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still a professional internet person
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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️
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no i understand your mistake, they all look the same except the cole haan x slack shoes have the slack logo. see this was before salesforce bought slack. no, no one can say what salesforce is, that’s uncouth of you to even ask
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m. r. sauter
1 day ago
none of my undergrads have seen HACKERS (1995) and this will change tomorrow
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OSHWA
1 day ago
Curious about the world of electromagnetic frequencies? On Day 2 of
#OSH2026
Darcy Neal can show the way with a hands-on workshop putting together your very own EMF reader badge! Get your Summit tickets today:
ticket.nodeforum.org/OHS26/
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j.u.n.e.
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experience Toronto hockey
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v buckenham
3 days ago
incredibly sickos mode reading this documentation
viv.sifty.studio
(to be more specific: it's a runtime & editor by James Ryan for doing complicated causality and knowledge modelling for NPCs in videogames. if you've heard of the term "story sifting" you will be excited)
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Viv: An Engine for Emergent Narrative
Viv is an engine for emergent narrative.
https://viv.sifty.studio/
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Molly White
3 days ago
ZIRP was wild
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Fellow Traveller
3 days ago
Apparently, some joker leaked the Titanium Court release date‼️ Don't be alarmed, we have our top maintenance worker on the case. In the meantime, please avoid the leak and avert your eyes ⚠️ 🏰
bit.ly/TC-Steam
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Evan Greer
4 days ago
The team
@fightforthefuture.org
also got a page up with a simple call tool where you can enter your number, it will call your phone and connect you with your Massachusetts State Senators. It even gives you a simple script with talking points about the legislation.
www.stoponlineidchecks.org/MA
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Stop Online ID Checks in Massachusetts
https://www.stoponlineidchecks.org/MA
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m. r. sauter
4 days ago
parents are being encouraged to do this by paid college admissions consultants. this is also why there are several extremely predatory journals that only exist as pay to play venues for high school students to publish papers.
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Helena Fitzgerald
5 days ago
a just and loving god would have let Hilary Mantel live to hear “the pope is weak on crime”
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owo whats this $3.75 a bag for a bag of chips?? down from $5.94?? perhaps! chips will return from the war trololololo
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man if no-one else got me bishop got me the opening essay to Disordered Attention is such a total banger strong recommend
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bet you if we paid these professions 30% more and styled them as difficult, strenuous, team-oriented and highly technical work we'd see some things change fast
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grindr is sponsoring the white house correspondents dinner
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how is dewitt ALSO from maryland what IS it about Here wrong answers only
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Dan Greene
8 days ago
Full statement from the IU here
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m. r. sauter
9 days ago
if you have an opinion on Dewitt i suddenly desperately need to know what you thought of julio torres's Problemista
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Jess Zimmerman
9 days ago
Mamdani’s New York 🫡
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reviewing game theory textbooks like wow this is all so great and rational have you accounted for the player who is only interested in manipulating other people playing the game and not in other outcomes because it seems like that isnt in here
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Kashana
11 days ago
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.
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Mia Sato
10 days ago
As a followup to my piece below, Muckrack ran millions of synthetic queries to measure which outlets and reporters were cited most by AI chatbots. The results are... fascinating! I assume marketers will use data like this to decide who they pitch stories to.
pressgazette.co.uk/news/journal...
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Q. Pheevr
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Catbus
11 days ago
when u can't think of any good posts
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alice e marwick
12 days ago
🚨NEW DISINFO PAPER🚨 TLDR; disinformation circulates as narratives, not false facts. This paper took five years (!!!) and a rotating cast of collaborators and GRAs. Our case studies include the pee tape, and we have an entire appendix justifying that.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Disinformation as Cultural Narrative: Conceptualizing Disinformation as Cross-Platform, Identity-Affirming, Cathartic Stories
Rather than framing disinformation as false facts which can be countered by true facts, we propose a model of disinformation as narrative by tracing three case studies of successful disinformation ...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10584609.2026.2644198#abstract
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Catbus
12 days ago
Happy Easter, friends
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Dylan Houlihan (he/him)
12 days ago
For those of you who hate the bright lights on vehicles that burn your retinas when they approach yoi Transport Canada has a survey about that.
tc.canada.ca/en/corporate...
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Canadian experience with vehicle headlights and glare at night
Transport Canada wants to learn how headlight glare affects road users and what vehicle or lighting features may influence how people experience it at night.
https://tc.canada.ca/en/corporate-services/consultations/canadian-experience-vehicle-headlights-glare-night
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like i am now having the thought can subaltern populations even _be_ anything other than scab labour if the point of labour is not productivity but to form socially reproductive in-groups of Types of Guy maybe this is a reasonable lens on why paying for work is a hard problem
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Some things I have been reading about the uses of generated code that works
taggart-tech.com/reckoning/
- what does it mean to hate what works?
isthisanart.substack.com/p/death-of-a...
- software developer was a kind of guy; goodbye to all that
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Sarah Weinman
13 days ago
The whole book promotion discourse arrived at an opportune time for me when I’ve been struggling to promote the book halfway between its hardcover and paperback publication. I’m proud of the book and it is very groundbreaking!
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cat bowl UI / cat bowl UX
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Better Things Are Possible
14 days ago
Isaac Chotiner: You say the two cats who live in your house are "Jerks" and you don't care for them Me: Absolutely. They are the burdens of my life Chotiner: It seems you spent an hour searching for special food for them and paid more for it than you do even for your own food. Me: That's--Hold on,
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so what im hearing is consumer products are not the answer to Space
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jenn schiffer 🕷️🕯️
15 days ago
if you're in the nyc area and want to learn from some really cool people at a really cool place how to make your own watercolors, new york pigment co. is doin ga workshop in june
www.newyorkpigmentco.com/products/han...
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"Make Your Own Watercolor" Hands-On Workshop, 8 full pans
Saturday, June 6th, 12 -3 pm "Make Your Own Watercolor" Hands-On Workshop, 8 full pans $140, Registration is required to secure a spot. Limit of 8 participants. About this class: Working with an vari...
https://www.newyorkpigmentco.com/products/handmade-lake-pigments-inks-hands-on-workshop-copy
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da share z0ne
15 days ago
MOVE -
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Pavel
16 days ago
Very interesting arts foundation putting out a call for project submissions challenging the myths we've built around the "old internet" Deadline to submit is May 4th!
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Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable | Open Call
Our open call for projects Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable focuses on the notion of netstalgia: a selective and idealized remembering of earlier phases of the internet. We are looking for projec...
https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable/open-call
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well the rocket went up
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loren schmidt
16 days ago
science fiction is when you chop parts off of the letters and fantasy is when you add things onto them.
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Mar Hicks
16 days ago
This is cool, and I don’t think it’s helpful to describe it as merely “accidental”
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I get so entirely annoyed at NDP arguments about Everyone Deserves An Education no! its not that! when you limit education through predatory pricing the education gets worse! You can't flunk people any more! Too many rich kids show up! Everyone else is under too much pressure!
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At home the weather - the winter - is always coming back but if you're an island it's the ocean returning
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Ingrid Burrington
17 days ago
www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros...
is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this
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happy trans day of visibility, all my favorite toughest oldest prettiest trees
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Elizabeth Sampat
18 days ago
In PvZ 2, I designed a plant called the Electric Blueberry. It one-shots zombies on your board, weighted for likelihood from lowest to highest HP. It was 2016. The table has never changed. The subreddit became convinced there was a rebalance a month after release and some people still talk about it
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m. r. sauter
18 days ago
i put the latest working version of my cranky "AI" in democratic systems paper up on SSRN if that kind of this floats your boat
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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AI as an Excuse in Participatory Systems: Identifying and describing the civic AI imaginary and its impact on representative and participatory governance
Recent work in political science, HCI, and adjacent fields has proposed the use of large language models (LLMs) and related AI systems as substitutes for, or au
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6372239
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Faine Greenwood
18 days ago
nature is healing (again)
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Remy Green (they/them)
19 days ago
I am not going to comment much on this, but I am happy to pay forward the lessons I’ve learned here and host a CLE going forward where I just yell “ASK FOR AND MOVE TO COMPEL CHATGPT LOGS” at other lawyers for an hour.
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Shawn Micallef
20 days ago
Toronto vernacular
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felix - Snap & Grab out April 24th!
21 days ago
wouldn’t it be cool if steam sold cheap gaming TVs with steamOS instead of the shitty smartTV OS you hate? i wish they’d done it years ago, id have so many people playing cool steam games with me. the TV isn’t for the hardcore gamers! it’s for the casual/entry ones. make it cheap pls do this thanks
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Sue
21 days ago
These two raccoons travel around together, have done for a long time now. I don't know their relationship but if one goes ahead too far it stops and waits for the other one to catch up.
#mammals
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Reo Eveleth
22 days ago
Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!!
www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...
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The Olympics Has a New Sex Testing Policy. The Evidence Doesn’t Add Up
I’ve spent over 10 years obsessed with so-called “gender verification” tests. Proponents claim they have history and science on their side. They don’t.
https://www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics-has-a-new-sex-testing-policy-the-evidence-doesnt-add-up/
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