Re: vibecession

Quick cheat sheet on trademarks vs copyright vs patents!

"Love Simon is my favorite gay movie!" - my distress signal if I'm ever taken hostage

the final insult of AI is going to be forcing us all to become linux guys. we're all going to be like oh yeah downloading stuff on linux is super easy you just juice the tarball and compile the pulp in the sudo command line. not like windows where you have to click on things

"Love Simon is my favorite gay movie!" - my distress signal if I'm ever taken hostage

Pope is Bruegel-maxxing

oh we're at literal snake oil now

Pope is Bruegel-maxxing

I've been rewatching Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and it holds up! What the show called the stand alone complex we probably now call stochastic terror. Takes place in 2030!

Pope Stafford Beer

It's also worth nothing that in the 1980s, only ~10% of households had a personal computer and that number didn't reach 50% until around 2000. And the Apple II cost $1300 in the early 80s (today about $4200). An HP Pavilion was $1700 in 1997

I did a histories of computing week in my class that tried to illustrate this gap that drew upon some cool work

I did a histories of computing week in my class that tried to illustrate this gap that drew upon some cool work

sometimes I wonder if people in other fields have any clue what we go through as women in computational fields... (graph from: www.npr.org/sections/mon...)

If we’re looking for Spotify alternatives

If we’re looking for Spotify alternatives

After a few months, can say I'm into Qobuz. Pros: wayyyy better sound, easily import playlists, music reviews, good recs, pays artists more, shows the complete credits Cons: lyrics in beta, some bugs when trying to play across devices. Windows still opens in tray!

Opening up my cigar box and selecting my finest dolma

Just trying to keep track of all these explanations

The podcast about the (public) papers for a faculty board meeting at the Humanities faculty at my university is a great example of the US-centrism of LLMs. Here’s the start, where it assumes that such docs must be some kind of leaked info - the true crime genre is heavy here, the hosts love mystery.

Will have to give this a try

This show must be preserved in the library of congress as evidence of crimes against humanity

Reading a student paper that said all-in-one platforms are like 3-in-1 shampoo - they have long-term consequences. Let her cook!

I don’t cook my brain online. I marinate

Adding this to my edited collection of Joker moments, to be published next year

the discourse about whether referencing fake citations is the necessary cost of doing science is making me want to go touch some grass

The project looks at livestreaming as a communications infrastructure for data, human meaning, $$. 1 of the main questions the project asks is "what can we understand if we consider users of platforms like Zoom, Teams as livestreamers?" I look at how game streaming has influenced all t his

In the meanwhile we can watch this Nausicaä, as a treat

In the meanwhile we can watch this Nausicaä, as a treat

My favorite part of The Odyssey is that Odysseus is canonically ugly. Athena constantly using her divine power to make him pretty

Muna wrote a song explaining Antonio Gramsci’s theory of ideological hegemony

Whoopi Goldberg voice: I don't want someone in my computer

Community Grieves Juniper Blessing, Trans Student With “Heart of Gold” Who Loved Meteorology and Pokémon

"Our people are still there, resilient,” says Palestinian writer Muhammad Shehada on Nakba Day.

I told my students "I am not going to install Linux. No one is going to install Linux."

Muna goes hard on this one

Mel Brooks's archives will be preserved by The National Comedy Center. The collection includes 150,000 documents — from his "World War II–era comedy notebook” to today. "This ensures that Brooks’ creative legacy will be studied, contextualized, and appreciated" www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/a...

Who is she?

Whoopi Goldberg voice: I don't want someone in my computer

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

A cool thread about a very good accessibility use case that needs regulation. Though it isn't clear to me why we can trade *other* people's privacy for your own access

Who would've thought that a tool (Gen AI) whose most popular use case is for acts of deception could have unintended social, psychological consequences?

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“The Elder Scrolls” is what they say about you when you’re on your phone!

“I programmed the computer to say ‘hello world’ and then it said ‘hello world.’ She is now my girlfriend.”

Once again at my grandma’s house

Live on the scene

AI companies out here acting like Immortan Joe and the War Boys, but no it’s the public who is hysterical

Water and electricity are unlike other commodities. Data centers are fundamentally about the distribution of increasingly scarce resources that are themselves governed through natural monopolies. So they're also about local, regional, and global politics

this album? yes