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dmab nb (they/them) making music and also theatre in nyc. local pronoun artisan
stumbled across this old #xkcd and thought i'd check up on it. turns out randall munroe was right (to within a month!), but both terms have lost popularity since then...
tiny brain: lol memes
normal brain: that's not what "meme" means
giant brain: the spread of the internet's definition of "meme" is itself a good example of meme theory
galaxy brain: lol the only useful idea Dawkins ever had was corrupted into a term for vapid derivative jokes
I don't even like this song but for some reason my mind just started thinking about 'Burgz' by ken ashcorp except instead of "it's comfortable and inviting and it won't tell you lies" I keep thinking "it's comfortable and inviting, and they won't tell you why" which is significantly more ominous tbh
Youtube, The Great Radicalizer
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/10/opinion/sunday/youtube-politics-radical.html
<<Videos about vegetarianism led to videos about veganism. Videos about jogging led to videos about running ultramarathons.
It seems as if you are never “hard core” enough for YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. It promotes, recommends and disseminates videos in a manner that appears to constantly up the stakes. Given its billion or so users, YouTube may be one of the most powerful radicalizing instruments of the 21st century.>>
use air quotes when referring to any time during daylight savings time
sure, I'll meet you at "6:30"
I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's
vaguely nsfw adjacent Afficher plus
#overlyhonestmethods: we didn't use this statistical analysis because no one in the lab knows how to work it and I can't learn it fast enough
US pol / trans / please write a letter Afficher plus
Fucking amazing <3
Ten Hours of Static Gets Five Copyright Notices | Electronic Frontier Foundation - https://www.eff.org/takedowns/ten-hours-static-gets-five-copyright-notices
I once mistook mark hammil for slavoj zizek
oh my gods
"One of the rejected names for the farecard system was "The Fare Cod", a pun on both the way locals might pronounce "Card" and the fish that was once integral to the Massachusetts economy, and also a reference to other transit cards named for ocean animals, such as London's Oyster and Hong Kong's Octopus."
flipping over the tables at the dog show, for they disqualified my adorable and obedient purebred multilayer neural network because its "not a dog" and "doesnt even have a physical form" and "bit one of the judges"
readability and accessibility are more important than your fucking brand
Connecticut is str8 Massachusetts
We've received documents that confirm:
- Best Buy gave the FBI a tour of their repair facility
- The FBI paid Geek Squad employees as informants
- FBI agents have a process for investigating & prosecuting people who sent their devices to the Geek Squad
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/geek-squads-relationship-fbi-cozier-we-thought
Okay, shot in the dark here, but this is probably the right crowd.
When I was a teenager, I had a book about Magic Squares. I don't remember much about it... but it had some weird genetic algorithm for "breeding" new generations of magic squares from other squares, illustrated with these crazy almost occult-looking diagrams. The math was solid, it was all just highly eccentric, including giving all the generations women's names.
That's all I remember.
Anyone seen anything like this?
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