Nostr notes by Gro-Tsen

Clearly, “deeply alarmed” is one step above “closely ...

2026-10-23T11:13:43Z

Clearly, “deeply alarmed” is one step above “closely monitor the situation”, but how does it compare to “stand in full solidarity” on the EU-response-meter?

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Clarke's famous law that “any sufficiently advanced ...

2026-08-21T12:07:39Z

Clarke's famous law that “any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” has a dual: any sufficiently developed magic would be industrialized and no longer considered as magic but as technology.

One of Russia's most effective techniques to destabilize the ...

2026-08-04T08:24:59Z

One of Russia's most effective techniques to destabilize the 🇪🇺 is to encourage people to try to migrate to Europe, while simultaneously supporting far right political parties that depict such people as invaders and will blame the EU for “lax” border policies.

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The Moroccan government confirmed that the Ceuta migration wave was organized and amplified through social media.

A similar campaign is currently being run on TikTok, where people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq are being encouraged to migrate through Belarus to EU via the Baltic states. 1/2
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J'avoue que, pour moi, «porte un costume cravate» envoie un ...

2026-06-20T09:43:24Z

J'avoue que, pour moi, «porte un costume cravate» envoie un signal que j'associe à la dangerosité et/ou la malhonnêteté (mentalement relié aux politiciens, banquiers, agents immobiliers…), probablement comparable à l'a priori que certains peuvent avoir sur le look baskets-survêt des «racailles».

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I find it surprising that nobody seems to be comparing ...

2026-05-23T11:08:25Z

I find it surprising that nobody seems to be comparing OpenAI's progress on the Erdős distance problem with Aubrey de Grey's 2018 progress on the Hadwiger-Nelson problem. Both are about plane unit distance graphs, and I think they are very comparable in many respects. 🧵⤵️ •1/16

It seems that I've stumbled upon a new triangle center that ...

2026-05-05T12:06:31Z

It seems that I've stumbled upon a new triangle center that is not one of the >70k centers listed in Clark Kimberling's ‘Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers’. 🤯 [faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/encyclop...](https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/encyclopedia/ETC.html )

Here is how it's defined: 🧵⤵️ •1/8

[ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRIANGLE CENTE...](https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/encyclopedia/ETC.html )

So, to recap: Trump is negotiating with Iran, but without Iran, ...

2026-03-25T13:07:12Z

So, to recap: Trump is negotiating with Iran, but without Iran, the end of a war started to end Iran's nuclear program that was already obliterated, a war he previously claimed to have won, and a key point of the negotiations is for the strait of Hormuz, which was not closed, to be reopened.

Just to remind anyone who isn't a US citizen that that ...

2026-02-21T12:22:03Z

Just to remind anyone who isn't a US citizen that that country is not safe for travel and you have no protection against arbitrary detention, even if you check all the “safe” boxes of being a white elderly middle-class British woman with a valid visa and no criminal record named “Karen”:

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lafbr3dznxdyvgup2umwssht/post/3mfe22oxf622z

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A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

[www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

[‘Don’t go to the US – not with...](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other )

I really have a hard time wrapping my mind around the concept of ...

2026-02-15T10:47:36Z

I really have a hard time wrapping my mind around the concept of chauvinism.

Being proud of one's country seems to me as incomprehensible as being proud of the room one is standing in because previous people standing in the same room did great things.

Mon dernier repost me rappelle la blague du gamin qui tombe sur ...

2026-02-01T21:27:28Z

Mon dernier repost me rappelle la blague du gamin qui tombe sur un livre dont le titre est «APPRENDRE À BAISER», qui l'ouvre avec empressement et découvre tout déçu qu'il s'agit du volume 3 d'un dictionnaire encyclopédique en 30 volumes.

OK, new proposal! Rather than letting the US or Denmark have ...

2026-01-13T21:49:15Z

OK, new proposal!

Rather than letting the US or Denmark have Greenland, how about we divide it between Spain (west) and Portugal (east) along a meridian, say, 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands?

(I'm sure nobody thought of that before.)

I think the BBC meant to say that the correct answer to the ...

2026-01-04T12:03:51Z

I think the BBC meant to say that the correct answer to the titular question below is “we have no f🤔cking clue!”. [www.bbc.com/news/article...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crmlz7r0zrxo#:%7E:text=Who's%20now%20in%20charge%20in%20Venezuela%3f )
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Some Unicode emoji fun I stumbled upon somewhere: if, inside the ...

2025-12-17T10:54:13Z

Some Unicode emoji fun I stumbled upon somewhere: if, inside the string “🇺🇸🇨🇺” (representing the flags of the US and Cuba) you replace “🇸🇨” (the flag of Seychelles) by “🇦🇷” (the flag of Argentina), you get “🇺🇦🇷🇺” (the flags of Ukraine and Russia). 😅

Try it on a Unix system! ⬇️
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Obviously not enough thoughts and prayers! RE: ...

2025-12-16T17:03:01Z

Obviously not enough thoughts and prayers!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3ma4gdqfcws24
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[Stolen from the Bad Place:] Roughly 99.99% of games of Go ever ...

2025-12-02T15:20:46Z

[Stolen from the Bad Place:]

Roughly 99.99% of games of Go ever played are AI self-play training games. So if you ever find yourself playing Go that means you’re probably an AI.

“Earth is on fire” metaphor got a little out of hand at ...

2025-11-20T18:25:25Z

“Earth is on fire” metaphor got a little out of hand at COP30: [www.bbc.com/news/article...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9d9p5jrjgo )

[COP30 evacuated after fire bre...](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9d9p5jrjgo )

Les fabricants de produits (électroniques, électroménagers, ...

2025-11-10T18:25:11Z

Les fabricants de produits (électroniques, électroménagers, etc.) qui n'écrivent pas la référence précise du modèle sur le produit lui-même… MAIS POURQUOI, GRANDS DIEUX, POURQUOI TANT DE HAINE? 😡

N'oubliez pas: l'hexadécimal B6 se prononce ...

2025-11-09T18:17:32Z

N'oubliez pas: l'hexadécimal B6 se prononce «dizante-seize» sauf chez les Belges où c'est «onzante-six».

Some people wrote a linguistics paper on how the gender of ...

2025-10-17T21:55:10Z

Some people wrote a linguistics paper on how the gender of “Covid” in French settled over time, in three continents: [doi.org/10.1017/cnj....](https://doi.org/10.1017/cnj.2023.20 ) 🤩

[Tracing the evolution of the g...](https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/791E7AF0E64741E2757C10AF1B3182A1 )