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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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@musicman I've been working my way through _Railroaded_ https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/ac561c89-bdeb-453c-be0a-348eb2f288e5 and if anything it makes me think the railroad line is *too steep* - railroads in the second half of the 19th century were massively over-leveraged and overbuilt (especially in the American West), and a very large fraction of the investment went into the pockets of the financiers rather than into construction. Which... sounds familiar, now that I type it. @cwebber

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 7mo ago

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@briankrebs just this afternoon a colleague and I were questioning whether the real “AI is coming for your job” was not “AI will replace you” but “idiots with AI are going to tank your company and you’re all getting laid off when it collapses”.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

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@ocdtrekkie @alienghic @cwebber @MichaelTBacon This is exactly my forlorn hope: that they’ll need us old folks to keep the lights on when the crash is over and the kids can’t use any reliable tools.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

Defending champion Sharon Lokedi turned on the jets in the last 10km of the race to win the Boston Marathon in 2:18:51, the second-fastest winning time in race history (behind her own course record set last year). #BostonMarathon

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 7mo ago

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@DevWouter@mastodon.social @arichtman@eigenmagic.net "Automation bias"

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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I mean, you have to be careful how you read the OP. Right way: "People who are intentional and go to the trouble of learning how to better communicate with autistic people find that those skills are effective with neurotypical people too." Wrong way: "LOL DBAs are all autistic." (Galaxy-brain way: "The world would be a better place for everyone if it worked better for autistic people.")

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @atoponce@fosstodon.org

The story goes that when the results of the mile run were announced at the Iffley Road track in 1954, the crowd noise drowned out everything after "3," a number not previously used to start mile times.
We have entered the era when a great men's marathon time starts with "1".
#running

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 8mo ago

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@Dennis@beige.party I’ve found putting the mandoline in the garbage tends to remove the stains. …as well.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 10mo ago

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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io @mattblaze@federate.social Bass desires; viol practices. But sometimes there’s lute.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Defending champion John Korir runs 2:01:52 to defend his title and set a new course record at the #BostonMarathon

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Lemme clarify: the course record is 15 years old from an absolutely perfect day, and John Korir is currently beating those splits by nearly a minute with less than 10K remaining to run. #BostonMarathon

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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It is sunny, cool (there was frost this morning at halfway along the course) and the wind is out of the west, which isn't a "tailwind" precisely but will not hurt and be much better than a headwind. A little too cool for spectators to be comfortable, which is actually great for marathoners. #bostonMarathon

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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With only one past champion in the pro field, the women are basically numbered by PR. There are nine women with sub-2:20 PRs, and defending champion Sharon Lokedi (101/SHARON) is the presumptive favorite. Remember that in Boston, former winners are on a first-name basis with the entire region; until you’ve won, the family name is the one that goes on your bib.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 10mo ago

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@skinnylatte@hachyderm.io @mattblaze@federate.social (sorry, I’m not trying to start treble.)

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 7mo ago

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@luksfarris@ruby.social I also restarted guitar a few months ago. I remembered that it's *fun*, even if I'm not especially good at it, and therefore worthwhile by itself. What I've started calling "The Music Project" has put out tendrils in all directions; there's so much good stuff to explore!

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 21mo ago

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@catsalad@infosec.exchange we need to settle the name; is it Guinea big > Guinea pig, or capybara > capybarely?

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 22mo ago

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@webhat@infosec.exchange I don't have help to offer - sorry, I'm in the US - but one of my daughters lost her bunny, Pawsy, in a movie theater when she was 5, and she was devastated. She still talks about it. Mo Willems has a series about a bunny getting lost - Knuffle Bunny - and in the third book, Knuffle Bunny Free https://bookwyrm.social/book/677842/s/knuffle-bunny-free Knuffle Bunny is left on a transatlantic plane! Trixie is eventually reunited with Knuffle Bunny, but... well, it's a long story and makes dads cry. Good luck.

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Knuffle Bunny free - BookWyrm

While traveling with her family to Holland to visit her grandparents, Trixie once again loses her beloved Knuffle Bunny.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 32mo ago

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@thatandromeda@ohai.social @swachter@toot.boston @pelielios@mastodon.social and and and! With a card at one of the regional networks (Minuteman, SAILS, NOBLES, Merrimack Valley, Old Colony, CW-MARS, or my favorite abbreviation, CLAMS) you can usually borrow, at least electronically, from all the others (plus BPL)… so if you want an ebook or audiobook with a hold line, you can go shopping at eight different catalogs for the shortest line. Or find books your network doesn’t have in their catalog.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Abdi Nageeye (4/NAGEEYE) is an interesting one. He’s the 2024 New York champion and ran the Dutch NR of 2:04:20 in London last spring. He’s also won Rotterdam twice. He’s run Boston twice before, unremarkable finishes of 8th in 2016 and 7th in 2018. If the door is open for him to win, he can take that opportunity; the question is whether it will appear for him.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 6mo ago

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@25kV isn’t this a scene from “Once”? https://youtu.be/lDlyC-E6-I8

Once (movie) - Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Zouhair Talbi (15/TALBI) is a new American but he ran a blazing 2:05:45 in Houston in January.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 9mo ago

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@resuna https://youtu.be/KqOPgCFdO5E

Ride - Not Fazed

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Now we start getting into some unknown quantities. Milkesa Mengesha (11/MENGESHA) has a PR of 2:03:17 from Berlin in 2024, where he won in his biggest victory to date. He’s also won in Shanghai (November 2025) and Daegu (2023) but very uneven results in deep championship races (e.g. 10th in London 2025, 6th at the Budapest World Championships 2023 marathon, 10th in the 5,000m at the Tokyo 2021 Olympics).

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Bedatu Hirpa (107/HIRPA) ran 2:18:27 last year to win in Dubai. She’s also won in Paris, Prague, Riyadh, and Athens; the Athens win was nine years ago in 2017, when she was only eighteen. She’s never run Boston before, and she was 11th in Chicago last fall, so her history with Majors is uneven to say the least. She’s got some speed (she started out as a 1500m runner) so it will be interesting to see if she’s still in the pack coming out of Newton.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Lokedi set the Boston course record last year at 2:17:22, and she has the fastest PR in the field. She’s run Boston several times and knows the course as well, or better, than anyone else in the front.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Cybrian Kotut (3/KOTUT) has run Boston a couple of times now, he was 9th in 2024 and 3rd in 2025. He finished second to Mengesha in Berlin 2024, which was his PR in 2:03:22. He’s won a handful of second-tier marathons like Amsterdam, Hamburg, Firenze, Krakow, and Paris, going back to 2016. He trains with Kipruto and is a relative of Martin Lel, a multi-time London winner in the 2000s.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Finally, C.J. Albertson (28/ALBERTSON) is running again; Albertson led through Heartbreak Hill in 2021 (he wound up 10th) and loves running downhill, so it wouldn’t be shocking to see him out in front for a while. (He has a 2:08:17 PR, which is also nothing to sneeze at.)

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Benson Kipruto was the fall 2021 Boston champion, but he has not fallen out of contention since then. He won in New York City last fall, Tokyo in 2024 (with that 2:02:16 PR), and Chicago in 2022. He was 3rd in the two Bostons after his 2021 win (April ‘22 and April ‘23) and this is his first time back in Boston since then. He knows how to win, he knows how to win in Boston.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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The men’s field is also almost numbered by PB, and led by two former champions; the only thing breaking up the ordering is that defending champion John Korir (1/JOHN) has a PR of 2:02:24, while Benson Kipruto (2/BENSON) has a slightly faster PR of 2:02:16. Ten men have sub-2:05 PRs, but unless conditions are perfect and someone decides to go for broke, Boston tends to be a race that rewards tactical savvy more than raw speed.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Workenesh Edesa (103/EDESA) has run a lot of marathons, many of them quite fast. She ran her PR of 2:17:55 in Hamburg last fall (2025) where she won. She’s also won in Osaka (twice), Sydney, and Prague; she’s run under 2:20 five times. She’s only run Boston once before, in 2024, when she finished 7th.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Put another way, Berhanu has won five of his last six marathons, and because he also won Mumbai in 2023, Boston is the only marathon he’s won once and not a second time.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Emily Sisson (108/SISSON) is the US record holder at 2:18:29. She might be the sixth-fastest in the field, but her PB is also one of the oldest; most of these women ran sub-2:20 in the last year or two, but Sisson’s mark goes back to Chicago 2022. She’s won a bunch of US championships but no big international wins (2nd in Chicago 2022 is her best international result).

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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For the Americans, Galen Rupp (19/RUPP) is entered again with the fastest PB (although it’s relatively old, a 2:06:07 from Prague 2018), but Clayton Young (24/YOUNG) might be the best hope for the Americans. We may see a good performance from someone like Joe Klecker (39/KLECKER) who is still building experience.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Loice Chemnung (106/CHEMNUNG) is a relative rookie; she ran 2:18:24 to finish 4th in Chicago last fall, but then DNFed in Osaka in January. Since then she’s set a course record in the Barcelona half marathon (sub-1:04); she won the Kenyan 10,000m championship in 2025. First time in Boston, absolute wild card. Anecdotally considered the strongest challenger by Lokedi’s coach.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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This is Sisson's first Boston. Like Hirpa, she could be a factor if the pace is slow and the pack is big, but odds are she’ll be running for “first American”.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Other names to note: Sara Hall (111/HALL) has a 2:20:32 PR, but that’s from 2020 and Hall is likely to be running for the masters title. Calli Hauger-Thackery (114/HAUGER-THACKERY) has a great resume but is also four or five months pregnant. Most of the women who represented the USA at the Paris Olympics are here: Sisson, Dakotah Popehn (125/POPEHN), and alternate Jess McClain (118/MCCLAIN). (Fiona O’Keeffe was entered, but withdrew Sunday.)

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Irine Cheptai (102/CHEPTAI) has the next best PR, a 2:17:51 she ran to take third in Chicago in 2024. She was fourth in Boston last year and second in Shanghai last November; her only big win was in Hamburg in 2024. She will be a factor in the pack but I’d consider her a long shot to win.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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We all watched John Korir run the 3rd fastest Boston in history last year after taking a hard fall at the start that ripped his bib number off. He’s already got a pretty good resume, including wins in Valencia (December 2025), Chicago (2024), and Los Angeles. He is also the only Boston champion to follow a sibling in winning in Boston; his older brother is 2012 champion Wesley Korir.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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Mary Ngugi-Cooper (110/NGUGI-COOPER) is the last sub-2:20 seed. She’s been second in Boston before (2021) and a perennial face in the pack at several Majors over the last several year, but no big wins yet. She knows the Boston course and how Boston gets run, but if she has the tactical tools to win, she hasn’t used them so far.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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It’s very likely that someone comes out of the pack to win, as well, but the six I’ve mentioned are the ones I’d be least surprised by. If I was going to pull out more names, I would look at Mohamed Esa (9/ESA) who trains with Nageeye, or Nicholas Kipkorir (18/KIPKORIR) who is a two-time Olympian on the track but making his marathon debut.

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Parker Morse @flashesofpanic@ruby.social

· 5mo ago

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The third former champion in the field is Lemi Berhanu (5/LEMI). He’s the 2016 champion, celebrating his 10th anniversary, and though he has a 2:04:33 PR, it’s from 2016 in Dubai. He’s still winning, though, including a 2:08:10 victory in Beijing last November and a 2:05:14 last May in Prague - in fact, he’s won both Prague and Beijing two years in a row, and both of those years (2024 and 2025) he also ran Mumbai in January, winning in 2024 and finishing 6th in 2025.

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