Needed to eat and so I took a short walk to buy a sandwich and an az green tea, and man I've missed living in a real place where this sort of basic human activity is available

The easiest way to remember the difference is probably that "horizontal" goes like the horizon But when I was a kid people use to sticker for a venue called "The Horizontal Boogie Bar" which I knew was naughty name because it meant sex (which one does laying down, therefore)

Interesting to have the word legal in (scare?) quotes here

Ladders are advertised with a height, which is the height of the top step, and a "reach height" which is how high one can reach while standing on the highest safe to stand on rung/step Certainly the reach height would vary based on how tall one is...

I think maybe the degree to which you let a model of language determine your content is the degree to which that medium really was the message for you.

"Our kiosk will accommodate up to two digital information touch screens, while retaining the ability to provide information in the form of the classic paper poster, which can be attached at designated locations with specially fabricated clips preventing messy staples and tape" Yeah, ok.

Some people have such grating I'm The Grown Up vibes that I'm loath to be their peer. Like, teens must hate listening to you talk because even at 42 I want to roll my eyes when you speak with the bland authority of age that obviously organizes your self worth

The tax money we all paid and our elected officials allocated "will be given only when" This is taxation without representation?

Me pre-skimming my work email on my commute: this is addressed in the slides I sent?! *siiigh* Me opening my actual laptop "[] requests access to these slides" whoops. Can't expect you to have read the slides if I shared the link but not permissions

📄👀 "Safety Recall Notice... a defect related to motor vehicle safety exists.. apologize and want to assure you that, with your assistance, we will correct... *Parts are not available.* when the remedy becomes available Ford Motor Company will notify you by mail" lol, uh, ok.

This is what I was trying to explain in my 2024 IAC talk, which I don't know if I ever posted online, If you read what the people building these things describe doing, they are building a model of the Shannon Information of a subset of past uses of language.

Yesterday I got 3 fully grown adult trick-or-treaters, they came together with no kids, and I was like.... But also, if it's worth it to an adult to get a mask so they can play a little trick for free fun sized candy, then happy Halloween, have the candy 🤷🏼‍♀️

Texted mammogram reminder has the options to reply 12 or 92

I don't think I've ever thought about the cooling properties of my mattress or wished it kept me cooler. Is this a variable important to others in a big way, or are we being trained to think we need this because it's something to upsell?

Would love to know how these policies were worded in whatever instrument collected the net support "Provide free healthcare to undocumented immigrants" is an intentional rhetorical gotcha for "provide free healthcare to all who need it" it makes it seem like "they" will get something extra I won't

One of my phone gestures isn't working Because of a problem with the hardware? Because I've forgotten just how to swipe where? Because my recent os update changed it? As a user, I have no fucking idea, but would like to.

I guessed this neighborhood would have good trick-or-treat traffic, based on location, layout, density, and relative wealth and optimistically bought for ~200 A neighbor making an announcement at an event last week said of Halloween night "while there are like 200 kids coming through" (yesssss!)

Just got notice that I've 3 days left to accept my refund from my electric account at my last apartment, or they will mail me a check... 1. Closed the acct >2 months ago, I've twice poked around my account pages to figure out what Im owed and how to get it, and this is the first I'm hearing of this

Interestingly, "The 1st open conference where AI serves as both primary authors and reviewers of research papers" does not seem to have generated quality papers using that method; of the 13 "outstanding" and "spotlight" papers on the conference site, only one lists an AI agent as author 🤔

@danklyn.bsky.social, your friend is here

"[we furnish reading room visitors with] pens, ink, and reading-stands, and there are paste boards with blotting paper; we used to have sand, but we found it got into the books" (1850) Ha! I had never considered the mess of blotting sand in a reading room

Delicious when you find a source that supports your suspicious criticism of another work's analysis.

I did *not* click the ketchup checkbox when ordering this, but I also didn't specify no ketchup in the special instructions box, so I guess that's on me, cause I know ppl over here do that

The instant email collection modal pattern needs to die. Like, damn, gimme a minute to look around, I got here from an Instagram ad, I don't even know what you fucking sell yet or if it comes on my size...

autological layers, to this passage in The Tyranny of Words, lol cause I'm not sure who is meant by Jones and Finkelstein; are these actual people known to contemporary readers, or a rhetorical construction?

Dear author of this 1966 article advocating for the collection of oral histories of libraries to supplement the factual details in annual reports, It's me, I want this information, thanks for the lead.

My fav part of the bus ride from my "shockingly dense" neighborhood is all the "defend historic Princeton" signs along the road as we pull into town like dozens orange fuck yous to all the people about to get off this bus to go do the work that the U and town rely on

A chemical smell on the breeze tonight that my brain instantly (correctly) identified as Strypeeze my neighbor is unpainting a window frame on his historic house; during much of my childhood my mother was in painting the woodwork in her old house, so I'm very familiar

"hit by an outage" is interesting phrasing as though outages are always floating around out there as an independent risk

One can recognize that an internal combustion engine is an interesting innovation with useful applications, and also think, wow, maybe we shouldn't rush to restructure our whole everything around everyone having a car bc that'll fuck a lot of things up

This is so stupid. Free plastic bags had gotten so shitty, anyways, and you'll get used to bringing them and there are usually very cheap ones available right at the checkout if you forget And, this system works, so why would stores give them out for free again, even if it was legal?

"Automated busywork" does not communicate to me what I think confluence thought it would

I did not know you could still find jobs like this in the classified section of a paper

Might have chosen my sides differently if I'd known these ribs came with rice Mashed potatoes, mac n cheese, and rice is a lot of hot wet carbs for one meal

hot take: "philosophical stuff and therapy" are more serious than your work deliverables

brb, writing a letter to my own ischool, begging them not to become artificial

WE COULD REALLY USE SOME SORT OF SCIENCE OF INFORMATION RN! but instead, let's just sell degrees in operating whatever computer science invents, I guess

*screams at the sky*

"learn about effective email marketing strategies" teases the email I'm deleting from my auto-filtered "other" inbox without opening it

"I'm surprised to see detergent in the new sense mouth" is a beautiful sentence And successful, I understand their meaning, the new type of flavor (cherry blossom) is surprising/exciting for a mouth wash

👇🎯🧵 I'm tired of so many in higher ed feeling like we can only defend higher ed by first granting the premise of every right wing attack on higher ed. The trust trends don't correlate with tuition/deb trends but do with the GOP's collapse into far right authoritarianism & ongoing media Discourse.

I think I've lived in NJ long enough to say this now: WaWa sucks.

Well, the right to deny quarter to armed agents of the state is one of our founding grievances and so an excellent 250th year celebratory action

Young PerioDT sounds like a rapper, but according to this web ad it's a biofilm desiccant available to dental professionals in a 10 pack

What?

As a user, I want to to be able to conduct a single search for sneakers in my size across both the men's and women's part of the taxonomy. (this is about ebay, but also everywhere else) endlessly stupid to have to formulate the same query twice

President concerned abt flag burning while his sec of war violates the flag code on the daily with that jacket lining

Soups of the day: grits, lemonade or chili with quiche

My Outlook calendar sends me slack notifications that slack then emails to me 🫩

Since it resonated with the audience, I’ll recap my main argument against AGI here. ‘General intelligence’ is like phlogiston, or the aether. It’s an outmoded scientific concept that does not refer to anything real. Any explanatory work it did can be done better by a richer scientific frame. 1/3