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Joel VanderWerf

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<p>Mathematician. Applying semigroup theory to distributed computing, convergent replication.</p><p>Bay Area and SF content: <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@joelvanderwerf" class="u-url mention">@<span>joelvanderwerf</span></a></span></p>

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    Forgot that I had picked this up in a recent #BandcampFriday and was pleasantly surprised on re-listening. Good to hear that San Francisco still makes some good things. https://thetelephonenumbers.bandcamp.com/album/scarecrow-ii #TheTelephoneNumbers

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    I don&#39;t get it -- is this a wrestling metaphor? When you squeeze somebody do they roll over? https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/world/canada/trump-carney-trade-tariffs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.vA3T.9qmkykQ78_Za&amp;smid=url-share #MixedMetaphor

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    RE: https://mastodon.social/@luckytran/116863488282016628 That&#39;s the boat Pete and Toshi Seeger used in their successful campaign to clean up the Hudson River and organize people to work for environmental justice. Everybody out on that water is benefiting in immediate and quantifiable ways from the &quot;left-wing&quot; &quot;politics&quot; of the Seegers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_River_Sloop_Clearwater #PeteSeeger #Clearwater

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    @samlitzinger@journa.host &quot;&quot;&quot; So far, the investment has produced an astonishingly small audience: just 182 YouTube subscribers, with many videos attracting only a few dozen views. “It does feel like this is just for an audience of one,” one former staffer told Status, alluding to Bezos. “That audience of one is happy to put down money for a studio and programming that doesn’t serve any of the existing audience.” &quot;&quot;&quot;

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    @Gina@fosstodon.org @aurisc4@floss.social @bontchev@infosec.exchange WW3.1 for Workgroups

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    @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange akshully each of the three B&#39;s in his name stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot (but written in a slightly smaller font)

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    The Scarlet Muffuletta #HoagieABook #HashTagGames

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    The Bun Also Rises #HoagieABook #HashTagGames

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    RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116531444044667965 Buckaroo Banzai eats a Pimento Mac and Cheese... across the 8th Dimension

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    @michael_w_busch @badastro Imagining &quot;The Surfers of Titan&quot;, by Kurt Vonnegut.

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    Angine De Poitrine is a polka-dot&amp;#39;s way of making more polka-dots. #AngineDePoitrine

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    A new documentary on the Manis Mastodon is now available to watch: https://vimeo.com/1152386250 The discovery of the mastodon bones and an embedded spear point meant that humans were living and hunting in the Olympic Peninsula earlier than had been thought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manis_Mastodon_site #PNW #Archaeology #Mastodon #LiterallyMastodon

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    @joe I can&#39;t afford the clojure watch, so I&#39;ll settle for a bumper sticker that says My Other Car Is A Cdr.

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    @phooky #Encrabification is the new #enshittification

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    @adamgreenfield An album from 2023 that talks about ecological collapse as well as the pandemic and protests of 2020: https://kaceyjohansing.bandcamp.com/album/year-away It&#39;s also about our passivity (&quot;Watch It Like A Show&quot;) in the face of disaster. The album is in the folk or soft rock genre, I guess, which can be as easy to dismiss as metal (for different reasons, maybe).

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    @ChanceyFleet sometimes, a word is worth a thousand pictures

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    We knew. George Booth told us. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/08/japan/cats-meals-unfinished/ #Cat #Science #Cartoon

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    Steve Ballmer prancing around the stage yelling &amp;quot;Devslopelers! Devslopelers! Devslopelers! Devslopelers! Devslopelers!&amp;quot; #Microsoft #Microslop #Devslopelers