Will Fitzgerald

I am a poor wayfaring stranger,

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willf.github.ioHome — The Sacred Harp · 2012 Cooper Book Edition

Sacred Harp friends. New resource proof of concept. willf.github.io/cooper-2012-... Comments?

fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax.

Good, I'm safe.

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Oliver Willis

@owillis.bsky.social

If you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...

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Your springs of joy are dry.

Alan Perlis’s Programming Pearls

Does anyone else say "Make it so!" to your AI model, or it just me and Jean-Luc?

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@programmingpearls.bsky.social

13 Sept

If you have a procedure with ten parameters, you probably missed some. #programming #pearls

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Julian (of Norwich)

@shewings.bsky.social

11 Sept

Replying to @shewings.bsky.social

The fifth is He that made all things for love; be the same love it is kept and shall be withoute end. The sixth is that God is al thing that is gode, as to my sight, and the godenes that al thing hath, it is He. (4/5)

10 Sept

Disappointingly, I have figured out how to sort of cheat at Outlier, and got the 36th highest score using an anonymous account. Using my own skills alone, I seem to be getting worse. Perhaps I just need to learn lots of UK dialect words. This is my Wordle meltdown all over again.

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10 Sept

How stands the case with you?

9 Sept

I think my very favorite feature of the new iPhone Duo is you can turn it into a $2,000 bedside alarm clock.

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Andy Masley

@andymasley.bsky.social

7 Sept

I think one of the most interesting under written about things right now is "What is our general epistemic situation with AI progress? Is it possible to think seriously about it at all? What are the meta-rational moves we should be making to try to figure out what's actually up in the near future?"

vitalsparks.beehiiv.comLabor is sweetUS Labor Day, 2026

7 Sept

US Labor Day special issue of Vital Sparks. #sacredharp

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Blaise Pascal

@pascalbot.bsky.social

6 Sept

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others. #Pensees

3 Sept

New quotebot: Alan Perlis’s Programming Pearls. bsky.app/profile/prog...

Handwriting:Fonts :: Writing:ChatGPT ?

playoutlier.comOUTLIER · Day 104willf scored 841 on Day 104. Can you beat them?

I found a Rarity-68 word worth 89 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 841 points · 10 rare words. Only 58 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 7 finds no one else found today. playoutlier.com/s/QYN4SN (Thanks @emckean.bsky.social!)

vitalsparks.beehiiv.comHarriet Auber: From everlasting Thou art GodAUBER, HARRIET (4 August 1773 – 20 January 1862).

It's September, and my Vital Sparks column is back after a summer break. I hope to write some short bios of other Sacred Harp poets. First up is Harriet Auber, the poet behind 431 NEW BETHANY. vitalsparks.beehiiv.com/p/harriet-au...

So, friends, every day do something that won’t compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag.

Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Practice resurrection. RIP, Wendell Berry

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Julian (of Norwich)

@shewings.bsky.social

29 Aug

Replying to @shewings.bsky.social

Also in this He shewed a littil thing the quantitye of an hesil nutt in the palme of my hand, and it was as round as a balle. I lokid there upon with eye of my understondyng and thowte, What may this be? And it was generally answered thus: It is all that is made. (3/4)

michigan-detention-awareness.orgMichigan ICE Detention CensusExplore weekly census data for ICE detention facilities across Michigan.

26 Aug

Revived my "Michigan Detention Awareness" site thanks to new data from the Deportation Data Project. Over 1,200 people at Baldwin alone! cc: @deportationdata.bsky.social

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Julian (of Norwich)

@shewings.bsky.social

26 Aug

Replying to @shewings.bsky.social

The Trinite is our maker and keeper, the Trinite is our everlasting lover, everlasting joy and blisse, be our Lord Jesus Christ; and this was shewed in the first and in all, for where Jesus appereith the blissid Trinite is understond, as to my sight. (2/5)

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I want a sober mind,

I’m so sick of hot takes.

19 Aug

And hot takes on the hot takes.

14 Aug

Created this bot, which will post Pascal's Pensees

Blaise Pascal@pascalbot.bsky.social

The difference between the mathematical and the intuitive mind.—In the one the principles are palpable, but removed from ordinary use; so that for want of habit it is difficult to turn one's mind in that direction: (1/2)

14 Aug

Created this bot, which will post Julian's Shewings.

Julian (of Norwich)@shewings.bsky.social

Revelations to one who could not read a letter. Anno Domini 1373. #Shewings

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13 Aug

What’s up with local.ai? Going to try it out. Here is a referral link as well: local.ai/willwhim/inv...

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John Wiseman

@lemonodor.bsky.social

29 July

This is an excellent and all-too-plausible description of how an AI- and data-driven kill chain can make tragic mistakes. ai-killchain.airwars.org Via @aeroscout.bsky.social

ai-killchain.airwars.orgInteractive: Anatomy Of An AI Kill ChainBreaking down how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to flawed technologies

28 July

Crossing the new Gordie Howe International Bridge.

glaze.appGlaze: SQLite StudioView and manage SQLite databases

25 July

I made some additional changes to my SQLite Studio app for Mac. It can now show images! www.glaze.app/app/sqlite-s... #glazeawards

25 July

Realizing that clinicians prefer the TINNitus pronunciation of tinnitus because there’s no -ITUS/swelling going on. And I think that’s a swell reason to use it.

glaze.appGlaze: SQLite StudioView and manage SQLite databases

24 July

Hey, I wrote an app using @raycast.com 's Glaze system. It's a really nice editor for SQLilte databases, including natural language to SQL translation. That is, "Top 5 artists by sales" executes a SQL query (see translation in response).

24 July

```sql SELECT a.ArtistId, a.Name, SUM(il.Quantity * il.UnitPrice) AS TotalSales FROM Artist a JOIN Album al ON a.ArtistId = al.ArtistId JOIN Track t ON al.AlbumId = t.AlbumId JOIN InvoiceLine il ON t.TrackId = il.TrackId GROUP BY a.ArtistId, a.Name ORDER BY TotalSales DESC LIMIT 5;

23 July

Yes, I was building functional AI-powered chatbots in 1994.

17 July

Interestingly ambiguous “with” here.

15 July

AI is everywhere.

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Tom Creighton

@tom.party

5 Apr

Startup swag has tragically ignored the commemorative plate

6 July

The image attached uses a macron over a vowel to indicate an n — something I haven't seen before. It is from a reprint of Browne's 1557 A treatise of reformation without tarying for anie. I think this is used only in this (hypothetical) quotation, which is set in italics. Anyone seen this before?