore's Inductive Biscuit Politeness Theorem!