"The subtlest and most pervasive of all influences are those which create and maintain the repertory of stereotypes."https://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muz5bu6xm22sPhoto by kem_artists on instagram www.instagram.com/p/DbmG87YgTQ5/08 Sep 2026 13:35 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muz5bu6xm22shttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muxcl25jxs2y'In United States slang during the 1910s and early 1920s, a "jellybean" or "jelly-bean" was a young man who dressed stylishly but had little else to recommend him, similar to the older terms dandy and fop.' That's it! That's what Brian Dillon is! He's an aging jelly-bean07 Sep 2026 20:04 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muxcl25jxs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muwus3xf2k2rThis handwriting chart closely resembles the script I was taught in the 80s. via https://primarium.info/handwriting-models/peannaireacht-2/07 Sep 2026 15:58 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwus3xf2k2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muwk5e52fs2sYou can watch half an hour of the consistently mediocre Computerphile drones or get the gist from Alberta in a short https://youtube.com/shorts/fYLUN8zueYE07 Sep 2026 12:47 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwk5e52fs2shttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muwemvfucs2kThis docufiction sounds like both a great work of art and essential viewing for any startup survivor. "Holmes has such a corporate mindset that she treats the chemistry stuff…that hadn’t been invented yet…as just another glitchy small problem that could easily be solved." https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/nathan-fielder-surprise-film-telluride-elizabeth-holmes-1236853513/07 Sep 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwemvfucs2khttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muwd2p3u2k2yPhoto from the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Kinnaird Head. The posts are for drying fishing nets. The museum has a new gallery under construction. I'll try to visit when it's complete lighthousemuseum.org.uk07 Sep 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwd2p3u2k2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muwb7ar4ts2v"Psychoanalysis was to be the art and science of guesswork. After all, the analyst and the patient can only say what occurs to them." (Adam Phillips on Freud) It's a bit of a slide from "guesswork" to "whatever comes to mind". And what about devising approaches which get around availability bias?07 Sep 2026 10:07 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muwb7ar4ts2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muufwygios2aExtract from http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/POWER/mercury/mercury.htm, on the problems arising from the use of mercury as a working fluid in turbines in thermal power planets06 Sep 2026 16:27 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muufwygios2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muu2urjo7k2lSince most (all?) whole-earth projections use a sphere for the figure of the Earth, it's possible to see the result of arbitrarily rotating the globe. I'm not sure whether this is a good teaching tool. Here it is applied to Equal Earth, the projection of the moment. kuboon.github.io/equal-earth/ https://kuboon.github.io/equal-earth/06 Sep 2026 13:09 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muu2urjo7k2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mutxcespyk2hSo are we using the word "master" to refer to any placeholder / typical unit / serial element now? This must have evolved from the use of the term in DTP software like PageMaker.06 Sep 2026 12:05 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutxcespyk2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mutvwtlgxc2hSomething a bit New York Neurotic about these opening lines "Ambiguity is generally not welcome on the subway. Are those seats empty for a neutral reason or an unpleasant reason? Is the person sitting across from me dangerous or just eccentric? That stain is … what, exactly?" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/09/14/the-anti-ai-ad-ad-campaign06 Sep 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mutvwtlgxc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3murzvo6pic2pTypography, on the other hand05 Sep 2026 17:46 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3murzvo6pic2phttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3murzqwugec2dPhoto by Paolo Monti: fragments of a statue of Constantine in the courtyard of the Capitoline Museum. ☝05 Sep 2026 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3murzqwugec2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muruyhkaic2c"Collective awareness often operates contrapuntally" Pretty sure that's nonsense https://www.frieze.com/article/weekly-review-future-memory-kunsthalle-wien05 Sep 2026 16:18 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muruyhkaic2chttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3murkp7pysc2oI also like dirty sinks, the soggy abandoned clothes I see in the alley behind my studio all the time, crusted pools of dried liquid and all the other picturesque things so akin to the spirit of photography. (Jeff Wall) https://www.fundacionjumex.org/en/fundacion/coleccion/618-pelota-ponchada05 Sep 2026 13:14 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3murkp7pysc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3murkbvlfpc2qArtforum's local critic finds love in Peter Zumthor's oceanic LA behemoth https://www.artforum.com/features/george-baker-lacma-1234757878/05 Sep 2026 13:07 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3murkbvlfpc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muqhi3zcss2kMathematicians have more to fear than screenwriters https://medium.com/@matt.ryanallen/ai-vs-screenwriters-are-the-independence-day-rooftop-party-goers-making-a-comeback-55bfccd98fe205 Sep 2026 02:44 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqhi3zcss2khttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3muqd4eldtk2qI have a response to this wallpaper similar to that I imagine susceptible people have to William Butterfield's architecture. https://bradbury.com/product/brooklyn-frieze/05 Sep 2026 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqd4eldtk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mupy73rlyc2oNot as good as https://lissllewellyn.com/product/the-conservatory-at-the-cedars/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 22:10 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupy73rlyc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mup7sjdxrs27"getting them to do matrices" smh [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Sep 2026 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup7sjdxrs27https://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mup6xadzlk2iMatrices. Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin says (https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/education/aoibhinn-ni-shuilleabhain-says-leaving-cert-maths-not-future%E2%80%90proofing-students-for-ai-demands/a/160832236.html) they are "arrays that allow large amounts of information to be processed efficiently.” Really, matrix operations are problems rather than solutions: ways of expressing a computation rather than an optimisation.04 Sep 2026 14:38 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mup6xadzlk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3munbfig4g22vThe end of Fortescue Lane, which is a garage lane / mews situation03 Sep 2026 20:17 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3munbfig4g22vhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mun2a2xab224“the Parthenon of the functional movement” https://flic.kr/p/BLBERx03 Sep 2026 18:09 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mun2a2xab224https://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mumwvd2p7k24We'd use the word monoid to describe the key requirement for predictable results of β now, but no sooner have the authors described the monoid constraint than they break the rules in a vaguely absurd way to create a function that selects one element with absolutely no guarantees about how it does it03 Sep 2026 17:09 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumwvd2p7k24https://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mumpgndezs2qHols Isle03 Sep 2026 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumpgndezs2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mul7wc6tis2aA new installment in this occasional series: Anna Jones' Easy Wins, designed by Caneva Nishimoto [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 00:45 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mul7wc6tis2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mukxy7ujck23There was some kind of dismissive media appearance in response to this: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/6d6ae6da-6614-4805-a1c3-b4b800a65ffe/ Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite. [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 22:23 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukxy7ujck23https://bsky.app/profile/theohonohan.bsky.social/post/3mukrlukgjc23"Tiny goat-cows, once nearly extinct, are heroically fighting wildfires" https://reasonstobecheerful.world/goat-cow-wildfire-prevention Thanks, cattle02 Sep 2026 20:29 +0000at://did:plc:b2t4xsc2doon5nbg7fpsskdc/app.bsky.feed.post/3mukrlukgjc23