Finally getting around to adding this brilliant thread (especially #2) to my course syllabus. Goodhart Overhang is still as brilliant a phrase now as when I first read it many months ago.

To commemorate Labor Day, today's cycling view is from the Blackstone River Valley, the birthplace of the US industrial revolution and, perhaps not at all coincidentally, site of the first industrial strike in the US, 200 years ago, in 1824: nps.gov/blrv/learn/his… #RIpix

In computer science, the "Long Now" is 15 years.

TIL that a "mile" comes from the Latin "mille passus", a "thousand paces". Which, amusingly, comes out to about half-way between 1km and 1 mile.

Delighted to announce that the latest version is out today. Release notes lists what's new. No major changes; those happened last year. But it's better! CC Kathi Fisler Joe Gibbs Politz

Does YOUR university have legend David Beazley teaching programming languages this fall? Brown does! Here are co-instructors Dave and I with the Providence Drum Troupe in the background, celebrating his visit to Providence (I presume).

Can confirm that ONLY Safari is having a problem on these sites. (Haven't tried Edge yet.) Sorry, Apple, not going to upgrade to an M3, I really do get a minimum of 5 years out of my laptops — but nice try.

Todays world: incoming space rock the size of a desk, precise entry point/time predicted hours in advance, someone was looking up for it. The warning bit is important. Most injuries in Chelyabinsk 2013 were people looking out windows after a flash, then blast broke glass

how it started / how it's going [totally worth a listen: suno.com/song/e958621e-…]

US Politics has gone from "stop the steal" to "stop the steel".

Arresting angles and oodles of wood make the new building stand out in the West End. providencejournal.com/story/news/loc…

How is #RhodeIsland not losing its collective mind over who's front-and-center of Time's AI 100. (-: (For those going "who?!?", that's former RI gov Gina Raimondo, Commerce Sec'y, who spearheaded the CHIPS Act. Might sell 5-7 extra copies in RI!)

We're coming for you Italy, whether you like it or not. Hope these guys celebrate afterwards with pineapple pizza. (Hope nobody reminds the mayor about the origins of the Milanese or Genovese "football" clubs… Calcio, famously played in Ancient Rome?) bbc.com/news/articles/…