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Dan O'Neilldkoneill

2025-12-20

@bsky.app asked me to provide my birthdate or logout. I chose the later. How about you?

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Idiots: "The arts have no purpose"

Me:

Saved by Stoppard

Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: "If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?" With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of "adjuvant systemic chemotherapy", and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients' survival.

Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia.

Michael Baum

Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL

Most unfortunate given that I'm in Boston and it would be a perfect day for a visit.

John F. Kennedy Library is closed due to the government shutdown.

@brianstorms The Order was great, and frightening.

@sdether not in direct reference to Rust, but unscheduled garbage collection in a VM is problematic. Sure, one can architect around it, but we shouldn't have to.

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Chile’s Atacama desert - the world's driest desert - has briefly transformed into a carpet of fuchsia-colored wildflowers (often dormant for years) after rare rainfall

Beautiful sea of pink in amongst some verdant hills

Electric pink stretches into the distance around a desert track. Mountainous background.

Looks like a Swiss scene - wildflowers stretch out in front of a mountainous range.

One ought to be careful when stealing things - cameras are everywhere. He's a clever boy.

@brianstorms Grape notes

@nina_kali_nina if I recall correctly, SAIL, a PDP-10 in the basement of Margaret Jacks hall at Stanford, had a ships bell attached which was struck by a solenoid at the appropriate times.

Sunday punday

Rock w/ark painted saying "Need an Ark?"

Rock painted with an ark in answer to the prior question "I Noah Guy"

Aftermath of a pleasant afternoon with neighbors.

charcuterie plate, grapes, empty wine bottles

Costco is now stocking Christmas Trees. Sigh.

Not an average Friday

@dabeaz do ALPR's at automated parking lots count? They're no made by flock though

I ran out of treats.
#CatsOfMastodon

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Watching this video 10 times has significantly improved my mood.

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Stockholm Wood City, is developing 25 new wooden quarters & 30 new buildings that will become the world's largest wooden city in an urban environment. The city will be developed with wooden frame buildings over a 10-year period.
Most of the houses will have 5-7 floors + a higher residential building of approx 15-16 floors. The project will start at the turn of the year with Campus Sickla, a new school built in wood. (Sickla is an area on the western part of Nacka & Stockholm municipality). ->

An all-wood terrace with an open plan layout with spaced seating. The layout lets in daylight with greenery just outside.

The wooden high-rise buildings seen from the front with glass facades - simple architecture, easily accessible & aesthetically pleasing. The wooden facades radiate warmth through the light brown wood material.

Interior seen from the inside with a spacious environment made entirely of wood. Scattered seating & work areas, a second floor is suggested with a half-floor plan to create space.

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This is excellent!
https://dialup.cafe/@vga256/111896945530811821

Kensington Park at dusk

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