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    EVENTS

    Chisels – 2

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 21, 2023
    • Art, Badger Forge
    • 2 Comments

    Debt Ceiling Theatrics

    I often hang out at Daily Kos, and it’s depressing how many ideologically pro-biden cheerleaders there are, there, as ideologically pro-trumpers, elsewhere. I guess the great game depends on having some on both sides.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 20, 2023
    • Things that make blood squirt out my ears, Totalitarianism, War is a Racket, We are Fucked
    • 13 Comments

    Chisels – 1

    I often casually promise things, like, “hey if you ever want to learn how to make a bowl on the lathe, come on out!”

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 19, 2023
    • Art, Badger Forge
    • 6 Comments

    A Brief Lull

    Well, a lull on the blog, anyhow. But, I’m back now.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 17, 2023
    • Administrivia
    • 9 Comments

    Damn Right!

    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 9, 2023
    • Art, memes
    • 14 Comments

    Alloys

    Imagine my surprise when I learned that “bronze” does not refer only to the classic tin/copper alloy. Generally, it does, but when you’re talking about other alloys, they are also often called “bronzes” of various sorts.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 9, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 24 Comments

    Want To Scare Some Republican Donors?

    Just start talking about how the IRS needs to look into using AI to review every single tax return, fairly, evenly, dispassionately, against an expert system that encodes current tax law and a knowledge of popular techniques for tax fraud, and that the AI will flag and rank questionable returns, which will be reviewed in rank order. [See also: Mano Singham]

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 5, 2023
    • AI, Spies Spying on Things, Things That Delight Me
    • 9 Comments

    The Longest-Operating British Crime Family

    Frankie Boyle gets some good digs in.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 4, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 6 Comments

    Hope – 2

    I love when seedlings are at that point where you can still see how the seed was constructed. Monocot or dicot, and all that.

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 3, 2023
    • Art, Things That Delight Me
    • 8 Comments

    The Perils of Literal AI

    I went to Hong Kong twice in the early 00s, and the second time I decided to have one of Hong Kong’s legendary tailors clone me a copy of my dad’s vintage 1940s Hart Schaffner and Marx tuxedo. (spoiler: it came out great)

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    • Marcus Ranum
    • May 1, 2023
    • AI, Art
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